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CLASSICS 2004-05 CALENDAR

September 2004
Wednesday,
September 29
4:30 pm

Lecture
"Changing Shapes: Ovid as Entertainer"
David Raeburn
New College, Oxford

Location: 161 East Pyne

October 2004
Tuesday,
October 12
4:30 pm

Lecture
"What is 'Classical' about Classical Antiquity?"
James I. Porter
University of Michigan
Visiting Professor Princeton University, Fall 2004

Location: 161 East Pyne

Tuesday,
October 19
4:30 pm

Lecture
"'Vast but obedient': Achaemenid Persia and the British Empire"
Tom Harrison
University of Liverpool

Location: 161 East Pyne

November 2004

Thursday,
November 4
4:30 p.m.


Lecture
"Seneca Writes Metaphysics or
Translating Ethics in Letter 58"
Erik Gunderson

Ohio State University

Location: 161 East Pyne

Tuesday,
November 16
12:00
p.m. Noon

Lecture
"Translating Homeric Song"
Rodney Merrill

Location: 161 East Pyne

Wednesday,
November 17
4:30 p.m.

Lecture
"Waiting to be Roman:The rhythms of the nundinae"
James Ker
University of Pennsylvania

Location: 161 East Pyne

December 2004

Sunday,

December 05

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Lecture and Panel Discussion of

Oliver Stone's "Alexander"

"Alexander the Great Between Fact and Fiction"

Robin Lane Fox

Oxford University

Historical Consultant for the Film 'Alexander-Inside Stories'

Panelists:

Miguel Centeno, Princeton University

Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Flower, Princeton University

Location: McCosh 10

 

February 2005
Wednesday 2nd
4:30 pm

Lecture
"Virgil's Sacred Duo: Phaedrus' Speech and Aeneid IX "
Dr. Robert Wardy
The University of Cambridge

Location: 161 East Pyne

Thursday 10th
4:30 pm

 

 

Lecture
"Race, Blood, and Reproduction: Ideologies of Citizenship in Democratic Athens"
Susan Lape
Research Associate, Department of Classics

University of Southern California

Location: 161 East Pyne

Wednesday 16th
4:30 pm

 

 

Lecture
"Falling into Time in the Iliad"
Alex Purves
Assistant Professor of Classics

University of California, Los Angeles

Location: 161 East Pyne

Monday 21st
4:30 pm

 

 

Lecture
"The Afterlife of Wounds in Euripides' Heracles"
Brooke Holmes
Department of Comparative Literature,

Graduate Fellow, Center for Human Values

Princeton University

Location: 161 East Pyne

Tuesday 22nd
5:30 pm

 

 

Lecture

"In Search of the 'Last' of the Phoenicians"
Sharon C. Herbert
University of Michigan

Location: 010 East Pyne

Co-sponsor, The Archaeological Institute of America

Thursday 24th
4:30 pm

 

 

Lecture

"Homer and Beyond: Aristarchus, Alexandrian Scholarship & Plato"
Francesca Schironi
Assistant Professor of the Classics

Harvard University

Location: Moved to 103 Chancellor Green!

March 2005
Thursday 3rd
4:30 pm

Lecture
"From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Politics, and Citizenship in Early Fourth-Century Athens"
Victoria Wohl
Ancient Greek Literary and Cultural History

Ohio State University

Location: Moved to 103 Chancellor Green!

Monday 7th
Noon-1:30 pm

Brown Bag Discussion

"How to Read an Oracle"
Michael Wood ~ Department of Comparative Literature, Prineton University

Michael Flower ~ Department of Classics, Princeton University

Daryn Lahoux ~ Institute for Advanced Study


Location: 161 East Pyne

Thursday 10th
4:30 pm

Lecture

"Poetic Ends: Statius, Silvae 3.2 and 3.5."
Carole Newlands
Professor of Classics

University of Wisconsin

Location: Moved to 103 Chancellor Green!

Co-sponsor, The Program in the Ancient World

Thursday 24th
4:30 pm

Prentice Lecture
"Reading Martial: Epigram, Book and World"
Dr. William Fitzgerald
University Lecturer

University of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius

Location: 106 McCormick Hall

April 2005
Tuesday 19th
4:30 pm

Faber Lecture
"The appearance of democratic ideology in classical Athens"
Robin Osborne
Professor of Ancient History

University of Cambridge, King's College

Location: 101 McCormick Hall

Co-sponsor, The Council of the Humanities

 

Updated July 9, 2007 @ 2 p.m. by Donna