Professor of Classics
Ph.D. Northwestern
University, 1968; M.A.
Northwestern University 1965
Latin poetry, Archaic Rome, Greek and Roman Religion, Classical Linguistics, Roman and Italic Archaeology, Etruscan studies
“The Religious Significance of Games in the Roman Age” in The Archaeology of the Olympics, ed. W.J. Raschke (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), pp. 236-255.
“Feriae,” article in Der Neue Pauly, Volume IV (Stuttgart: J. B. Metzger Verlag1999), p. 475.
“Aeneas” Vol. 1, p. 84; “Ceres” Vol. 3, p. 362; “Pluto” Vol. 15, p. 585; “Saturn” Vol. 17, p. 150d; “Saturnalia” Vol. 17, p.153; “Vesta” Vol. 20, p. 342; “Vulcan” Vol.20, p. 453 in World Book Encyclopaedia, 1993.
“Religion in the Latin Elegists,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der Neueren Forschung II.16.3, ed. Wolfgang Haase (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1985), pp. 1909-1973.
“The Poet’s Initiation and the Sacerdotal Imagery of Propertius 3.1-5,” in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Collection Latomus 164 (1979) , pp. 317-334.
“The Public Festivals of Rome,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der Neueren Forschung Volume II.16.2 (1978) ed. Wolfgang Haase, pp. 1440-1468.
“The Family Festivals of Rome,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der Neueren Forschung Volume II.16.2 (1978) ed. Wolfgang Haase, pp. 1592-1603.
“Myth and Fantasy in Propertius I.3,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 103 (1974), pp. 151-165.
“Myth and Proverb in Propertius 2.8,” Classical World 68 (1975), p. 417-424.
“Nostalgia for the Age of Heroes in Catullus 64,” Latomus 32 (1973), pp. 311-331.
“Catullus 72.3-4,” Classical Journal 65 (1970), pp. 321-22.