Colloquia and Events 2016/17

The weekly Classics Colloquia provide an informal meeting ground for the College's lively community of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Each year, the series brings to campus a number of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological, and historical subjects.

Colloquia and Events 2016/17

Fall 2016 Classics Colloquia

Student Reports from Fieldwork and Programs Abroad

Zoe Stamatopoulou Washington University "Plutarch's Lives and Hesiodic Wisdom”

Antonio Stramaglia Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale "'Comic Books' in Greco-Roman Antiquity"

The Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Lisa Nevett University of Michigan “Old City, New Questions: Some Preliminary Results from the Olynthos Project, 2014-2016”

Mark Vessey Green College, University of British Columbia “How Much 'Literature' Is There in Late Antiquity Anyway?”

Bai Chun Xiao Zhejiang University "The Cyclic View of the Human Condition in Thucydides’ Archaeology and Sima Qian’s Preface to Historical Records"

Hannah Silverblank Oxford University “Monstrous Sounds: Listening to the Voice of the Monster in Greek Poetry”

Deborah Beck University of Texas, Austin "If At First You Don’t Succeed: Heroism, Failure, and Formula in Homeric Epic"

Laura Surtees Bryn Mawr College "It’s a Hard Knock Life: Urbanism and City Living in Hellenistic Thessaly"

Jacco Dieleman UCLA "Textual Amulets from Egypt to Phoenicia and Greece"

Barry Strauss Cornell University "The Death of Caesar: New Light on the Ides of March and its Aftermath"

Spring 2017 Classics Colloquia

Daniel Tober Bryn Mawr College "Megarians' Tears: Localism and Dislocation in the Megarika"

Roland Betancourt University of California, Irvine “Bellicose Things: The Inner Lives of Byzantine Warfare Implements”

Jan-Mathieu Carbon Université de Liège “Moveable Feasts? On Butchery, Consumption, and Distribution at Greek Sacrifices”

Greta Hawes Australian National University “Myths Which Survive in Ruins: Pausanias and the Necessary Infrastructures of Storytelling”

Michiel Meeusen Katholieke University Leuven “Plutarchus Aristotelicus? An Introduction to Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems”

Naoise Mac Sweeney University of Leicester “The Deviant Daughters of Miletus: Foundation Myths in Ionia”

The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies Jenny Strauss Clay University of Virginia “Can We Talk About Homeric Religion?”

Edward Champlin Princeton University “Tiberius from Myth to History”

Matthew Waters University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire “Royal Reachings: Representation of the Achaemenid King and the Divine”

Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez University of Salamanca “'I’m Dionysos, the Son of Winejar': Allegorical Interpretations of the God of Wine”​

Alexander Bauer Queens College, City University of New York “Contact, Colony, and Community in the Black Sea Region: The First Two Seasons of Excavations at the Kale of Sinop, Turkey”​

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Zoe Stamatopoulou
Washington University
"Plutarch's Lives and
Hesiodic Wisdom”

Antonio Stramaglia
Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
"'Comic Books' in Greco-Roman Antiquity"

The Densmore Curtis Lecture presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Lisa Nevett
University of Michigan
“Old City, New Questions: Some Preliminary Results from the Olynthos Project, 2014-2016”

Mark Vessey
Green College, University of British Columbia
“How Much 'Literature' Is There in Late Antiquity Anyway?”

Bai Chun Xiao
Zhejiang University
"The Cyclic View of the Human Condition in Thucydides’ Archaeology and Sima Qian’s Preface to Historical Records"

Hannah Silverblank
Oxford University
“Monstrous Sounds: Listening to the
Voice of the Monster in Greek Poetry”

Deborah Beck
University of Texas, Austin
"If At First You Don’t Succeed:
Heroism, Failure, and Formula in Homeric Epic"

Laura Surtees
Bryn Mawr College
"It’s a Hard Knock Life: Urbanism
and City Living in Hellenistic Thessaly"

Jacco Dieleman
UCLA
"Textual Amulets from Egypt
to Phoenicia and Greece"

Barry Strauss
Cornell University
"The Death of Caesar: New Light
on the Ides of March and its Aftermath"

Daniel Tober
Bryn Mawr College
"Megarians' Tears: Localism
and Dislocation in the Megarika"

Roland Betancourt
University of California, Irvine
“Bellicose Things: The Inner Lives
of Byzantine Warfare Implements”

Jan-Mathieu Carbon
Université de Liège
“Moveable Feasts? On Butchery, Consumption, and Distribution at Greek Sacrifices”

Greta Hawes
Australian National University
“Myths Which Survive in Ruins: Pausanias and the
Necessary Infrastructures of Storytelling”

Michiel Meeusen
Katholieke University Leuven
“Plutarchus Aristotelicus? An Introduction to Plutarch’s Science of Natural Problems”

Naoise Mac Sweeney
University of Leicester
“The Deviant Daughters of Miletus:
Foundation Myths in Ionia”

The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
Jenny Strauss Clay
University of Virginia
“Can We Talk About Homeric Religion?”

Edward Champlin
Princeton University
“Tiberius from Myth to History”

Matthew Waters
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
“Royal Reachings: Representation of
the Achaemenid King and the Divine”

Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez
University of Salamanca
“'I’m Dionysos, the Son of Winejar': Allegorical Interpretations of the God of Wine”

Alexander Bauer
Queens College, City University of New York
“Contact, Colony, and Community in the Black Sea Region: The First Two Seasons of Excavations at the Kale of Sinop, Turkey”