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COLLOQUIUM: Nina MacLaughlin, "A reading and discussion of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (FSG/FSG Originals), a re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphoses told from the perspective of the female figures transformed"

Dec 5, 2019 at -

Nina MacLaughlin is a former Penn Classical Studies major and the author of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung, a re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphoses told from the perspective of the… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Cat Gillespie, Brandeis & Jeff Ulrich, Rutgers, "Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World"

Oct 24, 2019 at -

Courses on race and ethnicity in the ancient world are becoming more and more common in classical studies departments across the country, and with good reason. This colloquium traces the origins of race and… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Johannes Haubold, Princeton, "The development of Chaldean philosophy between the fifth century BCE and the second century CE"

Oct 17, 2019 at -

This paper sketches the development of Chaldean ‘philosophy’, as it was called in antiquity, in order to interrogate the relationship between Greek, Persian and Babylonian intellectual traditions. My argument is in… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Ellen McLaughlin, Barnard, '"3,000 Years of the 1,000 Yard Stare: The Experience of War, from the Ancient Greeks to Us"

Oct 3, 2019 at -

 



COLLOQUIUM: Mark Usher, University of Vermont, "Comparative Epic: Classics Goes Global"

Nov 14, 2019 at -

M. D. Usher, Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Vermont, will discuss how the work of maverick Classicists Milman Parry (1902-1934) and George Thomson (1903-1987)… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Suzanne Lye, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "To Starve and To Curse: A Woman’s Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic"

Nov 21, 2019 at -

This paper investigates two strategies that female figures in ancient Greek texts use to express anger and retaliate against those who have personally injured them: deprivation and magic. Both of these strategies… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Jeremy McInerney, UPENN, "The Pride of Halikarnassos"

Sep 26, 2019 at -

Since its discovery in the early 90’s the ‘Pride of Halikarnassos’ has been seen as a prime example of story-telling used to fashion local identity. Most studies have emphasized its role situating Halikarnassos… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Tom Palaima, The University of Texas at Austin, "The troubles with Achilles: problems with using the Iliad as a testament to war trauma and an instrument in its treatment"

Sep 19, 2019 at -

As the ancient Greeks knew and General Douglass MacArthur thought that Plato wrote—and many other, including the Royal War Museum in London, have since believed because of MacArthur's error: "Only the dead have… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Joseph Farrell, Penn, "Classics in China: Reflections on a First Visit"

Sep 12, 2019 at -

The study of ancient Greek and Latin Classics in the People's Republic of China has grown considerably and has become more visible internationally during recent years. Much of this visibility takes the form of… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Krešimir Vuković, Catholic University of Croatia, “Saving the Environment: the Tiber and Roman Mythology”

Sep 5, 2019 at -

Most studies of Roman mythology have focused either on its political/historical aspects or its usage in a specific literary context. Starting from the paradigmatic hypothesis that "Roman myths are myths of place" (… Read More