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Dr. John F. Petruccione

Detail of the Roman theatre at Augusta Emerita (modern Merida), Spain  

John F. Petruccione (email; BA, Dartmouth, Classics, 1972; MA, Oxford, Theology, 1974; PhD, Michigan, Classical Studies, 1985), associate professor, is the founding editor and editorial director of the Library of Early Christianity (LEC), a series of scholarly editions of early Christian texts with facing-page English translations. His publications include articles on the martyr hymns of Prudentius in Analecta Bollandiana, Etudes Augustiniennes, Sacris Erudiri and Vigiliae Christianae. He was also the editor of Nova et Vetera: Patristic Studies in Honor Of Thomas Patrick Halton (CUA Press, 1998).  Most recently, in collaboration with R. C. Hill, he has published an editio minor with translation and notes of Theodoret of Cyrrus, The Questions on the Octateuch, volumes 1f. of the LEC (CUA Press, 2007). Dr. Petruccione is currently editing several traditions of the medieval glosses on Prudentius' Peristephanon and, with Prof. T. P. Halton, the correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrrus. His recent article "The q:, quare hoc, and ad quid Glosses: Observations on Their Purpose and Distribution" appears in Scriptorium (2008).  He has been the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Post-Classical Humanities at the American Academy in Rome (1990-91), a Margo Tytus Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati (fall 2003), a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Rome (2007-08), and a Scaliger Fellowship at the Universiteitsbibliothek of the University of Leiden (June, 2008).  During the fall semester of 2011, he was supported on research leave by a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation for work an edition of the Greek text of the letters of Theodoret of Cyrrus.  A member of the CUA faculty since 1985, he has taught courses in both languages at all levels, as well as courses in Greek and Latin classical and patristic literature and in medieval Latin literature.

courses taught and upcoming

Spring 2013
  • LAT 104, Intermediate Latin II
  • LAT 553, Roman Oratory

Sample past courses

  • GR 511, Greek Prose Composition
  • GR 565, Theodoret of Cyrrus
  • GR 576, Greek Philosophical Works
  • LAT 104, Intermediate Latin II
  • LAT 511, Latin Prose Composition
  • LAT 520, Roman Drama
  • LAT 529, Roman Elegy: Ovid's Fasti
  • LAT 530, Ovid
  • LAT 566, Introduction to Hagiographical Literature
  • LAT 576, Roman Philosophical Works
  • LAT 642, Medieval Latin Seminar
  • LAT 655, Survey of Roman Literature
  • LAT 705, Patristic Seminar