Spencer Cole

Assistant Professor
tel: 612-625-5540
email: secole@umn.edu

Education

B. A., University of Washington (1996)
M. A., University of Washington (1998)
Ph. D., Columbia University (2006)

Research Interests

My research focuses on the roles that literary texts play in phases of cultural reordering at Rome. In particular, I am interested in how the productions of major cultural players like Cicero can process and naturalize new ideas. I am currently writing a book �Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome� which explores how Cicero�s late-Republican experiments with divinization helped set the stage for ruler-deification.

Publications

'Annotated Innovation in Euripides� Ion' forthcoming in Classical Quarterly

'Cicero, Ennius, and the Concept of Apotheosis at Rome' in B. Breed and A. Rossi, eds. Ennius and the Invention of Roman Epic, Arethusa 39 (2006), 531-548.

'Elite Skepticism in the Apocolocyntosis: Further Qualifications' in K. Volk and G. Williams, eds. Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics, Leiden: Brill (2006), 174-182. Reviewed BMCR 2007.08.42

'The Dynamics of Deification in Horace Odes 1-3' in S. Asirvatham, C. Pache and J. Watrous, eds. Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society, Baltimore: Rowman and Littlefield (2001), 67-91. Reviewed BMCR 2003.02.14

Classical and Near Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts - University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus
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