University of Texas
Department of Classics
Waggener 113, 1 University Station, C3400
Austin, TX 78712-0308
(512) 232-4161
timmoore@mail.utexas.edu

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986
  Dissertation: "Roman Virtues in Livy", under the direction of Jerzy Linderski.
• B.A. summa cum laude, Latin and history, Millersville University, 1981.
• American Academy in Rome, Summer, 1983.
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer, 1985.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
New and Roman Comedy, Latin Prose, Ancient Music, Classical Tradition

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD:

• 2005- Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
• 1998-2005: Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin (Department Chair, September, 2002-January, 2004).
• 1992-1998: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
• 1991-1992: Mellon Faculty Fellow, Harvard University.
• 1986-1991: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University.
• Summer, 1989: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Summer, 1988: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M Study Center in Italy.
• 1983-1986: Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• 1981-1984: Research Assistant for L'Année Philologique, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

PUBLICATIONS:

• The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience. University of Texas Press, 1998.
  xii & 263 pages.
  Reviews:
  • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.05.03 (1999).
  • Times Literary Supplement (May 28, 1999) 4.
  • Classical World 94 (2001) 283-284.
  • Classical Journal 97 (2001) 81-83.
  • Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001) 223-224.
  • Chapter 9 has been reprinted in Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence, ed. Erich Segal, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 161-175.
  • Chapter 4 has been reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vol. 92, Gale, 2007.
• Artistry and Ideology: Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue. Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 192. Athenäum Press, 1989.
  Reviews:
  • American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 276-79
  • Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 47 (1994) 54-58
  • L'Antiquité Classique 59 (1990) 370-71
  • Atene e Roma 34 (1989) 167
  • Athenaeum 68 (1990) 282
  • Classical Review 50 (1990) 40-42
  • Classical World 84 (1991) 316
  • Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990) 206-207
  • Revue des Études Latines 67 (1989) 352-53.

• "Tibullus 1.7: Reconciliation through Conflict," Classical World 82 (1989) 423-430.

• "Palliata togata: Plautus, Curculio, 462-86," American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 343-362.

• "Plautus, Captivi, 818-22," Latomus 50 (1991) 349-351
• "Morality, History, and Livy's Wronged Women," Eranos 91 (1993) 38-46.
• "Seating and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre," Classical Journal 90 (1994) 113-23.
• "Tragicomedy as a Running Joke: Plautus' Amphitruo in Performance," published electronically in Didaskalia, Supplement 1, 1995.
• "Music and Structure in Roman Comedy," American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 245-273.
• ""Facing the Music: Character and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy," Syllecta Classica 19 (1999) 130-153.
• "Plautus," in Dictionary of Literary Biography 211: Ancient Roman Writers (Detroit, 1999) 227-234.
• "Music in Persa," in Studien zu Plautus' Persa, ed. Stefan Faller (Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2001) 255-272.
• Translation of Terence's Phormio, with an introduction on Terence and an essay on the play, in Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays, edited by Shawn O'Bryhim (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001) 241-320.
  Reviews:
  • Classical Outlook 79 (2002) 127; Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.02.14 (2002).
• Translations of relevant passages from Plautus for Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents, edited by Thomas K. Hubbard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) 315-319.
• "Music in Epidicus," in Studien zu Plautus' Epidicus, ed. Ulrike Auhagen (Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2001) 313-334.
• "Japanese Kyôgen in the Ancient Comedy Classroom," Classical Journal 98 (2002-2003) 189-198.
• ""Music in a Quiet Play," in Studien zu Plautus' Poenulus, ed. Thomas Baier (Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2004) 139-161.
• "Confusing the Gods: Plautus, Cistellaria 512-527," Augusto augurio: Res humanae et divinae scriptae in honorem Jerzy Linderski (Wiesbaden, Steiner, 2004) 53-67.
• "Meter and Meaning in Cistellaria I 1," in Studien zu Plautus' Cistellaria, ed. Rolf Hartkamp and Florian Hurka (Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2004) 319-333.
• "Pessuli, heus pessuli: La porta nel Curculio," in Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates VIII: Curculio, edd. Renato Raffaeli and Alba Tontini. (Urbino: Quattro Venti, 2005) 11-36.
• "Petronius" in The Literary Encyclopedia. 5 Apr. 2006. The Literary Dictionary Company. 6 April 2006. <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3541>
• "Terence as Musical Innovator," in Terentius Poeta, ed. Peter Kruschwitz (Zetemata 127. Munich: Beck, 2007) 93-109.
• “When Did the Tibicen Play?” Meter and Musical Accompaniment in Roman Comedy,” forthcoming in Transactions of the American Philological Association.

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Kenneth J. Reckford, Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy, Seventeenth Century News 46 (1988) 39-40.
• Richard E. Mitchell, Patricians and Plebeians: The Origin of the Roman State, American Journal of Philology, 113 (1992) 463-465.
• Richard C. Beacham, The Roman Theatre and Its Audience, Theatre Journal 44 (1992) 556-557.
• David Wiles, The Masks of Menander, American Journal of Philology 114 (1993) 448-451.
• Peter Riemer, Das Spiel im Spiel: Studien zum plautinischen Agon in Trinummus und Rudens, Religious Studies Review 24 (1998) 76.
• Alan Griffiths (ed.), Stage Directions: Essays in Ancient Drama in Honour of E. W. Handley, Religious Studies Review 24 (1998) 411-412..
• Kathryn Argetsinger, A Latin Course for Colleges Based on Ancient Authors, Texas Classics in Action (Summer 1998) 26-28..
• Ferruccio Bertini, Plauto e dintorni, Classical Review 49 (1999) 265-266.
• John Henderson, Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and other Ofences in Latin Poetry, Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 276.
• Richard C. Beacham, Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome, Theatre Journal 53 (2001) 348-349.
• Andrew Feldherr, Spectacle and Society in Livy's History, American Journal of Philology 121 (2000) 487-490.
• John G. Landels, Music in Ancient Greece and Rome, Phoenix 55 (2001) 431-433.
• Piero Totaro, Le seconde parabasi di Aristofane, Drama 10 (2001) 343-345.
• Claude Pansiéri, Plaute et Rome ou les ambiguïtés d'un marginal, Classical Review 52 (2002) 175.
• Gregory W. Dobrov, Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics, Religious Studies Review 28 (2002) 71.
• Carlin A. Barton, Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones, Electronic Antiquity 6.1.
• Ellen Hickmann and Ricardo Eichmann (eds.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV, American Journal of Archaeology Online Reviews 110.4 (2006): http://ajaonline.org/onlinebookreviews.
• Matthew Leigh, Comedy and the Rise of Rome, Classical Outlook  84 (2007) 129.
• Amy Richlin, Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus,  Classical Outlook 84 (2007) 176. 

PANELS ORGANIZED:

• "Virtutes Romanae: Whose Creation?," American Philological Association, December, 1993.
• ""Performing 'Identity': National and Social Transformations in Modern Performance," American Philological Association, January, 2008.

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

• Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2005-2006.
• President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1999-2000, renewed, 2004, 2005.
• Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 1998-1999.
• Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas, 1998-1999, 2005-2006.
• URI Summer Research Award, University of Texas, 1993
• Harvard University Mellon Faculty Fellowship, 1991-1992

RECENT PAPERS DELIVERED:
“The Classical World in Rodgers and Hart’s The Boys From Syracuse,” Classical Association of the Midddle West and South, April, 2008.
“Leo, Fraenkel, and the Origins of the Plautine Cantica: The State of the Question,” American Philological Association, January, 2008.
“Music in Greek and Roman Mythology,” University of Texas of the Permian Basin, September, 2007.
“Words and Music in Roman Comedy,” Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany, June, 2007.
"Unheard Melodies (Or Maybe Not): Song in Ancient Greece and Rome," Texas A&M University, March, 2007.
“Roman Comedy: Dance Drama,” American Philological Association, January, 2007.
“Social Inversion in Kyôgen Plays and the Western Tradition,” Modern Language Association, December, 2006.
"What did Greek and Roman Singing Sound Like?," Ancient Song in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Ritual, Performance, and History, Emory University, March, 2006.
"Meter, Plot, and Character in Terence's Adelphoe," American Philological Association, January, 2006
"Why Meter Matters: Text and Performance in Roman Comedy," Universities of Groningen and Leyden, The Netherlands, October, 2005.
"Hannibal, Scipio, and Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue," Classical Association of the Netherlands, September, 2005.
"Plautus und Terenz: Römisches Singspiel," Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, July, 2005.
"Terence as Musical Innovator," Terentius Poeta, Freie Universität Berlin, June, 2005.
"Music in Ancient Rome," Stephen F. Austin State University, April, 2005.
"Song in Roman Comedy," The University of Iowa, March, 2005
"Pessuli, heus, pessuli: la porta nel Curculio," Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates 8, Sarsina, Italy, September, 2004.
"Was ist ein plautinisches Canticum? Rudens I 3-5 und IV 2," Seminar für klassische Philologie, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany , July, 2004.
"Music on the Roman Stage," North Texas Classical Association, April, 2004.
"Putting the Gods on Stage: Plautus' Amphitruo in Performance," University of Texas at El Paso, February, 2004, University of Dallas, April, 2004.
"Peeking into the Oikos: Menander and the Male Gaze," American Philological Association, January, 2002.
"Plautus and the City of Rome," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April, 2001.
"Did the Romans Laugh at Themselves? The Case of Plautus," University of Florida, April, 2001.
"When the Music Stops: Isolated Iambic Senarii in Roman Comedy," American Philological Association, January, 2001.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• American Institute of Archaeology
• American Philological Association
• American Classical League
• Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• Alexander von Humboldt Association of America
• MOISA (The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage)
• Texas Classical Association
• Vergilian Society