Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
300 Windsor Avenue, Apt. 1 Narberth, PA 19072
Dr. Darby Scott
Despite a recent elevation in scholarly and mainstream studies on friendship, female friendship is a topic that has been obstructed on account of multiple difficulties, both ancient and modern. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary attempt to address these difficulties by bringing together literary, visual, and epigraphic testimony first to consider the ancients’ own ideas about the nature of friendship in the abstract, then to compile and evaluate the corpus of male perspectives on women’s non-kin relationships and finally to compare this material to the parallel body of what may be women’s own words about friendship.
University of Delaware (Adjunct Faculty, 2007-2009): Elementary Latin I (taught twice); Intermediate Greek: Herodotus; Intermediate Latin: Readings in Prose; Advanced Latin Seminar in Latin Prose: Roman Biography; Elementary Latin II (taught twice); Intermediate Greek: Homer; Intermediate Latin: Readings in Poetry/Vergil and Ovid; Advanced Latin Seminar in Latin Poetry: The Verse Epistle. Bryn Mawr College (Latin Teaching Assistant, 2006-2007): Elementary Latin I & II; Intermediate Latin: Cicero and Caesar; Intermediate Latin: Livy and Horace
"The Bee and the Bitch: Greek Female Friendship and the Power of Speech" (UCLA Graduate Symposium, November 2010) "Sons of Hermes: Translation, Theft, and Classical Studies" (Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium, December 2009)
Berthe M. Marti Fellow, American Academy in Rome & Bryn Mawr College (2010-2011); Bryne-Rubel Fellow, Bryn Mawr College Dept. of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies (2009); Nomination for the Doris Sill Carland Prize for Outstanding Teaching (2006); Latin Teaching Assistantship and Grant, Bryn Mawr Dept. of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies (2006); Friends of the Library Special Collections Summer Internship, Miriam Coffin Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College (2005); Bryn Mawr Graduate Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College, Dept. of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies (2004); CAMWS Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classical Studies, The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (2004); Beinecke Scholar (Scholarship for Graduate Study), The Sperry Fund (2003); Distinguished Alumni Grant, Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Service Award Program (2003); Induction to Phi Beta Kappa, Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences, PBK (2003); Campbell Book Prize, Indiana University Department of Classical Studies (2003); Pratt Traveling Fellowship, Indiana University Department of Classical Studies (2002); Jenny and David Curry Scholarship, Indiana University Department of Classical Studies (2002); Janet Frazee Hayes Scholarship, Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences (2002); Indiana University Foundation Scholarship, Indiana University Foundation (2002); O'Meara Merit Award for Short Collection of Poetry, National Society of Arts and Letters (2002); Gertrude Johnson Scholarship for Latin, Indiana University Department of Classical Studies (2001); Josephine K. Piercy Award for Poetry, National Society of Arts and Letters (2001)