Prentice Lecture
"Hippocratics, Galen, and Pseudo-Galen: When does the fetus become a living being in spe ?"

Ann Hanson
Yale University

Location: 010 East Pyne

University Center for Human Values
"Productive Democracy: Openness, fairness, and the organization of knowledge in the design of ancient Athenian institutions"

Josiah Ober
David Magie Class of 1897

Professor of Classics ~ Princeton University

Location: Kerstetter Room ~ 301 Marx Hall

For a copy of the paper, contact Erum Syed (erum@princeton.edu; 8-4798) or visit http://www.princeton.edu/values, and click on the Complete Calendar of Events.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Democractic Politics.

Lecture
"Sophocles' Jebb: An Edition and Its Maker"

Dr. Christopher Stray

University of Wales

Location: 010 East Pyne

Monday, 17th

4:30 pm

Glenn Most Lecture Series
"Dante's Greeks"

Glenn Most, Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities ~ Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and Committee of Social Thought, University of Chicago

Location: 010 East Pyne
Reception to follow: Prentice Library

Tuesday, 18th

4:30 pm

Faculty/Student Seminar: Aeschylus’ Oresteia: close reading of Choephoroi: 585-652 (polla men ga trephei deina) (requires knowledge of ancient Greek)

Location: 161 East Pyne

Thursday, 20th

4:30 pm

“Caravaggio’s Doubting Thomas in Contexts” (illustrated)

Location: Betts Auditorium
Reception to follow: Prentice Library

Lunch Talk
"Popular morality in the early Roman Empirer"

Teresa Morgan

Oxford University

Location: 209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Tuesday, 15th

12-1:20pm

Lunch Talk
"Elephants and Earthquakes: Mythology, Archaeology, and Paleontology of Ancient Samos"

Adrienne Mayor

Independent Scholar, Visiting Fellow in Classics and Human Values, Princeton University

Location: 161 East Pyne

Lecture/Seminar
"The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco: A New Greek Ass-Novel"

Dirk Obbink
University of Oxford

Location: 105 Chancellor Green

A Colloquium on Philodemus

GUEST SPEAKERS

David Sider

New York University

"The Library of the Villa dei Papiri"

Dirk Obbink

University of  Oxford

"The  Herculaneum Library from

Literature to Archive: The Case of Philodemus' De pietate"

David Blank

University of California at Los Angeles

"Picking up the Pieces of Atomist Rhetoric"

Location: 106 McCormick Hall 

Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Program in Classical Philosophy and the Program in the Ancient World.

Lecture

"Writing the Roman Republic: Narratives of Roman 'Imperialism'"

Emma Dench
Professor of Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London

Visiting Professor of the Classics and History, Harvard University

Location: 100 Jones Hall

Brown Bag Lunch Talk

"A Discussion of Romulus' Asylum'"

Emma Dench
Professor of Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London

Visiting Professor of the Classics and History, Harvard University

Location: 209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Lecture
"The end of the Greek novel"

Tim Whitmarsh

Reader in Greek Literature

University of Exeter

Location: 161 East Pyne

Thursday, 9th

4:30 pm

Faber Lecture
"The love of fame and the fame of love: Virgil to Chaucer"

Philip Hardie

Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature

Corpus Christi College ~ University of Oxford

Location: 100 Jones Hall

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Humanities Council

Friday, 10th

8:30 am -
4:30 pm

"Department of Classics/PIIRS/CHV Conference"
"Imperial Republics? Ancient Rome and the USA"

See conference website for details:

http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/conferences/2006/

Location: 101 McCormick Hall

Tuesday,

14th

4:30 pm

Lecture
"Messenian Ethnogenesis in the Fourth Century"

Nino Luraghi

Department of Classics, Harvard University

Location: 161 East Pyne

Tuesday,

28th

4:30 pm

Lecture
"When was the Athenian Democratic Revolution?"

Robin Osborne

Cambridge University

Location: 010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Friday,

31st

Noon~

Brown Bag Lunch Talk
"What was Special about Classical Olbia?"

Robin Osborne

Cambridge University

Location: 209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Monday,

3rd

4:30 pm

Lecture
"Consumption in Hellenistic Egypt:  New Perspectives"
Sitta von Reden
University of Munich

Location:  161 East Pyne

Thursday,

6th
4:30 pm

Lecture
"Achilles' New Shield: The Case for Intelligent Design"

Alan Griffiths
University College London

Location:  010 East Pyne

Friday, 7th

9:00 am -
6:00 pm

Conference: East and West
A conference in honor of Glen W. Bowersock on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study.

Facilitated by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, and T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University.

Location: 010 East Pyne

See conference website for details:

http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/conferences/2006/eastwest/

Sponsored by the Princeton University Department of Classics, Department of History, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World, and Program in Hellenic Studies.

Thursday,

20th

4:30 pm

Lecture
"Jesus and Dionysus in the Acts of the Apostles and Early Christianity"

John Moles ~ Professor of Latin

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Location:  161 East Pyne