James P. Holoka

Directory of American Scholars9 1.269-270


Foreign Language Department
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734) 487-2283
E-mail: james@holoka.com

Special Fields:

Greek and Roman epic, lyric, and satire
Ancient history; women in antiquity
Greek and Roman military history
Comparative literature and literary theory

Education:

B.A. with high distinction in Classics, The University of Rochester, 1969
M.A. in Comparative Literature, SUNY-Binghamton, 1972
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan, 1974

Employment and Teaching Experience:

1969-72: Teaching assistant/fellow at SUNY-Binghamton and University of Michigan
1974-76: Lecturer in humanities and foreign languages at Eastern Michigan University
1976-81: Assistant Professor, foreign languages
1981-86: Associate Professor, foreign languages
1986-91: Professor, foreign languages
1991-2000: Professor, foreign languages and history
2000 (spring-summer): Acting Department Head, foreign languages
2000- : Professor, foreign languages and history

Awards, Honors, etc.:

Rackham Prize Fellowship, University of Michigan (1973-74);
International Society for Homeric Studies Scholarship (1973);
NEH Summer Stipend (1976) — Homer bibliography, see item 17 below;
Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Commitment to Students (1980);
Sabbatical Leave (1983) — Catullus bibliography, see item 2;
Spring-Summer Research Award (1984) — Nonverbal communication in Homer, see items 23-25;
Faculty Research Fellowship (1987) — Classical studies handbook;
Spring-Summer Research Award (1988) — Homer bibliography, see items 28-29;
Spring-Summer Research Award (1989, declined) — see item 4;
Sabbatical Leave (1989) — Simone Weil study, see items 7, 27, 38;
Scholarly Recognition Award (1991) — for item 4;
Spring-Summer Research Award (1994) — Latacz translation, see item 6;
Spring-Summer Research Award (1996) — Petronius project, see items 79, 82;
Spring-Summer Research Award (1998) — Battle of Marathon project, see item 35;
Graduate School Research Support Fund Award (2002) — Simone Weil edition, see item 7.


Bibliography

Dissertation

1. "Homer and Modern Literary Critical Discourse." Diss. Michigan 1974. Summary in DAI 35 (1974) 2963A.

Books

2. Gaius Valerius Catullus: A Systematic Bibliography. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1985.

3. [Co-author, with R. Goff et al.] A Survey of Western Civilization. 1987. 2nd ed.: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Also Instructor's Manual for A Survey of Western Civilization. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1987; and Student's Guide and Workbook for A Survey of Western Civilization. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1987.
4. [Co-author, with J-H. Upshur et al.] World History. 1991. 2nd ed. 1995. 3rd 1999. 4th Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2002/compact 4th 2005. Also Instructor's Manual for World History. 1991. 2nd ed. 1995. 3rd Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 1999; and Student's Guide for World History. 1991. 2nd ed. 1995. 3rd Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 1999.
5. [Co-author, with J-H. Upshur.] Lives and Times: A World History Reader. 2 vols. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 1995.
6. [Translator.] Joachim Latacz. Homer: His Art and His World. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996. [Orig.: Homer: der erste Dichter des Abendlands. 2nd ed. Munich/Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1989.] Reviews: <1> <2>.
7. Simone Weil's The Iliad or the Poem of Force: A Critical Edition.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003. Reviews: <1> <2a> <2b> <3> <4> <5>.

Articles

8. "Oral Poetry and the Question of Critical Procedure." Rackham Literary Studies 3 (1972) 1-8. Rpt. in The Communications of the International Homeric Symposium. Athens, 1973.

9. "Homeric Originality: A Survey." Classical World 66 (1973) 257-293. Rpt. in The Classical World Bibliography of Greek Drama and Poetry. Ed. W. Donlan. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1978. Pp. 37-75.

10. "Self-Delusion in Catullus 83 and 92." Classical World 69 (1975) 119-120.

11. "Horace Carm. 3.4: The Place of the Poet." Classical Bulletin 52 (1976) 41-46.

12. "The Oral Formula and Anglo-Saxon Elegy: Some Misgivings." Neophilologus 60 (1976) 570-576.

13. "'Thick as Autumnal Leaves'—The Structure and Generic Potentials of an Epic Simile." Milton Quarterly 10 (1976) 78-83.

14. "Purgatorio 9.19-39: Syncretism in the Dream Sequence." Classical Folia 30 (1976) 203-208.

15. "A Neoplatonic Simile in Vida's Christiad (4.10-15)." Romance Notes 18 (1977) 243-246.

16. "Lover and Beloved in La Vita Nuova 3 and Purgatorio 9." Classical Folia 32 (1978) 93-98.

17. "Homer Studies 1971-1977." Classical World 73 (1979) 65-150.

18. "A Chariot Scene from Mycenae." Kadmos 19 (1980) 38-40.

19. "Iliad 13.202-5: *AI)/AS SFAIRISTH/S." American Journal of Philology 102 (1981) 351-352. <link>

20. "Rome and America: A Course Description." Classical Journal 77 (1982) 343-348. <link>.

21. "Aldous Huxley and the Lotus Experience." Classical World 76 (1982) 39-41.

22. "On an Allusion to Pindar in Walter Pater's Plato and Platonism." Notes & Queries 228 (1983) 311-312.

23. "'Looking Darkly' (U(PO/DRA I)DW/N): Reflections on Status and Decorum in Homer." Transactions of the American Philological Association 113 (1983) 1-16. <link>

24. "The Point of the Simile in Aeschylus Agamemnon 241." Classical Philology 80 (1985) 228-229. <link>

25. "Lying to Laertes, a Gorgeous Triumph—Homer and Twain." Classical and Modern Literature 5 (1985) 301-304.

26. "Sallust." In Great Lives from History: Ancient and Medieval Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1988. Pp. 1845-1850.

27. "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" [Simone Weil]. In Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. 1989. Pp. 684-688.

28. "Homer Studies 1978-1983." Part I. Classical World 83 (1990) 393-461.

29. "Homer Studies 1978-1983." Part II. Classical World 84 (1990) 89-156.

30. "Homer, Oral Poetry Theory, and Comparative Literature: Major Trends and Controversies in Twentieth-Century Criticism." In Zweihundert Jahre Homer-Forschung: Rückblick und Ausblick. Ed. Joachim Latacz. Stuttgart/Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1991. Pp. 456-481.

31. "Nonverbal Communication in the Classics: Research Opportunities." In Advances in Nonverbal Communication: Sociocultural, Clinical, Esthetic and Literary Perspectives. Ed. F. Poyatos. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992. Pp. 237-254.

32. [Co-author, with D. Briggs.] "The Staged Interview as a Successful Teaching Tool." Issues & Inquiry 16.1 (1992) 16-31.

33. [Translator.] Joachim Latacz. "The New Ameis-Hentze: A Project Outline and Report on the Current Stage of Development." [Orig.: "Der Neue Ameis-Hentze. Projektskizze und erreichter Arbeitsstand."] Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998) 82-97. <link>

34. "Heroes Cunctantes / Hesitant Heroes: Aeneas and Some Others." In Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Epic and Its Legacy in Honor of Dimitris N. Maronitis. Ed. J.N. Kazazis and A. Rengakos. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 143-153.

35. "Marathon and the Myth of the Same-Day March." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 38 (1997[2000]) 329-353. <link>

36. "Aelius Aristides," "Aristagoras," "Aristarchus," "Aristophanes of Byzantium," "Herodes Atticus," "Miltiades," "Pliny the Younger," "Sallust," "Xenophanes of Colophon," "Zenodotus."  In From Polis to Empire—The Ancient World, c. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. A.G. Traver. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. 45-47, 51, 188, 255-256, 307, 339-340, 400-401, 405-406.

37. "Maecenas," "Symmachus." In The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Ed. T.J. Sienkewicz. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2002. Pp. 750, 1052.

38. "Homer and Simone Weil: The Iliad sub specie violentiae." In Epea pteroenta, Beiträge zur Homerforschung: Festschrift für Wolfgang Kullmann zum 75. Geburtstag. Ed. M. Reichel and A. Rengakos. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 63-75.

39. "Battle of Marathon." In Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory–476 c.e. Ed. Mark W. Chavalas. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004. Pp. 428-430.

40. "Troy and the Trojan War: A Select, Annotated Bibliography." Michigan War Studies Review 2005.04.02. <link>

Reviews, etc.

41. Review of A Bibliography of Studies Relating to Parry's and Lord's Oral Theory, by Edward R. Haymes. Classical World 68 (1975) 385-386.

42. Review of Die Dolonie, by Friedrich Eichhorn. Classical World 69 (1975) 72-73.

43. Review of Spontaneity and Tradition: A Study in the Oral Art of Homer, by Michael N. Nagler. Classical Folia 30 (1976) 209-211.

44. Review of Göttliche Komödie und Exegese, by Manfred Bambeck. Romanic Review 70 (1979) 409-410.

45. Review of Tension in Boccaccio: Boccaccio and the Fine Arts, by Patricia M. Gathercole. Romanic Review 71 (1980) 100-101.

46. Review of Gründungsmythen und Sagenchronologie, by Friedrich Prinz. American Historical Review 85 (1980) 1174-1175. <link>

47. Review of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, by Gregory Nagy. Classical Bulletin 58 (1982) 70-71.

48. Review of Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and the "New Orthodoxy": How "Oral" is Homer? by D. Gary Miller. Classical World 77 (1983) 56-57.

49. Review of Pope's Iliad: Homer in the Age of Passion, by Steven Shankman. Classical World 77 (1984) 315.

50. Review of Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad, by W. Thomas MacCary. Classical World 78 (1984) 49-50.

51. Review of Telling Classical Tales: Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women, by Lisa J. Kiser. Classical and Modern Literature 5 (1984) 47-50.

52. Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, I: Books 1-4, by G.S. Kirk. Classical World 80 (1987) 221-222.

53. Review of Le Soleil et le Tartare: L'image mythique du monde en Grèce archaïque, by Alain Ballabriga. American Historical Review 93 (1988) 124-125. <link>

54. Review of Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition: The Simile, by Stephen A. Nimis. Journal of Narrative Technique 19 (1989) 252-253.

55. Review of The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa, by David F. Bright. Classical World 83 (1989) 119.

56. Review of J.G. Frazer: His Life and Work, by Robert Ackerman. Classical World 83 (1990) 527-528.

57. Review of Epos: Word, Narrative and the Iliad, by Michael Lynn-George. Classical Journal 86 (1990) 81-82.

58. Review of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid, by James J. O'Hara. Classical World 85 (1991) 128.

59. Review of Herodoti Vita Homeri, by Effie N. Coughanowr (ed., tr.). Classical World 85 (1992) 244.

60. Review of The Oral Style, by Marcel Jousse. Classical World 86 (1992) 58-59.

61. Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, V: Books 17-20, by M.W. Edwards. Classical World 86 (1992) 177-178.

62. Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, IV: Books 13-16, by Richard Janko. Classical World 87 (1994) 501-502.

63. Review of Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey, by Charles Segal. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6 (1995) 332-336. <link>

64. Review of Roman Literature and Ideology: Ramus Essays for J.P. Sullivan, ed. A.J. Boyle. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6 (1995) 670-675. <link>

65. Review of Law, Politics and Power: Sallust and the Execution of the Catilinarian Conspirators, by Andrew Drummond. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7 (1996) 187-189. <link>

66. Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, III: Books 9-12, by Bryan Hainsworth. Classical World 89 (1996) 411.

67. Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, VI: Books 21-24, by Nicholas Richardson. Classical World 89 (1996) 411-412.

68. Review of Altertumswissenschaft in den 20er Jahren: Neue Fragen und Impulse, ed. Hellmut Flashar. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7 (1996) 504-511. <link>

69. Review of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, by Nancy Felson-Rubin. Classical World 90 (1996) 62-63.

70. Review of [Plutarch]: Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer, ed. J.J. Keaney and Robert Lamberton. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 38-39. <link>

71. Response: "Holoka on Cook on Latacz." Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 286-288. <link>

72. Review of The Triumph of Odysseus: Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course, by J.A.C.T. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 634-635. <link>

73. Review of Hesiod's Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences, by David W. Tandy and Walter C. Neale. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 683-687. <link>

74. Review of The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey, ed. Beth Cohen. Classical World 90 (1997) 448-449.

75. Review of Heroes' Names, Homeric Identities, by Carolyn Higbie. Classical World 90 (1997) 449-450.

76. Review of Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, by Donald Lateiner. Classical World 90 (1997) 450-451.

77. Review of Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod, by Charles Penglase. Classical World 90 (1997) 451-452.

78. Review of The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad, by Graham Zanker. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998) 494-498. <link>

79. Review of Theatrum Arbitri: Theatrical Elements in The Satyrica of Petronius, by Costas Panayotakis. Classical World 92 (1998) 64.

80. Review of Out of Rome: Augusta Raurica/Aquincum: Das Leben in zwei römischen Provinzstädten, ed. Alex R. Furger and Paula Zsidi. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998) 728-730. <link>

81. Review of The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, by Kevin Crotty. Classical World 92 (1999) 299.

82. Review of The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius’ Satyricon, by Gian Biagio Conte. Classical Outlook 76 (1999) 80-81.

83. Review of Einleitung in die griechische Philologie, ed. Heinz-Günther Nesselrath. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.04.01. <link>

84. Review of Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia, by M.D. Usher. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.09.08. <link>

85. Review of De Imperatoribus Romanis, ed. Richard D. Weigel et al. Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review (21 Jan 2000). <link>

86. Review of "The Wilamowitz in Me": 100 Letters between Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Paul Friedländer (1904-1931), ed. William M. Calder and Bernhard Huss. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.02.16. <link>

87. Review of The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius, by Debra Hershkowitz. Classical Outlook 77 (2000) 123.

88. Review of Res Gestae Divi Augusti, ed. Rex E. Wallace. Scholia Reviews 9 (2000) 54. <link>

89. Review of Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception, and Text in the Satyrica of Petronius, by John M. McMahon. Classical World 94 (2001) 204-205.

90. Review of A Commentary on Herodotus Book VI, by E.I. McQueen.  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.08.06. <link>

91. Review of Ad Arma! Römisches Militär des 1. Jahrhunderts n.Chr. in Augusta Raurica, by Eckhard Deschler-Erb. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.01.15. <link>

92. Review of Einführung in das Studium der Gräzistik, by Peter Riemer et al. Scholia Reviews 11 (2002) 15. <link>

93. Review of Secret of the Muses Retold: Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century, by John T. Kirby. Scholia Reviews 11 (2002) 25. <link>

94. Review of Gesammelte Schriften I: Zum frühgriechischen Epos, by Ernst Heitsch. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.10.25. <link>

95. Review of Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece, ed. Ian Worthington and John Miles Foley. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.03.09. <link>

96. Review of The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison, by Annabel Robinson. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.14. <link>

97. Review of Die athenische Demokratie, by Angela Pabst. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.25. <link>

98. Review of Homer und seine Zeit, by Barbara Patzek. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.50. <link>

99. Review of Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience, by Ruth Scodel. Choice (Oct 2003). <link>

100. Review of A Companion to Homer's Odyssey, by James Morrison. Choice (Dec 2003). <link>

101. Review of A Commentary on Horace's Epodes, by Lindsay C. Watson. Choice (Sep 2004). <link>

102. Review of Homer: The Odyssey, trans. Edward McCrorie. Choice (Nov 2004). <link>

103. Review of A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Book III, by R.G.M. Nisbet and Niall Rudd. Choice (Feb 2005). <link>

104. Review of Homeric Megathemes: War—Homilia—Homecoming, by D.N. Maronitis. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.10. <link>

105. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Homer, ed. Robert Fowler. Choice (May 2005). <link>

106. Review of Greek Grammar on the Web, by Mark Huys. Choice (Suppl. 2005 & Suppl. 2006). <link>

107. Review of The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan. Michigan War Studies Review 2005.06.01. <link>

108. Review of Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians, by Peter Hunt. Michigan War Studies Review 2005.09.01. <link>

109. Review of Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery, by Joachim Latacz. New England Classical Journal 32.4 (Nov 2005) 349-351. <link>

110. Review of Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer's Odyssey, by Richard Heitman. Choice (Dec 2005). <link>

111. Review of Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader, by Perez Zagorin. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.53. <link>

112. Review of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, by Victor D. Hanson. Michigan War Studies Review 2006.05.01. <link>

113. Review of Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace's Satires, Book 1, by Catherine M. Schlegel. Choice (Sep 2006). <link>

114. Review of The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning, by Bruce Louden. Choice (Nov 2006). <link>

115. Review of Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca, by Robert Bittlestone. New England Classical Journal 33.4 (Nov 2006). <link>

116. Review of The Tomb of Agamemnon, by Cathy Gere. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.12.22. <link>

117. Review of Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction, by Harry Sidebottom. Michigan War Studies Review 2007.03.01. <link>

118. Review of A Companion to Catullus, ed. Marilyn B. Skinner. Choice (Jan 2008). <link>

119. Review of Homer: The Iliad, tr. Rodney Merrill. Choice (Jul 2008). <link>.

Webliography

1. Classical Studies, Eastern Michigan University.

2. Michigan War Studies Group.

2. Michigan War Studies Review.


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