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Holt N. Parker - CV Professor of Classics (website) PhD, Yale University, 1986 holt.parker@uc.edu phone: 513-556-1944 fax: 513-556-4366 room: 311 Blegen Research Areas: |
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Biography: Holt Parker is Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He holds a PhD in Classics from Yale University. He has been awarded the Rome Prize, the Women's Classical Caucus Prize for Scholarship (twice), and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also won First Prize for Shaped Yeast Bread at the Hamilton County Ohio Fair. He has published on Sappho, Sulpicia, sexuality, slavery, sadism, and circus spectacles. Olympia Morata: The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic (Chicago, 2003), the works of a remarkable woman humanist, won the Josephine Roberts Award 2004 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (Sixteenth Century Studies). Censorinus: The Birthday Book (Chicago, 2007), the first complete English translation of this work of curious learning, makes an attractive present for young and old. Forthcoming from Oxford is Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, ed. William A. Johnson and Holt N. Parker, the results of the Semple Symposium. Forthcoming from Brill's series Studies in Ancient Medicine is Metrodora: The Gynaecology, the first scholarly edition, translation and commentary on the earliest surviving work by a woman doctor. Future research includes Sex and Love and Roman Poetry (on the elegists and "co-opting the feminine") and Sex and Sexuality in the Classical World for Cambridge.
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