Timothy Moore
John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics
Department Chair
Degrees:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
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Office:
Umrath Hall, Room 243
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Research specialization
Greek and Roman comedy; Roman historiography; The Classical Tradition; Ancient Music
Research Interests
Professor Moore's work concentrates on several areas of classical antiquity, including the comic theatre of Greece and Rome, Greek and Roman music, and Roman historiography. Current projects include articles on music in two plays of the Roman comic playwright Terence and a long-range project on the influence on the modern world of the Roman historian Livy. He also has interests in the history of theatre, especially American musical theatre and Japanese Kyogen comedy.
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)
Articles and Book Chapters
"Livy's Hannibal and the Roman Tradition," in Livy and Intertextuality, ed. W. Polleichtner, ed. (Trier 2010) 135-167
"A Musical Merchant: The Cantica of Mercator," New England Classical Journal 37 (2010) 15-26.
"Parakataloge: Another Look," Philomusica on-line 7 (2008) 143-152
"When Did the Tibicen Play? Meter and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy," Transactions of the American Philological Association 138 (2008) 3-46.
"Terence as Musical Innovator," in Terentius Poeta, P. Kruschwitz, W.W. Ehlers, F. Felgentreu, eds. (Munich 2007) 93-109
"Pessuli, heus pessuli: La porta nel Curculio," in Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates VIII: Curculio, R. Raffaeli, A. Tontini, eds. (Urbino 2005) 11-36
"Confusing the Gods: Plautus, Cistellaria 512-527," in Augusto augurio: Rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski, C.F. Konrad, ed. (Wiesbaden 2004) 53-67
"Meter and Meaning in Cistellaria I 1," in Studien zu Plautus' Cistellaria, R. Hartkamp, F. Hurka, eds. (Tübingen 2004) 319-333
"Music in a Quiet Play," in Studien zu Plautus' Poenulus, T. Baier, ed. (Tübingen 2004) 139-161
"Japanese Ky_gen in the Ancient Comedy Classroom," Classical Journal 98 (2002-2003) 189-198.
Translation of Terence's Phormio, with an introduction on Terence and an essay on the play, in Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays, S. O'Bryhim, ed. (Austin 2001) 241-320.
"Music in Epidicus," in Studien zu Plautus' Epidicus, U. Auhagen, ed. (Tübingen 2001) 313-334
"Music in Persa," in Studien zu Plautus' Persa, Stefan Faller, ed. (Tübingen 2001) 255-272.
"Facing the Music: Character and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy," Syllecta Classica 19 (1999) 130-153
"Music and Structure in Roman Comedy," American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 245-273
"Tragicomedy as a Running Joke: Plautus' Amphitruo in Performance," published electronically in Didaskalia, Supplement 1, 1995
"Seats and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre," Classical Journal 90 (1994) 113-23
"Morality, History, and Livy's Wronged Women," Eranos 91 (1993) 38-46
"Plautus, Captivi, 818-22," Latomus 50 (1991) 349-351
"Palliata togata: Plautus, Curculio, 462-86," American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 343-362
"Tibullus 1.7: Reconciliation through Conflict," Classical World 82 (1989) 423-430
Awards
Mellon Foundation
The American Academy in Rome
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The German Academic Exchange Service
The Loeb Classical Library Foundation
Courses
Latin 432: Horace
The Odes of Horace rank among the world´s greatest lyric poems. In this course we will read a number of the Odes in Latin, concentrating on the sound of the verse, how Horace uses the Latin language, and Horace himself as a man, a poet, and a Roman of the Augustan Age. Readings in secondary sources in English will give us further insights into what the Odes tell us about Horace, Rome, and the workings of lyric poetry.