Judy Stove

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Sydney 1988 (Latin, Classical Greek)

· Honours Thesis: “A Glimpse of Roman Sicily” – used epigraphic and archaeological evidence to sketch a social snapshot of Sicily in the first three centuries of the Empire.

As a graduate, I worked in the Australian Commonwealth Department of Defence and Department of Finance. I then took time to be a full-time mother, before returning to the workforce in an administrative role in a small NSW public primary school.

Current Research:

The Restraint Project

Recent Articles:

“Virtue to Grace: Self-Control in the Roman World.” Classicum vol XXXIII.2, October 2007, 5-18.

“Nothing too Much: Self-Control from Homer to Aristotle.” Classicum vol XXXII.2, October 2006, 19-31.

“Instruction With Amusement: Jane Austen’s Women of Sense.” Renascence Vol. LX, No. 1, Fall 2007, 3-16.

Conference Papers:

“The Dragged-Around Slave or the Leaky Jar: Akrasia in the Protagoras, and Akolasia in the Gorgias.” Presented to the Australasian Society for Classical Studies 29^th Conference January 2008.

“A Case of Life and Death: Crime and Self-Control in Gin Lane.” Presented to Australian Temperance: A Miniconference of the Restraint Project, 6 December 2008.

“From Moral to Medical: the Retreat of Self-Control in the Twentieth Century.” Presented to Teaching Temperance seminar, Warrane College, University of NSW, 2 May 2009.

Other Stuff: I am an active member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia and have a particular interest in eighteenth-century literature. I also enjoy being outdoors and watching my kids play sport.