Colloquia and Events 2014/15

The weekly Classics Colloquium provide an informal meeting ground for the College's lively community of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Each year, the series brings to campus a number of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological, and historical subjects.

Colloquia and Events 2014/15

Fall 2014 Classics Colloquium

News from Abroad: Reports from the Field

J.E. Lendon University of Virginia "What kind of tyrant died when they killed Julius Caesar?"

Steven Sidebotham University of Delaware "From India to Alexandria: A Merchant's Journey in Roman Times"

Tyler Jo Smith University of Virginia "Roman Religion, Pisidian Practice: Rock-Cut Votive Reliefs from Southwest Anatolia"

Daryn Lehoux Queen's University "Creeping Things, Born of Mud and Slime: Questions and Problems in Spontaneous Generation"

Evrydiki Tasopoulou Bryn Mawr College "Mosaic Animals, Astronomy, and Art History in the Pompeian House of the Faun"

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Jonathan Hall University of Chicago "Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern"

Joel Alden Schlosser Bryn Mawr College "'Only Things Matter': Toward a Herodotean Materialism"

Sarah Nooter University of Chicago "Choral voices and Ventriloquism in Aeschylus' Agamemnon"

Spring 2015

Benjamin Eldon Stevens Bryn Mawr College "Shapes Changed into New Bodies': Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Other in Ovid's Metamorphoses?"

Julia Gaisser Bryn Mawr College "Excuses, Excuses: Racy Poetry from Catullus to Johannes Secundus"

Seemee Ali Carthage College "Hephaestus, Poet of the Illiad"

Zacharoula Petraki University of Crete "Art in Service of Philosophy in Plato's Republic and Laws"

Ari Bryen West Virginia University "The Grant of Universal Citizenship in AD 212: Evidence from Papyri"

Stephen Harrison Corpus Christi College, Oxford "Psyche amongst the Victorians: An Aspect of Apuleian Reception"

Eleni Mantzourani University of Athens, Onassis Foundation "Disease and Therapy: Medical and Other Therapeutical Practices in Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean"

Melissa Haynes Princeton University "Ovid's Pygmalion and a Poetics of Touch"

Steven Ellis University of Cincinnati "New Discoveries at Pompeii: The University of Cincinnati Excavations of a 'Lost' Pompeian Neighborhood"

The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Richard Tarrant Harvard University "Horace as a Love Poet"

Asli Öyzar Boğaziçi University "Excavations in Tarsus-Gözlükule, Cilicia: Past and Present"

Joseph Solodow Yale University "Livy XXI: Historical Aims and Methods"

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News from Abroad:
Reports from the Field

J.E. Lendon
University of Virginia
"What kind of tyrant died when they killed Julius Caesar?"

Steven Sidebotham
University of Delaware
"From India to Alexandria:
A Merchant's Journey in Roman Times"

Tyler Jo Smith
University of Virginia
"Roman Religion, Pisidian Practice: Rock-Cut Votive Reliefs from Southwest Anatolia"

Daryn Lehoux
Queen's University
"Creeping Things, Born of Mud and Slime: Questions and Problems in Spontaneous Generation"

Evrydiki Tasopoulou
Bryn Mawr College
"Mosaic Animals, Astronomy, and Art History in the Pompeian House of the Faun"

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Jonathan Hall
University of Chicago
"Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern"

Joel Alden Schlosser
Bryn Mawr College
"'Only Things Matter':
Toward a Herodotean Materialism"

Sarah Nooter
University of Chicago
"Choral voices and Ventriloquism
in Aeschylus' Agamemnon"

Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Bryn Mawr College
"Shapes Changed into New Bodies': Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Other in Ovid's Metamorphoses?"

Julia Gaisser
Bryn Mawr College
"Excuses, Excuses: Racy Poetry
from Catullus to Johannes Secundus"

Seemee Ali
Carthage College
"Hephaestus, Poet of the Illiad"

Zacharoula Petraki
University of Crete
"Art in Service of Philosophy in
Plato's Republic and Laws"

Ari Bryen
West Virginia University
"The Grant of Universal Citizenship
in AD 212: Evidence from Papyri"

Stephen Harrison
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
"Psyche amongst the Victorians:
An Aspect of Apuleian Reception"

Eleni Mantzourani
University of Athens, Onassis Foundation
"Disease and Therapy: Medical and Other Therapeutical Practices in Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean"

Melissa Haynes
Princeton University
"Ovid's Pygmalion and
a Poetics of Touch"

Steven Ellis
University of Cincinnati
"New Discoveries at Pompeii: The University of Cincinnati Excavations of a 'Lost' Pompeian Neighborhood"

The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies

Richard Tarrant
Harvard University
"Horace as a Love Poet"

Asli Öyzar
Boğaziçi University
"Excavations in Tarsus-Gözlükule,
Cilicia: Past and Present"

Joseph Solodow
Yale University
"Livy XXI: Historical Aims and Methods"