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COLLOQUIUM: Kristina Sessa, Ohio State, "The New Environmental History of Rome's Fall: A Methodological Reconsideration"

Apr 4, 2019 at -

A series of recent publications, both scholarly and popular, has identified the physical environment as a primary historical agent in the Roman Empire’s development and decline as a major (and distinct) political,… Read More



Facultea with Sarah Ruden, Translator of the Aeneid

Feb 21, 2019 at -

Facultea with Sarah Ruden, Translator of the Aeneid

Translation may just be the most self-indulgent thing you can do.

Open to all. Presented by the Classics Board… Read More



Greg Callaghan (ANCH): "If You Can't Walk the Walk, Then Talk the Talk: Status and International Relations in the Hellenistic World"

Feb 22, 2019 at

Greg Callaghan's (ANCH) talk If You Can't Walk the Walk, Then Talk the Talk: Status and International Relations in the Hellenistic Worldwill be… Read More



Three Great Themes of the Bible: Sarah Ruden @ Pendle Hill

Feb 18, 2019 at

CLST Visiting Scholar Sarah Ruden is giving a series of evening lectures at Pendle Hill entitled:

 … Read More



Center for Ancient Studies Annual Symposium: "Rebellion in the Ancient World”

Jan 25, 2019 - Jan 26, 2019 at -

Keynote Presentation:  Matthew Liebmann (Harvard)

“A Little Rebellion Now and Then is a Good Thing”: An Archaeology of Alternative American… Read More



HYDE LECTURE: Emma Dench, Harvard, "Leadership Lessons from Rome: an experiment in applied Classics"

Mar 28, 2019 at -

(Photographer, Kathleen Dooley)



COLLOQUIUM: Chiara Thumiger, University of Warwick, "The long life of phrenitis: ancient ideas on the localisation of mental life and health"

Mar 21, 2019 at -

Phrenitis is one of the most prominent mental diseases (with our explicit categorisation) in ancient medicine, and a disease label that will survive, through varying anatomic… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Caroline Cheung, Princeton, "Dolium Industries and the Roman Wine Trade"

Mar 14, 2019 at -

This talk discusses the industries for one of the most vital, yet understudied, containers of the Roman wine trade: the dolium. Used primarily for the fermentation and storage of wine, dolia were expensive and labor-… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Mira Seo, Yale NUS, "Trans-species Empathy in Homer and Valmiki: Curious Readings from Global Antiquity"

Feb 28, 2019 at -

This talk examines two episodes of human-animal communication in the Odyssey and Valmiki’s Ramayana.  How does reading these texts together reveal their poetic strategies and… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: James Ker, UPENN, "Seneca’s Ovidian Afterlife"

Feb 21, 2019 at -

It has long been recognized that the speech given to Cremutius Cordus in the final pages of Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam alludes to eschatological texts such as Plato’s Phaedo and… Read More