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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



COLLOQUIUM: Stephen Harrison, Oxford, "Horace’s hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): poetics and politics"

Feb 26, 2015 at -

This paper considers Odes 2.19 in which Horace represents himself as encountering Bacchus in the wild teaching carmina to Nymphs and Satyrs. It argues as follows:



CANCELLED: COLLOQUIUM: Joseph Howley, Columbia, "Rematerializing the book in the Roman Empire"

Mar 5, 2015 at -

Perhaps the most famous physical book in Latin literature is the libellus offered to Nepos by Catullus in the first lines of the poem that opens his Carmina.  Such instances of … Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Tom Tartaron, University of Pennsylvania, "Archaeology, Anthropology, Homer, and Hesiod: Recovering Lost Maritime Small Worlds of Mycenaean Greece"

Feb 19, 2015 at -

Despite ample artifactual evidence for Mycenaean maritime activity, few an­chorages and harbors of the Mycenaean period have been identified on Aegean coasts, and even less is known about the people and… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Ada Palmer, University of Chicago, "How Humanists Read a Famous Atheist: the Evolution of Renaissance Reading Methods Exposed through a Survey of Marginalia in Renaissance Copies of Lucretius, 1417-1600."

Feb 12, 2015 at -

"Epicurean” appears frequently in Renaissance documents as a generic term of abuse, interchangeable with heretic, atheist, even sodomite.  When Lucretius’ Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura reappeared in 1417, this… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins, "Theseus and Democratic Family Values"

Feb 5, 2015 at -

Theseus was in some ways an odd choice as "Athenian National Hero," since he was not a native born Athenian, had a non-Athenian mother, and never had a stable family life that could be a model for his people. This… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Alexander Sens, Georgetown, "Like a Winged Runner: Lycophron’s Alexandra and the Reconfiguration of the Messenger’s Speech"

Jan 22, 2015 at -

Lycophron's Alexandra opens with a thirty-verse prologue in which an unnamed messenger announces to Priam (also not directly named) that he will be reporting the prophecy uttered by Cassandra at the moment… Read More