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Associate Professor of Classics
Office: 4054
Email:fhahn@classics.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: M W 12:30-1:45 & 3:30-4:30
Frances Hickson Hahn, Associate Professor of Classics received her MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a year in Munich as the American Philological Association Fellow in Latin Lexicography, she came to UCSB in 1987, where she teaches Latin literature, prose composition, and topics in Roman religion and culture. As evidenced by her first book, Roman Prayer Language in Livy and the Aeneid of Vergil (1993), Professor Hahn's research interests center around the public cult of republican and Augustan Rome. Her current project also includes prayers but expands the sphere of inquiry to ritual, in particular, celebrations of victory. This monograph explores the way in which victory rituals, such as gratulatory supplications, triumphal offerings, and temple dedications, helped to construct and support the political dominance of the elite and, at the same time, a communal identity for Romans of all classes.
Graduate supervision:
Frances Hahn welcomes enquiries from prospective students on any area of ancient Roman polytheism and Latin historiography, especially Livy.
Book
Roman Prayer Language: Livy and the Aeneid of Vergil (Teubner 1993)
Selected Articles & Reviews
"Performing the Sacred: Prayers and Hymns," Blackwell Companion to Roman Religion, ed. J. Rüpke (Oxford, forthcoming 2007).
"The Politics of Thanksgiving," Augusto Augurio: Rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski, ed. C. F. Konrad (Stuttgart, 2004) 31-51.
"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, 2004) 57 75.
"Pompey's supplicatio duplicata: A novel form of thanksgiving," Phoenix 54.3-4 (2000) 244-254.
"Vergilian Transformation of an Oath Ritual: Aeneid 12.169-174, 213-215,"Vergilius 45 (1999) 22-38.
"What's so Funny? Laughter and incest in invective humor," Syllecta Classica 9 (1998) 1-36.
"The Oath of Aeneas: Aeneid 12.176-194," Anthology of Hellenistic Prayer, ed. M. Kiley, (New York, 1997) 149-154.
"A Prayer of Scipio Africanus: Livy 29.27.2-4," Anthology of Hellenistic Prayer, ed. M. Kiley (New York, 1997) 144-148.
"Patruus: Paragon or Pervert? The Case of a Literary Split Personality," Syllecta Classica 4 (1993) 21-26
"Augustus Triumphator: Manipulation of the Triumphal Theme in the Political Program of Augustus," Latomus 50.1 (1991) 124-128
