All Scholars
GALINSKY, Gotthard Karl
- Date of Birth: February 7, 1942
- Born City: Strassburg
- Born State/Country: Alsace
- Parents: Hans Karl & Edith Margenburg G.
- Date of Death: March 9, 2024
- Death City: Austin
- Death State/Country: T
- Education:
B.A. Bowdoin, 1963; M.A. Princeton, 1965; Ph.D. 1966.
- Dissertation:
“Sicily and the Trojan Legend of Rome” (Princeton, 1966).
- Professional Experience:
Instr. Classics, Princeton, 1965-6; asst. prof. Classics, University of Texas at Austin, 1966-8; asso. prof., 1968-72, Professor, 1972-2019; dept. chair, 1974-90; James R. Daugherty, Jr. Centennial prof., 1974-90; Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor of Classics, 1985 – 1991; Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics, 1991-2019; Distinguished University Teaching Professor, 1999-2019; Visiting Mellon Professor of Humanities, Tulane, 1995; vis. prof., Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Buenos Aires), 1997; vis. prof., Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1998; res. prof., Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2009-13; Stinnecke Prize Examiner, Princeton University, 1966-74; NEH Summer Fellowship, 1967; memb. Advisory Council, Classical School, AAR, 1967-2017; Member, Classical Jury, 1970-2; Chair, 1982-5; ACLS Fellowship, 1968-9; Travel Grant (1981) Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972-3; Fulbright Grant (Italy), 1972-3; Classicist-in-residence, AAR. 1972-3; U.S.-U. K. Educational Commission Lecturer, 1973; President, CAMWS Southern Section, 1976-8; President, 1980-1; Teaching Excellence Award, American Philological Association, 1979; Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1989-90; vis. scholar, 1991 Humboldt Senior Research Award (Berlin), 1993; NEH Senior Fellowship, 1993-4; Humboldt Foundation Reinvitation Award, 1998; vis. memb., Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fall 2000; Max Planck International Research Prize, 2009; Fellow (50%), IKGF Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2012-13; Trustee, Vergilian Society of America, 1972-6; Vice-President, 1976-7; Director, Study Tours (North Africa, 1978; North Africa, Portugal, and Spain 1994; Great Museums and Classicism, 1996; Roman France, 1998; Israel and Jordan, 1999; Cyprus, 2000; Tunisia and Malta, 2006) memb., Editorial Board of Classical World, 1972-7; Vergilius, 1973-2007; CJ, 1991-9; Auster, 1996-2019; CB, 2008-12; Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1975, 1976, 1997 ("Roman Culture in the Age of Augustus"); 2002, 2005, 2007 (“Roman Religion in its Cultural Context” in Rome); Director, NEH Residential Seminar, 1977-78 ("Myth and History in Roman Literature"); Consultant, NEH Project on Teaching the Ancient World, Baltimore, and Memphis, 1980; Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers, 1983* (see TIME Magazine, August 15, 1983, p. 39; http://www.time.com/time/ magazine/article/0,9171,949732-2,00.html) and 1984 (“The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid ”); Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Undergraduate Fellows, 1985 (“Heroes, Values, and Leadership”); Director, USDE Title II Grant for Training of Latin Teachers, Univ. of Texas 1988-89
- Publications:
BOOKS:
Aeneas, Sicily, and Rome (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1969; 2nd printing 1971); Albii Tibulli aliorumque carminum libri tres (ed. with F.W. Lenz), 3rd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1971); The Herakles Theme. The Adaptations of the Hero in Literature from Homer to the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1972); Perspectives on Roman Poetry. A Classics Symposium (ed.) (Austin & London: U. of Texas Press, 1974); Ovid's Metamorphoses. An Introduction to the Basic Aspects (Berkeley & Los Angeles: U. of California Press, 1975); The Interpretation of Roman Poetry. Empiricism or Hermeneutics? (ed.) (Frankfurt & New York: Peter Lang, 1992); Classical and Modern Interactions. Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues (Austin & London: U. of Texas Press, 1992); Augustan Culture. An Interpretive Introduction (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1996; 3rd printing 2007; 2nd ed. in preparation); The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus(ed.) (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press 2005); Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2012; German translation: Augustus. Sein Leben als Kaiser (Darmstadt: Philipp von Zabern Verlag, 2013); Memoria Romana: Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory (ed,) Suppl. vol. 10 of MAAR (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2014); Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire (ed. with K. Lapatan) (Los Angeles: Getty Museum Publications, 2015); Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (ed.) (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2016)ls. Paperback ed. 2018.ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“The Hercules-Cacus Episode in Aeneid VIII,” AJP 87 (1966) 18-51; “Venus in a Relief of the Ara Pacis Augustae,” AJA 70 (1966) 223-44; “Scipionic Themes in Plautus' Amphitruo," TAPA 97 (1966) 203-36; "Etruria and Rome,” in Introductions to World Art and Archaeology, ed. J. R. Wiseman (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1967) 32-44; “Vergil's Second Eclogue: Its Theme and Relation to the Eclogue Book,” C&M 26 (1967) 161-91; “Sol and the Carmen Saeculare,” Latomus 26 (1967) 619-33; “Aeneid V and the Aeneid,” AJP 89 (1968) 157-85; “The Cult of Venus Erycina and Plautus' Poenulus,” in Hommages à Marcel Renard (Bruxelles- Berchem 1968) I, 358-64; “Troiae qui primus ab oris (Aeneid I, 1),” Latomus 28 (1969) 3-18; “The Triumph Theme in Augustan Elegy,” WS 82 (1969) 75-107; “Aeneas' Invocation of Sol (Aeneid XII, 176),” AJP 90 (1969) 453-8; “Hercules Ovidianus (Metamorphoses IX, 1-272),” WS 85 (1972) 93-116; “Hercules and the Hydra (Vergil, Aeneid 8.299-300),” CP 77 (1972) 197; “Some Emendations and Non-Emendations in the Third Edition of the Corpus Tibullianum,” Mnemosyne Ser. 4, Vol. 26 (1973) 160-9; “Ovid's Metamorphosis of Myth,” in Perspectives of Roman Poetry (Austin and London: U. of Texas Press, 1974) 105-27; “Troiae qui primus ab oris (Aeneid I, 1),” Gymnasium 84 (1974) 182-200; “L'Eneide di Ovidio (Metamorphoses 13.623-14.608) ed il carattere delle Metamorfosi,”Maia 28 (1976) 3-18; “The 'Tomb of Aeneas' at Lavinium,” Vergilius 20 (1974) 2-11; “Excavations at Pratica di Mare (Lavinium): the So-Called Tomb of Aeneas,” AJA 78 (1974) 165; “Preserving Greek and Latin in the University,” ADFL Bulletin 9.4 (1978) 25-9; “Vergil's Romanitas and his Adaptation of Greek Heroes,” ANRW II.31, 2 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1980) 985-1010; “Augustus' Legislation on Morals and Marriage,” Philologus 125 (1981) 126-44; “Some Aspects of Ovid's Golden Age,” GB 10 (1981-3) 193-205; “Vergil and the Formation of the Augustan Ethos,” Atti del Convegno Mondiale Scientifico di Studi su Virgilio (Mantua and Rome, 1984) I. 240-54; “Aeneas in Latium: Mythos, Archäologie and Geschichte,” in V. Pöschl, ed., 2000 Jahre Vergil. Ein Symposium ed. V. Pöschl (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1983) 36-62; “The First Interdisciplinary Field,” Humanities 2.3 (1982) 1 - 4 and ADFL Bulletin 13.1 (1981), 29-30; “Elimi,” “Erice,” “Ercole,” Enciclopedia Virgiliana (Rome 1985) 198-99; 364-5; 361-3; “The New Excavations at Pratica di Mare (Lavinium) and the Aeneas Legend,” AJA 87 (1983), 598-9; “The Challenge of Teaching the Ancient World,” in Teaching the Ancient World, ed. D. Astolfi, (Chico, CA: Scholars Press (1983) 1-44; “Herakles in Greek and Roman Mythology,” Catalogue of Exhibition Herakles in Ancient Art, Bard College, New York (1986) 19-22; “Recent Trends in the Interpretation of the Augustan Age,” Augustan Age 5 (1986) 22-36; “The Aeneid as a Guide to Life,” Augustan Age 7 (1987) 161-73; “Challenge, Response, and Continuing Problems: Texas Classics and the High School Teacher,” in R. LaFleur, ed., The Teaching of Latin in American Schools (Scholars Press 1987) 133-7; “The Anger of Aeneas,” AJP 109 (1988) 321-48; “Was Ovid a Silver Latin Poet?” ICS 14 (1989) 69-89; “Hercules in the Aeneid,” in Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid, ed. S. J. Harrison (Oxford 1990) 277-94; “Classics Beyond Crisis,” CW 84 (1991) 441-53; “The Interpretation of Roman Poetry and the Contemporary Critical Scene,” in The Interpretation of Roman Poetry. Empiricism or Hermeneutics? (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1992) 1-40; “Venus, Polysemy, and the Ara Pacis Augustae,” AJA 96 (1992) 457-75; “The Aeneas Legend in Rome and Latium,” in Studies in Honor of A.G. McKay, ed. R.M. Wilhelm (Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1992) 93-108; “Ovid and Greco-Roman Myth,” Augustan Age 11 (1992) 19-25; “The Representation of the Golden Age in Augustan Art,” AJA 97 (1993) 315; “Divinità italiche,” Enciclopedia Oraziana (1998); “How To Be Philosophical About the End of the Aeneid,” FS M. Marcovich, ICS 19 (1994) 191-201; “Resonances of Fifth-Century Athens in Augustan Culture,” AJA 98 (1994) 302; “Intención autorial y libertad de recepción en el arte y poesia augustea,” Auster 1(1996) 15-31; “George Eckel Duckworth,” in P.H. Marks, ed., Luminaries. Princeton Faculty Remembered (Princeton 1996) 74-81; “El Estado Actual de la Interpretación de la Poesia Romana y la Escena Critica Contemporanea,” Auster 2 (1997) 11-45; “The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” Papers of the Leeds Int. Latin Seminar 10 (1998) 313-36. Spanish translation in Auster 4 (1999) 21-40; “La ciudad de Roma en la época de Augusto,” Actas del XIII Simposio Nacional de Estudios Clásicos (La Plata 1996) 13-27; “Ovid’s Poetology in the Metamorphoses,” in Ovid. Werk und Wirkung. Festschrift für Michael von Albrecht, ed. W. Schubert (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 1998) 305-14; “Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Augustan Cultural Thematics,” in Ovidian Transformations, ed. P. Hardie & A. Barchiesi (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1999) 104-13; “Augustan Classicism: the Greco-Roman Synthesis,” in The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity, ed. F. Titchener & R. Moorton (Berkeley & Los Angeles: U. of California Press, 1999) 180-205; "Padova romana, leggenda troiana e ideologia del principato," in Dall’Adriatico greco all’Adriatico veneziano, ed. L. Braccesi, Hespería 12 (Venice 2000) 23-35; “La situación de los estudios clásicos en los Estados Unidos de América,” Auster 3 (1998) 11-18. “Classics before and after 2000,” in Classics at 2000, ed. L. Golden & K. Herbert, CB 75.2 (1999) 159-64; “The Ara Pacis Augustae,” in Making Classical Art: Principles and Practices, ed. R. Ling (London: Tempus, 2000) 141-54; “Recut Roman Portraits: Nuances and Wider Context,” AJA 106 (2002) 271; “Greek and Roman Drama and the Aeneid,” in Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honor of T.P. Wiseman, ed. D. Braund & C.J. Gill (Exeter: U. of Exeter Press, 2003) 275-94; “Horace’s Cleopatra and Vergil’s Dido,” in Literature, Art, History: Studies on Classical Antiquity and Tradition in Honor of W. J. Henderson, ed.A.F. Basson & W. Dominik (New York & Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003) 17-23; “E pluribus unum: Religion as a Cohesive Force in Ancient Rome.” The 34th Annual Gail Burnett Lecture in Classics (San Diego State University 2003); “Vergil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as World Literature,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus (2005) 340-58; “Vergil’s Uses of libertas: Texts and Contexts,” Vergilius 52 (2006) 3-19; “Greece and Rome in the Cinema,” in The Blackwell Guide to the Classical Tradition, ed. Craig Kallendorf (Oxford 2007) 393-407; “The Long Reign: Religion in the Augustan Semi-Century,” in The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World: Roman Religion, ed. J. Rüpke (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) 71-82; “Recarved Imperial Portraits: Nuances and Wider Context,” MAAR 52 (2008) 1-25; “Herod and the Augustan Cultural Revolution,” in Herod and Augustus, ed. D. M. Jacobson (Leiden: Brill, 2009) 29-42; “Aeneas at Cumae,” Vergilius 55 (2009) 69-87; “Actium” and “Augustus”, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Berlin & NY: De Gruyter, 2009/11) 1.290-1, 3.104-110; “Hercules,” in The Classical Tradition, ed. G. Most, A. Grafton, & S. Settis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 2010) 426-9; “The Cult of the Roman Emperor: Uniter or Divider,” in Rome and Religion: A Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult, ed. J. Brodd & J. Reed (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011) 1-21; “In the Shadow (or Not) of the Imperial Cult: A Cooperative Agenda,” ibid., 215-25; “La costruzione del mito augusteo: Some Construction Elements,” in La costruzione del mito augusteo, ed. M. Labate & G. Rosati (Heidelberg: Winter, 2013) 29-47. “Roman Imperial Religion,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2013) 259-64; Several entries, incl. “Hercules” in The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. R.F. Thomas & J. M. Ziolkowski (West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell 2014); “Introduction” to Memoria Romana (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2014) 1-12; “Erinnerungskultur des Augustus - die Inszenierung der Trauer und seiner unsterblichen memoria,” AW (2014/04) 25-33; “Auctoritas and Res Gestae 34.3,” Hermes 143.2 (2015) 244-9; “Imperial Cult,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. M. Orlin et al. (London 2015) 447-50; “Introduction” to Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2015) 1-22; “Introduction” to Memoria Romana… (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2016) 1-39; “Memory and Forgetting in the Age of Augustus,” Todd Memorial Lecture 21, Univ. of Sydney Publications of the Department of Classics and Ancient History (2016); “Small Bandwidth: The (Non)Reception of Augustus in America and Its Context,” SyllClass 26 (2015) 177-206; revised version in Afterlives of Augustus: AD 14–2014, ed. P.J. Goodman (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2018) 340-61; “The Popularity of Hercules in Pre-Roman Central Italy,” in 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) 191-202; “Apollo Palatinus, Sol, and the Obelisk in the Campus Martius,” in “New Light on the Relationship between the Montecitorio Obelisk and the Ara Pacis,” ed. B. Frischer, Studies in Digital Heritage 1.1 (2017) 63-5; “Reflections of an Infidel,” In “50 Years of “The Harvard School’,” ed. J. Hejduk, CW 111.1 (2017) 73-6; “Augustan Literature and Augustan ‘Ideology’: An Ongoing Reassessment,” Shagi/Steps. The Journal of the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 3.4 (2017) 151-67 (In Russian with English abstract); “Herakles Vajrapani, the Companion of Buddha” in Herakles Inside and Outside the Church, ed. A. Allan & E. Stafford (Leiden: Brill, 2019) 315-32; “Foreword,” Lindsay Powell, Augustus at War. The Struggle for the Pax Augusta (Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Nilitary, 2018) ix-xi; “Freedom of Speech in the Late Roman Republic and the Reign of Augustus: How Much of an Issue?,” Arethusa 53 (2020) 247-61; “Shaping Caesar’s Past for Posterity: Caesar d. f. Augustus,” in Caesar’s Past and Posterity’s Caesar, ed. T.A. Haas & R. Raja, Rome Studies: Archaeology, History & Literature 1 (Turnhout: Brepols 2021) 35-52.
- Sources:
WhAm 62 (2008) 1610.