LECTURES 2012-2013

May 15

CHRIS FARAONE, University of Chicago

"Women and Children First: the Earliest Evidence for Ancient Greek Body Amulets"

May 6

PETER HESLIN, Durham University

"The Boundaries of Painting and Poetry According to Zeuxis, Propertius and Lessing"

April 29

CLEMENTE MARCONI, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

The Institute of Fine Arts-NYU Excavations on the Akropolis of Selinunte:

Towards an Archaeology of Cult in a Greek Colony in the West

April 22

TIM WHITMARSH, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Atheistic Aesthetics: Reading the Sisyphus Fragment

March 11

KAREN BASSI, UC Santa Cruz

Homer's Achaean Wall and the Hypothetical Past

March 4

ROBERT PARKER, Sather Professor-New College, Oxford

Religion and Colonization: the Hellenistic Case

February 28

MARK GRIFFITH, University of California, Berkeley

GLENN MOST, University of Chicago

February 27

TRAVEL STUDY ROME INFO SESSION

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February 25

ANNA BONIFAZI, University of Heidelberg

The Doing of Saying: Herodotus, Thucydides and the Role of Particles

February 8

FRANCESCA MARTELLI, Cambridge University

Rewriting the Republic of Letters in Cicero's ad Fam. 15

January 30

MARTIN DEVECKA, Brown University

Danger Mouse: Mice In and Out of Ancient Rome

January 24

KELLY SHANNON, University of Erfurt

Nero the Transgressor in Tacitus' Annals: A Narrative in Prodigies

January 17

JARED HUDSON, University of California, Berkeley

Spectaclum Ipsa Sedens: A Poetics of the Carpentum

December 8

Egypt in the Days of Queen Cleopatra: A Study Day on Ptolemaic Egypt

November 26

MANTHA ZARMAKOUPI, Getty Visiting Scholar

"Landscape Themes in the Design of the Luxurious Villas of the Bay of Naples"

November 7

Steinmetz Lecture

OLGA PALAGIA, University of Athens

"The Motja Youth and the Battle of Himera: Classical Art and History in Sicily"

October 29

MARYLINE G. PARCA, University of California San Diego

"Seeking Children in Ptolemaic Egypt"

October 15

CELIA E. SCHULTZ, University of Michigan

"Divination in Cicero's Philosophical Program"