Frances Hickson Hahn

Department of Classics

University of California, Santa Barbara

Education:

1968-1972 Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia

B.A. 1972, honors, thesis: Animism in Native Roman Religion, directed by

Laura Sumner

1980-1986 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A. 1982, thesis: The Ceremony on the Ara Pacis, directed by Jerzy

Linderski

Ph.D. 1986, dissertation: Voces Precationum: The Vocabulary of Prayer in

Livy and the Aeneid of Vergil,” directed by Jerzy Linderski

Pre-Doctoral Honors

1972 B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Classics, Mary Washington College

1972 Phi Beta Kappa, Mary Washington College

1979 American Classical League Travel Award, AAR summer session

1984-1984 Teaching Fellow in Classics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Post-Doctoral Awards

1986-1987 American Philological Association Fellow in Latin Lexicography

1989 UCSB Faculty Career Development Award

1992-1993 UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Fellowship

2005 UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Fellowship

Academic Appointments:

1987-1993 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

1993- Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Publications:

1987 "praepolleo" with praepollentia, praepollens in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 10.2

col. 766-767.

1990 "patro;" "patruelis;" "patruus" in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 10.1 col. 772-774,

791-792, 792-794.

1991 "Augustus Triumphator: Manipulation of the triumphal theme in the political

program of Augustus," Latomus 50.1, pp. 124-138.

1992 Review of Pagan Priests: Religion and power in the ancient world, M. Beard, J.

North, S. Price, edd. Ithaca, 1990. American Journal of Philology. 113.3, pp. 476-

479.

1992 "pavor" in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 10.1 col. 838-842.

1992 "praerumpo" with praeruptus, praeruptio; "praestructio;" "praestruo" with

praestructim, praestructivus, in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 10.2 col. 801-804, 943,

943-947.

1993 Review of Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity, L. Watson in American Journal of

Philology 114.4, pp. 629-631.

1993 Roman Prayer Language: Livy and the Aeneid of Vergil. Beiträge zur

Altertumskunde (Stuttgart).

1993 "Patruus: Paragon or Pervert? The case of a literary split personality" in Syllecta

Classica 4, pp. 21-26.

1995 "Roman Religion," in Dictionary of Religion, ed. J. Z. Smith et al. with the

American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, pp. 932-937 (with other shorter

entries).

1997 "The Oath of Aeneas: Aeneid 12.176-194," in Prayer from Alexander to Constantine:
A Critical Anthology, edd. Kiley, Mark et al. New York, pp. 149-154.

1997 "A Prayer of Scipio Africanus: Livy 29.27.2-4," in Prayer from Alexander to Constantine:
A Critical Anthology, edd. Kiley, Mark et al. New York, pp. 144-148.

1998 "What's so Funny? Laughter and incest in invective humor," in Syllecta Classica

9, pp. 21-26.

1999 "Vergilian Transformation of an Oath Ritual: Aeneid 12.169-174, 213-215,"

Vergilius 45, pp. 22-38.

1999 Review of Prayer in Greek Religion, Simon Pulleyn in American Journal of

Philology 120.4, pp. 632-636.

2000 "Pompey's Supplicatio Duplicata: A novel form of thanksgiving," Phoenix 54.3-4,

pp. 244-254.

2002 Review of Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, Hans-Friedrich Mueller,

Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

2004 "Ut diis immortalibus honos habeatur: Livy’s representation of gratitude to the

gods," Rituals in Ink, edd. A. Barchiesi, J. Rüpke, and S. Stephens (Stuttgart) pp.

57-75.

2004 “The Politics of Thanksgiving,” Augusto Augurio: Rerum humanarum et divinarum

commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski, ed. C. F. Konrad (Stuttgart) pp. 31-51.

2007 “Performing the Sacred: Prayers and Hymns,” A Companion to Roman

Religion, ed. J. Rüpke (Oxford, forthcoming) pp. 235-248.

Papers Presented:

1986 “Prayers in Livy and Vergil,” American Philological Association, annual meeting

1988 “Augusti Reditus: Ceremonies in the Political Program of Octavian Augustus,”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, annual meeting

1992 “Paragons and Perverts: Paternal Uncles in Ancient Rome,” Western Association of

Women Historians

1992 “Patruus: Paragon and Pervert,” Classical Association of the Middle West and

South, annual meeting

1994 “What’s so Funny? Laughter and Incest,” Classical Association of the Middle West

and South, annual meeting

1997 "Ut diis honor habeatur: Gratitude in Roman Prayer," Classical Association of the

Middle West and South, annual meeting

1998 "A Matter of Ritual: Aeneid 12.173-174," Colloquium on Sacrifice in the Ancient

World, UCLA

2002 “Livy’s Representation of Gratitude to the Gods” Conference on Religion and

Texts in Ancient Rome, Stanford University

2003 "Gratitude, Laud and Honor: religion and power in ancient Rome," American

Philological Association, annual meeting

2006 “The Personalization of Victory in Republican Rome,” American Philological

Association, annual meeting

2006 “Ritual and Transition: The Augustan Program of Thanksgiving,” UCLA-USC

Roman Studies Seminar

2007 “Potent Ritual: Supplications in the Augustan Ideological Program,” American

Philological Association, annual meeting