Patricia A. Johnston

Title

Professor of Classical Studies

Classical Studies

Expertise

Latin and Greek, language and literature.

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley, M.A.

University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	johnston@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2182
Office:	Rabb, 348

Awards and Honors

Editor, Vergilius (2003)

President, Vergilian Society (1995 - 1996)

President (1989) and Treasurer (1990- ) Phi Beta Kappa, Mu chapter (1989)

Sloan Faculty Grant (1986)

Courses Taught

CLAS	250b	Capstone Course
GRK	115b	Ancient Greek Drama
LAT	10a	Beginning Latin
LAT	20b	Continuing Latin
LAT	110b	Advanced Latin Composition
LAT	115a	Roman Drama
LAT	116b	Roman Satire
LAT	117a	Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
LAT	118a	Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry
LAT	118b	Roman Historians
LAT	119b	Ovid: Metamorphoses
LAT	120a	Vergil
LAT	125a	Medieval Latin
USEM	27a	Ancient Mysteries, Cults, and Myths

Scholarship

Johnston, Patricia A and Giovanni Casadio, edd.. "Fortunates Gentes: Mystic Cults and their Persistence in Magna Graecia," Volume I. (Volume II by Casadio and Johnston is currently in preparation.). University of Texas Press, 2009. (forthcoming)

Johnston, Patricia A. ""The Mystery Cults and Vergil's Georgics"." Fortunatae Gentes: Mystic Cults and their Persistence in Magna Graecia. vol. I Ed. G. Casadio and P. A. Johnston. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Johnston, Patricia A. Vergil's Aeneid VI: Text and Commentary (completed; to be published as a stand-alone commentary, and also to be included collectively with commentaries for the other books of the Aeneid, the entire collection edited by Randall Ganiban for Focus Publish. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2009. (forthcoming)

Johnston, Patricia A. Vergil's Aeneid. A new translation, with explanatory notes, maps, pictures; written in dactylic hexameter.. 2009. (forthcoming)

Johnston, Patricia A. and C. W. Marshall, editors.. "Early Latin Comedy and Satire in Magna Graecia and Rome, ". 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. (forthcoming)

Johnston, Patricia A. ""Turnus, Horses, and Libertas," Vergilius 52 (2006): 20-31.." (2007).

Johnston, Patricia A. "R. Bedon and M. Polfer." Rev. of Être Romain: Hommages in Memoriam Charles Marie Ternes, by Robert Bedon and Michel Polfer.. Vergilius vol. 53 2007: 217-18.

Johnston, Patricia A. "Symposium Cumanum Report, "The Vergilian Tradition: Manuscripts, Texts And Reception, " Vergilius 52 (2006); pp. 245-61.." (2007).

Johnston, Patricia A. "Symposium Cumanum Report, "Vergil's Goddesses, Heroines and Peoples: Authenticating the Early Goddesses and Establishing the Roman Comman Identity"." Vergilius 53. (2007): 245-61.

Johnston, Patricia A., Balmuth, Miriam S., Chester, David K.,. "Cultural responses to the volcanic landscape : the Mediterranean and beyond." Rev. of NEW REVIEWS.: Vergilius 52(2006) 241-4; Hayward Geological Magazine (2007) 144.5:893-4; Classical Review (2005) 57.2:512-14.. Colloquia and conference papers ;; 8; Variation: Colloquia and conference papers ;; no. 8. 01 APR 2005: xix, 345 p.