Ancient Myth in Art and Literature. Co-written with Phillip V. Stanley. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2004.

Vergil, Philodemus and the Augustans. Co-edited with David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, and Marilyn B. Skinner. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and its Influence, second edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language, Workbook Part I: Chapters One to Nine, second edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language, Workbook Part II: Chapters Ten to Eighteen, second edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Vergil’s Agricultural Golden Age:  A Study of the Georgics. Mnemosyne, (Bibliotheca Classica Batava: Supplementum). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980.

Office: Rabb 348

Office Hours (Fall 2009): Mo/We/Th 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., or by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2182

Email: johnston@brandeis.edu

Professor Patricia A. Johnston has been teaching at Brandeis since 1975, after she completed her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Southern California and San Francisco State. She was chair of the Classical Studies Department in 1984-1988 and again in 1990-1992. She became Chair of the Religious Studies Program in 2008.

Her publications include Vergil’s Agricultural Golden Age:  A Study of the Georgics (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava: Supplementum), (Leiden: Brill, 1980); Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence (a college-level introductory Latin textbook), now in its second edition (Focus Publishing, 1998) with two accompanying workbooks and The Latin Tutor, a computer-assisted-learning software program; Vergil, Aeneid VI, A Commentary (forthcoming from Focus); as well as a number of scholarly articles. She is currently working on the interaction of art and mythology, and on evidence of ancient mystery cults in classical literature. She has recently completed a translation of The Aeneid in dactylic hexameter. 

Professor Johnston is a past president of the Vergilian Society of America.  She frequently leads study tours for the Vergilian Society in Italy and Sicily.  In 1995, as president, she established a series of annual scholarly symposia in Italy for the Vergilian Society, and since then has been the main director of these symposia. In this capacity she has co-edited three books: The Cultural Response to the Volcanic Landscape, co-editor with David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, and Marilyn B. Skinner (Archaeological Institute of America, 2005); Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia, co-editor with Giovanni Casadio (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009); and Vergil, Philodemus and the Augustans, co-editor with David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, and Marilyn B. Skinner (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). She is currently editor of Vergilius, the journal of the Vergilian Society.

She has also been actively involved with the teachers of Latin in local high schools, directly and through the Classical Association of Massachusetts, the Classical Association of New England, and the Junior Classical League of Massachusetts.  On three occasions, she has brought the annual convention of the latter to Brandeis. 

Professor Johnston teaches introductory and advanced Latin and Greek courses as well as an occasional course in translation.

Photograph of Patricia A. Johnston by Brandeis Campus Card Office.

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