Celia Schultz

Professor of Classical Studies

celiaes@umich.edu

Office Information:

Rm 2155 Angell Hall, 435 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
phone: 734.936.3887

Classical Studies; Classics; Latin; IPGRH

Education/Degree:

1999, PhD (Latin), Bryn Mawr College

About

Celia Schultz received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College. After teaching at Johns Hopkins and Yale, she arrived at the University of Michigan in 2010. Her primary research and teaching interests are Roman religion and the history and literature of the Roman Republic. She is the author of A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I (2014) and Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic (2006). Along with Sara Forsdyke, she edits the monograph series Societas: Historical Studies in Classical Culture for the University of Michigan Press. Professor Schultz is also the co-editor of two volumes: Religion in Republican Italy (2006, Yale Classical Studies 33) with the late Paul B. Harvey, Jr., and The Religious Life of Things (forthcoming 2016, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte) with Ian Moyer. She has held a Rome Prize Fellowship, a Michigan Humanities Award, and a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship. Professor Schultz is currently at work on a study of sacrifice in Roman society.

Books:

Commentary on Cicero's De Divinatione, Book I. University of Michigan Press, 2014.

Religion in Republican Italy, Yale Classical Studies 33, co-edited with Paul B. Harvey Jr. Cambridge University Press, 2006

Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, in the series Studies in Greek and Roman History, University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Select Articles:

"The Romans and Ritual Murder," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78 (2010) 1-26.

"Sanctissima femina: Social Categorization in Women’s Religious Experience in the Roman Republic," in Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by M. Parca and A. Tzanetou, in the series Studies in Popular Culture and Folklore, Indiana University Press, 2007, p. 137-68. Also in German as "Sanctissima femina: Gesellschaftliche Klassifizierung und religiöse Praxis von Frauen in der Römischen Republik," in Gruppenreligionen in römischen Reich, edited by J. Rüpke, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 43, 7-29. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007.

"Juno Sospita and Roman Insecurity in the Social War," in Religion in Republican Italy, Yale Classical Studies 33, 207-27. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

"Latet Anguis in Herba: A Reading of Vergil's Third Eclogue," American Journal of Philology 124 (2003): 199-224.

"Italy and the Greek East, 2nd century," to appear in the forthcoming Blackwell's Companion to Roman Italy, edited by A.E. Cooley.

Field(s) of Study

Roman history, Roman religion, Latin literature

About

Books:

Commentary on Cicero's De Divinatione, Book I. University of Michigan Press, 2014.

Religion in Republican Italy, Yale Classical Studies 33, co-edited with Paul B. Harvey Jr. Cambridge University Press, 2006

Women’s Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, in the series Studies in Greek and Roman History, University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Select Articles:

"The Romans and Ritual Murder," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78 (2010) 1-26.

"Juno Sospita and Roman Insecurity in the Social War," in Religion in Republican Italy, Yale Classical Studies 33, 207-27. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

"Latet Anguis in Herba: A Reading of Vergil's Third Eclogue," American Journal of Philology 124 (2003): 199-224.

"Italy and the Greek East, 2nd century," to appear in the forthcoming Blackwell's Companion to Roman Italy, edited by A.E. Cooley.

Field(s) of Study

Roman history, Roman religion, Latin literature

Highlighted Work and Publications

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A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I

Celia E. Schultz

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I, is the first English-language commentary on the Latin text of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s dialogue in almost one hundred years. The defense of divination (the science of predicting the future) offered in Book 1 is illustrated with many entertaining anecdotes that make the argument more accessible to a wider range of readers than many of Cicero’s other philosophical works. De Divinatione also preserves many fragments of otherwise lost masterpieces of Roman Republican literature. It is a text important for the study of Roman religion, as well as Roman political and intellectual history. This commentary aims to assist the reader in seeing De Divinatione as a cohesive whole, and to make it accessible—not only to classicists, but also to scholars of religion and to philosophers who may not be familiar with the historical and Roman intellectual background that are the focus here. The cases made for and against divination in De Divinatione closely follow arguments made by Greek philosophers, but many of the examples illustrating them reflect Cicero’s preferences in literature, his own poetic efforts and political experience, and his expertise as an augur. The result is a very personal work closely tied to Cicero’s own experience.

Tags: Latin, Classical Studies