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GREEN, Carin Margreta Christensen

  • Carin Margreta Christensen Green
  • Date of Birth: March 30, 1948
  • Born City: Burbank
  • Born State/Country: CA
  • Parents: Grover Neils and Hester Miriam Johnson Christensen
  • Date of Death: July 02, 2015
  • Death City: Iowa City
  • Death State/Country: IA
  • Married: Peter Morris Green, 18 July 1975
  • Education:

    B.A. San Jose (CA) State College, 1971; M.A. University of Texas, 1975; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1991; College Year in Athens, 1970-1.
  • Dissertation:

    "Barbarian and King: The Character and Historiographical Genesis of Jugurtha in Sallust's Bellum Jugurthinum" (Virginia, 1991).
  • Professional Experience:

    Library asst. Undergraduate Library, University of Texas, 1985-6; lectr. Latin, 1986-8; vis. instr. Latin, Centre College (Danville, KY), Asst. prof. Classics, University of Iowa, 1991-6; also prof., 1997-2006; prof., 2006-15; chair, Dept. Classics, 2007-12; dir. Medieval Studies Prog., 2008-2012; dir.  African-American Studies Program, 2008-11; CAMWS Outstanding Publication Award, 2007; CAMWS Ovatio, 2009.
  • Publications:

    “Stimulos dedit aemula uirtus: Lucan and Homer Reconsidered,” Phoenix 45 (1991) 230-54; “De Africa et eius incolis: the Function of Geography and Ethnography in Sallust's history of the Jugurthine War (BJ 17-19),” AncW 24 (1993) 185-97; “’The Necessary Murder’: Myth, Ritual, and Civil War in Lucan, Book 3,” CIAnt 13 (1994) 203-33; “Lucan Bellum civile 1. 444-46: a Reconsideration,” CP 89 (1994) 64-9; “Terms of Venery: Ars amatoria I,” TAPA 126 (1996) 221-63; “Did the Romans Hunt?,” ClAnt 15 (1996) 222-60; “Free as a Bird: Varro De re rustica 3,” AJP 118 (1997) 427-48; “Claudius, Kingship and Incest,” Latomus 57 (1998) 765-91; “The Slayer and the King: rex nemorensis and the Sanctuary of Diana,” Arion 3rd ser. 7 (1999-2000) 24-63; “Varro's Three Theologies and Their Influence on the Fasti,” in Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at Its Bimillennium, ed. Geraldine Herbert-Brown (Oxford & New York: Oxford U. Press, 2002) 71-99; Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2007); “The Gods in the Circus” in New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome, ed. Sinclair Bell & Helen Nagy (Madison: U. of Wisconsin Press, 2009) 65-78; “The Shepherd of the People: Varro on Herding for the villa publica in De re rustica 2,” in Roman Republican Villas: Architecture, Context, and Ideology, ed. Jeffrey Alan Becker & Nicola Terrenato (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2012) 32-44.

    Festschrift: At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion. Papers in Memory of Carin M. C. Green, ed. S. Bell and Lora Holland (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018).
  • Sources:

    WhAm, 58 (2004); WhAmWom 27 (2008-9).