User:Nefasdicere

Nefasdicere, when not otherwise busy, is a Romanist, which is to say that he studies Greek and Roman material and literary culture. (That might be the definition of a Classicist, but most of those are really Philologists, no, actually, most of those do some form of Comparative Literature.) It is his opinion that all languages are sign systems that are inseparable from the spatial and material systems within which they operate or operated. But this is all academic.

Professional interests
Post-Augustan Latin Poetry (especially the Satires of Juvenal)

Indo-European Linguistics (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit)

Photography and digital imaging manipulation (Photoshop)

3D reconstruction and animation (3Dsmax/AutoCAD)

Field Archaeology (Greek and Roman)

Numismatics (especially late 1st BCE to 2nd CE Roman coinage)

Personal interests
Road and Mountain Biking

Hiking

Photography

Film

Geology

Skiing (X-country, downhill, and water)

Rollerblading

Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Ph.D.in Classical Studies, M.A. in Classical Archaeology

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: M.A. Comparative Literature - Latin and Greek Emphasis

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: B.A. Classical Studies; B.A. Psychology

Professional experience
Samothrace Excavations 2007, 2008, 2009

ASCSA: Corinth Excavations 2007

American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA): Regular Member 2006-2007

Pompeii Archaeological Regional Survey: Porta Stabia (PARP:PS): Staff 2006

Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) Antioch of Pisidia Exhibition Group 2004-2006

American Numismatic Society (ANS): Summer Seminar 2004

Athenian Agora Excavations: Assistant Trench Leader seasons 2001-2002

Athenian Agora Excavations: Excavation Volunteer seasons 1999-2000

American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA): Summer Session Member 1998

Travel outside of North America
2009 - Paris, Amiens, Lyon, Vienne, Martigny, Alps, Nice, Cinque Terre, Firenze, Pompeii, Positano, Amalfi, Sorrento, Minori, Roma, Samothrace, Athens

2008 - Cosa, Pisa, Regio di Calabria, Sicily, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, Roma, Athens, Samothrace

2007 - Athens, sites in Attika, Aegina, Euboia, Madrid, Merida, Sevilla, Italica, Cadiz, Cartagena, Seguntum, Tarragona, Barcelona, Empuries, Pompeii, Terracina, Roma, Firenze, Venezia, Arezzo, Verona

2006 - Roma, Pompeii, Capua, Amalfi, Capri, Perugia, Firenze, Sienna, Ravenna, Verona, Milano, Aosta, Genua, Nice, Nimes, Arles, Orange, Lyon, Basel, Augst (Augusta Raurica), Berlin, Munchen, Neuschwanstein, Wien, Carnuntum, Innsbruck, Benevento, Bari, Igomenitsa, Ioannina, Mt. Olympus, Thera, Delos, Athens, everywhere in the Greek mainland, Crete, Thasos, Samothrace

2005 - London, Dover, Calais, Lille, Paris, Chartres, Versailles, Berlin, Roma, Tarquinia, Chiusi, Sperlonga, Napoli, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia, Boscoreale, Oplontis, Sorrento

2004 - Istanbul, Ankara, Pessinus, Gordium, Antioch of Pisidia, Sagalassos, Side, Perge, Aspendos, Antalya, Aphrodisias, Hieropolis, Magnesia on the Meander, Ephesus, Izmir (Smyrna), Pergamon, Paris, Venezia, Firenze, Pisa, Roma, Napoli, Baiai, Pozzuoli, Misenum, Pompeii, Sorrento, Tivoli, Ostia Antica, London

2002 - Rhodos, Kos, Samos, Athens, Olympia, Mycenae, Tyrins, Epidauros, Argos, Nauplion, Aigosthena, Delphi, Corycian Cave, Meteora, Eleusis, Roma, Praeneste, Benevento, Cerveteri, Ostia Antica

2001 - London, Paris, Venezia, Firenze, Roma, Corfu, Dodona, Athens, Naxos etc.

2000 - Paris, Nimes, Arles, Roma, Pompeii, Athens etc., Istanbul, Pergamon, Ephesus, Samos

1999 - Athens and several sites in Greece, Mt. Olympus, Delos

1998 - Paris, Athens and many sites in Greece, Mt. Olympus, Crete, Thera, Bari, Pompeii, Roma, Ostia Antica

Articles created

 * Heraion of Perachora The sanctuary of Hera on the Corinthian gulf.
 * Amphiareion of Oropos Sanctuary of the Hero Amphiaraos.
 * Hexamilion wall Defensive wall built across the Isthmus of Corinth in the 5th century CE.
 * Crepidoma The platform of a Greek temple.
 * Orthostates Upright stones taller then they are deep.

Articles extensively edited

 * Lycosura The sanctuary of Despoina in Arkadia.
 * Arch of Hadrian Monumental arch in Athens dedicated to the emperor Hadrian.
 * Arch and Tomb of Galerius Monumental arch in Thessalonika dedicated to the tetrarch Galerius.
 * Temple of Aphaea On the island Aigina - sculptures in München.
 * Aigosthena Ancient fortified port in eastern Attica.
 * Rhamnous Ancient fortified deme site in northern Attica.
 * Juvenal Roman poet of the late 1st and early 2nd CE.
 * Satires of Juvenal
 * Satire VI
 * Gyaros The Cycladic island used during the Roman empire as a place of exile.

In progress

 * Hmmm

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