Peter White

Peter White

Peter White (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972) is Herman C. Bernick Family Professor, Professor in the Department of Classics and the College, and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs. He has written Promised Verse: Poets and Poetry in the Society of Augustan Rome, for which he won the APA's Goodwin Award in 1995, and articles and reviews on Horace, Statius, Martial, the Historia Augusta, and the place of poets in Roman society. He is presently writing a book on Cicero's letters. His teaching is focused on Roman comedy and satire and on Greek and Roman historiography. He received the Quantrell Teaching Award for 1990.

Contact

Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637

tel.: 773-702-8515
email: pwhi@midway.uchicago.edu

Publications

Books

  • co-editor, with A. W. H. Adkins, Readings in Western Civilization, vol. 1: The Greek Polis (Chicago, 1986).
  • co-editor, with W. E. Kaegi, Readings in Western Civilization, vol. 2: Rome: Late Republic and Principate (Chicago, 1986).
  • Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome (Cambridge, MA, 1993).

Articles

  • "The Authorship of the Historia Augusta," Journal of Roman Studies 57 (1967): 115-33.
  • "Vibius Maximus, the Friend of Statius," Historia 22 (1973): 295-301.
  • "Notes on Two Statian Prosopa," Classical Philology 68 (1973): 279-84.
  • "The Presentation and Dedication of the Silvae and the Epigrams," Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974): 40-61.
  • "Ecce Iterum Crispinus," American Journal of Philology 95 (1974): 377-82.
  • "The Friends of Martial, Statius, and Pliny, and the Dispersal of Patronage," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 79 (1975): 265-300.
  • "Horace A.P. 128-30: The Intent of the Wording," Classical Quarterly 27 (1977): 191-201.
  • "Amicitia and the Profession of Poetry in Early Imperial Rome," Journal of Roman Studies 68 (1978): 74-92
  • "Positions for Poets in Early Imperial Rome," in Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome, ed. B. K. Gold (Austin, 1982): 50-64.
  • "Horace: Epistles 2.1.50-54," Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987): 227-34.
  • "Julius Caesar in Augustan Rome," Phoenix 42 (1988): 334-56.
  • "Maecenas' Retirement," Classical Philology 86 (1991): 130-38.
  • "'Pompeius Macer' and Ovid," Classical Quarterly 42 (1992): 210-18.
  • "Postumus, Curtius Postumus, and Rabirius Postumus," Classical Philology 90 (1995): 151-61.
  • "Martial and Pre-Publication Texts," Echos du Monde classique / Classical Views 15 (1996): 397-412.
  • "Julius Caesar and the Publication of Acta in Late Republican Rome," Chiron 27 (1997): 73-84.
  • "Latin Poets and the Certamen Capitolinum," in Style and Tradition: Studies in Honor of Wendell Clausen, ed. P. Knox and C. Fox (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1998) pp. 84-95.
  • "Ovid and the Augustan Milieu," in Brill's Companion to Ovid, ed. B. W. Boyd (Leiden, 2002), pp. 1-25.
  • "Tactics in Caesar's Correspondence with Cicero," in Caesar Against Liberty?: Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 11 (2003): 68-95.
  • "Poets in a Changed Regime: Realigning," in Cambridge Companion to the Augustan Age, ed. G. K. Galinsky (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 321-39.
  • "Friendship, Patronage, and Horatian Sociopoetics," in Cambridge Companion to Horace, ed. S. K. Harrison (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 195-206.
  • "Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome," in Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, ed. W. A. Johnson (Oxford, forthcoming).

Reviews

  • Iunctura Callidus Acri: A Study of Persius (C. S. Dessen), Classical Philology 65 (1970): 140-41.
  • Tacite (J.-L. Laugier), Classical Philology 66 (1971): 142-43.
  • Kommentar zur VI. Satire des A. Persius Flaccus (H. Beikircher), Classical Philology 67 (1972): 59-61.
  • Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta (R. Syme), American Historical Review 67 (1972): 1101-2.
  • The Sources of the Historia Augusta (T. D. Barnes), Phoenix 34 (1980): 270-76.
  • Tacitus (R. Martin), Classical Journal 78 (1983): 268-70.
  • A Commentary on Book One of the Epigrams of Martial (P. Howell), Classical Journal 80 (1985): 263-65.
  • Statius and the Silvae: Poets, Patrons and Epideixis in the Graeco-Roman World (A. Hardie), Phoenix 39 (1986): 408-10.
  • Il talamo, l'albero e lo specchio: Saggio di commento a Stat. Silv. I.2, II.3, III.4 (O. Pederzani), Gnomon 70 (1998): 710-11.
  • The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire (M. R. Salzman), The Journal of Religion 83 (2003) 456-58.
  • Martial: Select Epigrams (L. and P. Watson), New England Classical Journal 31 (2004): 446-49.

Most Recent Courses Taught

  • SOSC 27501: European Civilization in Paris-1
  • LATN 32900: Survey of Latin Literature-3
  • LATN 2/31500: Roman Oratory
  • LATN 2/33400: Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
  • LATN 11200: Accelerated Introduction to Latin-2
  • LATN 32800: Survey of Latin Literature-2
  • HUMA 12400: Human Being and Citizen-2
  • LATN 20300: Vergil, Aeneid
  • LATN 2/31800: Tacitus, Annals
  • LATN 2/3500: Augustine, Confessions