Timothy Moore
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1050
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Books
Music in Roman Comedy (Cambridge 2012)
Roman Theatre (Cambridge 2012)
The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience (Austin 1998)
Artistry and Ideology: Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue (Frankfurt 1989)
Edited Volumes
Form und Bedeutung im lateinischen Drama / Form and Meaning in Latin Drama, ed. by Timothy J. Moore and Wolfgang Polleichtner.
Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace, Money, the God, Samia, translated by Douglass Parker, ed. with introductions and notes by Timothy J. Moore.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Stinging Auloi: Aristophanes, Acharnians 860-71,” Greek and Roman Musical Studies 5 (2017): 178-190.
“Sophocles after Ferguson: Antigone in St. Louis, 2014,” Didaskalia 13 (2016–2017): 49-68. http://didaskalia.net/issues/13/10/
“Music in Roman Tragedy,” in Roman Drama and its Contexts, edd. Stavros Frangoulidis, Stephen J. Harrison, and Gesine Manuwald (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 34, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016) 345-361.
“Roman Comedy in Performance: Using the Videos of the 2012 NEH Summer Institute,” Didaskalia 12 (2015): 37-50. (http://www.didaskalia.net/issues/12/6/).
“The 2012 NEH Summer Institute on Roman Comedy in Performance: Genesis and Reflections” (with Sharon L. James and Meredith Safran), Classical Journal 111 (2015): 1-9.
“Using Music in Teaching Roman Comedy” (with T.H.M. Gellar-Goad), Classical Journal 111 (2015): 37-51.
“Music and Gender in Terence’s Hecyra,” in Women in the Drama of the Roman Republic, edited by Dorota Dutsch, Sharon James, and David Konstan (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) 68-87.
“Meter and Music,” in The Blackwell Companion to Terence, edd. Antonios Augoustakis and Adriana Traill (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) 89-110.
“Andria: Terence’s Musical Experiment,” in Form und Bedeutung im lateinischen Drama / Form and Meaning in Latin Drama, edd. Timothy J. Moore and Wolfgang Polleichtner (Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 95. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2013) 87-114.
“Song in the Greek Classroom,” Teaching Classical Languages 4.2 (Spring 2013): 66-85 (http://tcl.camws.org/sites/default/files/Moore_0.pdf).
“Rodgers and Hart’s ‘The Boys from Syracuse’: Shakespeare Made Plautine,” in Ancient Comedy and Reception, ed. Douglas Olson. Boston University Studies in the Classical Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2013) 762-785.
“Don’t Skip the Meter! Introducing Students to the Music of Roman Comedy,” Classical Journal 108 (2012/13) 218-234.
“An Aulos in Eelde, the Netherlands,” in Studien zur Musikarchäologie VIII, edd. R. Eichmann, F. Jianjun, and L.-C. Koch (Orient-Archäologie 27. Rahden: Leidorf, 2012) 91-101.
“A Musical Merchant: The Cantica of Mercator,” New England Classical Journal 37 (2010) 15-26.
“Livy’s Hannibal and the Roman Tradition,” in Livy and Intertextuality, ed. Wolfgang Polleichtner. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 84 (Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2010) 135-167.
Awards
Mellon Foundation Fellowship
The American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize Fellowship
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Resarch Fellowship
The German Academic Exchange Service: Visiting Professorship
The Loeb Classical Library Foundation: Research Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities: Co-director, Summer Institute
Recent Courses
L08 Classics 301C: Greek Mythology
The myths of ancient Greece are not only inherently interesting, but they are an incomparable starting point for the study of the ancient world, and they have offered numerous images and paradigms to modern poets, artists, and theorists. This course provides an introduction to the content of the major Greek myths, the historical and social background of the myths, the role of the myths in literature and art, and modern ways of interpreting and using myths. We examine as well the Near Eastern background to Greek myths and the adaptations of the myths in Roman and modern cultures.
L08 Classics 462: Ancient Greek and Roman Music
Music played a vital role in Ancient Greece and Rome. New resources and perspectives now allow us to appreciate the ancients' music better than ever before. In this course we address the nature of ancient music (instruments, melody and rhythm, modes), ancient attitudes towards music, and its contribution to public and private life. The focus throughout is on our ancient sources, both literary and archaeological.
L08 Classics 502: Research and Publication on the Greco-Roman World
An introduction to the profession of classical scholarship, in the form of a proseminar for all graduate students in the Department of Classics. The course provides an introduction to a variety of methods and aspects of the study of Greece and Rome. We will read samples of the scholarly literature in each area to explore what it means to pursue a career in Classics.
L09 Greek 422: Euripides
The tragedies of Euripides are among the most powerful dramas ever produced. In this class we will read Euripides’ Medea in Greek as well as scholarly works on the tragedy and its contexts. Among the topics discussed will be language and style, meter and music, mythological and historical backgrounds, elements of performance, and Euripides’ influence in the modern world.
L09 Greek 430: Herodotus
In this course we read selections from Herodotus’ Histories in Greek and the entire work in English translation, concentrating especially on Herodotus’ attitudes towards cultural differences, especially that between “East” and “West.”
L10 Latin 432: Horace
L10 Latin 416: Seneca and Roman Tragedy
The tragedies of Seneca are fascinating works in themselves and have had a profound influence on modern theatre and literature. In this class we will read together Seneca’s Phaedra in Latin, other Senecan plays in English translation, and various works of ancient literature and modern scholarship related to the plays. Each student will also choose an additional Senecan tragedy to read in Latin, and graduate student class members will read Seneca’s Thyestes in Latin. Among the topics discussed will be the tradition of tragedy in Rome, questions of performance, and Seneca’s responses to the politics and philosophy of his age.
L10 Latin 531: Catullus
We will read, discuss, and write about the entire corpus of Catullus and scholarly works on Catullus and his poems, examining the sound and style of the poems, their literary and cultural background, their influence on later literature, and how various modern approaches can help us understand them.
L10 Latin 533: Livy
This course is designed as an introduction to the Ab urbe condita of Livy. We will read extensive selections from the work in Latin and will discuss various questions, including Livy's relationship with earlier and later writers, his style and literary techniques, and his moral, political, and philosophical preconceptions.
L93 Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities 201C: Text and Tradition: Classical to Renaissance Literature
Students enrolled in this course engage in close and sustained reading of a set of texts that are indispensable for an understanding of the European literary tradition, texts that continue to offer invaluable insights into humanity and the world around us. Homer's Iliad is the foundation of our class. We then go on to trace ways in which later poets and dramatists engage the work of predecessors who inspire and challenge them. Readings move from translations of Greek, Latin, French, Japanese, and Italian, to poetry and drama composed in English. In addition to Homer, we will read works of Sappho, Sophocles, Plato, Vergil, Ovid, Marie de France, Dante, Petrarch, Zeami, and Shakespeare.