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| Date | Host/Venue | Speaker/Program | Event/Topic |
| Jan. 14, 2004 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium (Contact via email) 1 East 78th St. Open to the public |
Oscar Muscarella Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Lecture: “The Date of the Destruction Level at Gordion (Phrygia)” |
| Jan. 20, 2004 5:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Elizabeth Irwin Cambridge University |
Lecture: “Bald, Bad and Mad: Herodotus on Egyptians, Cambyses (and Empire?): Interpretive Frameworks and the Histories” |
| Jan. 22, 2004 7:30 p.m. |
University Seminar Movement Columbia University International Affairs Building, Room 1512 More information Contact: (212) 695-9679 or via e-mail |
James Zetzel Columbia University |
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “Cicero is a Lady: De re publica Between Prelates and Patriots”; see abstract |
| Jan. 23, 2004 3:00 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Brooke Holmes Princeton University Ph.D. candidate, classics |
Lecture: “On Bodies and Rocks: looking for the subjective symptom in early Greek secular medicine” |
| Jan. 23, 2004 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium (Contact via email) 1 East 78th St. Open to the public |
Keith DeVries University of Pennsylvania |
Lecture: “Why the New Chronology of Gordion Can be Trusted: The Evidence of the Artifacts” |
| Jan. 23, 2004 7:00 p.m. |
Foundation for Hellenic Culture 7 West 57th Street RSVP (212) 308-6908 Open to the public |
David C. Young University of Florida |
Lecture: “Origins and Authenticity of the Modern Olympics” |
| Jan. 27, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Julia Lougovaya University of Toronto Ph.D. candidate, classics |
Lecture: “Carmina Lapidaria: Verse Inscriptions in Early Athens” |
| Jan. 27, 2004 5:30 p.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Event location: Columbia University Faculty House East Campus; enter on 116th St. See map. |
Maya Vassileva Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Lecture: “Phrygian Literacy: Language and Society” |
| Jan. 30, 2004 3:00 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Ian Moyer University of Chicago Ph.D. candidate, classics |
Lecture: topic TBA in Greek history |
| Feb. 3, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Pedro de Blas and Jackie Elliott Department of Classics Columbia University |
Workshop: “Teaching Elementary Greek and Latin” |
| Feb. 5-6, 2004 Thurs., Feb. 5 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 10 a.m. |
Center for Ancient Studies Hemmerdinger Hall, N.Y.U. 100 Washington Sq. East, Room 102 Free and open to the public For more information, contact the N.Y.U. College Dean’s office at (212) 998-8100 or via email |
Program | Rose-Marie Lewent Conference on Ancient Studies: “Performing Justice” Held in conjunction with the Aquila Theatre Company’s production of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. |
| Feb. 6, 2004 11:00 a.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Event location: Italian Academy 1161 Amsterdam Ave., 5th fl. See map |
Gabriel Cifani Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America |
Lecture: “A Revisionist View of Archaic Rome” |
| Feb. 6, 2004 5:00 p.m. (Session 1 of 6) |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Room 3115 (classics office) Open to students with three semesters of college-level Greek; pre-register by contacting Prof. Wilson via email |
Donna Wilson Brooklyn College |
Friday Colloquium Series: “The New Testament as Literature,” a non-credit workshop in N.T. Greek and Biblical exegesis (in six sessions to be scheduled over the course of the spring term); bring Greek text to first meeting |
| Feb. 6-8, 2004 Fri.-Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. |
Pearl Theatre
80 St. Mark’s Place |
More information |
Theater performance: The Persians |
| Feb. 7, 2004 10 a.m.–4 p.m. |
New York Classical Club Hunter College Chanin Language Center Hunter West, 2nd Floor S.W. corner Lexington and 68th St. Pre-register by Feb. 1 or register on-site |
Program | Winter Conference on Cicero |
| Feb. 10, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
James H. Tatum Princeton University and Dartmouth College |
Colloquium: “Literacy and Liberation: African-American Writers and the Classical Tradition”; see abstract |
| Feb. 17, 2004 12:15 p.m. |
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Columbia University Event location: Schermerhorn Hall 8th floor seminar room |
Michael Koortbojian University of Toronto |
Lecture: “The Lesson of Timanthes’ Iphigenia: Memory, Phantasia, and the Spectator's Attention” |
| Feb. 19, 2004 7:30 p.m. |
University Seminar Movement Columbia University International Affairs Building, Room 1512 More information Contact: (212) 695-9679 or via e-mail |
Katherine Welch Institute of Fine Arts/ N.Y.U. |
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: [topic TBA in Roman architecture] |
| Feb. 20, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room 9205 Open to the public |
Rosaria Munson Swarthmore College |
Lecture: “Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians” |
| Feb. 24, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Alexa Jervis Barnard College |
Colloquium: “Roman Power and Decline (and Vice Versa) in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum” |
| Feb. 24, 2004 5:30 p.m. |
Sarah Lawrence College Esther Raushenbush Library |
Catherine Zuckert Notre Dame University |
The 2004 Sara Yates Exley Lecture Series in the Great Books: “Socratic Statesmanship” |
| Feb. 27, 2004 4:00 p.m. (Session 2 of 6) |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Room 3115 (classics office) Contact: Prof. Wilson via email |
Donna Wilson Brooklyn College |
Friday Colloquium Series: “The New Testament as Literature,” a non-credit workshop in N.T. Greek and Biblical exegesis (in six sessions to be scheduled over the course of the spring term); selected text is the Book of John |
| Feb. 27-28, 2004 Feb. 27, 5-6:30 p.m. Feb. 28, 10 a.m.-6:20 p.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Italian Academy, Teatro 1161 Amsterdam Ave. betw. 116th and 118th Sts. |
Program | Symposium: “New Directions in Seneca Studies” |
| Mar. 4, 2004 12 noon |
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Italian Academy, 5th Floor 1161 Amsterdam Ave. betw. 116th and 118th Sts. |
Sebastian Heath | Numismatics Workshop: “Roman Coinage: Chronology, Denominations, and Use” |
| Mar. 4, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
Fairfield University Event Location: DiMenna-Nyselius Library Multimedia Room See a map and directions. Contact: Prof. Marsha McCoy via email |
Shilpa Raval Yale University |
Lecture: “Boys to Men: Erotic and Political Violence in Livy’s Foundation Myths” |
| Mar. 4-5, 2004 Mar. 4 4 p.m. Mar. 5 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. |
Center for Ancient Studies Hemmerdinger Hall, N.Y.U. 100 Washington Sq. East, Room 102 Free and open to the public For more information, contact the N.Y.U. College Dean’s office at (212) 998-8100 or via email |
Program | Ranieri Conference on Ancient Studies: “Athens to New York: Athletic Games/Civic Identity’ |
| Mar. 7, 2004 3:00 p.m. |
Onassis Center 645 Fifth Ave. at 51st St. |
Helene Foley Frederic Lauritzen |
Tour of Exhibit: “Coming of Age in Ancient Greece” |
| Mar. 9, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Todd Davis Minsun Wei Department of Classics Columbia University |
Dialogue: Plutarch “Plutarch’s Life of Numa: TBA” “The Aesthetics of Plutarch’s Mimesis” |
| Mar. 11, 2004 12 noon |
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Italian Academy, 5th Floor 1161 Amsterdam Ave. betw. 116th and 118th Sts. |
Sebastian Heath | Numismatics Workshop: “Images and Empire on Roman Coins” |
| Mar. 11, 2004 7:00 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Seminar Room |
Joy Connolly Stanford University |
Lecture: “Inventing Roman Republicanism: on Writing, Passion and Politics” |
| Mar. 19, 2004 4:00 p.m. (Session 4 of 6) |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Room 3115 (classics office) Contact: Prof. Wilson via email |
Donna Wilson Brooklyn College |
Friday Colloquium Series: “The New Testament as Literature,” a non-credit workshop in N.T. Greek and Biblical exegesis (in six sessions to be scheduled over the course of the spring term); selected text is the Book of John |
| Mar. 25, 2004 1:00 p.m. |
Fordham Classics Dept.
Administration Bldg. Room 226 Fordham-Rose Hill campus Bronx Directions and a campus map |
Mark D. Usher University of Vermont |
Lecture: “Oral Tradition as Reception: Quotations from Homer in Plato, Diogenes the Cynic, and Longinus” |
| Mar. 25, 2004 7:30 p.m. |
University Seminar Movement Columbia University International Affairs Building, Room 1512 More information Contact: (212) 695-9679 or via e-mail |
Dee Clayman CUNY Graduate Center |
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “Poetry and Pyrrhonism in the Hellenistic Age”; abstract |
| March 26 7:00 p.m. March 27 2:00 & 7:00 p.m. |
The Barnard & Columbia Classical Drama Society Performance location: Minor Latham Playhouse 118 Milbank Hall, Barnard College (enter campus at 117th St., west side of Broadway) Reservations: 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com |
Theater performance: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, performed in the original Greek with English surtitles | |
| Mar. 29, 2004 11:00 a.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Italian Academy, 5th Floor 1161 Amsterdam Ave. betw. 116th and 118th Sts. |
Polymnia Athanassiadi University of Athens |
Lecture: “The Chaldean Oracles: A Late Antique Holy Book” |
| Mar. 29, 2004 8:00 p.m. |
92nd Street Y E. 92nd Street at Lexington Ave. |
Staged reading: Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’ Hecuba | |
| Apr. 1, 2004 3:30 p.m. |
Fordham Classics Dept.
Lowenstein South Lounge Fordham-Lincoln Center Directions and a campus map |
Peter T. Struck University of Pennsylvania |
Lecture: “Divination and Sympathy: Stoic Theories of Divine Signs” |
| April 2, 2004 11 a.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Italian Academy, 5th Floor 1161 Amsterdam Ave. betw. 116th and 118th Sts. |
Andrea Giardina University of Rome |
Lecture: “The Roman Iconography of Fascism” |
| April 2, 2004 4:00 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts 1 East 78th St. Lecture Hall Free and open to the public; no one admitted after 4 p.m. |
Rabun Taylor Harvard University |
Daniel Silberberg Lecture: “Reflections on Reflection in Roman Art” |
| Apr. 2-3, 2004 | Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, U.S. Section Event Location: Parliamo Italiano School 132 East 65th St. |
Program |
First Annual Graduate Student Conference, “The Etruscans and Others” |
| Apr. 6, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Nancy Worman Barnard College Sarah Nooter, Ph.D. cand., Department of Classics, Columbia University |
Dialogue: Tragedy and (Trans)figurative Language “Displaying the Murder in Aeschylus’ Choephori” and “The Assumption of Heroism in Sophocles’ Ajax” |
| April 9-10, 2004 |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Apr. 9: Italian Academy, Teatro Apr. 10: 501 Schermerhorn Hall no registration necessary |
Program | Symposium: “Dreams in Ancient Cultures“ |
| Apr. 15, 2004 7:30 p.m. |
University Seminar Movement Columbia University Schermerhorn Hall, Room 934 near corner of 118th and Amsterdam see a campus map Contact: (212) 695-9679 or via e-mail |
H. Alan Shapiro Johns Hopkins University |
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “Alcibiades: Constructions of Masculinity in Late Fifth Century Athens”; read the abstract |
| Apr. 16, 2004 2 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Room 3115 (classics office) Contact: Prof. Wilson via email |
Donna Wilson Brooklyn College |
Friday Colloquium Series: “The New Testament as Literature,” a non-credit workshop in N.T. Greek and Biblical exegesis; reading for Apr. 16 is John 4 |
| Apr. 16, 2004 2:10 p.m. |
Barnard College Classics Dept. Columbia Classics Dept. Event location: 323 Milbank Hall Barnard College |
Joy Connolly Stanford University |
Lecture: “What’s Love Got to Do With It: Catullus and His World” |
| April 16, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
Hunter College
Classics Dept. Event location: Chanin Language Center 209 Hunter West, 68th St. and Lexington Ave. Contact: (212) 772-4960 |
Larissa Bonfante New York University |
67th Annual Josephine Earle Memorial Lecture: “The Etruscans at Home and Abroad” |
| Apr. 20, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Robert Ball University of Hawaii |
Lecture: “Gilbert Highet’s Correspondence with Cyril Bailey” |
| April 22, 2004 1:00 p.m. |
Fordham Classics Dept.
O'Keefe Commons, O'Hare Hall Fordham-Rose Hill campus Bronx Directions and a campus map |
Jennifer V. Ebbeler University of Texas at Austin |
Lecture: “Augustine the Writer: From Doctrina to Scientia” |
| Apr. 23, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room 6496 Open to the public |
Peter Bing Emory University |
Lecture: “Allusion from the Broad, Well-Trodden Street: The Odyssey in Inscribed and Literary Epigram” |
| April 23-24, 2004 |
Classical Association of the Atlantic States Sheraton Hotel and Towers 811 Seventh Ave. between 52nd and 53rd Sts. |
CAAS Spring 2004 Meeting in New York City | |
| Apr. 26-28, 2004 8:00 p.m. |
Fordham Univ. Directing Program Event Location: Gerald Quinn Black Box Studio Theatre 113 West 60th Street Contact: (212) 636-7033 |
Theater: Sophocles’ “Electra,” directed by Maura Smith | |
| Apr. 27, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Elizabeth Scharffenberger Columbia University Pedro de Blas Ph.D. cand., Dept. of Classics Columbia University |
Dialogue: Plato’s Authorial Choices “The Homeric Structure of the Republic” and “The Creation of Character in the Late Dialogues” |
| April 28, 2004
2:00-3:30 p.m. |
New School University Graduate Faculty Building Machinist Conference Room 65 Fifth Avenue Open to the public |
Johan Tralau Uppsala University, Sweden/New School University |
Lecture: “Tragedy as Political Philosophy: Hegel’s Theory of the Tragic and the Self-Destruction of Antigone’s Laws” |
| April 30, 2004 4:00 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Room 3115 (classics office) Contact: Prof. Wilson via email |
Donna Wilson Brooklyn College |
Friday Colloquium Series: “The New Testament as Literature,” a non-credit workshop in N.T. Greek and Biblical exegesis; reading for Apr. 30 starts at John 4:43 |
| April 30, 2004
6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts 1 East 78th St. Open to the public |
Annie Caubet Curator, Louvre Museum |
Lecture: “Ivories in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean” |
| May 1, 2004 10:00 a.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Event Location: Silver Center, Jurow Hall Washington Square East and Waverly Place Contact: David Sider at (212) 998-8590 or david.sider@nyu.edu |
Program | Conference in honor of Emeritus Professor Lionel Casson: “Ships, Travel, Siegecraft, and Underwater Archeology” |
| May 4, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Contact: Gerry Visco (212) 854-7821 |
Peter L. Schmidt Universität Konstanz |
Lecture: “The Author and Genesis of the Historia Augusta” |
| May 6, 2004 1:40-3:00 p.m. |
Brooklyn College
Classics Dept. State Lounge Brooklyn College Student Center |
Sheila Murnaghan University of Pennsylvania |
The Costas Lecture: “Hero and Commander: Odysseus and his Crew” |
| May 7, 2004 4:00 p.m. (final session) |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave. Room 3115 (classics office) Contact: Prof. Wilson via email |
Donna Wilson Brooklyn College |
Friday Colloquium Series: “The New Testament as Literature,” a non-credit workshop in N.T. Greek and Biblical exegesis; reading for May 7 starts at John 6 |
| May 8, 2004 4:00 p.m. |
New York Classical Club Event location: Fordham University-Lincoln Center South Lounge, Plaza Level 116 West 60th Street |
Josiah Ober Princeton University |
Spring meeting lecture: “Theogenes the King: Fragments from the Life of an Athenian Everyman”; read the abstract |
| May 14, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room 6496 Open to the public |
Iakovos
Vasiliou Brooklyn College |
Lecture: “Aiming at Virtue in Plato” Texts to be discussed: The Apology, Crito, Cleitophon |
| May 27, 2004 7:00 p.m. |
Greek-American University Professionals, the
Greek Press Office, & the Chian Foundation Event location: Greek Press Office, 55 E. 59th St. Contact: (212) 751-8788, 2-4 p.m. Open to the public; reservations required |
Adele Haft Hunter College |
Lecture: “Not Just a Game: Ancient Greek Sports from Olympia to Athens” |
| May 28, 2004 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium (Contact via email) 1 East 78th St. Open to the public |
Peter Pfaelzner
University of Tübingen |
Lecture: “Minoan Style in Inland Syria: the Evidence from the Palace at Qatna” |
| May 19-June 13, 2004 |
The Great Jones Company La Mama ETC./The Annex 74A East 4th Street Tickets: 212-352-3101 |
Theater: Seven — seven Greek plays in repertory | |
| Through August 5 |
Imua! Theater Company Manhattan Ensemble Theater 55 Mercer Street at Broome (212) 327-1577 Tickets: $15 |
Theater: The Greeks, a ten-play cycle about Greek mythology set in modern wartime by John Barton and Kenneth Cavendar | |
| July 24-Aug. 14, 2004 | The National Asian American Theatre Co. Intar 53 508 West 53rd St. Reservations: (212) 244-0447 Tickets: $19 |
Theater: Antigone, directed by Jean Randich; translated and adapted by Brendan Kennelly | |
| Sept. 10, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room 9204 Open to the public |
Katharina Volk Columbia University |
Lecture: “Sex and the City: Ovid’s Roman Art of Love” |
| Sept. 14, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Open to the public |
Bruce King Columbia University Susanna Martinez Columbia University |
Colloquium: “Classics and Psychoanalysis: Akhilleus’ Discontent” (King) “Platonic Forms: Towards a Transcendental Experience” (Martinez) |
| Sept. 21, 2004 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium (Contact via email) 1 East 78th St. Open to the public |
Itamar Singer | Lecture: “A New Economic Factor in the Hittite-Ahhiyawan Conflict in Western Anatolia” |
| Sept. 23, 2004 7:30 p.m. |
University Seminar Movement Columbia University 930 Schermerhorn Hall corner of 118th St. and Amsterdam Ave. Information: (212) 316-0373 or via e-mail |
Christopher Ratté
New York University |
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “The Founding of Aphrodisias” See abstract. |
| Sept. 24, 2004 11:00 a.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Event location: Italian Academy 1161 Amsterdam Ave., 5th fl. |
Richard J.A. Talbert U.N.C.-Chapel Hill Editor, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World |
Lecture: “New Directions for Peutinger’s Roman Map” |
| Sept. 24, 2004 2:00 p.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Event location: Italian Academy 1161 Amsterdam Ave., 5th fl. |
Prof. Joanna Smith Art History & Archaeology Pedro de Blas Classical Studies Lisa Mignone Classical Studies Prof. Alan Cameron Classics |
Talks by Columbia faculty and graduate students: (2:00) “The Bronze-Age Excavation at Phlamoudhi, Cyprus” (2:30) “Research on Plato’s Laws” (3:15) “The History of the Aventine” (3:45) “Greek Mythology in the Roman World” |
| Sept. 28, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Open to the public |
David Raeburn Oxford University |
Colloquium: “Changing Shapes: Ovid as an Entertainer” |
| Sept. 29, 2004 1:00 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Open to the public |
Giovanni Giorgini University of Bologna Kelli Rudolph King’s College, Cambridge |
Colloquium: “Issues in Definition I of Plato”s Theaetetus” “Protagoras on Truth and Politics: Theaetetus 165a-168c” “Why Digress? Theaetetus 172c-177b” |
| Sept. 29, 2004 7:15 p.m. |
Program in Hellenic Studies Columbia University Milbank Chapel W. 120th St. at B’way & Amsterdam Open to the public |
Roderick Beaton King’s College, London |
Lecture: “A Continent as Big as China:
Hellenism in the Life and Work of George Seferis” And book-signing: George Seferis: Waiting for An Angel: A Biography (Yale University Press, 2003) |
| Oct. 20, 2003- Oct. 1, 2004 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday |
The American Numismatic Society Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty St. Exhibit is free and open to the public, but an appointment is necessary; more info: (212) 720-6130 |
Abstract | Exhibit: "Full Circle: The Olympic Heritage in Coins & Medals" |
| June 29, 2004- Oct. 3, 2004 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Mary and Michael Jaharis Gallery, 1st floor |
Exhibit: "The Games in Ancient Athens: A Special Presentation to Celebrate the 2004 Olympics" — a selection of ancient Greek vases, bronzes, and other works showcases aspects of games held at Athens in antiquity | |
| Oct. 5, 2004 12:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Seminar Room 25 Waverly Place, 7th Floor Open to the public |
David Raeburn Oxford University Translator, Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin, forthcoming) |
Lecture: “Changing Shapes: Ovid as an Entertainer” |
| Oct. 7, 2004 6:30 p.m. |
NYU Humanities Council
NYU Maison Francaise 16 Washington Mews Open to the public |
Theodora Skiptares Bio |
Storytelling in Performance: “Helen, Queen of Troy and Other Stories” |
| Oct. 8, 2004 6:30 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium 1 East 78th St. Open to the public R.S.V.P: 212-992-5803 or IFA.events@NYU.edu |
Pietro Militello | Lecture: “The Late Minoan III Frescoes from Ayia Triada: Local Tradition and Foreign Models” |
| Oct. 6-10, 2004 |
National Theater of Greece
at City Center W. 55th St. betw. 6th and 7th Aves. |
Theater: “Lysistrata” | Jul. 22-Oct. 10 |
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Lincoln Center 150 West 65th Street Tickets: $65-95 |
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Theater: Aristophanes’ Frogs, adapted by Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim |
| Oct. 12, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 617B Hamilton Hall Open to the public |
Vayos Liapis University of Montreal |
Colloquium: “You Are My Zeus of the Torches: Religions of Macedonia and Thrace, and the Authenticity of Rhesus” |
| Oct. 12, 2004 6:00 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Institute of Fine Arts 1 East 78th St. Open to the public Contact: James R. McCredie (212) 992-5805 |
Olga Palagia Classical Archaeology University of Athens |
Lecture: “The Tower of the Winds in Athens and the Nostalgia for Alexandria” |
| Oct. 12, 2004 6:00 p.m. |
Onassis Center 645 Fifth Ave. at 51st St. Reservations required: (212) 486-8531 |
Program | Panel Discussion: “The Greek Chorus: A Challenge” |
| Dec. 2, 2004 5:00 p.m. |
Rutgers Classics Dept. Ruth Adams Building 003 See directions Sponsored by the Classics Graduate Student Association |
Robert Kaster Princeton University |
2004-5 Rutgers Graduate Student Classics Society Lecture Series: “The Structure of Pudor” |
| Dec. 2, 2004 8:00 p.m. |
Aquila Theatre Company Baruch Performing Arts Center E. 25th Street at Lexington and Third Avenues Tickets: (212) 998-8017 $30 (for benefit of the Multiple Sclerosis Society) |
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Theater: Reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, translated by Peter Meineck |
| Dec. 2-4, 2004 8 p.m. |
Spring Theatreworks Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center 107 Suffolk Street Tickets: 212-502-8560 $15 |
Theater: “Post-Oedipus,” adapted from Euripides’ Phoenician Women | |
| Dec. 4-5, 2004 |
Princeton Philosophy
Dept. |
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Colloquium: “Reason and Teleology — Plato and His Influence” |
| Dec. 7, 2004 4:10 p.m. |
Columbia
Classics Dept. 616 Hamilton Hall Open to the public |
Anise Strong Columbia University |
Colloquium: “Knowing and Seeing: Roman Pornography and Violence Against Women” |
| Dec. 8, 2004 6:00 p.m. |
N.Y.U.
Classics Dept. Seminar Room 25 Waverly Place, 7th Floor Open to the public |
Carlos Noreña Yale University |
Lecture: “Hadrian’s Chastity” |
| Dec. 9, 2004 5:00 p.m. |
Center
for the Ancient Mediterranean Location: Italian Academy 1161 Amsterdam Ave. betw. 116th and 118th Sts. 5th Fl. Conference Room |
R.R.R. Smith University of Oxford |
Lecture: “Local contexts and historical meanings: Statues in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600” |
| Dec. 10, 2004 12:15 -1:15 p.m. |
Rutgers Classics Dept. Ruth Adams Building 003 See directions |
Jack Cargill Rutgers History Department |
Lecture: “Mercenary of the Gods and Whimsical Epigraphists: Archon of Miletos and Cargill of Rutgers” |
| Dec. 10, 2004 4:30 p.m. |
CUNY
Classics Dept. CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., Room C201 (Concourse level; one floor below lobby) Open to the public |
Joy Connolly New York University |
Lecture: “Crowd Politics: How to Think about the Republic” |
