Neil Bernstein

Professor

Ellis 243

Classics and Religious Studies

bernsten@ohio.edu

740-597-2107

91̽�� faculty member since 2004

Professional Experience
Courses Taught
Awards and Honors
Publications
Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
Thesis and Dissertation Participation
Grants

Education

2000 Ph.D., .

1994 B.A. summa cum laude, and

Research Interests

Roman epic, drama, and rhetoric
Kinship in Roman literature
Digital analysis of classical literature
Reception of classical literature

Courses Taught

CARS 2110 Rome Under the Caesars
CARS 2300 Heroes in Classical Literature
CARS 2310 Classical Mythology
Greek
Latin

Awards and Honors

2022-23 Presidential Research Scholar
2019 , , London, ON.
2018 Outstanding Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award in the Humanities, 91̽��.
2014 Distinguished Mentor award,
2012-13 Charles J. Ping Teaching Fellow, 91̽��
2011-12 NEH Fellowship, Research Triangle Park, NC
2011-12 Fellowship (sabbatical funding; declined)
2011 Fellowship ($5,000)
2008-9 , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
2008 Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant (publication subvention)
1996-2000 James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University
1994 Amherst College

Professional Experience

2004-present Professor (2014-present); Associate (2010-14); Assistant (2004-10) Department of Classics and World Religions, , Athens, OH
2019 , , London ON.
2017 NEH Institute, “,” Kent State University, Kent OH
2011-12 NEH Fellow, , Research Triangle Park, NC
2008-9 Fulbright Lecturer, , Taipei, Taiwan
2001-4 Visiting Assistant Prof., , , Wooster, OH

Research and Publications

Solo-authored Books

Poppaea Sabina: The Life and Afterlife of A Roman Empress. Under contract for series. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The Complete Works of Claudian. Translated with an Introduction and Notes. London: Routledge, 2023. ISBN .

Silius Italicus, Punica 9. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN .

Seneca: Hercules Furens. Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xv + 151 pp. ISBN .

Reviews: Gnomon 91.2 (2019) 171-174; Classical Review 68.1 (2018) 95-97; Classics Ireland 25 (2018) ; Exemplaria Classica 22 (2018) 303-309; Revue des Études Anciennes (9/25/); New England Classical Journal 44.3 (2017) 190-193; Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; Classical Journal Online ; Classics for All .

Silius Italicus, Punica 2. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. liv + 318 pp. ISBN .

Reviews: Mnemosyne 73 (2020) 164-176; Classical Review 68.2 (2018); Classical Journal Online ; Greece & Rome 65.1 (2018) 113-114; Times Literary Supplement ; Bollettino di Studi Latini 48 (2018) 321-326.

Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 229 pp. ISBN .

Reviews: Classical Philology 112.1 (2017) 108-111; Bollettino di Studi Latini 45 (2015) 607-609; Classical World 108.2 (2015) 306-307; Mnemosyne 68.3 (2015) 524-527; Sehepunkte 15.4 (2015); Classical Journal Online ; Greece & Rome 61.2 (2014) 281-282.

In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. ix + 281 pp. ISBN .

Reviews: Phoenix 65.1-2 (2011) 183-185; Mnemosyne 64 (2011) 511-514; Classical Journal Online ; Hermathena 187 (2009) 124-128.

Co-authored Books and Journals

A Commentary on Seneca: Hercules Furens. Co-edited with Christopher Francese, Kyle Gervais, et al. , 2022.

Silius Italicus’ Punica: Rome’s War With Hannibal. Translated with Antony Augoustakis. London: Routledge, 2021. ISBN .

Reviews: Classical Review 72.1 (2022): ; Bryn Mawr Classical Review .

Digital Methods and Classical Studies. Co-edited with Neil Coffee. Digital Humanities Quarterly (2016).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“The siege of Amida and epic tradition: Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.1-9.” 72.6 (2019) 994-1012.

“Nec tibi sufficiat transmissae gloria uitae: otium and ambition from Statius to Ennodius.” Classical Journal 115.1 (2019) 63-85.

“Light on the water in Silius Italicus' Punica and Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae.” Mnemosyne 69 (2016) 1050-1057.

“.” Co-authored with Neil Coffee. Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.2 (2016).

“Rome’s Arms and Breast: Claudian Panegyricus Dictus Olybrio et Probino Consulibus 83- 90 and its Tradition.” Classical Quarterly 66.1 (2016) .

“.” Co-authored with Kyle Gervais and Wei Lin. Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.3 (2015).

“‘Torture her until she lies’: Torture, Testimony, and Social Status in Roman Rhetorical Education.” Greece & Rome 59.2 (2012) .

“Adoptees and Exposed Children in Roman Declamation: Commodification, Luxury, and the Threat of Violence.” Classical Philology 104.3 (2009) .

“The white doe of Capua (Silius Italicus, Punica 13.115-137).” Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity 18 (2009) 89-106.

“Each Man’s Father Served as His Teacher: Constructing Relatedness in Pliny’s Letters.” Classical Antiquity 27.2 (2008)

“Bodies, substances, and kinship in Roman declamation: The sick twins and their parents in Pseudo-Quintilian Major Declamations 8.” Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 36.2 (2007) 118-142.

“Fashioning Crispinus through his Ancestors: Epic Models in Statius, Silvae 5.2.” Arethusa 40.2 (2007)

“Mourning the puer delicatus: Status Inconsistency and the Ethical Value of Fostering in Statius, Silvae 2.1.” American Journal of Philology 126.2 (2005)

“Auferte oculos: modes of spectatorship in Statius Thebaid 11.” Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 58.1-2 (2004) . Reprinted in: . Oxford Readings, ed. Antony Augoustakis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 234-261.

“Revisiting Ovid’s Philomela: Silence, Revenge, and Representation in André Brink’s The Other Side of Silence.” Classical and Modern Literature 24.2 (2004) 11-27.

“Ancestors, status, and self-presentation in Statius’ Thebaid.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003)

“The Text of Pervigilium Veneris 90: A Proposed Emendation.” Classical Quarterly 50.1 (2000) Co-authored with Francis Newton.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Literary Patronage and the Roman Imperial Court from Augustus to the Severan Dynasty.” In: , ed. Benjamin Kelly and Angela Hug (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Chapter 18, pp. 438-460.

Angela Hug, Benjamin Kelly, and Neil Bernstein. “Court Relationships.” In: , ed. Benjamin Kelly and Angela Hug (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Chapter 3, pp. 79-131.

“Claudian’s Silius.” In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis and Marco Fucecchi (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 103-123.

“Silius’ Punica and the traditions of Greek and Roman tragedy.” In: . (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Pp. 25-42.

“Qualitative and quantitative perspectives on the use of poetic tradition in Silius Italicus’ Punica.” In: , ed. Neil Coffee et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). Pp. 377-392.

“A Greater Love: Fides in Statius’ Silvae.” In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis, Emma Buckley, and Claire Stocks (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019). Pp. 68-82.

“Inuitas maculant cognato sanguine dextras: Civil war themes in Silius’ Saguntum episode.” In: , ed. Lauren Ginsberg and Darcy Krasne (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019). Pp. 179-197.

“Continuing the Aeneid in the First Century: Ovid's Little Aeneid, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, and Silius' Punica.” In: , ed. Robert Simms (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Chapter 13, pp. 248-266.

“.” In: Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, ed. Dee Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Persona, Identity, and Self-Presentation in Roman Declamation.” In: , ed. Andreas Gavrielatos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017). Chapter 1, pp. 1-16.

“Revisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Virgilian, and Lucanian Silius.” In: , ed. Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). Pp. 225-248.

"Mutua vulnera: dying together in Silius’ Saguntum.” In: , ed. Nikoletta Manioti. (Leiden: Brill, 2016). Pp. 228-247.

“Epic Poetry: Historicizing the Flavian Epics.” In: ed. Andrew Zissos (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). Pp. 395-411.

“Auferte oculos: Modes of Spectatorship in Statius' Thebaid 11.” In: . Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Pp. 234-261.

“Omnibus patemus insidiis: elite vulnerability in Major Declamations 11.” In: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian, ed. M.T. Dinter, C. Guérin, and M. Martinho (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016). Pp. 255-267.

“‘The Clash of Weapons and the Sight of War’: Spectatorship and Identification in Roman Epic.” In: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict, ed. A. Bakogianni and V. Hope (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Pp. 58-72.

“Family and Kinship in the Works of Statius.” In: , ed. W.J. Dominik, Kyle Gervais, and Carole E. Newlands (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Pp. 139-154.

“Romanas ueluti saeuissima cum legiones Tisiphone regesque mouet: Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and the Flavian Era.” In: , ed. M.A.J. Heerink and Gesine Manuwald (Leiden: Brill, 2014). Pp. 154-169.

“Distat opus nostrum, sed fontibus exit ab isdem: Declamation and Flavian epic.” In: ed. Gesine Manuwald and Astrid Voigt. (Berlin: Walter DeGruyter, 2013). pp. 139-156.

“Ritual Murder and Suicide in Statius’ Thebaid.” In: , ed. Antony Augoustakis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Chapter 13, pp. 233-248.

“The Dead and their Ghosts in the Bellum Civile: Lucan’s Visions of History.” In: , ed. Paolo Asso (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Chapter 13, pp. 257-279.

“Family and the State in the Punica.” In: , ed. Antonios Augoustakis (Leiden: Brill, 2010). Chapter 16, pp. 377-397.

“Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature.” In: , edd. Sabine Huebner and David M. Ratzan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Chapter 13, pp. 241- 256.

Forthcoming Work

“The Performing Arts and their audiences.” Co-authored with Hallie Marshall. In: A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity, ed. Jerry Toner. Forthcoming, Bloomsbury.

“Latin Sophists and Rhetors From the Age of Trajan to the Age of Constantine.” In: The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature, ed. Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

“The Madness of Hercules From Euripides through the Renaissance.” In: Hercules: a Hero for All Ages, ed. Eleftheria Ioannidou, Helen Slaney, and Emma Stafford. Under consideration, Brill.

“‘Though the Great Song Return No More’: Silver Latin Epic and Its Tradition.” In: The Blackwell Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 CE, ed. Lee Fratantuono. Under contract, Wiley-Blackwell.

Recent Service to the Profession

Classical Association of the Middle West and South First Book Award Committee (2015-2021; Chair, 2021-present).

Editorial board, Transactions of the American Philological Association (2016-2022).

College Board, Advanced Placement Latin Development Committee (2017-2020).

Recent Book Reviews (last 3 years)

Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith, edd., Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy. Toronto, 2020. Journal of Roman Studies 112 (2022) 267-268.

Andrew M. McClellan, Abused bodies in Roman epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.09.47.

Antony Augoustakis and R. Joy Littlewood (eds), Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Journal of Roman Studies 110 (2020) 297-299.

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (last 3 years)

“Reading Mob Violence and Treason with Pseudo-Quintilian and Lorenzo Patarol.” Ohio State University; University of Genoa; Classical Association of Canada Conference, April-May 2022.

“The Battle of Cannae in the Roman Poetic Imagination.” University of British Columbia, November 2020.

“In the shadow of the Master: reading the pseudo-Quintilianic corpus.” Western University, London ON, October 2019; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2019.

Thesis and Dissertation Participation

2021. Committee member: Kenneth Elliott, “Rewards for Violence: praemia in Roman Declamation.” Ph.D., Classics, University of Iowa.

2020. Committee member: Stephen Froedge, “Monsters in Flavian Epic”. Ph.D., Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2018. External examiner: Michelle Sugar, “Guilt in Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile”. Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, London ON.

2016. External examiner: Geoffrey G. Thompson, “The Application of Citations in the Prose Corpus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca: A Digital Approach.” Ph.D., Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

2013. Committee member: James M. Lohmar, "The Anatomy of Roman Epic: A Study of Poetic Violence." Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of Florida.

2013. External examiner: Kyle J. Conrau-Lewis, “The two voices of Statius: patronymics in the Thebaid.” M.A., Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Internal Grants

2015 91̽�� College of Arts and Sciences grant ($7,500) to co-lead Faculty Learning Community “”

2014 91̽�� College of Arts and Sciences grant ($5,000) to co-lead faculty seminar “”

2012-13 91̽�� Research Council grant ($7,123) for project “Developing Data Mining Strategies for Classical Latin Poetry”

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