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(Note: In intermediate/advanced language classes taught at Wheaton, there were frequently advanced students who did additional reading or prose composition to achieve a 300-level course; these are not specifically noted here.)

introductory Latin sequence, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, Spring 2000, 2000-2001.
fourth semester Latin, Aeneid: Spring 1989.
survey of Latin literature, third-year undergraduates: Spring 1991.
intermediate/advanced undergraduates:

Vergil, Aeneid/Ovid, Metamorphoses: Spring 1996
Vergil, Georgics; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura: Spring 2000.
Satire (Petronius and Seneca): Fall 1996, Fall 2000.
Cicero, Orations: Spring 1994, Fall 1997.
Livy, Selections from Books 1, 6, 21: Fall 1998.

independent reading course with undergraduates, Augustine, Confessions: Spring 1991.
graduate reading course, Aeneid: Fall 1988.
graduate reading course, Terence: Fall 1990.
graduate seminar, Roman Verse Satire: Fall 1986.
independent reading course with graduate students, Ovid, Metamorphoses (complete): Fall 1987.

Greek:

Euripides, Alcestis: Fall 1993.
Herodotus: Fall 1995.
Euripides, Medea: Spring 1997, Spring 2001.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Spring 1999.

graduate reading course, Lucian: Spring 1990.
graduate seminar, Plato and Symposiac Literature: Spring 1992.
independent reading courses with graduate students, Homer: Spring 1987; Plato: Spring 1988; Euclid, Elements I, II, V: Fall 1990;
Apollonius of Perga, Conics, selections: Spring 1991.

The Prisoner’s Philosophy: On the limitations of pagan thought in Boethius’s Consolation (accepted by University of Notre Dame Press; to appear in 2002).

Ancient Menippean Satire, Johns Hopkins University Press 1993.

with Susan Stakel, transs., The Montpellier Codex, Part IV: Texts and Translations, Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Volume VIII (A-R Editions, Inc.: Madison 1985).

review of D.Wardle, trans., comm., Valerius Maximus: Memorable Deeds and Sayings, Book I (Oxford University Press 1998), forthcoming in Religious Studies Review.

review of Peter Dronke, Verse with Prose From Petronius to Dante: The Art and Scope of the Mixed Form (Cambridge, MA 1994), forthcoming in Carmina Philosophiae: The Journal of the International Boethius Society.

review of P. G. Walsh, trans., comm., Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (Oxford University Press 1999), Bryn Mawr Classica; Review 00-01-16 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-01-16.html).

review of H.J.W.Wijsman, ed., Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book V: A Commentary (Brill 1996), Religious Studies Review 25.1 (1999) 95.

review of William J. Dominik, ed., Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature (Routledge 1997), New England Classical Journal 26 (1998) 42-4.

review of P. G. Walsh, trans., Petronius: The Satyricon (Oxford University Press 1996), Religious Studies Review 23.3 (1997) 296.

“Menippus from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” in R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, eds., The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy (University of California Press 1996) 265-93.

review of George A. Kennedy, A New History of Classical Rhetoric (Princeton University Press 1994), New England Classical Newsletter & Journal 23.3 (1996) 118-9.

review of James Tatum, ed., The Search for the Ancient Novel (Baltimore 1994), New England Classical Newsletter & Journal 22.3 (1995) 136-7.

review of Charles Martindale, Redeeming the Text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception (Cambridge 1993), Classical Review 89.1 (1995) 73.

A synopsis of The Prisoner’s Philosophy (then called The Menippean Boethius), a book in progress, appeared in The Newsletter of the International Boethius Society, 3.1 (1994).

“The Novel in the Classroom: Teaching the Ancient Romance,” The Petronian Society Newsletter 22 (1992): 7-9.

“Rethinking the History of the Literary Symposium,” in collaboration with the members of my seminar Plato and Symposiac Literature, Illinois Classical Studies 17 (1992): 213-44.

review of Gerard O’Daly, The Poetry of Boethius (Chapel Hill 1991), Classical World 86. 2 (1992): 172-73.

review of Calvin M. Bower, ed., trans., Fundamentals of Music: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (New Haven 1989), Classical World 85. 6 (1992): 712-713.

“Pardoning Persius’ Laughter,” Mnemosyne 44 (1991): 433-35.

“Agathias Scholasticus (A.P. 11. 354), the Philosopher Nicostratus, and Boethius’ Consolation,” Classica et Mediaevalia 41 (1990): 119–29.

“Menippus, the Cur from Crete,” Prometheus 16 (1990): 217–24.

“Old Comedy, Menippean Satire, and Philosophy’s Tattered Robes in Boethius’ Consolation,” Illinois Classical Studies 15 (1990): 183–194.

“The Confessions of Persius,” Illinois Classical Studies 14 (1989): 145–67.

“Menippus the Cynic in the Greek Anthology,” Syllecta Classica 1 (1989): 56–61.

“A Metrical Quotation in Julian’s Symposium,” Classical Quarterly New Series 39 (1989): 566–69.

“Fulgentius, Mitologiae I. 20–21,” American Journal of Philology 109 (1988): 229–30.

“Martianus Capella, The Good Teacher,” Pacific Coast Philology 22 (1987): 59–70.

“Vainglorious Menippus in the Dialogues of the Dead,” Illinois Classical Studies 12 (1987): 185–206.

“Satyra in the Prologue of Fulgentius’ Mythologies,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History IV, Carl Deroux ed., Collection Latomus 196 (1986): 537–48.

“On the Origin of ‘Menippean Satire’ as the Name of a Literary Genre,” Classical Philology 79 (1984): 226–29.

“Ovid, Metamorphoses I. 1–4 and Fulgentius’ Mitologiae,” American Journal of Philology 105 (1984): 87–90.

“Looking Up and Looking Down in Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy,” a lecture to the Classics Department of Brown University, March 1999.

“Translating Boethius,” a Wheaton Faculty luncheon talk, November 1997.

“The Latest Word on Black Athena,” a Wheaton Faculty luncheon talk, April 1996.

“From Socrates to Trimalchio,” a public lecture at Wheaton College, February 1993.

“The Four Unfulfilled Promises of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy,” a public lecture at the University of Illinois, September 1990.

“The Prose Prologue of Alan of Lille’s De Planctu Naturae and Boethius’ Consolation,” read at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, Chicago, September 1990.

“Comic Parallels to the Consolation in the Dialogues of Lucian,” read at my Symposium Boethianum, English Seminar 463, University of Illinois, May 1990.

“The Confessions of Persius,” a public lecture at the University of Illinois, May 1988.

“Traditions of Anti-philosophical Humor in Agathias Scholasticus, A.P. 11. 354,” an invited paper at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, New Orleans, LA, April 1988.

“Traditions of Classical Menippean Satire in Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturae,” read at the Sixth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, March 1988.

“Vainglorious Menippus in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Dead,” a public lecture at the University of Illinois, March 1987.

“Martianus Capella, the Good Teacher,” an invited paper at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Riverside, CA, November 1986.

“A Definition of Classical and Medieval Menippean Satire,” an invited paper at the 21st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1986.

“Julian as a Menippean Satirist,” read at the Seventh Annual Byzantine Studies Conference in Boston, November 1981.

“Satyra in the Prologue of Fulgentius’ Mythologies,” read at the 14th International Congress on on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, March 1979.