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RECENT ADDITIONS

Worlds Texts
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Funerary Inscription: Septimia Stratonice Silius Italicus, Punica VI.415-451; 497-520
submitted by John Jacobs, Loyola University Maryland
Funerary Inscription: Nothi Coniunx M. Tullius Cicero, De Oratore III.12.45: Laelia,
submitted by Anne Leen, Furman University
Funerary Inscriptions: Julia Secunda and Cornelia Tyche C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (minor), Panegyricus 84: Trajan's sister Marciana
Funerary Inscription: Aelia Sabina
submitted by Barbara McManus, The College of New Rochelle
Cornelius Tacitus, Annales XV.63-4: Paulina
submitted by Elizabeth Gloyn, Rutgers University
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmina I.11: Leuconoe
submitted by Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University
M. Annaeus Lucanus, De Bello Civili V.762-790: Cornelia
submitted by Lisa Sannicandro, Università degli Studi di Padova
Sextus Propertius, Elegiae III.23: the lost love tablets
submitted by Anne Leen's Intermediate Latin class, Furman University
 

Conference Papers

The Classical Association of the Atlantic States & Classical Association of New Jersey
Westin Hotel, Princeton, New Jersey
Panel E: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
Digital Texts, Online Collaboration and the Latin Classroom: Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women
Presider and Moderator (Panel Handout): Ann R. Raia (The College of New Rochelle, CAAS President)
Sacris Rite Paratis: Women's Responsibilities in Household Rituals
       Judith L. Sebesta (University of South Dakota)
An Illuminated Text/Commentary to Stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses
       Donald Connor (Trinity School)
Contributing to Companion: The Wedding of Scholarship and Pedagogy
        Maria S. Marsilio (Saint Joseph's University)
Assessing Companion: From Undergraduate to High School Teacher
        Elizabeth McCauley (Saint Joseph's University; Merion Mercy Academy)

Instruction Materials
Additional colleague contributions may be found at Activities and Syllabi & Lessons

Sarah Hull, CUNY Hunter Graduate Student (New York City)
    Classroom Lesson Plan on Roman Marriage. This unit lesson plan and accompanying classroom activity is intended to introduce students from middle-school to high school to aspects of Roman Marriage. An accompanying PowerPoint presentation is available on CD upon request.

Maria S. Marsilio, Saint Joseph's University (Philadelphia)
    Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World, accompanying bibliography: Spring 2008. A study of the ancient Greek and Roman cultural constructions of gender through reading in English legal, philosophical, medical, historical, religious, and literary works.

Barbara F. McManus, The College of New Rochelle (NY)
    Tarpeia in Livy and the Roman Forum. This activity connects text interpretation with the exploration of associated ancient sites through an assignment that links Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women and VRoma.

Ann R. Raia, The College of New Rochelle (NY)
    Funerary Inscription Project. In this activity students explore the genre of epigraphy in search of Roman women, who are represented on funerary monuments through sculpture and writing that is not exclusively male and elite. Model student projects are appended to the instructions.

Stacie Raucci, Union College (NY)
     “Dido in Text and Performance.This activity, intended for a Latin class but useful as well in courses in translation, connects textual interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid IV.630-662 with the reception of Vergil’s Queen Dido in various media.

Stacie Raucci, Union College (NY)
    Sex and Gender in Antiquity: Fall 2008. Syllabus for a course that examines representations of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, using literature, artwork, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct definitions of the masculine and feminine. The course also includes an ethics component.

John H. Starks Jr, Binghamton University (NY)
    De vitis mulierum Romanarum: Fall 2008. Syllabus for an Intermediate Latin course with reading and viewing assignments on Companion.



Ann R. Raia and Judith Lynn Sebesta
February 2010