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Department Colloquium: Greg Woolf (University of London) "Locating Resilience in Ancient Urban Networks"

Nov 5, 2020 at

Title:  Locating Resilience in Ancient Urban Networks



Department Colloquium: Mary Caldwell (Penn) “Musical Grammar and Lyrical Learning: Cato’s Distichs and Medieval Latin Song”

Oct 29, 2020 at

Title: Musical Grammar and Lyrical Learning: Cato’s Distichs and Medieval Latin Song



Department Colloquium: Eliza Gettel (Villanova) "Maintaining a Common Polity: Shared cult in the koina of the imperial Greek mainland"

Oct 22, 2020 at

Title: Maintaining a Common Polity: Shared cult in the koina of the imperial Greek mainland



Department Colloquium: Nyasha Junior (Temple) "But You’re Not a Historian: Reception History in Biblical Studies"

Oct 15, 2020 at

Title: But You’re Not a Historian: Reception History in Biblical Studies



Department Colloquium: Elena Isayev (Exeter) "Ancient Wandering and Permanent Temporariness"

Oct 8, 2020 at

Title: Ancient Wandering and Permanent Temporariness



Department Colloquium: Cam Grey (Penn) "Localizing Risk in the Late Roman World"

Oct 1, 2020 at

Title: Localizing Risk in the Late Roman World



Department Colloquium: Phiroze Vasunia (UCL) “After Babel: Reading the Literatures of the Roman Empire”

Sep 24, 2020 at

Title: After Babel: Reading the Literatures of the Roman Empire



Department Colloquium: Jeremy McInerney (Penn) "Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome"

Sep 17, 2020 at

In July the Penn Classics department held an online meeting in conjunction with the EOS/Africana reception reading group. That workshop focused on Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth… Read More



Department Colloquium: Paula Fredriksen (Department of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem) “The Many Gods of Ancient Jewish ‘Monotheism’”

Sep 10, 2020 at

Title: The Many Gods of Ancient Jewish 'Monotheism'



Emily Wilson to give Virtual Graduation Speech

May 18, 2020 - May 22, 2020 at -

To celebrate the class of 2020, Emily Wilson is giving a graduation speech online. You can find the speech here (skip to 19:00 minutes in): https://www.… Read More