the J. P. Sullivan lectures
The John Patrick Sullivan Memorial Fund was established in 1993 to honor the memory of this internationally renowned Latinist who was a professor in the Classics department at UCSB from 1978 until his untimely death in 1993. John Sullivan made a tremendous contribution to the field of Classics, and especially to the study of Latin literature, writing books on the poets Propertius and Martial, on Petronius' Satyricon, and on literature of the Neronian period, editing professional journals, most notably Arion which he co-founded, and publishing translations of Roman poetry. The Sullivan memorial fund makes it possible to invite distinguished classicists to campus to deliver lectures, normally in alternating years. Generally these lectures reflect John Sullivan's interests in Latin literature, the ancient novel, and gender in the ancient world. So far the Sullivan lecturers have included:
- Anthony J. Boyle, "Martialis Redivivus: The Unexpected Classic," in 1994
- W. R. Johnson, "Male Victimology in Juvenal," in 1996
- Gareth Schmeling, "Guardians of the Text: Editors and Critics," in 1997
- Susan Treggiari, "Nature, Nuture and Mortality: Some Roman Assumptions," in 1999
- Suzanne Dixon, "The Purity of Women and the Integrity of the Group," in 2000.
- Micaela Janan, Duke University, "Courting the Demon: the Uses of Terror in Ovid's Thebes," in 2003
- John Henderson, King's College Cambridge, UK, "Terence, deterrence: pay back time for the self" in 2004
- Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas, "Sexing the World: Roman Poets and Scholars on Grammatical Gender" April 13, 2007
- Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, "IRONY AND TRUTH IN PERSIUS" May 15, 2009
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