Publications and papers

Review of D. Markovic, "The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius' "De Rerum Natura," in The Classical Review, 59.2 (2009)

"Lucretius’ Progressive Revelation of Nature in DRN, 1.149-502," in Phoenix, 58.4-5 (2005).

"The Poetic 'Hodeporicum' of Flavio Cardinal Chigi's Mission to Paris in 1664: 'Iter Romam in Galliam ac Reditus,'" in Humanistica Lovaniensia, 52 (2003).

Review of Schrijvers, P. H., Lucrèce et les Sciences de le Vie, Brill, 1999, in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 37.3 (2001)

“Lucretius and the End of the World. Should We Care?,” in Ancient Philosophy, 19 (1999).

"Top Ten Reasons to Learn Latin." Tennessee Junior Classical League Convention, Franklin, TN. Keynote speech. April 8, 2011.

 

 "Hadrian - Empire Builder," at the Italian Cultural Institute, Louisville, KY. October 20, 2010

"Top Ten Reasons to study Latin." Michigan Classical League Plenary Talk I.  Grand Rapids.  October 17, 2008

 

"Baths, aqueducts, sewers, latrines: the Roman Water Supply."  Michigan Classical League Plenary Talk II.  Grand Rapids.  October 17, 2008

"Pluck the day": the original meaning of "carpe diem."  Junior Classical League.  Knoxville.  July 27, 2007

“Cicero the Reluctant Teacher: Style and Self-Presentation.” American Classical League Institute.  Nashville.  June 30. 2007.

“What are you going to do with that?!  Top Ten Reasons to Major in Classical Studies.”  Plenary Talk at the American Classical League Institute.  Nashville.  June 28. 2007.

“Political progression from Vergil’s  Eclogues to Georgics.” Address to AP Latin students at University School of Nashville, October 4, 2006.

"Superstitious Addition of Opinion in Lucretius, 2.598-660." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2-5, 2004.

"The Ides of March." Address and discussion as part of Carmichael Towers lecture series. Vanderbilt University. March 20, 2003.

"Popular Perceptions of Roman Republic and Empire." Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers Association, November 1-2, 2002.

"The Sound of Silence: Pleasure, Pain, and the Weather in the De Rerum Natura." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 3-7, 2001.

“Carpe Diem: a Reassessment of the Epicurean ‘Good Life’ in Horace, Carm., 1.11.” “Latin Day” lecture to Secondary School students from throughout the Southeast. Vanderbilt University, October 17, 1998.

“Horace the Fair Weather Epicurean in Sat., 1.5.” Conference on “Intertextuality in the Ancient World.” Yale University, April 11-12, 1998.

“Learning Latin in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura.” Conference entitled “Compono: comparison and exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean World.” SUNY, Buffalo, April 3-5, 1998.

“Insiders and Outsiders in Epicurean cult.” Conference on “Greek Religion: Tradition and Transmission,” University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, March 28, 1998.

"Ho Nouthetetikos Tropos: Epicurus on Emotional Education.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, 1997.