Philip Thibodeau
Associate Professor
Classics
Location: 2411 Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.4641
Fax: 718.951.4765
Email:
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Education:
Ph.D., Brown University - 1999 (Classics)
B.A. (summa cum laude), Yale University - 1993 (Classics)
Areas of Expertise:
Vergil, Horace and Augustan poetry; ancient science
Books and Publications
"Vergil, Georgics." The Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com/ (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2013
Review of Classical Literary Careers and the Reception, by Philip Hardie and Helen Moore. New England Classical Journal. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2012
Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics. University of California Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2011
Review of Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil, by Leah Kronenberg. Classical World 104.3: 375-76. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
Review of Pastoral Inscriptions, by Brian Breed. Classical Journal 104.2: 180-81. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009
Articles on Vergil, Cato the Elder, Varro and 84 other agricultural writers. Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists. Eds. P. Keyser and G. Irby-Massie. Routledge. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
Review of Acts of Love. Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite's Garden, by George Economou. Harvard Review 32: 158-60. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2007
"The Addressee of Vergil's Eighth Eclogue." Classic Quarterly 56.2: 618-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Review of The Georgics of Virgil. Bilingual Edition, by David Ferry. Harvard Review 30: 177-78. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2006
"Cato's Attacks on Scipio's Hellenism Were Pure Political Opportunism." History in Dispute. Eds. P.A. Miller and C. Platter. Gale Group. 92-99. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005
"The Watery Something of Vergil Georgics 4.234." Classic Quarterly 54.2: 636-40. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
Review of Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture, eds. C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll. American Journal of Philology 125.1: 138-42. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2004
"Can Vergil Cry? Epicureanism in Horace Odes 1.24." The Classical Journal 98.3: 243-56. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
"Optical Illusions in Ancient Greece." Gestures: Essays in Greek Literature, History and Philosophy, in Honor of Alan Boegehold. Eds. J. Sickinger and G. Bakewell. Oxbow Books. 136-51. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003
"The Highest Candle: Michael C.J. Putnam as Scholar and Teacher." Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C.J. Putnam on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Eds. H. Haskell and P. Thibodeau. Afton Press. 1-23. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003
Haskell, H. and P. Thibodeau. Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C.J. Putnam on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Afton Press. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2003
"Richard Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind. From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation." The Classical Outlook: Journal of the American Classical League 79.2: 84. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001
"The Old Man and His Garden (Verg. Georg. 4,116-148)." MD 47: 175-95. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
"Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times." The Classical Outlook: Journal of the American Classical League 78.1: 46-47. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000
"Richard Jenkyns, Virgil's Experience." The Classical Outlook: Journal of the American Classical League 77.3: 124-25. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000
Thibodeau, P. and M. Hyman. "The Hope of the Year: Vergil G. 1.224 and Hesiod Op. 617." Classical Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Classical Antiquity 94.2: 214-15. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Whiting Fellowship, Brooklyn College, 2006-07. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"The 'Discovery' of Optical Illusions in Ancient Greece." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section. Tallahassee, Fla. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
"Ancient Greek and Roman Star Globes." Fordham University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Strange Agronomy: Democritea in Vergil's Georgics." American Philological Association Annual Meeting. San Antonio. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Ancient Readers of Vergil's Georgics." American Philological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008
"Addressing the Powerful: Intercessional Poetry in Augustan Rome." CUNY Classics Lecture Series. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Awareness of Environmental Change in the Mediterranean World." Boston University Academy. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Awareness of Environmental Change in the Mediterranean World." Grant MacEwan College. Edmonton, Alberta. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Awareness of Environmental Change in the Mediterranean World." Interboro High School. Media, Pa. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Optics and Optical Science at Alexandria." Symposium on Hellenistic Science. Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Idols and Eye-Beams: Ancient Theories of Vision." Mellon Seminar in Ancient Studies. Scripps College. Claremont, Calif. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
"Art vs. Nature in Ancient Rome." The Maurice P. Cunningham Memorial Lecture. Lawrence University. Appleton, Wis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004
"Roman Culture: Vergil's Agricultural Model in the Georgics." Brown University. Providence, R.I. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003
"Of Marginal Significance: Acrostics and Allusion in Hellenistic Poetry." American Philological Association Annual Meeting. San Diego. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001
"Why Euclid's Optics Is Incompatible With Linear Perspective." History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Denver. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2001
"Consoling Vergil: Horace Odes 1.24." Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Knoxville, Tenn. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000
"Who Speaks as Aeneas Leaves the Gates of Sleep (Aen. 6.893-899)?" American Philological Association. Dallas. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999
"Lucretius' Palimpsest." Intertextuality in the Ancient World. Yale University. New Haven, Conn. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998
"The Death of the Old Man of Tarentum. Vergil Georgics 4.116-148 Reread." American Philological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997
Professional Leadership
Co-organizer and moderator, "New Approaches to Ancient Science," American Philological Association, 2003-05. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2005
