CATHERINE CONNORS

 

Associate Professor of Classics (Adjunct in Women Studies)

 

 

Areas of Interest

         Roman literature and culture; ancient representations of nature and geography, the ancient Greek and Roman novel and its reception

 

Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan 1989

M.A. University of Michigan 1986

B.A. Harvard Radcliffe 1984

Publications

 

Book

 

Petronius the Poet: Verse  and  Literary  Tradition in the Satyricon

(Cambridge University Press 1998)

 

The Ancient Greek and Roman Novels and their reception

'Cities and civic institutions in the ancient novels' The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel, T. Whitmarsh, ed. (in press)

'Metaphor and politics in John Barclay's Argenis,' Ancient Narrative Suppl.IV : Metaphor in the Novel and Novel as Metaphor (Groningen, 2005), 245-74

'John Barclay 1582-1621' in The Dictionary of British classicists 1500-1960, ed. R. B. Todd (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004)

'Chariton's Syracuse and its histories of empire' Ancient Narrative suppl. vol. I (2002): Space in the ancient novel, 12-26

ÔRereading the Arbiter: Poetry and arbitrium in ÔPetronius RedivivusÕ and the SatyricaLatin Fiction, H. Hofmann, ed. (Routledge, 1999), 64-77

ÔBeholding Troy in PetroniusÕ Satyricon and John BarclayÕs Euphormionis Lusinini SatyriconGroningen Colloquia on the Novel 6 (1995), 51-74

ÔFamous Last Words: Authorship and Death in the Satyricon and in Neronian Rome,Õ Reflections of Nero, J. Elsner and J. Masters, eds., (Duckworth 1994), 225-35

Roman Comedy, Satire, and Rhetoric 

'From turnips to turbot: allusion to epic in Roman satire' The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, K. Freudenburg, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 123-145

'Monkey Business: Imitation, Authenticity, and Identity from Pithekoussai to Plautus,' Classical Antiquity 23.2 (2004) 179-207

ÔImperial Space and Time: The Literature of Leisure,Õ Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A New Perspective, O. Taplin, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2000), 492-518

 ÔScents and Sensibility in PlautusÕ CasinaÕ Classical Quarterly  (1997), 305-9

 ÔField and Forum: Culture and Agriculture in Roman Rhetoric,Õ Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature, W. Dominik, ed. (Routledge, 1997), 71-89.

Roman Epic

ÔSimultaneous Hunting and Herding at Ciris 297-300,ÕClassical Quarterly  41(1991) 556-9

ÔSeeing Cypresses in Virgil,Õ Classical Journal  88 (1992) 1-17

ÔEnnius, Ovid and Representations of Ilia,Õ Materiali e discussioni  32 (1994), 99-112