Vincent
J. Rosivach
Classical Studies
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT 06824
(203)254-4000, ext. 2337
rosivach@fairfield.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A. egregia cum laude,
M.A.,
Ph.D.,
RECORD OF
EMPLOYMENT:
Adjunct Instructor, Fordham
University School of Education, 1963-64.
Instructor, Fairfield University, 1965-66.
Assistant Professor, Fairfield University, 1966-71.
Associate Professor, Fairfield University, 1971-76.
Professor of Classics, Fairfield
University, 1976-present.
Professeur invité, Université de Montréal, 2008.
Tenure
granted, 1970.
Chairman, Department of Classics, Fairfield University,
1965-79; Director, Greek and Roman Studies/Classical Studies, 1979-2010,
2111-present.
ACADEMIC
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1. Fulbright-Hayes
fellowship,
2. Sabbatical leaves,
3. Grant from Ingram-Merrill
Foundation for spring-summer 1976.
4. Visiting Scholar,
5. NEH Summer Seminar,
6. NEH Summer Seminar,
7. Participant, Yale Visiting
Faculty Program, spring 1983.
8.
9. NEH Summer Seminar,
10. Faculty Resources
Network
11. Grant from the
Connecticut Humanities Council in support of “Latin Assisting the Language
Arts: A Program for Language Arts Teachers in Bridgeport Public
Schools,” 1990-92.
12. Research leave,
13. Visiting Scholar,
14. Choice
Outstanding Academic Book (1999): When a Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual
Exploitation of Women in New Comedy.
15.
Faculty Welfare Commitee Lifetime Service Award, 2006.
16.
Classical Association of
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES:
books:
1. The System of Public Sacrifice in Fourth-Century
2. When a Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual
Exploitation of Women in New Comedy (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).
articles
and chapters:
1.
“Plautine Stage Settings (Asin., Aul., Men., Trin.),”
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
101 (1970) 445-61.
2.
“Manuscripts of Matthias Corvinus in the Barberini Collection,” Manuscripta
15 (1971) 177-84.
3.
“Terence, Adelphi 165-6,” Classical Review 22 (1972) 8-9.
4.
“Terence, Adelphoe 155-9,” Classical Quarterly 23 (1973) 85-87.
5.
“Sceledrus and the Monkey Again,” Classical Journal 70.1 (1974) 47.
6.
“Terence, Adelphoe 60-63,” Classical Philology 70 (1975) 118-19.
7.
“A Borrowed Vorpal Blade,” Jabberwocky: The Journal of the Lewis Carroll
Society 4 (1975) 41.
8. “
9.
“The First Stasimon of the Hecuba, (444 ff.),” American Journal of
Philology 96 (1975) 349-62.
10.
“Sophocles’
11.
“Earthborn and Olympians: The Parodos of the Ion,” Classical
Quarterly 27 (1977) 284-94.
12.
“Euripides, Orestes 5-7,” Maia 19 (1977) 77-79.
13.
“Hector in the Rhesus,” Hermes 106 (1978) 54-73.
14.
“The Altar of Zeus Agoraios in the Heracleidae,” La parola
15.
“The ‘Golden Lamb’ Ode in Euripides’ Electra,” Classical Philology
73 (1978) 189-99.
16.
“The Stage Settings of the Rudens and the Heauton Timorumenos,” Rivista
di studi classici 26 (1978) 388-402.
17.
“Sources of Some Errors in Catullan Commentaries,” Transactions and
Proceedings of the American Philological Association 108 (1978) 203-16.
18.
“The Two Worlds of the Antigone,”
19.
“Terence, Heautontimorumenos 205: The Scholarly Tradition,” in Studies
in Latin Literature and Roman History, ed. M. Renard et al., vol. 2
(Bruxelles: Collection Latomus 1980) 57-70.
20.
“The Genealogy of Latinus and the
21.
“Lucretius 4.1123-40,” American Journal of Philology 101 (1980) 401-3.
22.
“Caelius’ Adherence to the Caesarian Cause,” Classical World 74
(1980-81) 201-212.
23.
“Hoi Polloi in the Crito,” Classical Journal 76 (1980-81)
289-97.
24.
“Mars in the Inscriptions,” Society of Biblical Literature 1982 Seminar
Papers (Chico: Scholars Press 1982) 431-35.
25.
“Mars, the Lustral God,” Latomus 42 (1983) 509-21.
26.
“On Creon, Antigone, and Not Burying the Dead,”
27.
“The advocati in the Poenulus and the piscatores in the Rudens,”
Maia 35 (1983) 83-93.
28. “Aphairesis and Apoleipsis: A Study of the
Sources, “ Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquité 3e
série, 31 (1984) 193-230.
29. “The
Romans’ View of the Persians,” Classical World 78 (1984-85) 1-8.
30.
“Manning the Athenian Fleet, 433-426 B.C.,” American Journal of Ancient
History 10 (1985) 41-66.
31.
“The Settings of Plautus’ Bacchides, Cistellaria and Epidicus,”
Hermes 114 (1986) 429-42.
32.
“Love and Leisure in Roman Comedy and the Amatory Poets,” L’antiquité
classique 55 (1986) 175-89.
33.
“Latino,” Enciclopedia Virgiliana, vol. 3 (Roma: Istituto della
Enciclopedia Italiana 1987) 131-34.
34.
“Pallante,” Enciclopedia Virgiliana, vol. 3 (Roma:Istituto della
Enciclopedia Italiana 1987) 941-44.
35.
“Autochthony and the Athenians,” Classical Quarterly 37 (1987) 294-306.
36.
“Execution by Stoning in
37.
“Some Fifth and Fourth Century Views on the Purpose of Ostracism,” Tyche
2 (1987) 161-70.
38.
“The Cult of Zeus Eleutherios at
40.
“Pico,” Enciclopedia Virgiliana, vol. 4 (Roma: Istituto della
Enciclopedia Italiana 1988) 92-93.
41.
“The Interpretation of Sophocles Antigone 926,” Classical Philology
84 (1989) 116-19.
42.
<“The Use of Computers in Latin Instruction at
43.
“The Miles Inpransus of Plaut. Aul. 528,” Latomus 48 (1989)
344-45.
44.
“Talasiourgoi and Paidia in IG 22 1553-78: A
Note on Athenian Social History,” Historia 38 (1989) 365-370.
45.
“Some Unexpected Freedmen’s Names,” Liverpool Classical Monthly 16.1
(Jan. 1991) 4-5.
46.
“Some Athenian Presuppositions about ‘the Poor’,” Greece & Rome 38
(1991) 189-198.
47.
“IG 22 334 and the Panathenaic Hekatomb,” La parola
48.
“Redistribution of Land in Solon, Fragment 34 West,” Journal of Hellenic
Studies 112 (1992) 153-157.
49.
“Agricultural Slavery in the Northern Colonies and in Classical Athens: Some
Comparisons,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 35 (1993)
551-567; reprinted as Chapter 11 in The Worlds of Unfree Labour, From
Indentured Servitude to Slavery, ed. C. A. Palmer (Aldershot: Ashgate 1998)
277-93.
50.
“The Rationes Centesimarum (IG 22 2594-2603+),” Eirene
28 (1993) 49-61.
51.
“’Classical’ Music,”
52.
“Humbler Fare in the Moretum,”
53.
“ANUS: Some Older Women in Latin Literature,” Classical World 88
(1994-95) 107-117.
54.
“New Evidence for the Populations of Connecticut’s Towns in 1776, 1779, and
1782,” Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 56 (1991 [1994]) 205-11.
55.
“The Distribution of Population in
56.
“The Hubbards, An African-American Family in
57.
“Three Petitions by Connecticut Negroes for the Abolition of Slavery in
58.
“Religion in the Attic Demes,” Athenaze Newsletter (November, 1995).
59.
“Seneca on the Fear of Poverty in the Epistulae Morales,” L'antiquité
classique 64 (1995) 91-98.
60.
“suum cuique ii,” New England Classical Journal 24 (1996-97)
55-56.
61.
“The Sociology of the Copa,” Latomus 55 (1996) 605-14.
62.
“Letter from Montréal,”
63.
“Solon’s Brothels,” Liverpool Classical Monthly 20.1-2 (Jan.-Feb. 1995
[1997]) 3-4.
64.
“Basic Latin,”
65.
“Catullus 51: Poetry as Vicarious Experience,”
66.
“Enslaving Barbaroi and the Athenian Ideology of Slavery,” Historia
48 (1999) 129-57.
67.
“Plautus, Rudens 1114 and the Power of Discourse,” Classical World
93.3 (2000) 261-65.
68.
“Cicero, Cael. 18 and the Educated Elite,”
69.
“The Thracians of IG II2 1956,” Klio 83 (2000)
379-81.
70.
“The Audiences of New Comedy,” Greece & Rome 47 (2000) 169-71.
71.
“Some Economic Aspects of the Fourth-Century Athenian Market in Grain,” Chiron
30 (2000) 31-64.
72.
“Class Matters in the Dyskolos of Menander,” Classical Quarterly
51 (2001) 127-34.
73.
“Manpower and the Athenian Navy in 362 B.C.,” New Interpretations in Naval
History: Selected papers from the eleventh Naval History Symposium... ed.
R. W. Love, Jr. et al. (Annapolis 2001) 12-26.
74.
“Terms of Censure in the Adelphoe,”
75.
“The Requirements for the Solonic Classes in Aristotle, AP. 7.4,” Hermes
130 (2002) 36-47.
76.
“Zeugitai and Hoplites,” Ancient History Bulletin 16 (2002)
33-43.
77.
“
78.
“How Safe was Travel Abroad? Some Evidence from Athenian Vases,” Historia
54 (2005) 343.
79.
“Astyphilos the Mercenary,” Greece & Rome 52 (2005) 195-204.
80.
“
81.
“Notes on the Pentakosiomedimnos’ Five Hundred Medimnoi,” Classical
Quarterly 55 (2005) 597-601.
82.
“The First Venatio,”
83.
“The Lex Fannia sumptuaria of 161 B.C.,” Classical Journal 102
(2006) 1-15.
84. “Murdered Masters,”
85. “Why Seize the Acropolis?” Historia
57 (2008) 125-33.
86.
“The Elephant-Drawn Chariot in Pompey’s First Triumph,” New England
Classical Journal 36 (2009) 239-52.
87. “IG
I3 82 and the Date of the Introduction of Bouleutic Misthos
in Athens,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie
und Epigraphik 175 (2010) 145-49.
88. “The Oaths of the Athenians at the
Ratification of Solon’s Reforms,”
89.
“State Pay as War Relief in Peloponnesian-War Athens,” Greece and Rome
58 (2011) 176-83.
90.
“The Thētes in Thucydides 6.43.1,” Hermes 139 (forthcoming
2011).
91. “Solon,” Encyclopedia of Ancient
History (forthcoming).
92. “Thetes,” Encyclopedia of Ancient
History (forthcoming).
93. “Zeugitai,” Encyclopedia of Ancient
History (forthcoming).
94. “Hippeis,” Encyclopedia of Ancient
History (forthcoming).
95. “The Landscape of Catullus 63,” Latomus
(forthcoming).
96. “The Athenian Five Thousand of 411
B.C.,” Athenaeum (forthcoming).
97. “The Zeugitēs’ Name,” Classical
Philology (forthcoming 2012).
papers and
other presentations:
1. “Terms of Censure in the
Adelphoe,” paper read at the 1969 meeting of the Classical Association
of New England.
2. “Plautine Stage Settings
(Asin., Aul., Men., Trin.),” paper read by title at
the 1969 meeting of the American Philological Association.
3. “Antigone: Us and
Them,” paper read at the 1975 meeting of the Classical Association of New
England.
4. “The First Stasimon of
the Hecuba,” paper read at the 1976 meeting of the Classical Association
of New England.
5. “Sources of Some Errors
in Catullan Commentaries and LSJ(9),” paper read at the 1977 meeting of
the American Philological Association.
6. “On Creon, Antigone, and
Not Burying the Dead,” paper read at the 1979 Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference.
7. “Mars the Lustral God,”
paper read at the 1979 meeting of the Greco-Roman Religions Group of the
Society of Biblical Literature.
8. “Otium and Amor,”
paper read at the 1980 meeting of the Classical Association of New England.
9. “The Romans’ View of the
Persians,” paper read at the 1981 meeting of the
10. “The Tyrant as Civil
Devil,” paper read at the 1981 meeting of the American Philological
Association.
11. “Mars in the
Inscriptions,” paper presented at the 1982 meeting of the Greco-Roman Religions
Group of the Society of Biblical Literature.
12. “Latinus,” paper read
at the 1982 meeting of the American Philological Association.
13. “The Indictment of
Alcibiades,” paper read at the 1983 meeting of the American Philological
Association.
14. “Social Background to
Roman Comedy,” paper read at the 1986 meeting of the Classical Association of
Connecticut.
15. “The Use of Roman
Comedy as a Source for Roman History,” paper presented at the spring 1988
meeting of the New England Ancient History Colloquium.
16. “Redistribution of Land
in Solon, Fragment 34 West,” paper read at the 1989 meeting of the American
Philological Association.
17. “The Emperor's Names,”
presentation at the public colloquium “Money Talks: Past to Present,”
18. “IG 22
334 and the Panathenaic Hekatomb,” paper read at the 1990 meeting of the
American Philological Association.
19. “Some Athenian
Assumptions About the ‘Poor’,” paper read at the 1991 meeting of the Classical
Association of New England.
20. “Slavery in the Northern
American Colonies and Classical Athens: A Comparative Approach,” paper read at
the 1991 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians; also read at the
spring 1992 University of Connecticut History Department Colloquium.
21. “Religion and the
Family,” presentation at the public colloquium “Family Ties in Ancient Rome,”
22. “summa uitae beatae
sit solida securitas et eius inconcussa fiducia (Seneca, EM 44.7),”
paper read at the 1991 meeting of the Classical Association of Connecticut.
23. “Contrasts in the
Prices of Sacrificial Victims in Fourth-Century Attika,” paper read at the 1991
meeting of the American Philological Association.
24. “Slavery in
25. “The Sociology of
Poetry: The Case of the Copa,” paper read at the 1993 meeting of the
Classical Association of New England.
26. “Manpower and the
Classical Athenian Navy,” paper read at the 11th Naval History Symposium,
27. “The Distribution of
Population in Attika in the Fourth Century B.C.,” paper read at the 1993
meeting of the American Philological Association.
28. “Anus: Some Old Women
in Roman Literature,” paper read at the 1994 meeting of the Classical
Association of New England.
29. “Class Matters in the Adelphoe
of Terence,” paper read at the 1995 meeting of the Classical Association of New
England.
30. Commentator for the
panel on “Navies in the Classical Period,” 12th Naval History Symposium,
31. “The Emergence of the
Classical Slave Regime in
32. “Rape in Roman Comedy,”
paper read for the McGill University Classics Department, November 1996, and
for the University of Vermont Classics Department, April 1997.
33. “Plautus, Rudens
1114 and the Power of Discourse,” paper read at the 1997 meeting of the
Classical Association of New England.
34. “Characteristics of the
Rape Motif in New Comedy,” paper read at the 1997 meeting of the American
Philological Association.
35. “Basic Latin,” paper
read at the 1998 meeting of the Classical Association of New England.
36. “Some Economic Aspects
of the Fourth-Century Athenian Market in Grain: An Interpretation,” paper
presented at the fall 1998 meeting of the New England Ancient History
Colloquium.
37. “Class Matters in
Menander’s Dyskolos,” paper read at the 1998 meeting of the American
Philological Association.
38. “Catullus 51: Poetry as
Vicarious Experience,” paper read at the 1999 meeting of the Classical
Association of New England.
39. “Primitive or Modern?:
Prices in the Fourth-Century Athenian Markets for Grain,” paper read at the
1999 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians.
40. “The Ideological
Discourse of New Comedy,” paper read at the conference “Negotiating
Ideologies,”
41. “Cicero, Cael.
18 and the Educated Elite,” paper read at the 1999 annual meeting of the
American Philological Association.
42. “Innocent Abroad: An
Athenian Story,” paper read at the 2001 annual meeting of the Classical
Association of New England.
43. “The End of Hyperbolos:
Ostracism and Ritual Murder,” keynote lecture at conference “Politics and
Ritual: Ostracism in Classical Athens,”
44. “Hoplites and Zeugitai:
A Military Role to a Political One?,” paper read at the 2002 annual meeting of
the American Philological Association.
45. “
46. “’Military’ Lekythoi:
Private vs. Public Mourning of Athenian War Dead,” paper read at the 2003
annual meeting of the American Philological Association.
47. “Why is Oedipus Called
‘Tyrannos’?,” paper read at the 2003 annual meeting of the Classical
Association of New England.
48. “Remembering the War
Dead: Public and Private Memory in Classical Athens,” paper read at the 2003
annual conference of the Western Humanities Alliance.
49. “
50. “Remembering the
War Dead: Public and Private in Democratic Athens,” paper read at the 2004
meeting of the Classical Association of Canada.
51. “Why Cicero Got Sick
from Eating Too Many Veggies,” paper read at the 2004 meeting of the Classical
Association of Connecticut.
52. “The lex Fannia
sumptuaria of 161 BC,” paper read at the 2005 meeting of the Classical
Association of Canada.
53. “Plot Exposition and
Comic Ornamentation: The Beginning of Plautus’ Curculio,” paper read at
the 2005 meeting of the Classical Association of Connecticut.
54.
“The Solonic Classes and Military Service,” paper read at the 2007 meeting of
the Classical Association of Canada.
55.
“Pompey’s Elephants (and
56.
“The Landscape of Catullus 63,” paper read at the 2010 meeting of the Classical
Association of Canada.
reviews:
1. Review of “Hermann
Gelhaus. Die Prologe des Terenz,” in Classical World 67 (1973-74)
38.
2. Review of “Frank R. Merrill (ed.). Titi Macci Plauti
Mostellaria,” in Classical World 68 (1974-75) 479-80.
3. Review of
“Rosemary M. Harriott. Aristophanes, Poet and Dramatist,” in
4. Review of
“Terence. The Brothers, edited with translation and notes by A. S.
Gratwick,” in New England Classical Newsletter 16 (1988-89) 381.
5. Review of “
6. Review of “Philip
Brook Manville. The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient
7. Review of “David
Stockton. The Classical Athenian Democracy,” in Classical World
85 (1991-92) 746.
8. Review of “Edward
M. Harris. Aeschines and Athenian Politics,” in Classical World
90 (1996-97) 300-1.
9. Review of
“Virginia Hunter. Policing
10. Review of
“Maureen B. Cavanaugh.
11. Review of
“Lynette G. Mitchell. Greeks Bsearing Gifts: The Public Use of Private
Relationships in the Greek World, 435-323 BC,” in
12. Review of “J. L.
Marr (ed.). Plutarch: Themistocles,” in
13. Review of “Erich
Segal. The Death of Comedy,” in
14. Review of “Donald
Kagan. The Peloponnesian War,” in The Historian 66 (2004) 880-81.
15. Review of “Rosanna
Omitowoju. Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical
16. Review of “Hugh Bowden.
Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divinination and Democracy,” in
New England Classical Journal 33 (2006) 224-26.
17. Review of “Matthew
Wright. Euripides’ Escape-Tragedies. A Study of Helen, Andromeda, and
Iphigenia among the Taurians,” in Gnomon 80 (2008) 50-52.
18.
Review of “Doruta Dutsch. Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy. On Echoes and Voices,” in Gnomon
82 (2010) 76-78.
19.
Review of “Ariana Traill. Women and the Comic Plot in Menander,” in Classical
World 103 (2010) 274-75.
20. Review of “Ma, John, Nikolas Papazarkadas & Robert Parker
(eds.), Interpreting
the Athenian Empire,” in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 18 (2011)
300-02.
21.
Review of “Robin Osborne, Athens and Athenian Democracy,” in Ancient History Bulletin
(forthcoming).
22.
Review of “Meyer, Elizabeth A., Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions,”
in Athenaeum (forthcoming).
editorship:
Editor, New England Classical Newsletter & Journal/
other
service to the profession:
1. Member of the Executive
Committee of the Classical Association of New England, 1972-74, 1993-1998,
2002-2004.
2. Local Committee, annual
meeting of the Classical Association of New England at
3.
4. President,
5. Member of the Executive
Board,
6. Curator, Connecticut
State Latin Contest, 1982-87; chair 2006-2008.
7. Director, "Latin
Assisting the Language Arts: A Program for Language Arts Teachers in Bridgeport
Public Schools," 1990-92.
8. Member of the Advisory
Board of the Etruscan Foundation, 1991-96.
9. Local Committee, joint
meeting of the Classical Association of New England and the Classical
Association of the Atlantic States at Fairfield University, 1998.
10. Executive Secretary,
Classical Association of New England, 2002-2004.
11.
Referee for AJP, CB, CJ, CQ, CW, Historia, NECJ, TAPA.
miscellaneous:
Director of Fairfield University's original language presentations of Greek and
Roman Drama, 1966-71, 1978.