Prentice Lecture
"Alexander the Great:  A Hero for all Seasons"
Paul Cartledge ~ Professor of Greek History, Chairman of the Faculty of Classics, and a Fellow of Clare College, at the University of Cambridge.  As well as Global Distinguished Professor in Hellenic Studies at New York University.

Location:  Bowl 1 Robertson Hall ~ WWS

Brown Bag Lunch Talk
"Universal Empire - the state, heterogeneous power and hegemony in the Roman and Mughal Worlds "
Peter Bang ~ University of Copenhagen

Location:  209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by The Program in the Ancient World

Lecture
"Tacitus' Obituary of Petronius"
Holly Haynes
College of New Jersey

Location:  209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by The Program in the Ancient World

Lecture
"Sexing the World":  Roman Poets and Scholars on Grammatical Gender
Anthony Corbeill
Professor of Classics, University of Kansas

Location:  010 East Pyne

Magie Lecture
"Honours and the Emperor.  Public ranks in private inscriptions from Republic to Principate"

Greg Woolf
University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Location: 101 McCormick

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Lecture
"Finding the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum"

Professor Carol C. Mattusch
George Mason University

Location: 010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Princeton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classics, Princeton University

Lecture
"Epigraphy in context: Aizanoi, honoring its local Zeus and courting the Emperor"

Professor Michael Wörrle, former Director of the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Munich.

Professor Wörrle will present his recent work on the dedication of the Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi in Phrygia.

Location:  At the Institute for Advanced Study in the White-Levy Room, next to the Computer Room attached to eastern side of the Library: School of Historical Studies.

Sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study

Lecture
"Cicero’s  Call for Liberty: The Philippics as Political Statements and as Literary Texts"

Gesine Manuwald
University of Freiburg

Location: 161 East Pyne

Brown Bag Lunch Talk
"Faustus' Choice:  A Lesson in Identity Construction from Republican Coinage"

Liv Yarrow
Brooklyn College

Location: 209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World

Lecture - CANCELLED!!
"Bringing Philosophy Down to Earth:

Cicero's Responses to Socrates"

Emily Wilson
University of Pennsylvania

Location: 161 East Pyne

LIVE from the New York Public Library

The Robert B. Silvers Lecture

Daniel Mendelsohn

"From Roman Games to Reality TV--Mass Entertainment & Imperial Politics"

Celeste Bartos Forum

$15 general admission and $10 library donors, seniors and students with valid identification

For more details visit the NYPL website.

Lecture
"Ibycus and Polycrates"

Felix Budelmann
The Open University, United Kingdom

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"Iguvine Interpretations"

Michael Weiss
Cornell University

Location:  010 East Pyne

Lecture
"Archaeological Enigmas: Princeton's Excavations  at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus "

William A. P. Childs
Princeton University

Location:  010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Princeton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

Lecture
"Tibullus and the Panegyricus Messallae"
Luke Roman
University of Victoria in British Columbia

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"The Problem of Classifying Porphyry's Homeric Questions"
Jake MacPhail
University of Michigan

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"Constructing Ptolemaic Identities: Third-Century Alexandrian Court Poetry in Context"
Markus Asper
The Pennsylvania State University

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"From Vice to Virtue: the Denigration and Rehabilitation of Roman Pride"
Yelena Baraz
Trinity College

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"Antigone at Colonus: Oikos and Polis in the Last of Sophocles' Theban Plays"
Brooke Holmes
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"Horto carmina digna, non libello. Priapic poetics in Carmina Priapea."
Irene Peirano
Harvard University

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"The Honeyed Sword: Epistolary Strategies in Augustine's Correspondence"
Jennifer Ebbeler
University of Texas

Location:  161 East Pyne

Lecture
"A Stroll in the Byzantine Landscape"
Timothy E. Gregory
Ohio State University

Location:  010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Princeton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

Conference
"Against Greek Exceptionalism "

Location:  103 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Classics.

Workshop
"Images of Philology"

Location:  Dickinson 211

A colloquium sponsored by the Program on the History of Science; Classics Department; Davis Center; Humanities Council; Program in Hellenic Studies; Department of Comparative Literature

Visit:
http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/conferences/2007/imagephil

Lecture
"Wagner's Greeks:  Judaism, Hellenism and The Politics of Culture"
Simon Goldhill
Cambridge University

Location:  010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies and the Department of Classics

Lecture
"Time and the Antique:  Linear Causality and the Greek Art Narrative"
Dimitris Plantzos
University of Peloponnese

Location:  103 Scheide Caldwell House

This event is made possible by the Cycladic Art Foundation, New York, as part of their Alexander Papamarkou Lecture Series.

Sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies; co-sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World, The Princeton University Art Museum, and the Department of Classics.

Tuesday, 6th

5:30 pm

Lecture
"In the Shadow of Independence:  The Archaeology of the National Constitution Center Site in Independence National Historical Park "
Jed Levin
Northeast Region Archeology Program,

National Park Service

Location:  010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Princeton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Brown Bag Lunch Talk
"Water for the Holy City"
Christopher P. Jones
George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and History ~ Harvard University

Location:  209 Scheide Caldwell House

Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World.

Eberhard L. Faber Memorial Lecture
"Body and Armor: The Heroic Warrior"
François Lissarrague
Directeur d'études ~ Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Centre Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes

Location:  101 McCormick

Sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Department of Classics.

Conference, Exhibition, Concert
"Renaissance Hellenism"

Details at website:
http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/renaissanceconference.html

Co-Sponsors: University Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Eberhard L. Faber Lecture, Department of Art and Archaeology, Center for Human Values, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of English, Council of the Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Department of History, Department of Classics, Princeton University Library

Lecture
"Galen on Teleology: Functional Explanation and Design"
Mark Schiefsky
Harvard University

Location:  161 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Program in Classical Philosophy

Lecture
"Animals for the Arena: the Roman Wild Beast Trade"
Roger J.A. Wilson
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Location:  010 East Pyne

Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Princeton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

Lecture
"Alphabetic Investigations"

Barry B. Powell
HALLS-BASCOM PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS EMERITUS, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Visiting professor Spring 2007 at the University of New Mexico.

Location:  McCosh 66