Rachel Birnbaum, Prof.
Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Classics


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Date and place of birth: 26/9/1941, USSR
Date of arrival in Israel: 1949 (from France)
Zahal (Israeli) Military Service: 1960 - 1962
Marital Status: married
No.of children: three adult daughters

A) EDUCATION

1962 - 1966, Tel-Aviv University, Classical Studies and English Literature, B.A

1967 - 1969, Tel-Aviv University, Classical Studies, M.A.

1973 - 1980, Tel-Aviv University, Classical Studies, Ph.D.

Title of Master's thesis: Ovid and Seneca in Exile - A Comparative Study
Name of supervisor: Prof. Marc Rozelaar

Title of doctoral dissertation: The Concept BONUS in Cicero's Works
Name of supervisor: Prof. Marc Rozerlaar

B) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITY

- Honorary Secretary, Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies 1985 - 1987
- Advisor to Students, The Department of Classical Studies 1985 - 1991

C) ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

1984, May 17 The Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies (The topic of my lecture: Some Problems in
Translating Catullus)

1970, January 13 A Meeting Commemorating the late Shlomo Span (The topic of my lecture:The Concept of Fate in Ovid's Exile Poems)

1982, March The Departmental Seminary of the Department of Classical Studies [The topic of my lecture: The Concept bonus in Cicero's Works (a representation of my doctoral dissertation)]

1996, June 10 The Departmental Seminary of The Department of Classical Studies[The topic of my lecture: Horace, Odes , IV 8 (Donarem pateras)]

Major publications (books and major articles):


-translation of Catullus (jointly with David Weissert; the whole corpus,
from Latin into Hebrew in the original meters, including an introduction,
notes and indices), Mosad Bialik, Jerusalem 1987

-translation of Horace's four books of Odes (from Latin into Hebrew in the
original meters, including an introduction, notes and indices), Mosad
Bialik, Jerusalem 1998

-Rahel Birnbaum and Asher Ovadia, "A Greek Inscription from the Early
Byzantine Church at Apollonia", Israel Exploration Journal, vol. 40. Nos.
2 - 3, Jerusalem, 1990, p. 182 - 191.


Teaches in the following subject areas:


A General Description
Teaching Roman Literature (in Latin and in translation) as well as the
Latin language in Tel-Aviv University, the Department of Classical Studies.
A representative list of my courses (lectures, proseminars, seminars)
dealing with these subjects is as follows:
a) Latin for Beginners
b) Latin for Advanced Students
c) Latin Syntax
d) Roman Prosody
e) Roman Poetry
f) Roman Oratory
g) Roman Historiography
h) Roman Philosophy
i) Greek Tragedy

specific authors
1) Caesar
2) Cicero
3) Livy
4) Sallust
5) Tacitus
6) Lucretius
7) Virgil
8) Horace
9) Ovid
10) Propertius
11) Tibullus
12)Seneca
13) Sophocles

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


a) Latin for Beginners
b) Latin for Advanced Students
c) Roman Poetry
d) Latin Syntax

Areas of current research interest:


Roman poetry, preoccupied especially with translating Juvenal's satires in the original metre.

Additional points of contact:


university: 03-6407914, 03-6409779, 03-6407282
home: 03-5506840 fax:03-5507713
E-Mail: brachel@post.tau.ac.il