Name: Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers

Title: Assistant Professor of Classics

Ph.D. Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Dr. Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers came to the University of Alabama in 2002 as an Assistant Professor of Classics. Her teaching and research specialties include Roman poetry, Classical tradition and Neo-Latin poetry in the Renaissance, Epicureanism from antiquity through the Renaissance, myth and archetypal theory, and women’s life in antiquity. She has published articles on Horace, Lucretius, Polignac’s Anti-Lucretius, Hildegard of Bingen, and myth theory. She is currently working on a book on “Lucretius’ Readers in the Renaissance.”

 

 

List of Publications:

 

Articles

 

C                     “Tantum potuit suadere libido: Religion and Pleasure in Polignac's Anti-Lucretius,” forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century Thought (forthcoming in May, 2004).

 

C                     “Ancient Greek Myths and the Emergence of New Archetypes” in Ancient Greece and the Modern World (University Press of Patras, Greece, forthcoming in 2003).

 

C                     “Changing the Pattern: Vergilian Archetypes in Byatt's Possession,” in Hermes and Aphrodite Encounters, ed. by Metka Zupančič (accepted for publication with SUMMA Publications).

 

C                     “Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess,” in Women Writing Latin, ed. Laurie Churchill et al., 3 vols. (London: Routledge, 2002), vol. II, pp. 133-172.

 

C                     “Lambinus’ Edition of Lucretius: Using Plato and Aristotle in Defense of the De rerum natura” Classical and Modern Literature 21 (2001): 45-70.

 

C                     “Horace, Philodemus and the Epicureans at Herculaneum,” Mnemosyne 5.4, 51 (1998): 20-29.

 

Book Reviews

 

C                     Alan H. Sommerstein, Greek Drama and Dramatists (London and New York: Routledge, 2002) in RSR (forthcoming).

 

C                     John E. Thorburn, Jr., ed., The Alcestis of Euripides (Lewiston, New York; Queenston, Ontario; Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) in RSR (forthcoming).

 

C                     Mark Ringer, Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheatre and Role Playing in Sophocles ( Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press:1998) in RSR 26.1 (2000): 80.

 

C                     C. Calame, Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions, translated by D. Collins & J. Orion (Lanham, MD 1997), in RSR 24.2 (1998): 188.

 

C                     D. Obbink, Philodemus on Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace (Oxford 1995), in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996): 187-201.

 

C                     R. Rehm, Marriage to Death (Princeton 1994), in RSR 21 (1995): 228-29.

 

 

Book in Progress

 

“Lucretius’ Readers in the Renaissance”

 

 

Invited Talks

 

C                     “Dionysius Lambinus’ Edition of the De rerum natura and Melchior de Polignac’s Anti-Lucretius: Two Examples of the Diametrically Opposite Trends in Lucretian Studies in the Renaissance.” Invited lecture for the Department of Classics, University of Colorado,(spring 2000).

 

C                     “Virtual Rome: Innovative Teaching Tools for Modern Students of Antiquity.” Invited lecture for the Colorado Classical Association (CCA), (spring 2000).

 

C                     “Horace's Links with the Epicurean School at Naples.” Invited lecture for the Colloquium series of the Department of Classical Studies, Loyola University, Chicago (spring 1994).

 

 

Papers & Presentations at Professional Conferences, Colloquia & Seminars

 

C                     “Religion as the Conqueror of Pleasure in Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius.” Paper delivered at the American Philological Association (APA) conference in New Orleans (spring 2003).

 

C                     “Myth in Literature: Minotaur and the New Ariadne.” Paper delivered at the Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA) conference, University of Alabama (fall 2002).

 

C                     “Ancient Greek Myths and the Emergence of New Archetypes.” Paper delivered at the 2^nd World Congress on Ancient Greece and the Modern World, Olympia, Greece – Organized by the University of Patras (summer 2002).

 

C                     “Changing the Pattern: Vergilian Archetypes in Byatt's Possession.” Paper delivered at the Hermes and Aphrodite Colloquium on Modern Literature, University of Alabama (spring 2002).

 

C                     “Romanization and Ethnicity in the Roman Empire.” Presentation at the NEH seminar on “Representing Geography and Community in the World of Imperial Rome” at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (summer 2000).

 

C                     “Saepta Julia: The Transformation of the Roman Voting Precinct during the Empire.” Presentation at the VRoma Builders' Workshop, Cornell College, Iowa (spring 1999).

 

C                     “Virtual Reality in the Foreign Language Classroom.” Paper delivered at the Language Alliance of West Alabama (LAWA), (spring 1999).

 

C                      “Teaching Latin in the Computer Age.” Paper delivered at the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers (AAFLT) conference (spring 1999).

 

C                     “Dido, Circe and the Image of the Hero.” Paper delivered at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), (spring 1998).

 

C                     “Was Philodemus Horace's Mentor? An Evaluation of the Evidence.” Paper delivered at the American Philological Association (APA) conference (fall 1994).

 

C                     “Character Change of a Euripidean Chorus.” Paper delivered at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) conference (spring 1993).

 

C                     “Dionysius Lambinus as Commentator of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.” Paper delivered at the Interdisciplinary Conference for the Advancement of Early Studies (CAES), (spring 1992).

 

 

Grants

 

C                     Authored a proposal and received the University of Alabama Research Advisory Committee Grant (RAC $3,265) to do research on Polignac's didactic poem Anti-Lucretius (2003).  The publication that ensued from it is titled “Tantum potuit suadere libido: Religion and Pleasure in Polignac's Anti-Lucretius,” and is forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century Thought (May, 2004).

 

C                     Authored a proposal and received a $3,700 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to do research during a summer seminar in Rome, Italy (summer 2000).

 

C                     Co-authored a proposal and received a $5,000 Instructional Technology Grant from the University of Alabama to build the virtual site of the Colosseum for The VRoma Project and to organize a workshop on VRoma's instructional applicability (fall 2000).

 

C                     Authored a proposal and was funded by a grant from the Colgate-Hamilton Mellon Consortium and The VRoma Project NEH grant ($1500) to do research on Julia Saepta during a third VRoma Builder's Workshop at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (summer 1999).

 

C                     Funded by an NEH grant ($900) for a second Builders' Workshop for The VRoma Project at Cornell College, Iowa, directed by Dr. John Gruber-Muller (April 24-25, 1999).

 

C                     Authored a proposal and received a $3,200 grant from the NEH to develop instructional materials using The VRoma Project for teaching a class on "Roman Family" during an Institute that was held at Miami University, Ohio, and was directed by Dr. Barbara McManus (June 5-17, 1998).

 

C                     Funded by an NEH grant ($500) to participate in “The Philodemus' De Rhetorica Project,” directed by Dr. David Armstrong, University of Texas, Austin (spring 1995).

 

C                     Funded by an NEH grant ($500) to participate in "The Philodemus Translation Project" directed by Dr. Richard Janko, University of California, Los Angeles (spring 1994).

 

 

Honors & Awards

 

C                     Received the Outstanding Commitment to Students Award ($3,000) by the College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board (University of Alabama, Spring 2003).