Prentice Lecture
"The Mind of an Ass and the Impudence of a Dog":  A Scholar Gone Bad

Cynthia Damon ~ University of Pennsylvania

Location: 106 McCormick

The Kress Lecturer
"Beloved Beasts:  Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies"

Salima Ikram ~ American University in Cairo

Location: 010 East Pyne

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

Lecture
"Alois Riegl and Classical Archaeology"

Jas Elsner ~ Stewart Fellow in the Humanities ~ Corpus Christi College, Oxford University & University of Chicago

Location: 106 McCormick

Sponsored by The Council of the Humanities, Departments of Classics, Art & Archaeology, and the Program in the Ancient World

Lecture
"Philostratus Visualises the Tragic:  Some Ekphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era"

Jas Elsner ~ Stewart Fellow in the Humanities ~ Corpus Christi College, Oxford University & University of Chicago

Location: 105 Chancellor Green

Sponsored by The Council of the Humanities, Departments of Classics, Art & Archaeology, and the Program in the Ancient World

Lecture
"The Master of Animals in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean:  Divine Symbols and Local Traditions"

Derek Counts ~ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Location: 010 East Pyne

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

Symposium
The Rebirth of Antiquity:  Numismatics, Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the Renaissance

Location: 010 East Pyne

The symposium is held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit "Numismatics in the Renaissance" at Firestone Library, Friday, November 9, 2007, 4:30 p.m. For further information and free registration, contact

Alan Stahl.

Lecture
"The Philosopher and His Debt:  Apuleius' 'Florida' 18"

Richard Fletcher ~ Ohio State

Location: 161 East Pyne

Brown Bag Lunch Talk
"The Lament of the Muse:  Rhesus 906-949"

Marco Fantuzzi ~ Visiting Professor, Columbia University ~ University of Macerata and the Graduate School of Greek and Latin Philology of the University of Florence

Location: 161 East Pyne

Lecture
"Nocturnal Epic Warriors from Homer to Statius"

Marco Fantuzzi ~ Visiting Professor, Columbia University ~ University of Macerata and the Graduate School of Greek and Latin Philology of the University of Florence

Location: 105 Chancellor Green

Lecture
"Heaven's Exarchs:  Early Byzantine Archangels and Delegation of Imperial Power"

John Kenfield ~ Rutgers University

Location: 010 East Pyne

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

Lecture
"Death in Fragments: Reading Philodemus, De morte 4"

Ben Henry - The University of Texas at Austin

Location: 161 East Pyne 

Lecture
"The Poetic Powers of Sophocles' Ajax"

Sarah Nooter - Columbia University

Location: 161 East Pyne 

Lecture
"Embodying the Tragic Father in Aristophanes' Peace"

Mario Telo ~ Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa

Location: 161 East Pyne

Lecture
"Socratic Self-Portraiture:Bathing and Oratory in Aelius Aristides' first Sacred Tale and Ortion 33"

Janet Downie ~ University of Chicago

Location: 161 East Pyne

Lecture
"From Archilochus to Andromache: Archaic Threnodic Elegy Revisited"

Julia Lougovaya ~ Columbia University

Location: 161 East Pyne

The Thompson Lecturer
"The Athenian Akropolis:  A Vase-Painter's Perspective"

H. Alan Shapiro ~ The Johns Hopkins University

Location: 010 East Pyne

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

Lecture
"A Conversation with Maurice Bloch, Anthropologist"

Maurice Bloch ~ London School of Economics

Location:  161 East Pyne

Sponsored by Department of Anthropology and the Department of Classics

A zip file containing four readings for the Bloch lecture can be downloaded here.

Faber Lecture
"Skin Changes: Disease, Animality, and the Borders of the Human in the Second Century CE"

Maud Gleason ~ Stanford University

Location: 106 McCormick

Illustrated Lecture
"Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James"

Jodi Magness ~ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Location: 106 McCormick

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

Lecture
"What is God? Defining the Divine in Rome"

David Levene ~ New York University

Location: 010 East Pyne

Lecture
"History in Translation: Reading Thucydides through Eleftherios Venizelos' Translation"

Emily Greenwood ~ University of St. Andrews

Location: 010 East Pyne

Conference
"Princeton-Rutgers Ancient Philosophy Graduate Conference"

Details at web site.

Conference
"Historicisms & Formalisms - A Graduate Student Conference"

Details at web site.

Lecture
"Tyes: The Politics of Allotment in Classical Athens"

Josine Blok ~ University of Utrecht

Location: 106 McCormick