Jacqueline Long

General Information

Jacqueline Long

Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Classical Studies

Associate Faculty, Women's Studies and Gender Studies Program

579 Crown Center, 1001-25 W Loyola Avenue, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60626

phone 773-508-3654; fax 773-508-2153 (indicate CLASSICAL STUDIES on cover-sheet); e-mail jlong1@luc.edu

Research Interests

• Late Antique History & Literature
• Roman History & Literature
• Women and Gender in the Classical World

  Also Known As

  • Member of Governing Board, Society for Late Antiquity
  • Praeses iunior, Ab epistulis and Member, Editorial Board, De Imperatoribus Romanis (the On-Line Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors)
  • 2004-05 Blegen Research Fellow in Classics, Vassar College

Publications

Books

• Claudian's in Eutropium, or, How, When and Why to Slander a Eunuch, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, with Alan Cameron and a contribution by Lee Sherry, University of California Press, 1993.

Edited Publications

• "Women and War in the Ancient World," proceedings of a panel organized for the Friends of Ancient History at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, The Ancient World 35 (2004) 143-237.
• Proceedings of Ancient Studies - New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies, with M. Michael DiMaio, Jr. http://www.roman-emperors.org/wwwconfx.htm, 2001.

Articles

• "'Kill All the Dogs!' or 'Apollonius Says!': Two Stories against Punitive Violence," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, ed. H. A. Drake, 225-33 (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing 2006).
• "Julian Augustus' Julius Caesar," in Julius Caesar in Western Culture, ed. Maria Wyke, 62-82 (Oxford: Blackwell 2006).
• "Claudian and the City: Poetry and Pride of Place," in Aetas Claudianea, ed. Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers, Fritz Felgentreu, and Stephen Wheeler, 1-15 (Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur 2004).
• "Bygone Rome in the Historia Augusta," Syllecta Classica 13 (2002) 180-236.
• "Julia-Jokes at Macrobius's Saturnalia: Subversive Decorum in Late Antique Reception of Augustan Political Humor," International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6,3 (2000) 337-355.
• "Vaballathus and Zenobia", De Imperatoribus Romanis, 1997.
• Contributions to Columbia Papyri X, edited by Roger S. Bagnall and Dirk Obbink, American Studies in Papyrology 34, Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press 1996.
• "Juvenal Renewed in Claudian's In Eutropium," International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2,3 (1996) 321-35.
• "Two Sides of a Coin: Aurelian, Vaballathus, and Eastern Frontiers of the Early 270s," in Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, edited by Ralph W. Mathisen and Hagith S. Sivan, 59-71, Aldershot, Hamps.: Variorum Press 1996.
• "Structures of Irony in Julian's Misopogon," part of American Philological Association panel on "The Emperor Julian: the Man, the Writer and the Legacy" co-organized with Robert J. Penella, The Ancient World 24 (1993) 15-23.
• "Dating an Ill-Fated Journey: Synesius, Ep. 5," Transactions of the American Philological Association 122 (1992) 351-80.
• "A New Solidus of Julian Caesar," American Numismatic Society Museum Notes 33 (1988) 111-18.
• "Textual Notes on Synesius' De Providentia," with Alan Cameron and Lee Sherry, Byzantion 58 (1988) 54-64.
• "Confidential Business: P. Col. Inv. 316," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 24 (1987) 9-16.
• "The Wolf and the Lion: Synesius' Egyptian Sources," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 28 (1987) 103-15.

Teaching

Fall Semester 2009

• CLST 295-01W / WSGS 295-01W, Women in the Classical World Writing-Intensive, MWF 10:25am-11:15am, LSB-212: a University Core class in the Area of Societal and Cultural Knowledge and Skills of Critical Thinking; helps fulfil CLST or WSGS major or minor requirements
• LATN 101, Elementary Latin I, MWF 9:20am-10:10am, MUND-519: helps fulfil CLST major or minor requirements, MSTU minor requirements, and College language requirement; preparation for more advanced Latin classes
• LATN 271, Introduction to Roman Prose, MWF 12:35pm-1:25pm, CC 572 (new room!): helps fulfil CLST and LATN major or minor requirements, MSTU minor requirements, requirements for the BA-Classics distinction, and College language requirement; preparation for more advanced Latin classes
• Office Hours: TTh 9:30am-10:30am, Crown Center 579; or by appointment

Spring Semester 2010

• CLST 277, The World of Late Antiquity: a University Core class in the Area of Historical Knowledge and Skills of Critical Thinking; helps fulfil CLST major or minor requirements (most recently taught in a Writing-Intensive section, Fall 2006)
• LATN 284/345, The Age of Augustus/Horace Satires: helps fulfil CLST and LATN major or minor requirements, MSTU minor requirements, requirements for the BA-Classics distinction, and College language requirement; preparation for more advanced Latin classes (LATN 284/289 most recently taught Spring 2007)
• LATN 303, Latin Composition helps fulfil LATN major requirements, MSTU minor requirementsand College language requirement; preparation for more advanced Latin classes

Other classes taught (old syllabuses on-line)

• CLST 271, Classical Mythology (most recently taught Fall 2002)
• CLST 272, Heroes and Classical Epics (most recently taught Fall 2007)
• CLST 273, Classical Tragedy (most recently taught for Honors, Spring 2002)
• CLST 273 / WSGS 297, Classical Tragedy with a focus on gender and women's history (most recently taught Spring 2009)
• CLST 283, Classical Comedy and Satire (most recently taught as a Writing Intensive section, Spring 2003)
• CLST / HIST / ROST 308, History of Rome to Constantine (most recently taught Spring 2000, but impossible to put on-line from the Rome Center)
• CLST 389 / CATH 300 / HIST 300B / MSTU 398, Classical Backgrounds II: Augustine (most recently taught as a Writing Intensive section, Fall 2008)
• CLST 395 / HIST 300 / ROST 395, Topography of Rome (most recently taught Spring 2000, but since syllabus couldn't then be updated from the Rome Center, this is the Fall 1999 version)
• LATN 102, Elementary Latin II (most recently taught Spring 2009)
• LATN 281/332, Introduction to Roman Historians / Roman Historical Masterworks I: Sallust (most recently taught Spring 2008)
• LATN 286/289, The Age of Nero (most recently taught Fall 2007)
• LATN 341, Vergil: Aeneid (most recently taught Spring 2009)
• LATN 361 / CATH 361 / MSTU 398, Augustine: Confessions (most recently taught Fall 2008)
• LATN 388/431, Julius Caesar (most recently taught Fall 2001)
• LATN 388/488, Ammianus Marcellinus (most recently taught Spring 2001)
• LATN 388/488, The Historia Augusta (most recently taught Fall 2002)
• LATN 389, Readings in Latin: Archaic Latin (most recently taught Spring 2005)

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