Patricia Johnston
Degrees
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.
Expertise
Latin and Greek Languages and Literatures; Latin: Vergil; Catullus, Ovid, Lucretius, Juvenal, Martial, Medieval Latin, Latin Composition;Greek: Sophocles; Presocratic Philosophers; Aeschylus; Euripides
Other: Classical Mythology, Ancient Religion, Ancient Mystery Cults, Didactic Poetry, Athenian Drama in translation,
Profile
Professor Johnston has taught at Brandeis since 1975. She is particularly well known not only for her extensive work on Vergil, both his Georgics and his Aeneid, and for her work in Ancient Religion, but also for her introductory Latin text, "Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language", the third edition of which was published, along with a revised workbook, in 2014 by Brandeis University (New England Press).As president of the Vergilian Society, she initiated the Society's Symposia Cumana, which she organized annually for the Society for eighteen years (through 2012) (co-sponsored by Brandeis University). The symposia have since continued as the"Symposium Classicum Peregrinum," and has been moving to different sites (hence 'Peregrinum', which connotes 'wandering') in Europe, including:
in Grumentum Nova, Italy (2013: June 5-7 2013) “The Role of Animals in Ancient Myth and Religion”;
in 2014 in Verona, Italy: (June 18-21, 2014) “The Age of Augustus”(Verona, Italy);
in 2015 in Budapest, Hungary (June 16-19, 2015), “Hera and Juno: The Functions of the Goddesses in Prehistoric and Historic Greece and Rome”.
n 2016 in Tarquinia, Italy (June 16-19, 2016), "Mithras and Related Ancient Mysteries."
In 2017, in Szombathely, Hungary, from June 15-18, where one of the main Isis temples remain, and where a Mithraic temple has also been found, she directed the Symposium Peregrinum on "Egyptian and Eastern Cults in the Roman Empire."
In 2018, in Lonato del Garda (June 21-24), "Blessings and Curses in Antiquity."
In addition to organizing these symposia, she has edited all the volumes of collections of papers from these symposia, as well as continuing to publish her own separate works; she is currently editing the collections of papers from the "Hera and Juno" and the "Mithras and Ancient Mysteries" volumes, as well as the one on Egyptian cults.
As editor of the Vergilian Society, she published seven volumes of their publication, Vergilius.
She has published, among other things, a new translation of the Aeneid. She also produced a separate commentary on Aeneid 6, which was later incorporated into a collection of commentaries on books 1-6 commentaries of the Aeneid. She has also been quite active in other areas of the scholarly world of Classics.
She is working now on a new text on the evolution(s) of the goddesses Hera/Juno/Uni.
Courses Taught
| CLAS | 172a | Ancient Athenian Drama |
| CLAS | 190b | Ancient Mysteries, Cults, and Myths |
| LAT | 117a | Lucretius, De Rerum Natura |
| LAT | 119b | Ovid: Metamorphoses |
Awards and Honors
The Symposium Peregrinum 2019 will be held in my honor. (2018 - 2019)
23–26 September 2014. Invited speaker at the University of Budapest, Hungary. “AVGVSTVS 2000: International conference on the 2000th anniversary of the death of Augustus”. Topic of my paper: “Juno and the Augustan Myth” (2014)
Invited to be the main speaker at Case Western University's week-long celebration of Vergil's Aeneid. My translation of the Aeneid will be the main text used for the week, which will culminate with my (invited) lecture on April 26, 2013. (2013)
Brandeis Representative at Trienniel Meeting of Phi Beta Kappa in West Palm Beach, Florida (2012)
Invited Speaker at the University of Athens, Greece (2011)
Theodore and Jane Normal Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects, Brandeis University (2011)
Keynote Speaker, Massachusetts Foreign Language Assn., April 2010. (2010)
Special Award from the Vergilian Society for contributions to the Society, as President, Vice President, and for editing Vergilius for 7 years, and especially for creating and organizing Vergilian Society Symposia Cumana from 1995 through 2011. (2010)
Editor, Vergilius, 2003-2009 (2003 - 2010)
Director, Symposia Cumana, Vergilian Society, 1995-2012 (1995 - 2012)
President, Vergilian Society, 1995-1996 (1995 - 1996)
Treasurer Phi Beta Kappa, Mu of Massachusetts chapter, 1990-present) (1990)
President, Phi Beta Kappa, Mu of Massachusetts (1989) (1989)
Sloan Faculty Grant to develop Latin Tutorial software (1986)
Phi Beta Kappa, Eta of California (1967)
Scholarship
Johnston, Patricia A, Editor. Blessings and Curses in Antiquity. first ed. Budapest, Hungary: Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2018. (forthcoming)
Johnston, Patricia A. "P. A. Johnston, “Catullus, Horace, and Diana Tifatina’s Sacred Choir”." Johnston, Patricia and Giovanni Casadio, editors (and contributors). in "“Diana, Artemis and Related Cults in Ancient Greece and Italy: At the Crossroads between the Civic and the Wild”. 1st ed. Cambridge Scholars' press, 2021. 276-286.
Johnston, Patricia and Giovanni Casadio. Artemis and Diana in Ancient Greece and Italy: At the Crossroads between the Civic and the Wild.. 1st ed. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021.
Johnston, Patricia A, Patricia A. Johnston, Attilio Mastrocinque, C. Szabo,Laszlo Takacs. The Mysteries of Mithras and Other Mystic Cults in the Roman World. first ed. Budapest, Hungary: Akademiai Klado/Acta Antiqua LVIII, 2018.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Anna Perenna in Rome (Invited paper)." Mélanges Gérard Freyburger. The Latin Institute "Beatus Rhenanus" of the University of Strasbourg, 2018
Johnston, Patricia A. "The Cumaean Sibyl in Livy and Vergil." Rerum Gestarum Monumenti Et Memoriae. Cultural Readings in Livy, ed. A. Gillmeister, in series Akme. Studia Historica 18, Warsaw 2018.. vol. 18 Ed. Andrzej Gilmeister. Warsaw: Akme. Studia Historica, 2018
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Vergil’s Use of Saevus/ δεινὀς to Depict Juno”." Hera and Juno: The Functions of the Goddesses in Prehistoric and Historic Greec and Rome. Budapest, Hungary: Acta Antiqua LVII, www.akademiai.com., 2018
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Vergil’s Use of Saevus/ δεινὀς to Depict Juno”." Hera and Juno:The Functions of the Goddesses.... Acta Antiqua LVII , www.akademiai.com, 2018
Johnston, Patricia A. “Hera and Juno: The Functions of the Goddesses in Prehistoric and Historic Greece and Rome”. Budapest, Hungary: Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2018.
Johnston, Patricia A and Casadio, Giovanni, edds. (and contributors). “Diana, Artemis and Related Cults in Ancient Greece and Italy”. Cambridge Scholar's Press, 2017.
Johnston, Patricia A. "SAEVAE MEMOREM IUNONIS OB IRAM: JUNO, VEII, AND AUGUSTUS." 1st ed. vol. Acta Antiqua, vol. 55 Budpest, Hungary:, 2017. 167-178.
Patricia A. Johnston, Attilio Mastrocinque, Edit Krahling, Laszlo Takacs. Collected papers of the Proceedings of June 18-21, 2014 Symposium in Verona, Italy: “The Age of Augustus”. 1st ed. Budapest, Hungary: Akademiai Kiado, www.akademiai.com, 2017.
Johnston, Patricia A, Attilio Mastrocinque, and Sophia Papaioannou edds.( and contributors). The Role of Animals in Ancient Myth and Religion. 1st ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Johnston, Patricia A. "“The Importance of Cattle in the Myths of Hercules and Mithras”." "The Role Animals In Ancient Religion And Myth". Ed. edds. Patricia A. Johnston, Attilio Mastrocinque, and Sophia Papaioannou. Cambridge Scholars Publishing., 2016
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Late Sophocles. The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.” University of Michigan Press, www.press.umich.edu. HC: ISBN 978-0-472-11956-1/ $65.00 EBook: ISBN 978-0-472-12108-3/ $55.00." Rev. of Late Sophocles. The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus., by Thomas Van Nortwick. Classical Journal of one 2015: three.
Johnston, Patricia A. "2014: Introduction to Arcadia, The Golden Age, and the Locus Amoenus :llic Poetic Landscapes of Early Rome and Their Later Repercussions. Acta Antiqua 53 (2014) 133-144. 2014: Idy." Arcadia, The Golden Age, and the Locus Amoenus :llic Poetic Landscapes of Early Rome and Their Later Repercussions.. 1st ed. Ed. Patricia A. Johnston and Sophia Papaioannou. Budapest, Hungary: Acta Antiqua (AcademicaeScientiarum Hungaricae) 5, 2014. 133-144.
Johnston, Patricia A. "A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal, California Classical Studies No. 2 Berkeley: University of California, 2013.." Rev. of 2014 CJ 2014.09.07, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal. By EDWARD COURTNEY. California Classical Studies No. 2. Berkeley: University of California, 2013. Pp. 570. ISBN 978-19-39926-029., by Edward Courtney. Classical Journal vol. CJ 2014.09.07 2014: 570.
Johnston, Patricia A. "The Divination of Caesar and Augustus: Precedents, Consequence, Implications, . Cambridge University Press, 2013. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19215-6.." by MICHAEL KOORTBOJIAN. Classical Journal vol. 110 2014
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Cara Deum Suboles: Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil’s Pastoral Landscape” 171-184.." 2014 Arcadia, the Golden Age and the Locus Amoenus," ed. By P. A. Johnston, Sophia Papaioannou, and E. Krahling.. vol. Acta Hungarica, vol 53.2-3 Ed. P. A. Johnston, Sophia Papaioannou, and E. Krahling. Budapest, Hungary: University of Budapest, Hungary, 2014. 171-184.
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Cara deum Suboles: Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil’s Pastoral Landscape,"." 2014 Arcadia, the Golden Age, and the Locus Amoenus:Idyllic Poetic Landscapes of Early Rome and their Later Repercussion (Collected Papers of the Symposium Cumanum 2012),” ed. with S.ophia Papaioannou, Acta Antiqua (AcademicaeScientiarum Hungaricae) 5. vol. 53 Ed. Patricia A. Johnston and Sophia Papaioannou. Budapest, Hungary: AcademicaeScientiarum Hungaricae, 2014. 171-184.
Johnston, Patricia A. and Sophia Papaioannou, Edit Krähling. Arcadia, The Golden Age, and the Locus Amoenus: Idyllic Poetic Landscapes of Early Rome and their Repercussions. Budapest, Hungary: Akademiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2014.
Johnston,Patricia A. Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and its Influence. With updated Workbook.. 3rd ed. New England University Press/Brandeis University, 2014.
Johnston, Patricia A. ""Martial"." OBO (Oxford Bibliographies Online) (2013): <Oxford Bibliographies Online>.
Johnston, Patricia A. ""Roman Epigram and Satire"." OBO (Oxford Bibliographies Online) (2013): <OBO (Oxford Bibliographies Online)>.
Johnston, Patricia A.. "{Five separate articles:} "Aetna"; "Charon"; "Euyrydice"; "Lipara"; "Polites"." The Vergil Encyclopedia. First ed. Ed. Richard Thomas, ed.. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press/Wiley Blackwell, 2013
Johnston, Patricia A, ed. R. Ganiban. Vergil, Aeneid Books 1-6. first ed. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2012.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Director's Report on the Symposium Cumanum, 2011." Vergilius 57. (2012): 179-187.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science." Princeton/Oxford: 2010. Pp. vi, 428, 71 figures. $35.00. ISB." BrynMawr Classical Review 2011.10.12: vol. On-line reviews 2012
Johnston, Patricia A. 2012: Director’s Report, “Diana, Artemis, and Related Cults in Ancient Greece and Italy”, Vergilius 58 (2012) 184-190.. 2012.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Vergil's Aeneid VI: Text and Commentary". 1st ed. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2012.
Johnston, Patricia A. THE AENEID OF VERGIL. A NEW TRANSLATION, with explanatory notes, maps, pictures; written in dactylic hexameter.. first ed. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
Johnston, Patricia A. ""From Aetas Aurea to Domus Aurea: Roman Life, Literature, and Art Under the Julio Claudian Emperors." (A separate review of this symposium has appeared in the Chronache Ercolanese: Bolletino di Studi Latini XI,folio II. 735-739.)." Vergilius 56. (2011): 121-137.
Johnston, Patricia A.. ""Vergil's Evander and St. Omobono"." "The Etruscan Presence in Magna Graecia: Atti del Symposium cumanum Cuma 19-20 giugno 2003". Ed. Giuseppe Guadagno and Patricia A. Johnston. San Benevento, Italy: Vereja Edizioni, 2011. 109-122.
Johnston, Patricia A , Editor. Vergilius vol. 55 (2009). Dexter, MI: Vergilian Society, 2010.
Johnston, Patricia A. ""The Mystery Cults and Vergil's Georgics"." Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia. vol. I Ed. G. Casadio and P. A. Johnston. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2010. 251-76.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Mater Matuta at Capua and at Rome." Organized and chaired panel on "Salvation in the Mystic Cults" at the annual meeting of CAM/WS. Oklahoma City OK. March 25, 2010.
Johnston, Patricia A. "BMCR 2010.08.19: Kenneth J. Reckford, Recognizing Persius. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton/Oxford: 2009. Pp. x, 240. $45.00. ISBN 9780691141411. Reviewed by Patricia A. Johnston.." Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.19: vol. On-line review 2010
Johnston, Patricia A. "Director's Report. Symposium Cumanum 2009, "Poetry or Propaganda: What Was Vergil's Purpose in Writing the Aeneid"." Vergilius 55 (2009). (2010): 176-92.
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Allecto’s Descent into the Underworld (Aen. 7.565)”." Annual meeting of CAMWS (Classical of the Midwest and South) April 1-4, 2009.. Tucson, AZ,. April 3, 2009.
Johnston, Patricia A. and Giovanni Casadio. ""Introduction" to "Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia"." "Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia". Ed. Johnston, Patricia A. and Giovanni Casadio. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2010. 10-32.
Johnston, Patricia A/ Giovanni Casadio. Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia; REVIEWS: Numen 58 (2011) 741-765; BMCR 2011/04.13; NEW REVIEW: Kernos 27 (2014), Ilaria Battiloro.. 1st edition ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Johnston, Patricia A/ Giuseppe Guadagno. ""Introduction" to "The Etruscan presence in Magna Graecia: Atti del Symposium Cumanum. Cuma 19-20 Giugno 2003"; pp. 9-12.." Vereja Edizione, Benevento, Italy, 2010
Johnston, Patricia A and Giovanni Casadio, edd.. " Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia". 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Book review: Werner Suerbaum, Handbuch der illustrierten Vergil-Ausgaben 1502-1840: Geschichte, Typologie, Zyklen und kommentierter K......" Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.09.65 2008.09.65. (2009).
Johnston, Patricia A. "Director's Report: Symposium Cumanum 2008 "Greeks in Italy and Romans in Greece"." Vergilius 54. (2009): 228-241.
Johnston, Patricia A. "Review of "Vergil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-integration of the Classics" by Anton Powell." Vergilius 54. (2009): 186-88.
Johnston, Patricia A. "“Huc pater O Lenaee veni: The Cultivation of Wine in Vergil’s Georgics” Republished in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 101 (CMLC-101) 2008.." Journal of Wine Research vol. 10 no. 3 (1999): 207-21; Republished in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 101 (CMLC-101) 2008. (2009).
Johnston, Patricia A., Editor. Vergilius 54 (2008). Dexter MI: The Vergilian Society.. Dexter MI: The Vergilian Society, 2009.
Johnston, Patricia A.. "“The Mystery Cults and Vergil's Georgics,”." The Mystic Cults of Magna Graecia. Ed. P. A. Johnston and G. Casadio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009
Johnston, Patricia A. Vergilius 53 (2007). Dexter MI: The Vergilian Society.. 2008.
Johnston, Patricia A., ed. "Huc pater O Lenaee veni: The Cultivation of Wine in Vergil’s Georgics,”. 2008.
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. Editor. Vergilius 52 (2006). Dexter MI: The Vergilian Society.. 2007.
Johnston, Patricia A, ed. Turnus, Horses, and Libertas,”. 2006.
Johnston, Patricia A., Editor. Vergilius 51 (2005). Dexter MI: The Vergilian Society.. 2006.
Johnston, Patricia A and Phillip V. Stanley. Ancient Myth in Art and Literature. 1st ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2005.
Johnston, Patricia A, M. Skinner, Jeffrey Fish, and David Armstrong, edds.. Vergil, Philodemus and the Augustans. , 2004. ISBN 1-931909-07-7 Reviews: Cronache Ercolanesi 35 (2005) 211-13; BMCR 2005.04.64.. Austin: University of Texas Press, Austin Texas, 2005.
Johnston, Patricia A., Balmuth, Miriam S., Chester, David K., edd.. "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 papersno. 8. 01 APR 2005: xix, 345 p.
Johnston, Patricia A., Editor.. Vergilius 50 (2004). Dexter MI: The Vergilian Society.. 2005.
Johnston,Patricia A. ""Volcanoes in Classical Mythology," in Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape." (2005): 297-310.
Johnston,Patricia A. "Volcanoes in Classical Mythology.”." Cultural responses to the Volcanic Presence. pp.297-310.. Ed. Edd. M. S. Balmuth, D. K. Chester, P. A. Johnston,. Archaeological Institute of America, 2005
Johnston, Patricia A., Editor.. Editor. Vergilius vol. 49 (2003). Dexter, MI: Vergilian Society.. 2004.
Johnston,Patricia A, David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, and Marilyn Skinner, edds.. Philodemus, Vergil and the Augustan Poets. 1st ed. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Johnston,Patricia A. "Symposium Cumanum 2004: Interactions of Indigenous and Foreign Cults in Magna Graecia,. 2004.
Johnston,Patricia A, Miriam Balmuth, David K. Chester, edd.. Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape. Boston, MA: Archaelogical Institute of America, 2003.
Johnston, Patricia A. ""The Anger of Juno in Vergil’s Aeneid.”." MLA Approaches to Vergil’s Aeneid, edd. W. S. Anderson and Lorina N. Quartarone (2002) 123-130.: Modern Language Association, 2002
Johnston,Patricia A. Vergil's Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics. Leiden, 1980.
Johnston,Patricia A. I, Claudius, and Roman Women. 1978.