All undergraduates welcome! Come chat with Prof. McInerney about his interests and experiences — from cows to centaurs, from Athens to Delos.Refreshments provided.Brought to you by: The Classics Board.Further info:… Read More
All are welcome at the first official session of our student reading group! We’ll be reading “Auricula Meretricula” in Latin AND learning to read the Greek Alphabet. The group will continue to meet most… Read More
In this talk Wilson discusses the challenges of making this ancient work feel alive now, discussing formal decisions (meter, word choice, pacing, stylistic register) she made in bringing out Homer’s many voices.… Read More
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Please join us for an evening with Emily Wilson’s (Professor of Classical Studies) much lauded translation of the Odyssey. After the War: An Odyssey is a play focused on Odysseus… Read More
Disease often served as a potent metaphor for deficient character in antiquity. This phenomenon is explored through a canvassing of poetic, philosophical, and technical works that describe a target as gouty.… Read More
This paper examines the conversational exchanges depicted in Cicero’s De Oratore and considers what they may tell us about linguistic politeness in Late Republican Rome. It focuses in particular on verbal… Read More
When dealing with Aristotle’s Poetics, scholars typically assume that he regards tragedy as the most valuable of poetic genres; Aristotle’s analysis of comedy would then be marginal to his whole… Read More
A remarkable feature of early Greek colonies is the division of the land into equal klêroi (“lots,” “plots of land”) and their apparent assignation by lot to a group of settlers who were themselves… Read More
