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AAMW lunch: Prospectives’ weekend: page1image13264 Student speakers from AAMW, Classical Studies, and Ancient History

Feb 20, 2015 at -



AAMW lunch, Dr. Laura Surtees, UPenn (with Margriet Haagsma and Sophie Karapanou) “Looking Through the Survey Unit: Exploring the Surface of Kastro Kallithea (Thessaly)”

Feb 13, 2015 at -



AAMW lunch, George Makris, Dumbarton Oaks “Monks and Cosmos in the Byzantine countryside: The view from Thrace”

Feb 6, 2015 at -



AAMW lunch, Dr. Brian Daniels, Penn Cultural Heritage Center, “Emergency Efforts to Protect Cultural Heritage in Crisis: The Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria and Iraq Project”

Jan 30, 2015 at -



COLLOQUIUM: Cynthia Damon, University of Pennsylvania, "Pragmatic or pure? Two experiments in editing."

Apr 23, 2015 at -

This talk is a report from the field on two experiments in editing conducted with recent classes at Penn. The first took a pragmatic approach and produced a mockup of a variorum edition of (some of) Tacitus' Annals;… Read More



HYDE LECTURE COLLOQUIUM: Margie Miles, UC Irvine "Transferred Temples and the Augustan Renewal in Athens"

Apr 16, 2015 at -

Soon after Actium, Augustus required populations (and cults) to be uprooted and moved to create Nikopolis and a greater Patras. In Athens, still trying to recover from the devastating siege of Sulla, a period… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Cathy Keane, Washington U in St. Louis, "Conversations about Sermo"

Apr 9, 2015 at -

This talk will examine the fragments of Lucilius' first collection of Satires (later numbered Books 26-30) with special attention to the remnants of the poet's apologia in the last book. I will argue that throughout… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: MM McCabe, Kings College London, "Transformative goods: rereading Glaucon¹s challenge in the *Republic*"

Apr 2, 2015 at -

Synopsis: There seems to be an uneasy fit between one account of goodness in the Republic ‹ that it is a real property of what is good, derived, somehow from the form of the good ‹ and the argument of the dialogue as… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth, "War Stories, from Troy to Baghdad (and beyond): Reading Homer with Combat Veterans"

Mar 26, 2015 at -

Roberta Stewart presents the work of an experimental reading course, a book group, designed for combat veterans. Since 2008 she has read Homer, Odyssey and Iliad, with combat veterans and used the ancient texts to… Read More



SENIOR COLLOQUIUM

Mar 19, 2015 at -

Details Forthcoming