Fall 2017
Fall 2017
Faber Lecture
September 21, 2017
Amy Richlin
Professor, Department of Classics, UCLA
Blackface and Drag in Early Roman Comedy
Lunch Lecture
September 15, 2017
Felix Mundt
By Invitation Only
Between Heaven and Stage - Boundary Crossing in Plautus' Amphitruo and its Reception
Conference
September 8–9, 2017
Culture and Society in the Lyric Age of Greece
A Joint Conference with the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History and the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song
Department of Classics, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World
Spring 2017
Spring 2017
Lecture
May 15, 2017
Richard Hunter
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Callimachus and the description of rhetorical style
Conference
May 12–13, 2017
Subjects of Empire: Political and Cultural Exchange in Imperial Rome
Department of Classics, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World, Department of History, Department of Religion, and the Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies
Lecture
May 2, 2017
Darja Šterbenc Erker
Institut für Klassische Philologie,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Augustus’ religion in the mirror of Ovid’s Fasti:The Case of Concordia Augusta
Lecture
March 7, 2017
Ruth Webb
Université Lille 3; Visiting Professor in the Humanities Council; Old Dominion Fellow in the Department of Classics
Roman pantomime and Greek tragedy: reperformance and embodied knowledge
Lecture
February 28, 2017
Catherine Steel
University of Glasgow
Populism and the Roman Republic: demagogues, democracy and the limits of debate
Postclassicisms Workshop
February 15, 2017
Phiroze Vasunia
University College London
The World, the Text, and the (Classical) Critic
Please RSVP to eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
Lecture
February 14, 2017
Miriam Leonard
University College London
Hannah Arendt’s Revolutionary Antiquity
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Council of the Humanities
Colloquium
February 13, 2017
Vergil in Action, Performance in and of the Aeneid
Presenters: Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago, and Alessandro Barchiesi, New York University
Sponsored by Department of Classics; David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council; McCarter Theatre
Workshop
January 20, 2017
Sophocles, Ajax A Workshop
Please RSVP by Friday, January 13th to eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
Fall 2016
Fall 2016
Lecture
November 29, 2016
Peter Meineck
Professor of Classics in the Modern World, New York University
Prediction, Peripeteia and Practice. A new cognitive approach to ancient dramatic narrative.
Lecture
November 10, 2016
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Classics; Director, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge; Editor, Classical Philology, University of Chicago
Read the Aeneid, Go Straight to Hell? How Fulgentius Saved a Classic for the Christians.
IHUM Reading Group
November 4, 2016
Daniel Pedersen
Princeton Theological Seminary
Schleiermacher and the Timaeus
Faber Lecture
October 18, 2016
Emily Greenwood
Professor, Department of Classics, Yale University
Seeing Citizens: re-reading the ring of Gyges' ancestor in Plato's Republic
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and funding from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Council of the Humanities
IHUM Reading Group
October 7, 2016
Aileen Das
University of Michigan
Galen and Plato's Timaeus in the Medieval Islamicate World
Lecture
October 6, 2016
Duncan Kennedy
Emeritus Professor, Bristol University
Plato and Lucretius on the Theoretical Subject: A Metaphysical Inquiry
Lecture
September 26, 2016
Lisa Maurizio
Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, Bates College
A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Use of Lots at Delphi: Nymphs, Dice, and Second Chances
Spring 2016
Spring 2016
Lecture
April 26, 2016
Timothy Power
Rutgers University
Sacred Sound Through Space and Time: Listening to Ancient Greek ‘Songlines’
Lecture
April 13, 2016
Robert Fowler
Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol
The Text-World of Herodotus
Lecture
March 25, 2016
Jennifer Morgan
New York University
Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Considering Slave Law, Intimacy, and Privacy for the History of Women in Slavery
Keynote lecture in Histories of Reproductive Risk Workshop
Lecture
March 23, 2016
Rebecca Flemming
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Cambridge
Galen and the Plague
This event is by invite only - Faculty and Graduate Students. Must RSVP
Lecture
March 10, 2016
Gianfranco Agosti
Sapienza - Università di Roma
Poetry and Religion in Late Antiquity
IHUM Lecture
March 3, 2016
Paul Chan
Odysseus as Artist (Part I)
Fall 2015
Fall 2015
Conference
December 11, 2015 – December 12, 2017
Behind the Symbol: the Context and Legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria
Lecture
December 11, 2015
Edward Watts
Hypatia and Her 18th Century Reception
101 McCormick Hall
With thanks to: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Classics Department, Council of the Humanities, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of Religion, Classical Philosophy
With thanks to: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Classics Department, Council of the Humanities, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of Religion, Classical Philosophy
Lecture
December 9, 2015
R.R.R. Smith
Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Aphrodisias in Caria: Recent Work, New Finds
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
December 8, 2015
Cynthia Damon
Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Paying full price: On value-assessment in Lucilian satire
Conference
December 5–6, 2015
Program in Classical Philosophy - Classical Philosophy Conference
Lecture
December 4, 2015
Luca Graverini
Siena
Sub domina meretrice. Circe in the Latin West
This event is by invite only - Faculty and Graduate Students. Must RSVP by Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Lecture
December 1, 2015
Carlotta Santini
Should the Classics still be a Model of Education? Friedrich Nietzsche on the Use and Abuse of Classical Studies
Sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Lecture
November 20, 2015
Anna Marmodoro
Oxford
Divide and Empower. The metaphysics of Stoics blends
This event is by invite only - Faculty and Graduate Students. Must RSVP by Thursday, November 19, 2015
Lecture
November 19, 2015
Christoph Markschies
Humboldt University
The Nag Hammadi Library: A Coptic-Gnostic Collection or Christian-Monastic Literature from Egypt?
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
Lecture
November 10, 2015
Athena Kirk
Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Department of Classics
Librarianism: Cataloguing with the Alexandrian Poets
Lecture
October 28, 2015
Mark Janse
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University
The X-Position: ‘Disjunctive’ ΔIΑ in Aristophaic Compounding
Faber Lecture
October 6, 2015
Dimitri Gutas
Professor, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Graeco-Arabic Studies, Yale University
Aristotle 600-1200 AD: The Syriac and Arabic Phase
Workshop
October 5, 2015
Dimitri Gutas
Professor, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Graeco-Arabic Studies, Yale University
Lecture
September 29, 2015
Renaud Gagné
Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Literature), Cambridge
Choral Contrasts: Metaphor and Performance
Workshop
September 14, 2015
Carthage and Rome: A Workshop
The David S. Magie Fund of the Department of Classics, The Council of the Humanities, and The Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
Spring 2015
Spring 2015
Conference
May 16–17, 2015
The Sound of Sense
Orality/Aurality in Byzantine Texts and Contexts
Faber Lecture
April 7, 2015
Victoria Wohl
University of Toronto
Aporia and Action in Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and funding from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council
Conference
April 3, 2015
Decreations 2015
A Graduate Symposium on the Work of Anne Carson
Lecture
March 3, 2015
Robert Germany
Haverford College
All the World's a Stage: Contemplatio Mundi in Early Roman Theater
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
February 17, 2015
Philip Hardie
University of Cambridge
Late Latin poetry of cosmos. Pagan and Christian
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
February 13, 2015
Stephen Harrison
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford
Horace's hymn to Bacchus (Odes 2.19): poetics and politics
Sponsored by the Department of Classics; RSVP to ebarth@princeton.edu
Postclassicisms Workshop
January 6, 2015
Response and Responsibility
A Postclassicisms Workshop
Fall 2014
Fall 2014
Lecture
December 2, 2014
Helen Morales
University of California, Santa Barbara
Contextualizing Colluthus: sexual politics in late antiquity
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
November 18, 2014
James Romm
Bard College
Self-Punishment in Seneca, the Boudicca Revolt, and the De Beneficiis
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
November 11, 2014
Rusty Jones
Harvard University
Platonic Goods
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
November 4, 2014
Patrick Kragelund (cancelled)
Director of the Danish National Art Library, Copenhagen
Seneca’s Octavia and the Imperial Stage: Match or Mismatch?
Lecture
October 10, 2014
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Columbia University, Mellon Research Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Coins, prodigies, and vows: the arts of religious communication in mid-republican Rome
Gauss Lecture Series
October 9, 2014
Maurizio Bettin
Professor, University of Siena, Italy
The Gauss Seminars in Criticism Present ‘Between Vertere and Interpretari: Texts and Gods in Roman Culture’: Lecture 3 – Vertumnus, God of Vertere
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Gauss Lecture Series
October 8, 2014
Maurizio Bettin
Professor, University of Siena, Italy
The Gauss Seminars in Criticism Present ‘Between Vertere and Interpretari: Texts and Gods in Roman Culture’: Lecture 2 – Translating the Gods of Others?
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
October 7, 2014
Roy Gibson
University of Manchester
To Como then I came: on writing a modern biography of an ancient Roman
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Gauss Lecture Series
October 6, 2014
Maurizio Bettin
Professor, University of Siena, Italy
The Gauss Seminars in Criticism Present ‘Between Vertere and Interpretari: Texts and Gods in Roman Culture’: Lecture 1 – From Market to Metamorphosis: Cultural Images of ‘Translation’ in Rome
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
September 23, 2014
Melissa Haynes
Princeton University
Statius and the Invention of Horror
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Spring 2014
Spring 2014
Lecture
April 29, 2014
Ruth Webb
Université Lille 3
Images and Argumentation in Ancient Rhetoric
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
April 25, 2014
Leonard Barkan and Emily Gowers
Convened by Aaron Kachuck and Leon Grek
Farrago: A Convivium on Food and Latin Satire
Sponsored by the Council of the Humanities; RSVP by Apr. 17th to lgrek@princeton.edu
Lecture
April 21, 2014
Laurence Totelin
Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
Ethnic and Hybrid Vegetables: Reading Greek and Roman Botanical Texts with a Historian's Eye
Co-sponsors: Program in the Ancient World, Program in History of Science and the Department of Classics
Lecture
April 15, 2014
Emily Gowers
University of Cambridge
Maecenas the Midwife, Or, What is the Gender of Horace's Epodes?
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
PAW Grad Lunch Lecture
April 11, 2014
Dr. Robyn Veal
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Anniversary Fellow (2012-2015)
University of Cambridge
The History and Archaeology of Forests and Fuel in the Roman Period
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World; Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics; By Invite only, Please RSVP to thatcher@princeton.edu
Lecture
April 7, 2014
Marek Wecowski
Assistant Professor, Princeton University;
Fulbright Visiting Fellow
Wine and the Origins of the Greek Alphabet. Early Greek vase-inscriptions and the symposion
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
March 28, 2014
Melina Tamiolaki
University of Crete, Department of Philology,
Is Xenophon ‘dark’? Towards a Typology of Readings in the Cyropaedia
Sponsored by the Department of Classics; Co-sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World; By Invite Only, Please RSVP to ebarth@princeton.edu
Faber Lecture
March 25, 2014
Stephen Hinds
Professor of Classics, University of Washington
Poetry across languages: parallel lives, versions of pastoral
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and Council of the Humanities
Lecture
March 5, 2014
Katerina Ierodiakonou
Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Athens and the University of Geneva
Dialectic as Part of Stoic Philosophy
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Department of Philosophy, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger '52 Hellenic Fund, and Council of the Humanities
Lecture
March 4, 2014
John T. Hamilton
Harvard University, Professor of Comparative Literature
Repetitio Sententiarum, Repetitio Verborum: Kant, Hamann, and the Implications of Citation
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and Council of the Humanities
Lecture
February 24, 2014
Andrew M. Riggsby
Stanley Kelley, Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University
Uncertainty Principle: Roman Metrological Culture
Sponsored by the Department of Classics; Co-sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
February 18, 2014
Edith Hall
Professor in the Department of Classics & the Center for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
Black Sea Iphigenia's Roman and Imperial Escapade
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Workshop
February 14, 2014
CHARTAE HORATIANAE: A Workshop on Horace Printed Editions in the Firestone Collection
Convened by: Aaron Kachuck (Princeton) and Joseph Farrell (Penn)
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Council of the Humanities, and to the Department of Classics
Lecture
February 12, 2014
Martin Jehne
Professor of Ancient History, Technische Universität Dresden
What Could You Say and What Could You Do in the Late Republic and Augustan Principate?: Another Attempt to Understand the Reemergency of Monarchy in Rome
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
February 10, 2014
Boris Maslov
University of Chicago
Indo-European Pindar? The Archaeology of hymns
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fall 2013
Fall 2013
Lecture
December 6, 2013
Barbara Kowalzig
New York University, Department of Classics
Religion and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Greek Mediterranean
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
November 13, 2013
Kristina Milnor
Associate Professor, Barnard College, Department of Classics and Ancient Studies
Faustilla the Pawnbroker: on gender and finance in the Early Roman Empire
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
November 5, 2013
Wayne Hankey
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
All Given and All Received: Deus in se in Aquinas' Summa theologiae
Sponsored by the Classical Philosophy Colloquium and the Department of Classics
Lecture
October 21, 2013
Mark Griffith
Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Classics
The Gender of Ancient Greek Music
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Workshop
October 19, 2013
STATIUS QUO: A Reading Workshop on Statius in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Convened by Constanze Güthenke and Aaron Kachuck
Princeton Council of the Humanities and the Department of Classics
Lecture
October 17, 2013
Kevin van Bladel
The Sciences in Sasanian Iran
Colloquium
October 15, 2013
Michael Konaris
Ted and Elaine Athanassiades Postdoctoral Fellow, Hellenic Studies
Sponsored by Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies; Cosponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
October 4, 2013
John Dillery
University of Virginia
Herodotus and naming: Atys and Adrastus
Sponsored by The Department of Classics; Co-sponsored by The Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
September 30, 2013
Ingo Gildenhard
University Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of King's College, King's College - Classics
Cicero’s Civic Ethics: Fundamentalism in a Republican Key
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
September 24, 2013
Lucinda Dirven
Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Amsterdam
Hatra, City of the Sun God: Reconstructing Religion from Archaeology
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
September 24, 2013
Helen Morales (postponed)
Professor of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara - Classics Department
Spring 2013
Spring 2013
Lecture
April 23, 2013
Elizabeth Asmis
Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Classics
The Stoics on the Reception of Poems
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Conference
April 19–20, 2013
Vital Traditions: Greco-Roman Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Twenty-First Century
A Conference in Honor of Heinrich von Staden
At Princeton University: David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project (Council of the Humanities), Department of Anthropology, Department of Art & Archaeology, Department of Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Stanley J. Seeger ’52 Center for Hellenic Studies, University Center for Human Values, Program in the Ancient World, Program in History of Science, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
At Yale University: Department of Classics, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Section of the History of Medicine (Yale School of Medicine)
At Yale University: Department of Classics, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Section of the History of Medicine (Yale School of Medicine)
Lecture
April 16, 2013
Irene Peirano
Assistant Professor, Yale University, Department of Classics
Quintilian's epic performances: the orator and the poet in the Institutio Oratoria
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Workshop
April 12, 2013
Rosalind Thomas
University of Oxford
PAW Graduate Student Workshop
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
April 10, 2013
Rosalind Thomas
University of Oxford
Historiography, Memory and the Development of the Greek Polis
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
April 9, 2013
Rosalind Thomas
University of Oxford
Luncheon with PAW Graduate Students
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
March 29, 2013
Stephen Lambert
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and Lecturer in the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
The Distribution of Political Influence in Late Classical Athens: An Epigraphical Perspective
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Faber Lecture
March 26, 2013
Leslie Kurke
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Pindar's Material Imaginary: Dedication and Politics in Olympian 7
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and supported by the Eberhard L. Faber Fund and the Council for Humanities
Lecture
March 14, 2013
Gareth Williams
Violin Family Professor of Classics, Columbia University
Pietro Bembo on Mt. Etna: Scaling the Classical Tradition
Sponsored by the Program in Italian Studies
Lecture
March 8, 2013
Nicola Terrenato
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan
An Archaeology of Early Roman Imperialism: Elite Negotiation and Private Agendas
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Faber Lecture
March 5, 2013
Susanna Elm
University of California, Berkeley, Professor of History and Classics, Department of History
Pagan Challenge - Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus
Sponsored by Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity; Co-sponsored by: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, Faber Fund in the Humanities Council
Lecture
March 4, 2013
Alexander Sens
Joseph Durkin SJ Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, Georgetown University
Like a Winged Runner’: Lycophron’s Alexandra and the Reconfiguration of the Messenger Speech
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
March 1, 2013
Nicola Terrenato
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan
An Archaeology of Early Roman Imperialism: Against Romanocentrism
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
February 20, 2013
Kristian Heal
Director, Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts, Brigham Young University
Accessing Late Antiquity: Syriac Digital Humanities Projects at BYU
Sponsored by Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
Lecture
February 19, 2013
Jan N. Bremmer
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Did the Ancient Mysteries Influence Early Christianity?
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
February 12, 2013
Alex Purves
Greek Epic & Classical Literature, UCLA Department of Classics
Crouching Odysseus: Action and Ending in Homeric Epic
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Fall 2012
Fall 2012
Lecture
December 4, 2012
Richard Hunter
Cambridge University, Current Visiting Fellow Council of the Humanities
History, Fiction, Myth: Some Moments in the Ancient Struggle
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Council of the Humanities
Lecture
November 20, 2012
Oswyn Murray
Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
Athenaeus the Encyclopedist
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
November 19, 2012
Alessandro Barchiesi
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo, G. and H Spogli Professor of Italian Studies, Stanford University
Italy as a Wild Landscape in the Aeneid
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
November 15, 2012
Olga Palagia
Short Term Stewart Fellow in Religion, Council of the Humanities
Ritual Dances & Visual Culture in Classical Greece
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Council of the Humanities
Stewart Lecture
November 8, 2012
Guy Stroumsa
Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, Oxford University
Religious Revolution and Cultural Change in the Roman World
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
Magie Lecture
November 6, 2012
Hendrik Versnel
Coping with the Gods. Implications and Complications of Greek Polytheism
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
October 23, 2012
Mark Janse
Ghent University, Senior Visiting Scholar, Onassis Foundation
A Cognitive Approach to Homeric Versification
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
October 18, 2012
Ian Morris
Stanford University
Human Values in the Very Long Run
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Classics
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
October 17, 2012
Ian Morris
Stanford University
Human Values in the Very Long Run
Sponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Classics
Prentice Lecture
October 16, 2012
Mark Payne
University of Chicago
The one absolute didactic poem, and its opposite: From Nicander to Paul Celan
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
October 8, 2012
William Johnson
Duke University
Publishing Without Publishers: Books, Publication, and Community in Imperial Rome
Sponsored by the Department of Religion, Department of Classics and the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
October 2, 2012
Christopher P. Jones
Harvard University
Emperors and Earthquakes
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Workshop
September 24, 2012
W. Robert Connor
Professor of Classics, Emeritus, Princeton University
The Value of an Ancient Book and Why It Matters
Sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Lecture
September 20, 2012
William Fitzgerald
Professor of Latin, King's College London
The Aesthetics of Varietas
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Lecture
September 17, 2012
Carlos Norena
University of Berkeley
Urban Systems in the Roman Empire: The Transition to Late Antiquity
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Spring 2012
Spring 2012
Colloquium
May 18, 2012
Herme<neu>tica
New Approaches to the Text and Interpretation of the Corpus Hermeticum
Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity Colloquium
Faber Lecture
April 30, 2012
Giulia Sissa
Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Familiaris reprehensio quasi errantis. Looking for 'Utopia' between Plato and Epicurus.
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and supported by the Eberhard L. Faber Fund and the Council for Humanities.
Lecture
April 26, 2012
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freidburg
Intentional History: The Past in the Present, Ancient and Modern (in conversation with T. Hölscher)
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
April 24, 2012
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freidburg
Historiography: The Present in History
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
April 17, 2012
Henrik Mouritsen
Kings College, London
The Power of the People in the Roman Republic: Paradoxes and Approaches
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
April 9, 2012
Jim J. O'Donnell
Professor of Classics and Provost of Georgetown University
The End of Paganism
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity; Co-Sponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Department of Classics, the S & R Stewart Fund in the Humanities Council and the Stewart Fund for Religion.
Lecture
April 4, 2012
Oliver Taplin
Professor of Classics, University of Oxford
The Reach of Athenian Tragedy
Sponsored by the Council of the Humanities and the Department of Classics
Lecture
April 3, 2012
Clifford Ando
University of Chicago
The Origins and Import of Republican Constitutionalism
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
March 27, 2012
Angelo Mercado
Assistant Professor of Classics at Grinnell
The Problem(s) of Archaic Latin Versification
Sponsored by the Program in Linguistics and the Department of Classics
Classics Technology Conference
March 16, 2012
Deciphering Papyri
New Techniques for Reconstructing the Herculaneum Papyri
Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Humanities Council, Princeton University. Lunch provided. RSVP to nbarthel@princeton.edu
Lecture
March 14, 2012
Alan Cameron
Professor Latin Emeritus, Columbia University
The Life, Work and Death of Hypatia
Sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity and supported by the Eberhard L. Faber Fund and the Council for Humanities.
Magie Lecture
March 13, 2012
Pierre Briant
College de France
History and Historiography of Alexander the Great in the long XVIII th Century: A Forgotten Legacy
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World.
Lecture
March 7, 2012
Tessa Roynon
University of Oxford
Introducing African Athena and Parsing the Classical Toni Morrison
Cosponsored by Princeton's Center for African American Studies and the Department of Classics
Lecture
February 16, 2012
Olga Taxidou
The University of Edinburgh
Dionysus and Divine Violence: Theatricality and Spectatorship in The Bacchae
Cosponsored by the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts, Department of Classics, and Program in Theater
Lecture
February 14, 2012
Garrett G. Fagan
Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History
Penn State University
Watching the Fighters: Exploring the Roman Fascination with Gladiatorial Combat
Lecture
February 9, 2012
Glenn Most
University of Chicago, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
The Madness of Tragedy
Sponsored by the Comparative Literature Department and supported by the Eberhard L. Faber Memoral Fund in the Humanities Council
Fall 2011
Fall 2011
Prentice Lecture
December 13, 2011
Matthew Roller
Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University
Cornelia: On Becoming and Being ‘Mother of the Gracchi’
Lecture
December 6, 2011
Dr. Koen De Temmerman
Visiting Fellow Center in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University/Ghent University
Novel ways to be(come) a heroine. The curious case of Heliodorus' Chariclea.
Sponsored by Department of Classics and the Center in Hellenic Studies
Lecture
November 29, 2011
Julia Dyson Hejduk
Baylor University
Bearing Up: Jupiter, Callisto, and Ovid in Exile
Lecture
November 22, 2011
Haim Goldfus
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Excavations at Hurvat Tslit: A Jewish Settlement on the Southern Border of Judea (c. 40 BCE - 135 CE)
Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World
Lecture
October 18, 2011
Timothy Barnes
Harvard University
Aorist and Augment: New Light on the Early History of the Greek Verb
Sponsored by the Program in Linguistics and the Department of Classics
Lecture
October 11, 2011
Joan Connelly
Professor of Classics and Art History, NYU
Towards An Archaeology of Performance: Ritual Movement through Greek Sacred Space.
Lecture
October 6, 2011
Mark Janse (cancelled)
Ghent University
Phrasing Homer: A Cognitive Approach to Homeric Versification
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Program in Hellenic Studies and the Onassis Foundation.
Spring 2011
Spring 2011
Department Event
May 15, 2011
Jessica Anastasio '11, Flute
Classics Senior Jessica Anastasio will be performing works by Debussy, Telemann, Vine and Jolivet.
Lecture
April 19, 2011
Timothy Whitmarsh
Adultery and the Invention of the Novel
Sponsored by The A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), the Department of Classics and the Program in Hellenic Studies
Conference
April 16, 2011
Department of Classics Technical Workshop
This workshop is open to faculty, staff and students in the Department of Classics. Not open to the public.
Workshop
April 16, 2011
The 1st Classics and Technology Colloquium
Department of Classics Technology Workshop
Lecture
April 11, 2011
Christopher Stray
Liddell and Scott: The Secret History
Lecture
March 25, 2011
Malcolm Schofield
Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow Humantities Council
Why And When Did Plato Write Narrated Dialogues?
Lecture
March 23, 2011
Malcolm Schofield
Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow Humantities Council
Cicero on Ethical Choices
Lecture
March 22, 2011
Simon Goldhill
The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes
Sponsored by The A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) and the Department of Classics and the Program in Hellenic Studies
Lecture
March 21, 2011
Malcolm Schofield
Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow Humantities Council
Ciceronian Ethics: Philosophy as Debate, Philosophy as Guidance
Lecture
March 8, 2011
Giuseppe La Bua
Acting as Cicero and against Cicero: the mock-trial in Apuleius Metamorphoses 3.3-11
Lecture
March 1, 2011
Anton Bierl
Title: TBA
Lecture
February 22, 2011
Réka Forrai
Réka Forrai, Central European University, Medieval Studies Department and Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Title: TBA
Lecture
February 15, 2011
Alfons Fürst
Visiting Fellow, Department of Classics, Princeton University, University of Muenster, Germany
The Rhetoric of Monotheism in the Roman Empire
Sponsored by the Department of Classics