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Facultea with Prof. Kimberly Bowes, hosted by the Classics Board

Oct 17, 2019 at -

“Facultea” with Prof. Kimberly Bowes, hosted by the Classics Board

 

All students welcome! Come chat with Prof. Bowes, archaeologist, about her interests and experiences — from her… Read More



Facultea with Prof. Brian Rose, hosted by the Classics Board

Sep 26, 2019 at -

All undergraduates welcome! Come chat with Prof. Rose about his interests and experiences — from his work at Troy and Gordion to his reflections on the state of the worlds ancient heritage given current political… Read More



Grad-Undergrad Mixer, hosted by the Classics Board

Sep 19, 2019 at -

Please join us this Thursday, September 19th, for our first event of the semester, the Grad-Undergrad Mixer, and get to know other students in the department!

All undergraduate, postbacc,… Read More



Panel: The Enduring Appeal of the Odyssey

Aug 31, 2019 at -

Emily Wilson discusses her translation of "The Odyssey" (Norton) in a panel conversation. Introduced by: Amy Stolls.

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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