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Material Texts: Anuradha Mathur (Landscape Architecture, Penn) and Dilip da Cunha (Graduate School of Design, Harvard): “Designing the Place of Water”

Oct 16, 2017 at -

We will be welcoming Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha for a talk entitled: “Designing the Place of Water.” Anuradha and Dilip write:



Digital Humanities Tools for Research in Classical Studies

Oct 31, 2017 at -

An overview to DH tools for student and faculty researchers at every level. Digital humanities tools can enrich scholarship in Classical Studies by facilitating serendipitous discovery through text comparison and… Read More



Penn Museum: Peter Struck: THE GREEK POLIS: IMAGINING THE IDEAL CITY

Oct 4, 2017 at -

For 2017-2018, the Penn Museum’s popular monthly Great Lectures Series, first Wednesday evenings October through June, focuses on the Rise of the City. Peter Struck, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at… Read More



Susanna Braund, University of British Columbia: "Empire without end’: Virgil, translation, nationalism and transnationalism"

Sep 6, 2017 at -

Translation of high prestige texts such as Virgil's poems has had a significant role in creating literary language in European vernaculars and hence has sometimes served nationalistic agendas.… Read More



Book Launch Party: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation

Nov 10, 2017 at -

Book Release party for Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation.  



COLLOQUIUM: Irini Viltanioti, KU Leuven, "Time and Eternity in Porphyry"

Dec 7, 2017 at -

Porphyry’s views on time and eternity are contained in the following passages:

(i) Sent. 44, p. 57, 17 – 59, 68 Lamberz;

(ii) Fr. 223, pp. 246- 247 Smith (= Cyril. Contra… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Thomas Koentges, Universität Leipzig, "Preparing Plato: Corpus-Building for Complex Computational Analysis"

Nov 30, 2017 at -

The Corpus Platonicum is one of the most well-known and most influential works of ancient literature. Yet, it still has unresolved challenges regarding its tetralogical form… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Sheila Murnaghan, UPENN, "Selective Memory and Epic Reminiscence in Sophocles’ Ajax"

Nov 16, 2017 at -

Focusing on the moment of the hero’s death, Sophocles’ Ajax offers a brief, concentrated portrait of a variable, contested figure with diverse identities in epic and cult.  Competing… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Alex Walthall, The University of Texas at Austin, "Instruments of Extraction: Royal Administration in the Kingdom of Hieron II"

Nov 9, 2017 at -

In this paper, I share the results of recent efforts to reconstruct administrative and economic aspects of the kingdom of the Syracusan monarch Hieron II (r. 269–215 BCE). First, I examine an essential instrument of… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, "Roman Paradise: replicating the Empire in ancient Roman gardens"

Nov 2, 2017 at -

Mention of ancient Roman gardens conjures images of lavish suburban estates outfitted with sprawling gardens containing specimen plantings from around the world, aviaries and fishponds, pergolas for outdoor dining,… Read More