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DIX, Thomas Keith
- Date of Birth: December 6, 1953
- Born City: Richmond
- Born State/Country: VA
- Parents: Thomas James, Exxon executive, & Margaret D.
- Date of Death: May 30, 2024
- Death City: Athens
- Death State/Country: GA
- Married: Naomi Norman
- Education:
A.B., Princeton, 1976; M.A., U. of Michigan (Classical Art and Archaeology) 1978; M.A. (Classical Studies) 1981; Ph.D., 1986.
- Dissertation:
“Private and Public Libraries at Rome in the First Century B.C.” (Michigan, 1986).
- Professional Experience:
Teaching Asst., ICCSR, 1978-9; asst. prof. 1983-4; vis. Lectr. U. Michoigan, 1984-5; vis. asst. prof. College of William and Mary, 1986-7; asst. prof., U. of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1987-94; vis. asst. prof. U. of Georgia, 1985-6; temp. lectr. 1994-6; asst. prof. 1996-2003; assoc. prof., 2003-21; President, CAMWS Southern Section, 2006-8.
- Publications:
Private and Public Libraries at Rome in the First Century B.C. A Preliminary Study in the History of Roman Libraries(Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1986); “Ovid Strikes Out: Tristia 3.1 and the First Public Libraries at Rome,” The Augustan Age 8 (1988) 27-35; “Writing Systems and the Dissemination of Writing in the Ancient World,” in The Beginning of Understanding: Writing in the Ancient World: An Exhibition presented at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Marti Lu Allen (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology, 1991) 15-18; catalogue entries, 109-18, 132, 134-7, 141-9l; “Books and Bookmaking,” in The Oxford Companion to the Bible ed. Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan New Yprk: Oxford U. Press, 1993) 93-5; “’Public Libraries’ at Rome: Ideology and Reality Libraries and Culture 29 (1994) 282-96; “Vergil in the Grynean Grove: Two Riddles in the Third Eclogue,” CP 90 (1995) 256-62; “Libraries in Roman Baths?” with George W. Houston,Balnearia 4 (1996) 2-4; “Politics and State Religion in the Delian League: Athena and Apollo in the Eteocarpathian Decree,” with Carl Arne Anderson ZPE 117 (1997) 129-32; “The Library of Lucullus,” Athenaeum 88 (2000) 441-64; “Alexandrian Library,” in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. Thomas J. Sienkewicz (Pasadena, 2002) 230; “Aristotle's ‘Peripatetic’ Library,” in Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity, ed. James Raven (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) 58-74; “Small States in the Athenian Empire: The Case of the Eteokarpathioi,” SyllClass 15 (2004) 1-31; “Public Libraries in the City of Rome: from the Augustan Age to the Time of Diocletian,” with George W. Houston in MEFRA 118 (2006) 671-717; “Prometheus and the Basileia in Aristophanes' Birds,” with Carle Arne Anderson CJ 102 (2006-7) 321-7; “Exploring Roman Libraries,” in Latin for the New Millennium(Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2008) 384-7; “Beware the Ides of March: Rome in 44 B.C.E,” (interactive game)with Carl Anderson and Naomi Norman (2011); “Libraries, Private, Public (Greece and Rome),” “Karpathos,” with Carl Anderson, Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Graige Champion, Andrew Erskine, Sabine Hübner (Malden, MA, 2012); “’Beware of Promising your Library to Anyone’: Assembling a Private Library at Rome,” in Ancient Libraries, ed. Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2013) 209-34; “Vergil at the Races: The Contest of Ships in Book 5 of the Aeneid,” with Carl A. Anderson, VERGILIUS 59 (2013) 3-21; “Λάβε τὸ βυβλίον: Orality and Literacy in Aristophanes,” with Carl A. Anderson in Between Orality and Literacy: Communication and Adaptation in Antiquity, ed. Ruth Scodel (Leiden: Brill, 2014) 77-86; “Basileia,” with Carl Anderson, in Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, ed. Alan H. Somerstein (Malden, MA, 2018); A Commentary on Aristophanes’ Knights, with Carl Arne Anderson (Ann Arbor; U. of Michigan Press, 2020).
- Sources:
Princeton Alumni Weekly (November 2024)