News & Events
Upcoming Events
Ancient Societies Workshop / Center for the Study of Ancient Religions
James Rives (UNC Chapel Hill)
“Animal Sacrifice between Romans and Christians.”
Tuesday, May 21
3:30pm, Classics 21
Ancient Societies Workshop / Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop / Classical Lecture Society
Leslie Kurke (UC Berkeley)
“Before Statuary: Victor Statues, Commemoration, and Power.”
Tuesday, May 28
3:30pm, Classics 21
Classics Department Lecture Series
Sofia Torallas (CSIC Madrid / visiting UofC)
“The Weaver of Insult: Philo and Alexandrian Greek.”
Friday, May 31
3:30pm, Classics 21
Recent Events
Ancient Societies Workshop / Center for the Study of Ancient Religions
Greg Woolf (St. Andrews)
“The Memory of the Gods. Divine and Human Agency in Roman Sanctuaries.”
Tues, April 9
3:30pm, Classics 21
Classical Lecture Society
Francesco de Angelis (Columbia)
“Gods, Temples, and Visibility: Representing Ritual in Roman State Art.”
Thurs, April 11
4:30pm, Classics 21
The Archaeology of Cult in the Roman West
A seminar presented by the Center for the Study of Ancient Religions.
Speakers:
Ton Derks (Vrije Univeristeit Amsterdam), on infant votives in infant death in Gaul
Claudia Moser (Brown University/AAR), on faunal remains, architecture and topography at S. Omobono
Tesse Stek (Leiden University), on colonial sacred landscapes and the city-state model
Willem van Andringa (Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3), on the archaeology of religious practice in daily life.
Moderators:
Michael Dietler (University of Chicago)
Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews)
Friday, April 12, 2013
1:30pm–6:00pm, Classics 21
Ancient Economy Lecture Series
Askold Ivantchik (CNRS-Bordeaux)
“Phrygian Apameia in the Imperial Period: Society, Economy, Polity.”
Tues, April 16
3:30pm, Classics 21
Ancient Economy Lecture Series
Askold Ivantchik (CNRS-Bordeaux)
”Kelainai–Apameia in Phrygia from the Iron Age to the Byzantine period.”
Thurs, April 18
3:30pm, the Oriental Institute LaSalle Bank Room.
Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop
Victoria Rimell (Rome, La Sapienza)
“Embodied Time and the Future of Epic: Statius’ Achilleid.”
Thurs, April 18
3:30pm, Classics 21.
Center for the Study of Ancient Religions
Jonathan Edmondson (York University)
“Towards a Reconstruction of the elogium of Aeneas from the Forum Augustum: Reflections on the Copies from Augusta Emerita and Pompeii.”
Tues, April 23
3:30pm, Classics 21.
Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop / Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop
Julia Annas (University of Arizona)
“Changing from Within: Plato’s Later Political Thinking.”
Thurs, April 25
4:30pm, Classics 21
Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Lecture in Humanities
Julia Annas, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, will present a lecture on “Plato’s ideal society and Utopia”.
Friday, April 26, 2013
4:00pm, SS 122
Modern Greek Culture Lecture
Stathis Gourgouris, professor at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society and in Classics at Columbia University, will give a lecture on “Cavafy’s Debt”.
An examination of poetic indebtedness in a context that defies calculation. What do societies owe to their poets? What does it mean for societies to lay claim to poets? What do poets owe to their language? What does it mean for poetry to exist beyond its language? Why is Greek indebted to Cavafy? What does Cavafy owe to James Merrill?
Monday, April 29, 2013
5:30pm, SS 122
Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop
Robert Lamberton (Washington University in St. Louis)
“Proclus on Plato on Poetry.”
Thursday, May 9
3:30pm, Classics 21
Graduate seminar
Greg Anderson (Ohio State University)
“Slavery and demokratia in Classical Athens.”
Monday, May 13
4:30pm, Classics 21
Ancient Societies Workshop / Classical Lecture Society
Greg Anderson (Ohio State University)
“Antiquity on its Own Terms: Classical Athens and the Ontological Turn.”
Tuesday, May 14
3:30pm, Classics 21
Oedipus the King
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, presented by the Classics Department in association with the Arts Council, Humanities Collegiate Division, and the Classical Entertainment Society.
Directed by Abigail Akavia,
with music by Leon Shernoff.
- Thursday, May 16, at 8pm
- Friday, May 17, at 8pm
- Sunday, May 19, at 2pm and 8pm
FXK Theater (Reynolds Club, 3rd floor)