Past Events

  1. Home
  2. Events
  3. Past Events


COLLOQUIUM: Nina Tumarkin, Wellesley, " Representations of Greek Antiquity: The Past in the Service of the Nation"

Apr 5, 2018 at -

The lecture will explore the history of Greece’s politically driven “national disease” of progonoplexia—the worshipping of one’s own past—from the period of independence in the 1830s through the 2004… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Jackie Neel, Temple, " The prize of treachery: L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the cult of Tarpeia"

Mar 29, 2018 at -

In this paper, I attempt to reconstruct the circumstances and cult of Tarpeia. Best known as a traitor (see Livy 1.11), Tarpeia's myth was complex and could be seen in a positive light. According to Piso (FRHist… Read More



HYDE LECTURE: Susanna Elm, Berkeley, "Eutropius the Consul: Power, Ugliness, and Imperial Representation in Late Antiquity"

Mar 22, 2018 at -

A certain Eutropius was made consul of the Eastern Roman Empire in 399 CE. Our best and most comprehensive source for Eutropius are two epic panegyrics composed by the poet Claudius Claudianus. Claudian, a… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Micha Lazarus, Cambridge, "Shakespeare's Aristotle: The Poetics in Renaissance England"

Mar 15, 2018 at -

Aristotle's Poetics upended literary thought in the Renaissance, mediating classical models, stimulating generic experiment, and isolating an emergent literary field. Yet it has long been… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Mark Byron, University of Sydney, "'Modernist Stratigraphy: The Early Medieval Presence in Ezra Pound's Cantos "

Mar 1, 2018 at -

Ezra Pound’s modern epic poem The Cantos aspires to the inexhaustibility of his predecessors Dante and Homer. The poem’s themes span the history of civilizations (east and west), philosophy, theology,… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, "The Classical Period: Practical and Theoretical Reflections"

Feb 22, 2018 at -

The concept of "the classical world" has been foundational to the study of Greek and Roman literature, history, art, and archaeology since the centuries. Yet the chronological boundaries of this world have long… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Marco Formisano, Ghent, "Seeing double: The contemporary and the immemorial in Claudian and Colluthus"

Feb 15, 2018 at -

What is the contemporary? According to Giorgio Agamben, it is the untimely and it consists of a disconnection and out-of-jointness. Contemporariness always has a strong connection to the mythical and… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Adam Foley, University of Pennsylvania, "Towards a new Interpretation of Aristotle’s Edition of the Iliad “from the Casket”

Feb 8, 2018 at -

In his Life of Alexander Plutarch claims that Aristotle produced his own recension of the Iliad and then gave it to Alexander as part of his provisions on campaign. This edition eventually… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Peter Meineck, NYU, "Activating Classics: how ancient literature can help defend democracy"

Feb 1, 2018 at -

In this illustrated talk Peter Meineck will describe his work with members of American veteran community and their public engagement programs that have sought to bring veterans and the public together in conversation… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Jim Wright, Bryn Mawr, "From Emblem to Epic: Mycenaean art and Mycenaean Society"

Jan 25, 2018 at -

In this lecture I explore how during the Mycenaean era individuals seeking to promote their social and political position manipulated objects and emblems to display their status so as to advance agendas of… Read More