Lora Holland Goldthwaite, Ph.D.

Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Contact Information

lholland@unca.edu
232-5043
127C Whitesides Hall

Office Hours

Monday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Wednesday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Friday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Note: Or by appointment.

Education

BA in Classics with High Honors, University of Texas at Austin
MA in Classics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ph.D. in Classics at UNC Chapel Hill
Joined the Classics department at UNC Asheville in 2002

Courses Taught

All levels of Latin and Greek
Greek & Roman Religion
various First Year Seminars
Greek & Latin Roots in Medical Terminology
The Etruscans
The Ancient World
The Medieval and Renaissance Worlds

Teaching and Research Interests

Dr. Holland's primary research interest is Roman religion, particularly of the Republic. Additional interests include: Roman mythology; other ancient religions, especially Etruscan and Greek religions; the intersections of Greek and Latin literature and material culture; and the history of women in scholarship on Roman religion. Her teaching interests include a range of topics from Homeric epic to Roman comedy. She has two book projects in progress as well as journal articles and conference papers. In summer 2017, she was a contributor for an exhibition at the Florence Archaeological Museum in Italy on recent finds from Cetamura del Chianti, where she runs the lab for archaeological materials during the summer dig season. Her contributions to the exhibition catalogue include essays on religious ritual at the site, coinage, and lamps, as well as numerous catalogue entries on the hundreds of items on display at the museum through the end of September, 2017. Information about the exhibit can be found on the Facebook page "The Wells at Cetamura." Her new book, co-edited with Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University), is titled At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion: Papers in Memory of Carin M. C. Green (Archeopress), 2018.

Selected Publications

At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture and Religion: Papers in Memory of Carin M. C. Green, Co-editor with Sinclair Bell (Northern Illinois University), Archaeopress (Oxford, England), 2018
Contributor: Wells of Wonders: New Discoveries at Cetamura del Chianti, Nancy de Grummond, ed. (FSU, Director of Excavations, Cetamura del Chianti), Exhibition Catalogue for I Pozzi delle meraviglie: Gli ultimi scoperti a Cetamura del Chianti, Florence Archaeological Museum (June 9-September 30, 2017), Florence, Italy, 2017
“Women and Roman Religion,” in A Companion to Women in the Ancient Mediterranean, S. James and S. Dillon, eds., pp. 104-114, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2012
"Family Nomenclature and Same-Name Divinities in Roman Religion and Mythology" The Classical World 104.2: 211-226, 2011
“Diana Feminarum Tutela? The Case of Noutrix Paperia” in Collection Latomus, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. 14: 95-115, 2008
“Euclio’s Solitary Slave: Staphyla in Plautus’ Aulularia,” New England Classical Journal 35.1: 21-30, 2008
“Last Act in Corinth: The Burial of Medea’s Children (E. Med. 1378-83),” Classical Journal 103.4: 397-420, 2008
"Plutarch’s Aemilius Paullus: The Model of a Philosopher Statesman." In The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives, 269-279. Edited by L. De Blois, et al. Brill: Leiden, 2005
“Pas domos erroi: Myth and Plot in Euripides’ Medea.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 133.2: 255- 279, 2003.