T. Keith Dix
Associate Professor of Classics
239 Park Hall
Phone: 706 542-2195
FAX: 706 542-8503
E-Mail: tkdix@uga.edu
Special Interests
Ancient Libraries
Field Archaeology
Augustan Poetry
Topography
Cicero
Intellectual and Social History
Academic History
Ph.D. 1986 University of Michigan, Classical Studies
A.M. 1981 University of Michigan, Classical Studies
A.M. 1978 University of Michigan, Classical Art and Archaeology
A.B. 1976 Princeton University, Classics with High Honors
Doctoral Dissertation:
"Private and Public Libraries at Rome in the First Century B.C."
Books and Edited Volumes
Co-editor, The Beginning of Understanding: Writing in the Ancient World.
Exhibition catalogue, Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Mediaeval Archaeology,
University of Michigan, 1991. 158 pages. (An excerpt from the catalog can
be seen at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/rule.html.)
Articles
"Prometheus and the Basileia in Aristophanes’ Birds," with Carl
Anderson, CJ 102 (2007), 321-7
"Public libraries in the city of Rome from the Augustan age to the time
of Diocletian," with George W. Houston, MEFRA 118 (2006), 671-717
"Library at Alexandria," in History in Dispute. Volume 20: Classical
Antiquity and Classical Studies, edited by Paul Allen Miller and Charles
Platter (Detroit 2005), 138-144
"Small States in the Athenian Empire: the Case of the Eteokarpathioi,"
with Carl Anderson, Syllecta Classica 15 (2004), 1-32
"Aristotle's 'Peripatetic' Library," in Lost Libraries: The
Destruction of Great Book Collections since Antiquity, edited by James
Raven (New York 2004), 58-74
"Alexandrian Library," in Thomas J. Sienkewicz, ed., Encyclopedia
of the Ancient World (2002), 230
"The Library of Lucullus," Athenaeum 88 (2000), 441-464
"Politics and State Religion in the Delian League: Athena and Apollo
in the Eteocarpathian Decree," with Carl Anderson, Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 117 (1997), 129-132
"A Latin Inscription in Greek Characters and 'Bilingualism' in the
Roman Empire," Preatti of XI International Congress of Greek and Latin
Epigraphy (Rome 1997), 781-786
"Pliny's Library at Comum," in Libraries and Philanthropy:
Library History Seminar IX, edited by Donald G. Davis, Jr. (Austin 1996),
85-102 (reprinted from Libraries and Culture 31 [1996])
"Libraries in Roman Baths?," with George Houston, Balnearia
(Newsletter of the International Association for the Study of Ancient Baths)
4.1 (1996), 2-4
"Vergil in the Grynean Grove: Two Riddles in the Third Eclogue,"
Classical Philology 90 (1995), 256- 262
"'Public Libraries' at Rome: Ideology and Reality," Libraries
and Culture 29.3 (1994), 282-296
"Books and Bookmaking," in Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan,
eds., The Oxford Companion to the Bible (1993), 93-95
"Ovid Strikes Out: Tristia 3.1 and the First Public Libraries at Rome,"
The Augustan Age 7 (1988), 27-35
Reviews
Alison Cooley (ed.), The Afterlife of Inscriptions and The
Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy, in American Journal of Archaeology
107 (2003), 134-136
Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World, in Journal
of Roman Archaeology 15 (2002), 469-478
Fabrizio Fabbrini (ed.), Maecenas. Il collezionismo nel mondo romano
dall' età degli Scipioni a Cicerone, in BMCR 2002.03.20
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Vergil's Aeneid, 10 & 12: Pallas & Turnus,
in Classical Outlook 77 (2000), 130- 131
Kevin Robb, Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece, in Classical
Outlook 74 (1997), 79
Other Professional Experience
Epigrapher, University of Georgia Excavations of the Yasmina Necropolis,
Carthage, Tunisia, 1993-
Co-Curator, "The Beginning of Understanding: Writing in the Ancient
World," Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Mediaeval Archaeology, University
of Michigan, September 1991-February 1993
Assistant director, University of Georgia Excavations of the Roman Circus,
Carthage, Tunisia, 1987-90
Square supervisor, University of Michigan-University of Missouri Excavations
at Tel Anafa, Israel, 1979
Registrar and assistant square supervisor, University of Michigan Excavations
at Carthage, Tunisia, 1977