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COLLOQUIUM: Christopher van den Berg, Amherst College, "Intertextuality, Metaprose, and Program in Pseudo-Quintilian DM XIII"

Nov 5, 2015 at -

Pseudo-Quintilian’s 13th Major Declamation draws on a range of ancient authorities on bees and beekeeping, and scholars have assiduously documented the work’s predecessors in both… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Jonathan P. Conant, Brown University, "Child-beating and Trauma in Late Antiquity"

Oct 29, 2015 at -

Through the works of authors like Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Libanius, Jonathan Conant explores the late Roman debate about the morality, efficacy, and social and psychological costs of beating children. Placing… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Carl Shaw, New College of Florida, "Early Kômos Songs: Satyric, Pre-comic, and Dithyrambic Performance"

Oct 8, 2015 at -

Satyr drama was instituted at the City Dionysia around the end of the sixth century BCE, and comedy was officially introduced approximately twenty years later, in 486. But both genres have a rich and interconnected… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Patricia Rosenmeyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Vocal Memnon Colossus"

Oct 22, 2015 at -

The Memnon colossus in Egyptian Thebes was a popular tourist destination.  After an earthquake in 27 BCE toppled its massive head, the remaining stones began to emit a high-pitched noise each morning; ancient… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Luke Roman, Memorial University, "Humanist topographies: the classical poetics of place in quattrocento Florence and Naples"

Sep 17, 2015 at -

This paper explores the reception of the classical poetics of place and space by humanist authors within the context of the broader renewal of classical spatiality that was being carried out in literary and… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Columbia University, "When the Gods Became Objects: The Materiality of the Divine Image in Ancient Greece"

Sep 10, 2015 at -

In ancient Greek society, the concept of the Divine could be constructed and communicated through rituals, narratives, cult epithets, philosophical discourses, ritual performative texts, or hieroi logoi… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Rodney Ast, Heidelberg, "Editions of Ancient Papyri Born Digital. Aspirations and Current Obstacles"

Sep 24, 2015 at -

Early projects concerned with digitizing ancient papyri concentrated on making images and textual data of published papyri available online.  Recently, focus has shifted to developing an editorial platform that will… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Julia Wilker, UPENN, "Dirty Dancing: Herodias and the Reinvention of Queenship in First-Century Judaea"

Sep 3, 2015 at -

The gospels of Mark and Matthew famously blame Herodias for the violent death of John the Baptist, and Flavius Josephus presents her as a scheming, nagging wife, whose burning ambition caused the downfall of… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Ineke Sluiter, Leiden, "Mindreading Medea"

Oct 15, 2015 at -

Cognitive studies are having an increasing impact on classical studies. In this paper, I will discuss what a cognitive approach to literature would entail, and zoom in on the issue of ‘mindreading’: the… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: John Dillery, University of Virgina, "'History Continuous and Comprehensive: Berossus, Manetho and the Curation of the Past"

Oct 1, 2015 at -

In this talk I will 'think out loud' about the purpose behind national histories of the sort written by Berossus and Manetho. Specifically, why is it important that they be continuous, from the origins of organized… Read More