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COLLOQUIUM: Patricia Rosenmeyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "The Vocal Memnon Colossus"

Oct 22, 2015 at -

The Memnon colossus in Egyptian Thebes was a popular tourist destination.  After an earthquake in 27 BCE toppled its massive head, the remaining stones began to emit a high-pitched noise each morning;… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Luke Roman, Memorial University, "Humanist topographies: the classical poetics of place in quattrocento Florence and Naples"

Sep 17, 2015 at -

This paper explores the reception of the classical poetics of place and space by humanist authors within the context of the broader renewal of classical spatiality that was being carried out in literary and… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Columbia University, "When the Gods Became Objects: The Materiality of the Divine Image in Ancient Greece"

Sep 10, 2015 at -

In ancient Greek society, the concept of the Divine could be constructed and communicated through rituals, narratives, cult epithets, philosophical discourses, ritual performative texts, or hieroi logoi… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Rodney Ast, Heidelberg, "Editions of Ancient Papyri Born Digital. Aspirations and Current Obstacles"

Sep 24, 2015 at -

Early projects concerned with digitizing ancient papyri concentrated on making images and textual data of published papyri available online.  Recently, focus has shifted to developing an editorial platform that… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Julia Wilker, UPENN, "Dirty Dancing: Herodias and the Reinvention of Queenship in First-Century Judaea"

Sep 3, 2015 at -

The gospels of Mark and Matthew famously blame Herodias for the violent death of John the Baptist, and Flavius Josephus presents her as a scheming, nagging wife, whose burning ambition caused the downfall of… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: Ineke Sluiter, Leiden, "Mindreading Medea"

Oct 15, 2015 at -

Cognitive studies are having an increasing impact on classical studies. In this paper, I will discuss what a cognitive approach to literature would entail, and zoom in on the issue of ‘mindreading’: the… Read More



COLLOQUIUM: John Dillery, University of Virgina, "'History Continuous and Comprehensive: Berossus, Manetho and the Curation of the Past"

Oct 1, 2015 at -

In this talk I will 'think out loud' about the purpose behind national histories of the sort written by Berossus and Manetho. Specifically, why is it important that they be continuous, from the origins of organized… Read More



SCS Event: Speaker, Bruce Frier, University of Michigan, "The Foundations of Roman Legal Culture: Ius, Lex, and Legal Certainty"

Sep 11, 2015 at -

"For the Roman jurists of the Classical period (30 BCE- 235 CE), one major problem was to establish their authority in determining law within trials. This talk reconsiders some well-known sources that show how they… Read More



CONFERENCE: The Language of the Past and the Future of Ancient Studies

Oct 16, 2015 - Oct 17, 2015 at -

This conference, the principal event sponsored by the Center for Ancient Studies in Fall 2015, will be a two-day, international, interdisciplinary conference on the study of ancient languages — in a word, philology… Read More



HYDE LECTURE TALK: Margie Miles, UC Irvine "Conserving the Parthenon: Temple, Church, Mosque, Ruin, Photo Op?"

Apr 15, 2015 at -

Teams of architects, conservators and stonemasons have been dismantling and reconstructing the Parthenon since the 1980s. The work is very careful, and has led to some exciting new discoveries about the original… Read More