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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for April 27

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Boston Area Classics Calendar April 2018 Sophocles' Antigone<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134 Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium with an original translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE by the Harvard Classics Club! Featuring a new theatrical score performed by a small army of chorus members, a dynamic set that breathes with the action, and undergraduate, faculty, and professional actors, this performance launches ANTIGONE into the heart of contemporary discourse. This event is free and open to the public at 6:30 pm on April 29 in Harvard Stadium. Dee Clayman (City University of New York)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 4 - 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Astral Politics: Royal Catasterisms in Callimachus and Aratus." The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Emily Greenwood (Yale University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Aristotle's Slave and Reconstructive Philology" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> May 2018 **Leah Whittington (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Supplements After Derrida" GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" Leah Kronenberg (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts" Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds. Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture. Mildenberg Lecture www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…> Trachiniae Study Day - Greek Tragedy Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., May 9, 10:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 008, Providence, RI 02912 A full day of study and discussion focused on Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy, "Women of Trachis." Participants should have read the play in advance, and should bring a Greek text of the play with them. Lunch will be served! If you have any questions, please contact the Brown University Department of Classics at classics_department(a)brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu> or 401.863.1267. www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Discussion of Cartledge's book, Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.oup.com_academi…>. Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University). View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>. Please send event information in the format modeled above.

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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for April 20

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Boston Area Classics Calendar April 2018 Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Apr. 21, 12 - 4 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G3, 415 South Street, Waltham, Mass. 02453 "Otherness" in Classics: Ancient Conceptions and Modern Receptions Keynote by Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Assistant Professor, Princeton University: "Citizenship's Insular Cases: From Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico" Full list of papers and times: 12:00 p.m. Opening Remarks 12:05 p.m. Zachary Elliott "Telemachus and the Construction of (Dis)ability in the Odyssey" 12:20 p.m. Erin Brantmayer "Shove Thy Neighbor: How Landscape and Cult Allowed Greek Authors to "Other" Practitioners of Human Sacrifice" 12:35 p.m. Glenn Maur "Reading the Life of Aesop as Slave Narrative: Object Bodies, Literacy, and Resistance in the Ancient Novel" 12:50 p.m. Huizhong Zheng "Herodotus' and Sima Qian's Writings on the Customs of Barbarian Nomads" 1:05 p.m. Refreshments Break 1:20 p.m. Robert Mosher "Examining Greco-Macedonian and Egyptian Identities and Intergroup Relations within Ptolemaic Egypt" 1:35 p.m. Danielle Perry "Gender and Politics in the Cult of Dionysus" 1:50 p.m. Savannah Bishop "The Otherness of Gold in Ancient Roman Eyes: Gold in the Hands of Slaves, the Hair of Gauls, and the Talons of Griffins" 2:05 p.m. Matthew Previto ".the License of Tumult and the Hope of Booty from Civil War: The Army as Other in Roman Society" 2:20 p.m. Refreshments Break 2:35 p.m. Ruth Portes "Archers and Alterity: Understanding the Greek Perception of Eastern Pastoralist Culture Through Representations of the Composite Bow" 2:50 p.m. Anna Krohn "Mythologizing and Memes: Classics in the Hands of the Alt-Right" 3:05 p.m. Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta "Citizenship's Insular Cases: From Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico" 3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reception with hors d'oeuvres, appetizers, and refreshments. Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, Brandeis University. Event is Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Please contact Erin Brantmayer (ebrantmayer(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:ebrantmayer@brandeis.edu>), Anna Krohn (akrohn(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:akrohn@brandeis.edu>), or Zachary Elliott (zelliott(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:zelliott@brandeis.edu>) for more information or additional directions. Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 7 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106 "The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)" Co-sponsored by AIA-Hartford Chapter and Department of Classics Di Yan (Cambridge University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Why Should We Compare? What to Compare and How?: A Greek-Chinese Case Study on Authorship in Ancient Poetry" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" *Lisa Mignone (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5:15 - 7:15 p.m. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Room 304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Managing Madness, Managing Manpower: The Divine Queen at Rome" John Zaleski (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 "The Other Syriac Exegetical Tradition: An Unstudied Commentary on Evagrius of Pontus and the Development of a Monastic Commentary Tradition East of Byzantium" Byzantine Studies Colloquium Jochen Griesbach (University of Würzburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 24, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Position Matters: Portrait Monuments As Evidence For Structural Change Of The Public Sphere During The Hellenistic Period" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Charles Bartlett (Duke University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Professionalization, politics, and the ius fetiale at Rome: tradition and technicalities" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall Room 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)" Co-sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America-Boston and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Choreographing Amorous Bodies" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02143 "Arguments in a cold climate: Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics" Sophocles' Antigone<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134 Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium with an original translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE by the Harvard Classics Club! Featuring a new theatrical score performed by a small army of chorus members, a dynamic set that breathes with the action, and undergraduate, faculty, and professional actors, this performance launches ANTIGONE into the heart of contemporary discourse. This event is free and open to the public at 6:30 pm on April 29 in Harvard Stadium. Dee Clayman (City University of New York)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 4 - 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Astral Politics: Royal Catasterisms in Callimachus and Aratus." The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Emily Greenwood (Yale University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Aristotle's Slave and Reconstructive Philology" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> May 2018 Leah Whittington (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBD GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" Leah Kronenberg (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts" Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds. Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture. Mildenberg Lecture www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…> Trachiniae Study Day - Greek Tragedy Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., May 9, 10:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 008, Providence, RI 02912 A full day of study and discussion focused on Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy, "Women of Trachis." Participants should have read the play in advance, and should bring a Greek text of the play with them. Lunch will be served! If you have any questions, please contact the Brown University Department of Classics at classics_department(a)brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu> or 401.863.1267. www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> **Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Discussion of Cartledge's book, Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.oup.com_academi…>. Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University). View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe to weekly emails: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-list Subscribe to calendar: http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar New event submissions/current event revisions welcome: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu>. Please send event information in the format modeled above.

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The Boston Area Classics Calendar for April 13

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Boston Area Classics Calendar April 2018 Stephen Kidd (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 16, 6:30 - 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Paidia: The Concept of Play in Ancient Greece brown.academia.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__brown.academia.edu_Step…> Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics> Brent Vine (UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 17, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 104, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Latin edepol 'by Pollux!': Background of a Latin adverbium iurativum" James Loeb Lecture Nathan Sivin (UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 18, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 19, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138 Topic: The politics of the Presocratics GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome" Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 20, 3:30 - 9:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155 "Religion and Relationships in the Poetry of Catullus" Time: 3:30-6:45pm, dinner to follow at 7:30pm. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 12, 2018. To register for the conference, click here (www.bu.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_eve…>) Below is the program for the 2018 Conference. Leah Kronenberg, Boston University 'In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato' Christopher Polt, Boston College 'Broken Hymenaeus and Priapic Pontifex: Ritual Subversion and Restoration in Catullus 17' William Fitzgerald, King's College, London 'Catullus: Our Roman or False Friend?' Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> *Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Graduate Student Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sat., Apr. 21, 12 - 4 p.m. BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G3, 415 South Street, Waltham, Mass. 02453 "Otherness" in Classics: Ancient Conceptions and Modern Receptions Keynote by Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Assistant Professor, Princeton University: "Citizenship's Insular Cases: From Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico" Full list of papers and times: 12:00 p.m. Opening Remarks 12:05 p.m. Zachary Elliott "Telemachus and the Construction of (Dis)ability in the Odyssey" 12:20 p.m. Erin Brantmayer "Shove Thy Neighbor: How Landscape and Cult Allowed Greek Authors to "Other" Practitioners of Human Sacrifice" 12:35 p.m. Glenn Maur "Reading the Life of Aesop as Slave Narrative: Object Bodies, Literacy, and Resistance in the Ancient Novel" 12:50 p.m. Huizhong Zheng "Herodotus' and Sima Qian's Writings on the Customs of Barbarian Nomads" 1:05 p.m. Refreshments Break 1:20 p.m. Robert Mosher "Examining Greco-Macedonian and Egyptian Identities and Intergroup Relations within Ptolemaic Egypt" 1:35 p.m. Danielle Perry "Gender and Politics in the Cult of Dionysus" 1:50 p.m. Savannah Bishop "The Otherness of Gold in Ancient Roman Eyes: Gold in the Hands of Slaves, the Hair of Gauls, and the Talons of Griffins" 2:05 p.m. Matthew Previto ".the License of Tumult and the Hope of Booty from Civil War: The Army as Other in Roman Society" 2:20 p.m. Refreshments Break 2:35 p.m. Ruth Portes "Archers and Alterity: Understanding the Greek Perception of Eastern Pastoralist Culture Through Representations of the Composite Bow" 2:50 p.m. Anna Krohn "Mythologizing and Memes: Classics in the Hands of the Alt-Right" 3:05 p.m. Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta "Citizenship's Insular Cases: From Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico" 3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reception with hors d'oeuvres, appetizers, and refreshments. Mandel Center for the Humanities, Reading Room 303, Brandeis University. Event is Free and Open to the public. Free parking. Please contact Erin Brantmayer (ebrantmayer(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:ebrantmayer@brandeis.edu>), Anna Krohn (akrohn(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:akrohn@brandeis.edu>), or Zachary Elliott (zelliott(a)brandeis.edu<mailto:zelliott@brandeis.edu>) for more information or additional directions. Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 7 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106 "The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)" Co-sponsored by AIA-Hartford Chapter and Department of Classics Di Yan (Cambridge University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Why Should We Compare? What to Compare and How?: A Greek-Chinese Case Study on Authorship in Ancient Poetry" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" John Zaleski (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Byzantine Studies Colloquium Jochen Griesbach (University of Würzburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 24, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Position Matters: Portrait Monuments As Evidence For Structural Change Of The Public Sphere During The Hellenistic Period" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Charles Bartlett (Duke University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Professionalization, politics, and the ius fetiale at Rome: tradition and technicalities" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall Room 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)" Co-sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America-Boston and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Choreographing Amorous Bodies" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02143 "Arguments in a cold climate: Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics" Sophocles' Antigone<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134 Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium with an original translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE by the Harvard Classics Club! Featuring a new theatrical score performed by a small army of chorus members, a dynamic set that breathes with the action, and undergraduate, faculty, and professional actors, this performance launches ANTIGONE into the heart of contemporary discourse. This event is free and open to the public at 6:30 pm on April 29 in Harvard Stadium. Dee Clayman (City University of New York)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 4 - 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Astral Politics: Royal Catasterisms in Callimachus and Aratus." The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Emily Greenwood (Yale University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Aristotle's Slave and Reconstructive Philology" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> May 2018 Leah Whittington (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBD GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" Leah Kronenberg (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts" Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds. Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture. Mildenberg Lecture www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…> Trachiniae Study Day - Greek Tragedy Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., May 9, 10:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 008, Providence, RI 02912 A full day of study and discussion focused on Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy, "Women of Trachis." Participants should have read the play in advance, and should bring a Greek text of the play with them. Lunch will be served! If you have any questions, please contact the Brown University Department of Classics at classics_department(a)brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu> or 401.863.1267. www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Discussion of Cartledge's book, Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.oup.com_academi…>. Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University). 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Boston Area Classics Calendar April 2018 Marco Formisano (University of Ghent)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 9, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Seeing Double: The Contemporary and the Immemorial in Claudian and Colluthus" The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Carolyn J. Dewald (Bard College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 12, 5:30 - 7 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Eaton Hall rm. 201, 5 The Green, Medford, MA 02155 "Herodotus Is Not From Here: History Looking In a Different Direction" ase.tufts.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ase.tufts.edu_classics…> Tony Stewart (Vanderbilt University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 12, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Mapping The Bengali Imaginaire: Fictional Encounters Of Hindu & Muslim Worlds" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> [Tony Stewart (Vanderbilt University)] Joseph Nagy (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 13, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Some lonely Indo-European fathers, sons, and brothers in myth" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics" Stephen Kidd (Brown University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 16, 6:30 - 8 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Paidia: The Concept of Play in Ancient Greece brown.academia.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__brown.academia.edu_Step…> Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Ludics<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics> mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu.<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/ludics> Brent Vine (UCLA)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 17, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 104, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Latin edepol 'by Pollux!': Background of a Latin adverbium iurativum" James Loeb Lecture Nathan Sivin (UPenn)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., Apr. 18, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference Than Others" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 19, 5 - 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA 02138 Topic: The politics of the Presocratics GSAS Workshop "Cultural Politics in Greece and Rome" Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 20, 3:30 - 9:30 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02155 "Religion and Relationships in the Poetry of Catullus" Time: 3:30-6:45pm, dinner to follow at 7:30pm. Following the conference is a dinner, and those wishing to attend must pre-register. The dinner charge is $30.00 ($20 for graduate students with school ID) and the registration deadline (for dinner only) is April 12, 2018. To register for the conference, click here (www.bu.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_eve…>) Below is the program for the 2018 Conference. Leah Kronenberg, Boston University 'In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato' Christopher Polt, Boston College 'Broken Hymenaeus and Priapic Pontifex: Ritual Subversion and Restoration in Catullus 17' William Fitzgerald, King's College, London 'Catullus: Our Roman or False Friend?' Boston Area Roman Studies Conference<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_le…> Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 7 p.m. TRINITY COLLEGE, 300 Summit St., Hartford, CT 06106 "The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)" Co-sponsored by AIA-Hartford Chapter and Department of Classics Di Yan (Cambridge University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 23, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Why Should We Compare? What to Compare and How?: A Greek-Chinese Case Study on Authorship in Ancient Poetry" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" John Zaleski (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBA Byzantine Studies Colloquium Jochen Griesbach (University of Würzburg)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., Apr. 24, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Position Matters: Portrait Monuments As Evidence For Structural Change Of The Public Sphere During The Hellenistic Period" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> [Jochen Griesbach (University of Würzburg)] Charles Bartlett (Duke University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 203, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Professionalization, politics, and the ius fetiale at Rome: tradition and technicalities" GSAS Workshop "Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice" *Sam Moorhead (British Museum)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. WELLESLEY COLLEGE, Founders Hall Room 120, 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481 "The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-96)" Co-sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America-Boston and the Wellesley Department of Classical Studies Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Thu., Apr. 26, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 108, Providence, RI 02912 "Choreographing Amorous Bodies" www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> [Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi (Stanford University)] *Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Fri., Apr. 27, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall 335, Cambridge, MA 02143 "Arguments in a cold climate: Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs" GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical Linguistics" Sophocles' Antigone<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134 Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium with an original translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE by the Harvard Classics Club! Featuring a new theatrical score performed by a small army of chorus members, a dynamic set that breathes with the action, and undergraduate, faculty, and professional actors, this performance launches ANTIGONE into the heart of contemporary discourse. This event is free and open to the public at 6:30 pm on April 29 in Harvard Stadium. [Sophocles' Antigone] *Dee Clayman (City University of New York)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 4 - 6 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215 "Astral Politics: Royal Catasterisms in Callimachus and Aratus." The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Emily Greenwood (Yale University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., Apr. 30, 5 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Aristotle's Slave and Reconstructive Philology" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> May 2018 Leah Whittington (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138 TBD GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and Beyond" Leah Kronenberg (Boston University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato" Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-ancient-gre…> Alan M. Stahl (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Tue., May 8, 6 - 7 p.m. HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts" Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds. Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture. Mildenberg Lecture www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.harvardartmuseums.…> Trachiniae Study Day - Greek Tragedy Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Wed., May 9, 10:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 008, Providence, RI 02912 A full day of study and discussion focused on Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy, "Women of Trachis." Participants should have read the play in advance, and should bring a Greek text of the play with them. Lunch will be served! If you have any questions, please contact the Brown University Department of Classics at classics_department(a)brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu> or 401.863.1267. www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.brown.edu_academic…> Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…> Mon., May 21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Discussion of Cartledge's book, Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.oup.com_academi…>. Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University). 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