Past Events



COLLOQUIUM: Christopher S. Celenza, The Johns Hopkins University, "What sort of Language did the ancient Romans speak? A fifteenth-century debate"

Oct 16, 2014 at

Running throughout fifteenth-century Italian intellectual life was a debate: what was the nature of that Latin language? Was it an "artificial" language — one with its own, notionally permanent rules? Or was it a "… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Peter Mack, Warburg Institute, title TBA

Sep 25, 2014 at



COLLOQUIUM *Friday*: Joy Connolly, New York University, title TBA

Sep 19, 2014 at

Penn Classical Studies Colloquium / SCS Distinguished Speaker Series

NB: This lecture will be held on Friday, and not on Thursday, as usual.

There will be a reception immediately following the lecture.… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Pier Luigi Tucci, Johns Hopkins University, title TBA

Sep 11, 2014 at

[abstract TBA]



“Landscapes of Value” (The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, VIII)

Jun 19, 2014 - Jun 21, 2014 at -

Modern concerns with the environment and the place humans occupy in the natural world have led to better understanding of the complex ways in which humans interact with and construct space. How do we map the… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, “Hermes in Love: The Erotic Career of a Mercurial Character”

Sep 4, 2014 at

The Greek god Hermes and his Roman counterpart Mercury were worshipped in cults that appear to focus on sexuality and were involved in numerous amatory myths. But their roles in cult and myth is rather different from… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas (title TBA)

Aug 28, 2014 at

[abstract]