JOSEPH B. SOLODOW Foreign Languages
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Translator. Latin Literature: A History, by Gian Biagio Conte.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. (Originally published as
Letteratura latina: manuale storico dalle origini alla fine dell'impero romano,
Florence: Le Monnier, 1989).
The World of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 1988. Reprinted 2003.
The Latin Particle Quidem.
Boulder, CO: American Philological Association, 1978 (American Classical
Studies, 4).
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
(with Harvey Feinberg) “Out of Africa.” Journal of African History 43 (2002) 255-261.
"Forms of Literary Criticism in Catullus: Polymetric vs.
Epigram." Classical Philology 84 (1989) 312-319.
"Persistence of Virgilian Memories." Liverpool Classical
Monthly14:8 (1989) 119-121.
"On Catullus 95." Classical Philology 82 (1987) 141-145.
"The Canon of Texts for a Latin Data Bank." Favonius, Supplementary
Volume 1 (1987) 21-24.
"RAVCAE, TVA CVRA, PALVMBES: Study of a Poetic Word
Order." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 90 (1986) 129-153.
"Livy and the Story of Horatius, 1.24-26." Transactions
of the American Philological Association109 (1979) 251-268. To be reprinted, in
revised form, in Christina S. Kraus and Jane Chaplin, eds. Oxford Readings in
Livy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
"Poeta Impotens: the Last Three Eclogues." Latomus36
(1977) 757-771.
"Ovid's Ars Amatoria: the Lover as Cultural Ideal."
Wiener Studien 90, N. F. 11 (1977) 106-127.
"Cato, Orationes, Frag. 75." American Journal of
Philology 98 (1977) 359-361.
"A Note on Castiglione." Notes and Queries 222, N. S. 24
(1977) 492-493.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Summary of dissertation, "The Copulative Particles in
Livy." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 76 (1972) 303-305.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Garrett G. Fagan and Paul Murgatroyd, From Augustus to Nero: An
Intermediate Latin Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, in Bryn
Mawr Classical Review 18 (2007)
Z. Philip Ambrose, transl. Ovid: Metamorphoses. Newburyport: Focus
Publishing, 2004, in New England Classical Journal 32
(2005) 382-386
Neil Hopkinson, ed. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XIII. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000, in Classical Journal 99 (2003) 92-95
John Godwin, ed. Catullus: The Shorter Poems. Warminster: Aris and
Phillips, 1999, in American Journal of Philology 122 (2001) 283-287.
Garth Tissol, The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic
Origins in Ovid's Metamophoses. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, in
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (2000).
Karl Galinsky, Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998)
321-324
Ross S. Kilpatrick. The Poetry of Criticism: Horace, "Epistles
II" and
"Ars Poetica." Edmonton: University of Alberta Press,
1990, and Niall Rudd, ed. Horace: Epistles, Book II, and Epistle to the Pisones
("Ars Poetica"). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989,
in New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 18 (1991) 42-45.
Otto Steen Due. Changing Forms: Studies in theMetamorphoses of
Ovid. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1974, in Classical World 69 (1976) 474-475.
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
“The Author in His Text: Three Firsts in Latin Literature.”
Yale-Brown Classics Colloquium, Brown University, September, 2006.
“Horace in the Midst of Things: Theory, Precept, and Practice.”
Faculty Colloquium, Southern Connecticut State University, November 2003.
"On Catullan Numbers." University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. September, 1999.
"Translating Livy: Problems of Reading and Misreading."
Baylor University, April 1997.
"The Two Strands of Vargas Llosa's La tia Julia y el
escribidor." Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures,
University of Cincinnati, May 1996.
"Catullus Counts." Research Conference, Connecticut
State University, New Haven, October 1993.
"The Ecologues Revisited." Cornell University, April
1992.
"Latin Lexicography." University of California,
Berkeley, April 1988.
"Anachronism in Ancient Literature and Literary
Criticism." Stanford University, March 1988.
Catullan Numbers." American Philological Association Annual
Convention, San Antonio, December 1986.
"The Canon of Latin Texts and the Latin Text Data Bank."
UCLA Conference on Classics and Computers, Los Angeles, July 1986.
"Catullus 35 (and 36)." American Philological
Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, December 1985.
"Roman Religion and Historiography." Symposium, Sacra in
Litteris: Latin Literature and Roman Religious Institutions, University of
Minnesota, April 1984.
"The Meaning of Sallust's Archaism." American
Philological Association Annual Convention, Cincinnati, December 1983.
"The Metamorphoses of Ovid." Columbia University Seminar
on Classical Civilization, December 1983.
"Anachronism and Augustan Poetry." Joint Meeting of
Classical Association of Atlantic States and New York Classical Club, NY,
September 1983.
"Philology and Literary Criticism: the Latin Future
Participle." American Philological
Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, December 1980.
"Ovid's Ars Amatoria." Bryn Mawr College, October 1976.
GRANTS RECEIVED:
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1984-85
(declined)
Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 1980-81
Columbia University Council for Research in the Humanities,
summers 1975 and 1977
Chamberlain Fellowship, Columbia College, Fall 1975
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Classical Literature and Philology; Historiography;
Spanish-American Literature;
Romance Philology
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
A book on how Latin survives
in the Romance languages and English
An essay on Catullus's language of money and accounting
A volume of essays on Livy's narrative and language, through which
are revealed his chief qualities as a historian
DISSERTATION TITLE:
The Copulative Particles
in Livy
INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:
Harvard University