Past Events

Ben Abbott will defend his dissertation, "Forging the Anchor: Antiochus I and the Creation of the Seleucid Empire".
 
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Amelia Bensch-Schaus will defend her dissertation, "The Two Voices of Homer: Iliadic and Odyssean Receptions in Tragedy and the Argonautica".
 
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Gavin Blasdel will defend his dissertation, "Honors, Politics, and Community in Roman Athens"
 
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Please join us for a Friday Conversation with Cam Grey: “The Inclusive Classroom: a Discussion Prompted by Claude Steel’s Whistling Vivaldi”.

Please join us for a Friday Conversation with Brian Rose and Jonathan Katz (Art History) “Being Gay in Academia.”

Every spring, the Graduate Group in Ancient History hosts a week-long visit by a distinguished ancient historian, made possible by a gift by Walter Woodburn Hyde (1870-1966, Professor of Greek and Ancient History at… Read More

Speaker: Rhodessa Jones, Founder / Artistic Director: The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women/ HIV Circle

Speaker: Laura Jansen, Associate Professor (Reader) in Classics & Comparative Literature and Research Fellow at the… Read More

Speaker: Kyle West, Ancient History Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania

Title: "Aging Virtuously: Cicero on… Read More

Speaker: Peter Struck, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Title:"Porphyry on… Read More