Contents •• Sommaire

• Message from the President / Message du président
• Vote results / Résultats du vote
• CAC Translation Competition / Concours de version de la SCÉC

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• UBC: One-year Lecturer position in Classical Studies and Latin Language (reminder with new deadline)

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[6] Summer Study, Field Schools, Special Programmes
[6] Cours d'été et écoles de terrain, programmes spécialisés

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• Two new books / Deux nouveaux livres

[1] Association Announcements & News
[1] Annonces et nouvelles de la Société

Message from the President
Message du président

From / De Bruce Robertson

Following our online AGM, I am delighted to welcome to CAC Council Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier — Ontario), who will serve as Vice-President for a two-year term (2020–22), to be followed, without election and by appointment, as President and Past-President. Aussi, je suis heureux que Christian Raschle (UdeMontréal — Québec) exercera les fonctions de secrétaire pendant les années 2020–23. Anne-France Morand (Laval — Québec) et Jessica Romney (MacEwan — Alberta) ont été élues au conseil pour la même période.

I'd like to make one final appeal for members to fill out the online survey of this year's equity panel. The more complete this data, the better an understanding we have of our association's situation and how it is changing.

Finally, I'd like to thank personally Mark Joyal for his six years of service on CAC executive and Allison Glazebrook for her two years' leadership as President, which has been all the more valuable during these unusual circumstances.

Vote Results
Résultats du vote

From the Acting Secretary (Jan. 1st–May 15th) / Du secrétaire intérimaire (1er janvier–15 mai)

As CAC members know, a vote took place from Friday, May 8th to Friday, May 15th 2020 to adopt the minutes of the 2019 AGM, to adopt the CAC's and Mouseion's financial statements, to elect the new members of the Executive and Council, and to adopt two motions to amend the Bylaws. The relevant documents were made available for consultation on the CAC website on the page "Forthcoming Conference" (but have since then been moved to the page "Previous Annual Conferences").

Le vote a été géré par l'entremise de « Simply Voting », une plateforme de vote en ligne. Les électeurs –c'est-à-dire les membres en règle de la Société– étaient au nombre de 323, un seul n'ayant pu être rejoint à cause d'une adresse oourriel périmée. Cent trente-quatre (134) électeurs se sont exprimés, ce qui représente 41.5% des membres. Les résultats pour chaque question suivent:

• Motion: Adoption of the Minutes of the 2019 AGM (J. Chlup / G. Chamberland)
  Motion: Adoption du procès verbal de l'AGA de 2019 (J. Chlup / G. Chamberland)
  In favour / Pour 108 (83.1%); Against / Contre 0 (0.0%); Abstention 22 (16.9%)


• Motion: Adoption of the Financial Statement of the Association (P. Ripat / B. Robertson)
  Motion: Adoption des états financiers de la Société (P. Ripat / B. Robertson)
  In favour / Pour 121 (93.8%); Against / Contre 0 (0.0%); Abstention 8 (6.2%)


• Motion: Adoption of the Financial Statement of Mouseion (T. Allen / P. Ripat)
  Motion: Adoption des états financiers de Mouseion (T. Allen / P. Ripat)
  In favour / Pour 116 (89.9%); Against / Contre 0 (0.0%); Abstention 13 (10.1%)


• Motion: Election of Officers, Council Members, and Committee Members (M. Joyal / A. Glazebrook)
  Motion: Élection des membres du bureau, du conseil et des comités (M. Joyal / A. Glazebrook)
  In favour / Pour 122 (93.1%); Abstention 8 (6.1%); Against / Contre 1 (0.8%)


• Motion: Adoption of proposed changes to by-law 4d (P. Ripat / G. Chamberland)
  Motion: Adoption des changements proposés au règlement 4d (P. Ripat / G. Chamberland)
  In favour / Pour 118 (92.2%); Against / Contre 0 (0.0%); Abstention 10 (7.8%)


• Motion: Adoption of proposed changes to by-law 6 (P. Ripat / G. Chamberland)
  Motion: Adoption des changements proposés au règlement 6 (P. Ripat / G. Chamberland)
  In favour / Pour 119 (92.2%); Against / Contre 1 (0.8%); Abstention 9 (7.0%)

CAC Translation Competition
Concours de version de la SCÉC

From / De Craig Maynes

I took over the coordination of the sight competition this year. I am very grateful to Rob Nau, who passed along a meticulously organized portfolio and has been very helpful answering any questions I came up with over the year.

I am grateful also to this year's university adjudicators (Fanny Dolansky, Kyle Gervais, Kathryn Mattison, and Vernon Provencal), and high school adjudicator (Diana Pai) and her team (Patrick Letendre, Margaret Rogow, and Agathe Roman), as well as to Guy Chamberland for his help with translation into French.

Despite a few "learning moments" and the attendant minor delays, the initial organizing and conducting of the competitions went well. I have made a few notes to myself about things to do differently next year, particularly with regard to increasing participation at institutions that have students who could participate, but choose not to. One avenue I plan to pursue is to encourage the establishment of small, local "side prizes" to reward the best translations at each institution. These would be administered locally and awarded by each institution before submitting the entries to the CAC for adjudication in the national competition.

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 crisis hit our country just as the adjudicators were doing their assessments. This has delayed the process. The university adjudicators have now all submitted their reports, but the high school adjudication must be postponed indefinitely. I am currently in the process of figuring out how to get the post-secondary winners their certificates and cheques.

Participation

This year, 27 post-secondary institutions participated in the competitions, although 7 of them had no submissions to enter (see above, about my desire to encourage more participation). In total, there were 40 submissions for Junior Greek, 24 for Senior Greek, 59 for Junior Latin, and 36 for Senior Latin.

As you will note from the results below, Université de Montréal dominated this year's competitions, placing at least once and often twice in each of the four categories. Perhaps we should all interrogate them about what they are doing!

Results

Junior Greek

• 1st place Christophe Turcotte-Richard (Université de Montréal)
• 2nd place William Chénier (Université de Montréal)
• 3rd place Madeline C. McIntire (Mount Allison University)
• Honourable Mention: Dana Jensen (University of Victoria)

Senior Greek

• 1st place Jakob Barnes (University of Toronto)
• 2nd place Romane Auger (Université de Montréal)
• 3rd place Graham Braun (University of Victoria)
• Honourable Mention: Dustin Backer (Concordia University)

Junior Latin

• 1st place William Bouchard (Université de Montréal)
• 2nd place Élias Massey-Neves (Université de Montréal)
• 3rd place John Gillmore (Université d'Ottawa)
• Honourable Mentions: Malcolm Sepulchre (Dalhousie University), Angus Wilson (Dalhousie University)

Senior Latin

• 1st place Julie Parent (Université de Montréal)
• 2nd place Yilin Zhu (University of Toronto)
• 3rd place Romane Auger (Université de Montréal)

High School Latin

• TBA

Adjudicator's Reports

Junior Greek [Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon II.8.2-3]
Report from Vernon Provencal, Acadia University

There were no near-perfect translations; those chosen were quite good. At first (as usual) I thought the passage was too hard, but it turns out to have worked out ok – everyone got some of it. The real qualitative difference lay in those who got some sense of what the passage was about generally, which seemed to have guided them through it. It may be that the most peculiar downside was a result of that general sense: of the four chosen, all confused hoios (of such a sort) with oinon (wine), and so confused the key moments of first sharing a drink of water (same water as the oxen drink) and then drinking the wine provided by the god. Generally, they stumbled on pothen (whence), oupw (not yet), which indicates not paying enough attention to detail (it would be worth knowing if students felt they had enough time). Finally, as expected, brave attempts to make good sense of the effect of drinking the wine – I would have been surprised if anyone had heroically traversed those waters – and it was there, if anywhere, that I thought #1 fared a little better, though not much, than the rival #2.

Senior Greek [Hesiod, Works and Days]
Report from Kathryn Mattison, McMaster University

I received 24 total test papers (only two in French). Of those, 8 were significantly incomplete with large gaps in the text owing, presumably, to issues of vocabulary (there was one which, in spite of "non possum" written across the top was not bad at all!).

Of the remaining complete papers, the four [winners] were all truly excellent. They were distinct from one another in very small ways, and my final ranking came down to the particular elegance of the winner.

The difficulties seemed to come from vocabulary and morphology, which I suspect stems from a lack of familiarity with epic in general. There were some that started strong but appeared flummoxed by fairly regular epic forms (ἔησθα, for example). The top papers clearly had familiarity with the genre in a way that the others did not.

Junior Latin [Cicero, In Verrem 2.1.46]
Report from Fanny Dolansky, Brock University

Overall the quality of the submissions was good with some programs showing a number of very strong submissions; these programs should be especially proud of their students' achievements and the strength of instruction taking place. Though the number of French submissions was much smaller than English, the French submissions were all solid and among the top 20% of the total submissions.

A few issues with the grammar came up even among the strongest submissions:

• Only a couple of students from the total number of submissions successfully translated the result clause that begins est enim tanta… I think word order threw many off and then things were complicated by recognizing what the subject was – most took it to be fani rather than the two 3rd declension nouns, religio and antiquitas, on which fani is actually dependent; additionally, antiquitas was thought to mean "antiquities" by all but a few and sometimes thought to be accusative plural.
• In the same sentence, the indirect statement introduced by arbitrentur was difficult.
• The negative purpose clause ne forte… pertineret was missed by most but was more consistently a problem for English translators.

Fairly consistently students had difficulty with forte (thought to be fortiter) and deponent verbs (basic meaning more so than recognizing that these translate actively). Other problems that recurred a number of times were: neuter plurals signa (and associated adjectives) and ea translated as singulars; venire taken to mean "to go"; audebant mistaken for audiebant; the meaning of ferre as to bear something emotionally rather than literally; confusion over the adverb ibi (thought to be a form of eo, ire by several); confusion over the alternate 3rd pl. masculine personal pronoun ii as the equivalent of ei (several thought this was "two men"). Generally students seemed to have a good core vocabulary at their disposal though not surprisingly either did not translate or mistranslated a number of the adverbs (e.g., clam, postridie, vix).

Senior Latin [Epigrammata Bobiensia]
Report from Kyle Gervais, Western University

There ended up being a very clear top three. Of these three, [the clear first place winner] has a lovely (French) translation with only a few minor vocabulary issues (and mostly in the places where everybody had some trouble).

I had a tough time deciding between second and third place. Both had a few minor vocabulary issues, but also a couple larger difficulties with the meaning (and by "larger" I mean not quite getting the syntax of one line of poetry here and there). In the end, [the second place] had a couple more vocabulary problems than the [third], but had fewer syntax problems (and I figured that vocabulary issues are more forgivable than syntax).

Of the remaining translations, I classified 13 in the second rung, meaning that they mostly got the sense of the passage but had significant issues in several section.

The remaining 20 I classified in the third rung, meaning that they weren't able to keep up with the sense of the passage or had really severe problems with sections that I wouldn't have expected difficulty with.

In terms of overall reflection, I was mildly surprised that so many translations kept up with the passage all the way through. The problems mostly came where I expected. Lots of people had trouble with l. 2, which is hard to render in satisfying English (something like "beautifully represented in wondrous ways" might do it). People had vocabulary issues in consistently the same places: 3 finxit, 4 laesa, 12 ulta, 16 furta. I was a little surprised with how many people had trouble with the syntax of l. 15 ("you, readers, trust more in historians when it comes to me than in…") – even two of the three winners didn't quite get it. But I guess historicis is easy enough to misread as an ablative of comparison rather than a dative with credite, and de me meaning "on the topic of me" is tricky… l. 9 also tripped a few people up, often when they couldn't figure out what castus meant. Kids these days!

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[3] Positions Available
[3] Postes à combler

University of British Columbia
Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies
One-year leave replacement Lecturer position in Classical Studies and Latin Language

From Matthew M. McCarty

THIS IS A REPOSTING OF AN EARLIER AD WITH A NEW DEADLINE. THIS IS NOT A SECOND POSITION. THOSE APPLICATIONS ALREADY RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO THE PREVIOUS AD WILL BE CONSIDERED – DO NOT REAPPLY.

The Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies is seeking applications for a one-year leave replacement Lecturer position in Classical Studies and Latin Language. Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. in Classical Studies or a related field. The successful candidate will possess a strong commitment to teaching and be able to teach both introductory and advanced Latin (both prose and verse), as well as courses on topics such as Classical myth and Latin Epic in translation. Teaching may include a graduate seminar in a subject selected by the successful candidate in consultation.

The position involves teaching eight 13-week courses (24 credits) and participating in departmental service, events and initiatives. The 1-year appointment is expected to commence July 1, 2020. This position is subject to final budgetary approval.

Please send applications, including a letter of interest, Curriculum Vitae, a statement of teaching interests and teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching ability and effectiveness (for example, student evaluations of teaching, course syllabi, or peer reviews of teaching), and a one-page statement about your experience working with a diverse student body and your contributions or potential contributions to creating/advancing a culture of equity and inclusion along with the names and contact information of three referees to:

Dr. Leanne Bablitz
Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
University of British Columbia

These materials may be sent electronically to cners.jobsearch@ubc.ca. Applications must be received by May 31st, 2020.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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New books / Nouveaux livres

From the Editor

Jessica M. Romney, Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece, University of Michigan Press, 2020.

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« Les Presses de l'Université Laval viennent de publier Moi, Aristote, par Gilles Maloney, une biographie romancée d'Aristote. La version imprimée est disponible chez l’éditeur et en librairie, ou en ligne – en format pdf – ou imprimée. »