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Neil Bernstein

Neil Bernstein, portrait
Professor
Ellis 243
Classics and Religious Studies
bernsten@ohio.edu
740-597-2107

51社区 faculty member since 2004

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Education

2000 Ph.D., .

1994 B.A. summa cum laude, and

Research Interests

  • Roman epic, drama, and rhetoric
  • Kinship in Roman literature
  • Digital analysis of classical literature
  • Reception of classical literature

Courses Taught

  • CARS 2110 Rome Under the Caesars
  • CARS 2300 Heroes in Classical Literature
  • CARS 2310 Classical Mythology
  • Greek
  • Latin

Awards and Honors

  • 2022-23 Presidential Research Scholar
  • 2019 , , London, ON.
  • 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award in the Humanities, 51社区.
  • 2014 Distinguished Mentor award,
  • 2012-13 Charles J. Ping Teaching Fellow, 51社区
  • 2011-12 NEH Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC
  • 2011-12 Fellowship (sabbatical funding; declined)
  • 2011 Fellowship ($5,000)
  • 2008-9 , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
  • 2008 Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant (publication subvention)
  • 1996-2000 James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University
  • 1994 Amherst College

Professional Experience

  • 2004-present Professor (2014-present); Associate (2010-14); Assistant (2004-10) Department of Classics and World Religions, , Athens, OH
  • 2019 , , London ON.
  • 2017 NEH Institute, 鈥,鈥 Kent State University, Kent OH
  • 2011-12 NEH Fellow, , Research Triangle Park, NC
  • 2008-9 Fulbright Lecturer, , Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2001-4 Visiting Assistant Prof., , , Wooster, OH

Research and Publications

Solo-authored Books

Poppaea Sabina: The Life and Afterlife of A Roman Empress. Under contract for series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The Complete Works of Claudian. Translated with an Introduction and Notes. London: Routledge, 2023. ISBN .

Silius Italicus, Punica 9. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN .

Seneca: Hercules Furens. Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xv + 151 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Gnomon 91.2 (2019) 171-174; Classical Review 68.1 (2018) 95-97; Classics Ireland 25 (2018) ; Exemplaria Classica 22 (2018) 303-309; Revue des 脡tudes Anciennes (9/25/); New England Classical Journal 44.3 (2017) 190-193; Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; Classical Journal Online ; Classics for All .

Silius Italicus, Punica 2. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. liv + 318 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Mnemosyne 73 (2020) 164-176; Classical Review 68.2 (2018); Classical Journal Online ; Greece & Rome 65.1 (2018) 113-114; Times Literary Supplement ; Bollettino di Studi Latini 48 (2018) 321-326.

Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 229 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Classical Philology 112.1 (2017) 108-111; Bollettino di Studi Latini 45 (2015) 607-609; Classical World 108.2 (2015) 306-307; Mnemosyne 68.3 (2015) 524-527; Sehepunkte 15.4 (2015); Classical Journal Online ; Greece & Rome 61.2 (2014) 281-282.

In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. ix + 281 pp. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Phoenix 65.1-2 (2011) 183-185; Mnemosyne 64 (2011) 511-514; Classical Journal Online ; Hermathena 187 (2009) 124-128.

Co-authored Books and Journals

A Commentary on Seneca: Hercules Furens. Co-edited with Christopher Francese, Kyle Gervais, et al. , 2022.

Silius Italicus鈥 Punica: Rome鈥檚 War With Hannibal. Translated with Antony Augoustakis. London: Routledge, 2021. ISBN .

  • Reviews: Classical Review 72.1 (2022): ; Bryn Mawr Classical Review .

Digital Methods and Classical Studies. Co-edited with Neil Coffee. Digital Humanities Quarterly (2016).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

鈥淭he siege of Amida and epic tradition: Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.1-9.鈥 72.6 (2019) 994-1012.

鈥Nec tibi sufficiat transmissae gloria uitae: otium and ambition from Statius to Ennodius.鈥 Classical Journal 115.1 (2019) 63-85.

鈥淟ight on the water in Silius Italicus' Punica and Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae.鈥 Mnemosyne 69 (2016) 1050-1057.

鈥.鈥 Co-authored with Neil Coffee. Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.2 (2016).

鈥淩ome鈥檚 Arms and Breast: Claudian Panegyricus Dictus Olybrio et Probino Consulibus 83- 90 and its Tradition.鈥 Classical Quarterly 66.1 (2016) .

鈥.鈥 Co-authored with Kyle Gervais and Wei Lin. Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3 (2015).

鈥溾楾orture her until she lies鈥: Torture, Testimony, and Social Status in Roman Rhetorical Education.鈥 Greece & Rome 59.2 (2012) .

鈥淎doptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence.鈥 Classical Philology 104.3 (2009) .

鈥淭he white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica 13.115-137).鈥 Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 18 (2009) 89-106.

鈥淓ach Man鈥檚 Father Served as His Teacher: Constructing Relatedness in Pliny鈥檚 Letters.鈥 Classical Antiquity 27.2 (2008)

鈥淏odies, substances, and kinship in Roman declamation: The sick twins and their parents in Pseudo-Quintilian Major Declamations 8.鈥 Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 36.2 (2007) 118-142.

鈥淔ashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2.鈥 Arethusa 40.2 (2007)

鈥淢ourning the puer delicatus: Status Inconsistency and the Ethical Value of Fostering in Statius, Silvae 2.1.鈥 American Journal of Philology 126.2 (2005)

鈥Auferte oculos: modes of spectatorship in Statius Thebaid 11.鈥 Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 58.1-2 (2004) . Reprinted in: . Oxford Readings, ed. Antony Augoustakis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 234-261.

鈥淩evisiting Ovid鈥檚 Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Representation in Andr茅 Brink鈥檚 The Other Side of Silence.鈥 Classical and Modern Literature 24.2 (2004) 11-27.

鈥淎ncestors, status, and self-presentation in Statius鈥 Thebaid.鈥 Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003)

鈥淭he Text of Pervigilium Veneris 90: A Proposed Emendation.鈥 Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000) Co-authored with Francis Newton.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

鈥淟iterary Patronage and the Roman Imperial Court from Augustus to the Severan Dynasty.鈥 In: , ed. Benjamin Kelly and Angela Hug (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Chapter 18, pp. 438-460.

Angela Hug, Benjamin Kelly, and Neil Bernstein. 鈥淐ourt Relationships.鈥 In: , ed. Benjamin Kelly and Angela Hug (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Chapter 3, pp. 79-131.

鈥淐laudian鈥檚 Silius.鈥 In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis and Marco Fucecchi (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 103-123.

鈥淪ilius鈥 Punica and the traditions of Greek and Roman tragedy.鈥 In: . (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Pp. 25-42.

鈥淨ualitative and quantitative perspectives on the use of poetic tradition in Silius Italicus鈥 Punica.鈥 In: , ed. Neil Coffee et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). Pp. 377-392.

鈥淎 Greater Love: Fides in Statius鈥 Silvae.鈥 In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, and Claire Stocks (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019). Pp. 68-82.

鈥Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil war themes in Silius鈥 Saguntum episode.鈥 In: , ed. Lauren Ginsberg and Darcy Krasne (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019). Pp. 179-197.

鈥淐ontinuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid's Little Aeneid, Lucan鈥檚 Bellum Civile, and Silius' Punica.鈥 In: , ed. Robert Simms (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Chapter 13, pp. 248-266.

鈥.鈥 In: Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, ed. Dee Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

鈥Persona, Identity, and Self-Presentation in Roman Declamation.鈥 In: , ed. Andreas Gavrielatos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). Chapter 1, pp. 1-16.

鈥淩evisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Virgilian, and Lucanian Silius.鈥 In: , ed. Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). Pp. 225-248.

"Mutua vulnera: dying together in Silius鈥 Saguntum.鈥 In: , ed. Nikoletta Manioti. (Leiden: Brill, 2016). Pp. 228-247.

鈥淓pic Poetry: Historicizing the Flavian Epics.鈥 In: ed. Andrew Zissos (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Pp. 395-411.

鈥Auferte oculos: Modes of Spectatorship in Statius' Thebaid 11.鈥 In: . Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Pp. 234-261.

鈥Omnibus patemus insidiis: elite vulnerability in Major Declamations 11.鈥 In: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian, ed. M.T. Dinter, C. Gu茅rin, and M. Martinho (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016). Pp. 255-267.

鈥溾楾he Clash of Weapons and the Sight of War鈥: Spectatorship and Identification in Roman Epic.鈥 In: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict, ed. A. Bakogianni and V. Hope (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Pp. 58-72.

鈥淔amily and Kinship in the Works of Statius.鈥 In: , ed. W.J. Dominik, Kyle Gervais, and Carole E. Newlands (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Pp. 139-154.

鈥Romanas ueluti saeuissima cum legiones Tisiphone regesque mouet: Valerius Flaccus鈥 Argonautica and the Flavian Era.鈥 In: , ed. M.A.J. Heerink and Gesine Manuwald (Leiden: Brill, 2014). Pp. 154-169.

鈥Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem: Declamation and Flavian epic.鈥 In: ed. Gesine Manuwald and Astrid Voigt. (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter, 2013). pp. 139-156.

鈥淩itual Murder and Suicide in Statius鈥 Thebaid.鈥 In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Chapter 13, pp. 233-248.

鈥淭he Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan鈥檚 Visions of History.鈥 In: , ed. Paolo Asso (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Chapter 13, pp. 257-279.

鈥淔amily and the State in the Punica.鈥 In: , ed. Antonios Augoustakis (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Chapter 16, pp. 377-397.

鈥Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature.鈥 In: , edd. Sabine Huebner and David M. Ratzan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 13, pp. 241- 256.

Forthcoming Work

鈥淭he Performing Arts and their audiences.鈥 Co-authored with Hallie Marshall. In: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity, ed. Jerry Toner. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury.

鈥淟atin Sophists and Rhetors From the Age of Trajan to the Age of Constantine.鈥 In: The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, ed. Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

鈥淭he Madness of Hercules From Euripides through the Renaissance.鈥 In: Hercules: a Hero for All Ages, ed. Eleftheria Ioannidou, Helen Slaney, and Emma Stafford. Under consideration, Brill.

鈥溾楾hough the Great Song Return No More鈥: Silver Latin Epic and Its Tradition.鈥 In: The Blackwell Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 CE, ed. Lee Fratantuono. Under contract, Wiley-Blackwell.

Recent Service to the Profession

Classical Association of the Middle West and South First Book Award Committee (2015-2021; Chair, 2021-present).

Editorial board, Transactions of the American Philological Association (2016-2022).

College Board, Advanced Placement Latin Development Committee (2017-2020).

Recent Book Reviews (last 3 years)

Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith, edd., Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy. Toronto, 2020. Journal of Roman Studies 112 (2022) 267-268.

Andrew M. McClellan, Abused bodies in Roman epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.09.47.

Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood (eds), Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Journal of Roman Studies 110 (2020) 297-299.

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (last 3 years)

鈥淩eading Mob Violence and Treason with Pseudo-Quintilian and Lorenzo Patarol.鈥 Ohio State University; University of Genoa; Classical Association of Canada Conference, April-May 2022.

鈥淭he Battle of Cannae in the Roman Poetic Imagination.鈥 University of British Columbia, November 2020.

鈥淚n the shadow of the Master: reading the pseudo-Quintilianic corpus.鈥 Western University, London ON, October 2019; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2019.

 

Thesis and Dissertation Participation

2021. Committee member: Kenneth Elliott, 鈥淩ewards for Violence: praemia in Roman Declamation.鈥 Ph.D., Classics, University of Iowa.

2020. Committee member: Stephen Froedge, 鈥淢onsters in Flavian Epic鈥. Ph.D., Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2018. External examiner: Michelle Sugar, 鈥淕uilt in Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid and Lucan鈥檚 Bellum Civile鈥. Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, London ON.

2016. External examiner: Geoffrey G. Thompson, 鈥淭he Application of Citations in the Prose Corpus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: A Digital Approach.鈥 Ph.D., Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

2013. Committee member: James M. Lohmar, "The Anatomy of Roman Epic: A Study of Poetic Violence." Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of Florida.

2013. External examiner: Kyle J. Conrau-Lewis, 鈥淭he two voices of Statius: patronymics in the Thebaid.鈥 M.A., Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Internal Grants

2015 51社区 College of Arts and Sciences grant ($7,500) to co-lead Faculty Learning Community 鈥溾

2014 51社区 College of Arts and Sciences grant ($5,000) to co-lead faculty seminar 鈥溾

2012-13 51社区 Research Council grant ($7,123) for project 鈥淒eveloping Data Mining Strategies for Classical Latin Poetry鈥