Celia E. Schultz
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Her main research interests are Roman religion, Latin literature, and Roman history. She is the author of Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic (UNC Press 2006) and the co-editor of Religion in Republican Italy, a volume of Yale Classical Studies (2006). She has also published articles on the Roman cults of Hercules, Vesta, Venus, and Juno Sospita, as well as on Vergil's third Eclogue. She is currently working on a study of Cicero's De Divinatione.
Among the courses she offers are Livy's first pentad, Sallust, Vergil, Lucretius, Cicero’s Philosophical and Religious Treatises, Prophecy and Divination in the Ancient World, the History of Rome, and the History of Latin Literature.
Selected Recent Publications
- Commentary on Cicero's De Divinatione, Book I, in process.
- "Roman Religion," for the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions, edited by Barbette Spaeth, in process.
- "Italy and the Greek East, 2nd century," for the Blackwell's Companion to Roman Italy, edited by A. E. Cooley, in process.
- "The Romans and Ritual Murder," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, forthcoming September 2009 (estimated).
- Co-editor with Paul B. Harvey, jr. of Religion in Republican Italy, Yale Classical Studies 33, Cambridge University Press, 2006, and author of the article "Juno Sospita and Roman Insecurity in the Social War," p. 207-27.
- Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, in the series Studies in Greek and Roman History, University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
