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| Date | Host/Venue | Speaker/Program | Event/Topic |
| June
17, 2008 (date changed from June 1 to June 17) |
SAGP/SSIPS |
Call for papers deadline, 2008 Joint Meeting of Society for Ancient
Greek Philosophy and the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy
and Science. (Source: SAGP Newsletter 2007/8.2) |
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| June 1, 2008 3 p.m. |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Free with museum admission |
Mark Abbe Research scholar, MMA |
Lecture: Rediscovering the
Painting and Gilding of Classical Sculpture |
| Mar. 12-June 1, 2008 | ISAW-NYU 15 East 84th Street |
Inaugural exhibition: Wine,
Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani |
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| Apr. 21-June 1, 2008 Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. |
Onassis
Cultural Center Olympic Tower Atrium 645 Fifth Avenue Free admission |
Exhibition: Re-Considering
Color: Postmodern Classical II Organized by Harriet F. Senie, Director of the Master’s Program in Art History and Museum Studies at The City College of New York, working with students in the program |
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| May 7-June 1, 2008 |
Target
Margin Theater Venue: Classic Stage Company Tickets: $33.50-$50 136 East 13th Street Info: (212) 677-4210 x10 |
More | Theater: Old Comedy from Aristophanes’ Frogs, directed by David Herskovitz, based on a new adaptation by David Greenspan |
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May 21-June 1, 2008 |
Pan
Pan Venue: P.S. 122 150 1st Avenue, corner of 9th Street Tickets: $20; $15, Students/Seniors; $10, Members (212) 352-3101 (866) 811-4111 (toll free) |
Theater: Oedipus Loves You |
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| May 23-June 1, 2008 |
TBG Arts Center 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor Tickets $18 |
Theater: The Wrath of Aphrodite,
by Tim O’Leary; directed by Martin Casella Presented as part of Gayfest NY |
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| May 9-31, 2008 |
Company
XIV Venue: 303 Bond Street Brooklyn, NY Tickets $20; $15 Students/Seniors www.smarttix.com 212-868-4444 |
Theater: The Judgment of
Paris, conceived and directed by Austin McCormick Official entry of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
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May 20, 2008
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Metropolitan
Museum of Art Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium Subscription series: $95 the series, $23 per Call for availability: 212-570-3949 |
Jerrilynn D. Dodds Distinguished Professor of History and Theory in the School of Architecture City College of CUNY |
Lecture: The Age of Alexander and Its Cosmopolitan Arts |
| May 1-17, 2008 |
The
Queens Players Venue: The Secret Theater 44-02 23rd St., Long Island City Tickets $15 212-352-3101 866-811-4111 (toll free) |
Theater: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, directed by Rich Ferraioli | |
| May 16-17, 2008 | ISAW-NYU 15 East 84th Street Open to the public Reservations required: vani.conference at nyu.edu (212) 992-7859 |
Program (link to .html) |
Conference: Wine,
Worship and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani (accompanies exhibition) |
| May 7-11, 2008 |
Gotham
Chamber Opera Venue: Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement 466 Grand Street Tickets: $70, $60, $30 Ticket Central or call 212-279-4200 |
Opera: Ariadne
Unhinged Music of Monteverdi, Haydn, and Schoenberg |
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| May 9-10, 2008 |
ISAW-NYU 15 East 84th Street isaw.household.conference at nyu.edu |
Program (link to .html) |
Conference: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Family and Household Structures in the Ancient World |
| May 9, 2008 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room 3209 Reception to follow |
David Levene New York University |
Lecture: Cornelius Nepos as a Greek Political Thinker |
| May
7, 2008 12 noon |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. |
Edith
Hall Ahuvia Kahan Royal Holloway-UCL |
Videoconference
with Royal Holloway-UCL: 300 (the Movie!) ‘Love it or hate it, Zack Snyder's movie the “300,” based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, has had people crying “Sparta!” for over a year now. Rather than one lecture, this event will consist of a series of 10-15 minute “provocations” and responses — first by Profs. Edith Hall and Ahuvia Kahan from Royal Holloway, and then one from the NYU Classics department.’ |
| Apr. 26-May 4, 2008 Times |
The
411 Space Times Square Arts Center 300 W. 43rd Street, Suite 411 Tickets $15 (212) 352-3101 (866) 811-4111 (toll free) |
Theater: Sophocles’ Antigone | |
| May 3, 2008 Saturday 3:30 p.m. |
New
York Classical Club Venue: The Hewitt School 45 East 75th Street |
Anton Powell Swansea University |
Spring meeting lecture: Virgil the Partisan: Aeneas and the Theft of Pietas |
| May
2, 2008 Friday 4 p.m. |
Hunter
College Classics Dept. Venue: Chanin Language Center B1 level of Hunter West Lexington Ave. at E. 68th St. Reception to follow |
T. Corey Brennan Rutgers University |
Josephine Earle Lecture: Arena Sports and their Structures: the First 3,000 years |
| May
2, 2008 Friday 6:30 p.m. |
Institute
of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium Venue: 1 East 78th St. R.S.V.P: 212-992-5803 or IFA.events[at]NYU.edu |
Janice Crowley
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Lecture:
Identifying Deities on Aegean Glyptic |
| Apr. 29, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Rosemary Moore University of Iowa |
Colloquium: The commilito general in the Late Republic: origins and implications |
| Apr. 25, 2008 Friday 4-6 p.m. |
New York
Botanical Garden-Bronx Directions This free tour meets at 4 p.m. at the Conservatory Gate. Space is limited to 20. RSVP to Prof. McGowan at: mamcgowan at fordham.edu or call (718) 817-3031. |
Matthew McGowan Fordham University |
Iter Botanicum: Prof. Matthew McGowan leads a group through New York's most luscious garden. The tour includes an overview of the history of botany from Theophrastus to Linnaeus, Latin readings from Cicero, Vergil, and Pliny, as well as a discussion of botanical Latin with contemporary botanists. N.B. The tour is free, and the usual entrance fee to the NYBG will be waived. It is, however, essential that participants arrive on time. Free admission cannot be guaranteed otherwise. |
| Apr.
22, 2008 2 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Silver Center, Room 503 100 Washington Sq. East |
Christos Tsagalis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Lecture: Euripides’
Erechtheus, CEG 594, and the riddle of its unknown author (To be given in David Sider’s departmental/graduate Greek survey seminar, 2:00-3:30 p.m.) |
| Apr.
21, 2008 6 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Silver Center, Room 503 100 Washington Sq. East |
Anna Lamari Arcadia University |
Lecture:
Knowing a Story's End: Future Reflexive in the Narrative of the Argive
Expedition Against Thebes |
| Apr.
18, 2008 Friday 6:30 p.m. |
Institute
of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium Venue: 1 East 78th St. R.S.V.P: 212-992-5803 or IFA.events[at]NYU.edu |
Eleni Hatzaki
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Lecture:
Mortuary Ritual and Society in Late Bronze Age Knossos, Crete: The Temple Tomb in Context |
| Apr. 18,
2008 Friday 11 a.m. |
Teresa Morgan Oxford University |
Lecture: Belief in Graeco-Roman
religion “This paper is part of a current Oxford project, led by Teresa Morgan and Barbara Kowalzig, on faith and cognitive religiosity in Greek and Roman religions. It will focus on ideas about the gods and divine-human relations in popular morality, especially proverbs and fables. “Professor Morgan will briefly discuss what ‘faith’ might mean in Graeco-Roman religions, and in particular the range of divine-human relationships encompassed by it. She will then explore the religious world of proverbs and fables and the divine-human relationships they sketch. She will investigate the nature of the contract between the gods and humans, how it is initiated or changed, what people imagine the gods think about they way they worship them, and how they imagine the gods respond when mistakes are made in belief or cult. She will argue that fables and proverbs have a distinctive and significant contribution to make to the study of ancient cognitive religiosity.” |
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| Apr.
17, 2008 7:30 p.m. |
University
Seminar Movement International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Columbia University Information: (212) 695-9679 |
James
Ker University of Pennsylvania |
Lecture:
The Afterlife of Paulina, Seneca’s Wife In the literary and visual representations of the death of Seneca, the involvement of his wife Pompeia Paulina varies. She opens her veins voluntarily or under duress; her wounds are bound up with or without her knowledge, and with different degrees of participation by Seneca or Nero; and in the remaining years of her life her pallid face elicits different responses from the public. In my talk I will identify several distinct functions of the figure of Paulina within the Seneca story as it is imagined by Seneca, Tacitus, Cassius Dio, Boccaccio, Christine of Pizan, Montaigne, von Kleist, Taillasson, and others. |
| Apr.
17, 2008 6 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Silver Center, Room 503 100 Washington Sq. East |
Christos
Tsagalis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Lecture: Intertextual Fissures: The Returns of Odysseus and the New Penelope |
| Mar. 3-Apr. 16, 2008 Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. |
Onassis
Cultural Center 645 Fifth Avenue Free admission |
Photography exhibition: Minoan Sites: Aerial Views by Marilyn Bridges | |
| Apr. 14, 2008 6:00 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Roger Bagnall Ellen Morris |
Excavations
at Amheida, 2008 “Come hear about the latest results from this winter’s fieldwork in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt, ranging from Roman baths to coffins for sacred birds. Roger Bagnall, the project director, will summarize this year’s finds, and Ellen Morris will talk about survey work aimed at developing a project segment devoted to the Old Kingdom and prehistoric periods.” |
| April 10-13, 2008 | Ancient
Philosophy Society Venue: New School for Social Research Theresa Lang Center 55 W. 13th St., 2nd Floor |
Program (link to .pdf — 1.5M file) |
Eighth Annual Independent meeting
of the Ancient Philosophy Society |
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Apr. 13, 2008 |
Metropolitan
Museum of Art Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall Free with museum admission |
Beth Cohen MMA |
Gallery talk: Animals and Monsters in Greek Art |
| Apr. 12, 2008 Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. |
CUNY
GC Classics Program Skylight Room CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue |
Abstracts
(link to conference website) |
Graduate
Student Conference: Profanum Vulgus: Representations of the Everyday
in the Ancient World Keynote Address: Oikeia Pragmata: The Aesthetics of the Ordinary in Fifth-Century Drama, Jeffrey Henderson, Boston University |
| Apr.
9, 2008 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Silver Center, Room 503 100 Washington Sq. East |
Clemence Schultze Durham University |
Lecture on
Pliny the Elder. Prof. Schultze's broad range of work includes Roman republican history, Greek and Roman clothing, ancient historiography, and the reception of antiquity in later literature and art. She has written papers on Dionysius of Halicarnassus, sections of whose work she is currently engaged in translating and annotating, on the elder Pliny, and on the influence of Greek myth on the Victorian novelist Charlotte M. Yonge. |
| Apr. 8, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Ian Halim Columbia University |
Colloquium: The Part of Aristotle’s External Goods in the Happy Life |
| Apr.
7, 2008 5:30 p.m. |
New York University Center for Ancient Studies Art History Dept. Venue: Silver Center Room 300 100 Washington Sq. East |
Anthony Snodgrass University of Cambridge |
Lecture: The Parthenon Divided |
| Apr.
7, 2008 7 p.m. |
Jewish
Community Center 334 Amsterdam at 76th St. (646) 505-5708 |
Guenter
Kopcke New York University |
Lecture: 9th Century B.C.E. Finds from Biblical Yavneh: The First Greek Foothold in the Near East? |
| Apr. 1, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Matthew MacGowan Fordham University |
Colloquium: Tibullus’ Marathus Poems |
| Apr. 3,
2008 6:30 p.m. |
AIA-New
York Venue: Onassis Cultural Center 645 Fifth Avenue Enter on 52nd betw. 5th & Madison. Reception to follow the lecture RSVP: 212-486-8314 |
Beryl Barr-Sharrar New York University |
Lecture:
New Perspectives on the Derveni Krater and its Ancient Macedonian
Context The Derveni Krater is a large, elaborately ornamented bronze volute krater used as a sepulcher in an undisturbed 4th-century B.C. tomb near Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Dr. Barr-Sharrar discusses her dramatic new conclusions that the Dionysian images form a program alluding to the Underworld and the possibility of rebirth. |
| Apr.
4, 2008 4 p.m. |
Fordham
Classics Dept. Venue: Lincoln Center campus 113 W. 60th St., Room 816 (entrance on Ninth Ave.) Reception to follow directions |
David Konstan Brown University |
Robert Carrubba Memorial Lecture: Was There Forgiveness in Classical Antiquity? |
| Mar. 13-30,
2008 |
La MaMa E.T.C.
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Puppet theater:
Medea, designed, directed and adapted by Theodora Skipitares “Theodora Skipitares presents Medea, an epic collection of myths about the Asiatic superhero, who traveled to the edges of the known world. More than just the familiar story of Euripides, this version of Medea begins many years before, in an ancient city when Medea was a child who possessed magical powers and continues long after she escapes from Corinth on a chariot led by dragons.” |
|
| March 15-30, 2008 |
The
Gallery Players 199 14th Street between 4th & 5th Aves. Brooklyn, NY 11215 Map Tickets: $18; $14 for children 12 and under and senior citizens |
Theater: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata | |
| Mar. 17, 24, & 31, 2008 |
Classic
Stage Company 136 East 13th Street Info: (212) 677-4210 x10 |
More | Theater: First Look Festival:
The Oresteia Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Sophocles’ Electra Euripides’ Orestes Translated by Anne Carson |
| Mar. 28-29, 2008 Mar. 28 at 8; Mar. 29 at 2 and 8 |
The Barnard and Columbia Classical
Drama Group Minor Latham Playhouse 118 Milbank Hall, Barnard College (enter campus at 117th St., west side of Broadway) Tickets $8; $2 for students and senior citizens www.smarttix.com or call (212) 868-4444 |
Theater: Sophocles’ Antigone,
in the original Ancient Greek with English surtitles Supported by the Matthew Kramer Fund |
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| Mar. 29,
2008 7:30 p.m. |
Target Margin
Theater |
Theater: Aristophanes’ Frogs, directed by David Herskovitz, based on a new adaptation by David Greenspan | |
| Mar. 11-30,
2008 Previews begin Feb. 19 |
Public
Theater 425 Lafayette Tickets: $50, students $25; rush $20 212-967-7555 |
Theater:
Conversations in Tusculum, written and directed by Richard Nelson |
|
| Mar. 28, 2008 1 p.m. |
Columbia
Philosophy Dept. Philosophy Hall, Room 716 |
Katja Vogt Columbia University |
Lecture:
Philosophy, Poetry, and the Role of Knowledge in a Good Life Abstract: For the Stoics, knowledge is all that is needed for our lives to go well: knowledge is virtue. Early Stoic philosophy is, accordingly, utterly technical, and not unlike 20th century analytical philosophy in its focus on logic. But surprisingly, the Stoics think that the study of poetry is integral to the pursuit of knowledge. They rethink the traditional role of poetry in education. Virtue ethics needs a notion of expert perception? the virtuous person sees things differently. Contra Aristotle, the Stoics develop their conception of expert perception by looking to the arts. Further, poetry bears witness to many different forms of life. Poetry helps us distance ourselves from our own cultural values, and deliberate in an unprejudiced fashion. |
| Mar.
28, 2008 Friday 2 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Silver Center, Room 503 100 Washington Sq. East |
Richard Sieburth New York University |
The Poetics
and Theory Colloquium Series Spring 2008: Traditore-traduttore: Translation
and Treason at St. Elizabeth's Richard Sieburth will examine the translations of Sophocles and Confucius undertaken by Ezra Pound while he was an inmate at St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C. |
| Mar.
28-29, 2008 |
Yale University Classics Dept. Comp. Lit. Dept. and NELC Dept. Venue: Whitney Humanities Center |
Conference:
Epic Heroes
Then and Now Speakers: Anna Bonifazi, David Damrosh, David Ferry, Simon Goldhill, Emily Greenwood, Stefan Maul, Gregory Nagy, Oliver Taplin, Rosanna Warren |
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| Mar. 27,
2008 7:30 p.m. |
University
Seminar Movement International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Columbia University Information: (212) 695-9679 |
Bernd Seidensticker Freie Universität Berlin |
Lecture: Character and Characterization in Greek Tragedy Abstract: |
| Mar. 25, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Stacie Raucci Union College |
Colloquium: Rereading Elegy’s Triumph |
| Mar. 13-15, 2008 |
Institute
of International Law and Justice NYU Law School Lester Pollack Colloquium Room Furman Hall, 9th Floor 245 Sullivan Street |
Program [subject to change] (link to .html) |
Conference:
A Just Empire? Rome's Legal Legacy and the Justification of War and
Empire in International Law A Commemorative Conference on Alberico Gentili (1552-1608) Roman law and other texts dealing with Roman armed expansion and warfare were among the most influential traditions in the 16th and 17th century development of the law of nations in Europe and in European imperial expansion. The first panels of this conference inquire into the importance of Roman law and of judgments about Roman practice as sources for later thinking about the law of nations, imperialism, and just war. Several of the papers will use the work of the sixteenth-century Roman law scholar Alberico Gentili (1552-1608) as one focal point for the discussion of these wider issues. The later panels consider connections between these Roman traditions and major European thinkers on international law in the 18th century such as Barbeyrac, Montesquieu and Vattel, and the impact of this tradition and of other justifications of European expansion in the Americas and elsewhere. The conference aims to bring together participants from several different disciplines, extending from ancient historians to specialists in modern international legal and political theory, in order to deepen understandings of this Roman tradition and of its ebb and flow among the different projects to justify and shape imperialism through law. The conference will also draw wider attention to Alberico Gentili’s work, and provides an opportunity for deeper evaluation of the traditions of Roman and international legal thought on war and imperialism to which he was a signal contributor. |
| Mar.
14, 2008 Friday 6:30 p.m. |
Institute
of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium Venue: 1 East 78th St. R.S.V.P: 212-992-5803 or IFA.events[at]NYU.edu |
David G. Romano
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Lecture:
The Origins of Zeus |
| Mar. 10, 2008 5 p.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Columbia University Italian Academy 5th Floor Conference Room |
Dirk Obbink Oxford University |
Lecture: Vanishing
Conjecture: Lost Books & their Recovery from Aristotle to Eco In the reception of literature from Graeco-Roman antiquity to the present, the failure of whole works to survive, or survival in fragmentary form, is far more the rule than the other way round. Even whole genres could perish. Readers from antiquity through the Renaissance were more sensitive to risks and lapses in transmission than we are: the digital revolution is one modern expression of such anxiety. Realization of the preponderance of partial transmission puts the fragmentary work in a new light. The relation of the part to the whole, the literary microcosm, and the representative nature of the text preserved as an extract or quotation become central to the process of interpretation. This is illustrated with a test-set of new texts, both published and unpublished, entering the corpus of ancient literature for the first time, including a new poem of Archilochus, a new Ass-novel, and a lost letter of Epicurus. |
| Mar. 10,
2008 6 p.m. |
New York
University Center for Ancient Studies Art History Dept. Classics Dept. Anthropology Dept. Fine Arts Society Venue: Hemmerdinger Hall Silver Center, Room 102 100 Washington Sq. East Reception following |
Colin Renfrew Cambridge University |
Inaugural Lecture, Charles and Ritchie Scribner Distinguished Lectures in the History of Art Series: The Destruction of the Past: Time to Say No |
| Mar.
8, 12-14, 17, 18, 2008 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily |
American
Numismatic Society 140 William St., 1st floor |
Catalog (link to .html) |
Duplicate
book sale (on premises and on-line) Note: The ANS is closing March 1 in preparation for its move to One Hudson Square. The building will, however, be open for the book sale. |
| Mar.
7, 2008 4 p.m. |
Institute
of Fine Arts 1 East 78th St. |
Cecily Hilsdale Northwestern University |
Daniel Silberberg Lecture: The Atoms of Epicurus: Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline |
| Mar. 6-7,
2008 |
Center
for Ancient Studies |
Program (.pdf) |
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies: The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of Faculty and Alumni |
| Mar. 6, 2008 6:30 p.m. |
Target Margin
Theater |
Theater: On the Greeks | |
| Mar. 6, 2008 6 p.m. |
Rare
Book & Manuscript Library Butler Library, Room 523 Columbia University Info at cul-events at columbia.edu Reception to follow |
Raffaella
Cribiore Curator of Papyri, RBML |
“Curators at Home” Lecture Series: Ancient Education and the Papyri |
| Mar. 5, 2008 3:00 p.m. |
Fordham
Classics Dept. Venue: Flom Auditorium, University Library Rose Hill campus, Bronx Reception following |
Jennifer
Udell Curator of University Art Fordham University |
Lecture: Highlights of the Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art |
| Mar.
3, 2008 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. |
Barbara Kowalzig Royal Holloway-UCL The Institute for Advanced Study |
Lecture via
videoconference with Royal Holloway-UCL: Fishing for Fish Sacrifice:
Local Economies and Religious Identity in the Greek Mediterranean Current sacrificial theories tend to deny fish a place in the Cuisine du Sacrifice of the civic community. Fishing for Fish Sacrifice redresses these ideas by placing sacrifice of “seafood” in the wider context of Mediterranean religion and economy, and by tying it to religious communities other than the landed Greek polis — the multi-cultural world of seaborne communications, of travel and trade: it is from this milieu that we can capture evidence for feeding fish to the gods. |
| Mar. 4, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Jodi Magness University of North Carolina |
Colloquium: Archeological Expressions of Jewish Religious Purity |
| Feb. 15-Mar.
2, 2008 |
Take
Wing And Soar Productions, Inc. National Black Theatre 2031 Fifth Ave. at 125th St. Tickets: $18, students/seniors $15 212-868-4444 |
Theater: Euripides’ Medea, directed by Petronia Paley | |
| Feb.
29, 2008 (Friday) 2 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Silver Center, Room 503 100 Washington Sq. East |
Barbara Vinken New York University |
The Poetics
and Theory Colloquium Series Spring 2008: Rome-Paris Barbara Vinken will consider the Eusebian versus the Augustinian tradition in the return of Rome in French culture, culminating in Flaubert. |
| Feb.
26, 2008 12:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. |
David Levene New York University |
Lecture via
videoconference with Royal Holloway-UCL: Oratorical Form and Rhetorical
Effect in Tacitus’ Histories Tacitus’ Histories are apparently more conventional than the Annals in their use of formal speeches. This talk will argue that this is not because Tacitus then had a more conventional view of history: once one examines the speeches in their context we can see how Tacitus constantly reframes them with an off-key relationship to their audience, which reflects his account of a Rome in which traditional forms of power are collapsing. |
| Feb.
23, 2008 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. |
N.Y.
Classical Club |
Program (.pdf) Pre-registration (.pdf) |
Winter Conference:
Linguistics and Classics: Approaches to Teaching and Study |
| Feb.
22, 2008 Friday 6:30 p.m. |
Institute
of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium Venue: 1 East 78th St. R.S.V.P: 212-992-5803 or IFA.events[at]NYU.edu |
Marina Thomatos | Lecture: The Post-Palatial Era of the Aegean Bronze Age |
| Feb.
21, 2008 7:30 p.m. |
University
Seminar Movement 612 Schermerhorn Columbia University Information: (212) 695-9679 |
Rachel
Kousser Brooklyn College |
Lecture:
Inventing the Past in Pergamon and Alexandria This paper analyzes the origins of classicism in Hellenistic Pergamon and Alexandria. It demonstrates that in these cities, artistic innovation was coupled with the emphatic assertion of ties to the past. Philologists have long acknowledged the retrospective character of many Hellenistic texts and literary practices: Alexandrian poetry, library collections of “canonical” authors, textual criticism of Homer, etc. By contrast, art historians have neglected the abundant evidence for retrospection in the era's visual culture. To explore this development, I examine a series of artistic practices including deliberate copying, the creation of new works in classicizing styles, and the assemblage and display of “antiques” I look also at associated scholarly activities such as the formation of a canon of famous masterpieces and the writing of the first historical accounts of Greek art. I integrate evidence from the new underwater investigations of Alexandria with the better-known monuments of Pergamon to address questions concerning the creation of cultural memory as well as the origins of art history as a discipline. |
| Feb. 20,
2008 5 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Fine Arts Society Venue: Silver Center, Room 300 100 Washington Sq. East Reception to follow |
Joan Breton
Connelly New York University |
Lecture: NYU Yeronisos Island Excavations (Cyprus): Cleopatra, Caesarion, and Boys' Rites of Passage |
| Feb. 19, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Kathryn Morgan UCLA |
Colloquium: Revolutions of Wisdom: Socrates, Protagoras, and the Seven Sages |
| Feb. 15, 2008 (Friday) noon |
Columbia
Classics Dept. |
Marco Maiuro |
Lecture: Conflict
and Collaboration: The Relationship Between Senatorial and Imperial Estates in Italy during the Roman Empire |
| Feb. 14, 2008 6:30 p.m. |
The
New York Society of the AIA Center for Ancient Studies NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1 East 78th Street Open to the public R.S.V.P. to lr186[at]columbia.edu |
Larissa Bonfante |
Lecture: Love and Gender in Ancient Etruria |
| Feb. 14, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. Hamilton 617B |
Christian
Wildberg Princeton University |
Lecture: Anaximander, Philosopher and Poet? |
| Jan. 10-Feb.
10, 2008 |
Classical
Theatre of Harlem Harlem Stage at the Gatehouse 150 Convent Avenue |
Theater: Trojan Women, directed by Alfred Preisser with an original score by Kelvyn Bell | |
| Feb. 12, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Frances Muecke University of Sydney |
Colloquium:
Silius Italicus in the Renaissance: Readers and Reputation The presentation has its origin in the speaker’s own discovery of a previously unread and unpublished Renaissance commentary on Silius. |
| Feb. 8, 2008 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room C205 |
Kristina Milnor Barnard College and Columbia University |
Lecture: ...Or by someone else of the same name: Pompeian graffiti, anonymity, and ‘the author effect’ |
| Feb. 5, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Edward Champlin Princeton University |
Colloquium:
Tiberius and the Twins Tiberius Caesar was notoriously reserved, sardonic, cruel, unpopular: it was “Tiberius to the Tiber” at his death. In another paper (see preliminary version) I suggest that, contrary to the historiographical tradition, there co-existed a popular image of him as the wise old king of folklore. In this paper I want to examine Tiberius as a masterly manipulator of myth for popular advantage. Specifically, we will consider his use of the memory of his dead brother in constructing a relationship with Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri; en route we will examine the most extraordinary Latin inscription. |
| Feb. 4, 2008 12 noon |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Columbia University Italian Academy 5th Floor Conference Room |
Serena Connolly Rutgers University |
Lecture: Access to Law in the Roman World |
| Jan. 31, 2008 5:30 p.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Columbia University Italian Academy 5th Floor Conference Room |
Andy Meadows Curator, American Numismatic Society |
Lecture: Coinage in the Hellenistic City |
| Jan. 28,
2008 6:30 p.m. |
AIA
of New York City Venue: National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South Information: (212) 877-9746 or LROUSSIN [at] aol.com |
Martin Beckmann University of Western Ontario |
Haupt Lecture:
Postcards from the Past? Roman Buildings on Coins Abstract: Many famous buildings are depicted on Roman coins. These coins are naturally very exciting for the archaeologist, since they tantalizingly offer an contemporary view of many ancient structures now incompletely preserved – or even of entirely vanished ones. But can we trust such coin depictions? How accurate are they? What can they tell us, and what can’t they? In this talk I investigate this problem, focusing on depictions of the Column of Trajan and the Arch of Septimius Severus, pointing out both the great opportunities they present and also the dangerous pitfalls that can bedevil an archaeologist trying to use them to reconstruct the ancient appearance and function of the monuments. |
| Jan. 17-26,
2008 |
Ashberry
Productions Access Theater 380 Broadway Tickets: $20; $10 for students 917-304-1333 |
More; order tickets online | Theater: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, or Lay Don’t Slay. Directed by Daniel Waldron. |
| Jan. 25, 2008 Friday |
CUNY Graduate Center | First day of classes, fall term | |
| Jan. 25, 2008 11 a.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Columbia University Italian Academy 5th Floor Conference Room |
Susan Mattern-Parkes University of Georgia |
Lecture: Galen’s Patients |
| Jan.
24, 2008 7:30 p.m. |
University
Seminar Movement International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Columbia University Information: (212) 695-9679 |
Katja
Vogt Columbia University |
Lecture:
Stoic Cosmopolitanism The Stoics are widely regarded as cosmopolitanists—as holding the view that, in some sense, the world is the city in which we all live, and that therefore the scope of ethical reasoning must include all of mankind. However, the Stoic theory is deeply different from more familiar, contemporary versions of cosmopolitanism. For the Stoics, other human beings are fellow-parts of the universe, rather than separate persons. The Stoics ask us to view others as belonging to us, and this way of viewing them is an affective disposition. Stoic cosmopolitanism thus is not an impartialist theory, but it also does not call for universalized partiality. Partiality would involve emotions, and these are not part of the Stoic ideal. The ideal agent, who considers everyone as belonging to her, has 'rational love' for everyone. |
| Jan. 22, 2008 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall |
Sarah Nooter Columbia University |
Colloquium: Chaire to All That: The Poetic Powers of Sophocles’ Ajax |
| Jan. 22, 2008 Tuesday |
Columbia
University New York University GSAS |
First day of classes, fall term | |
| Jan. 14, 2008 Monday |
Fordham University GSAS | First day of classes, fall term |
