Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2023
Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy Cross)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Oct. 30, 4:45 �C 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room B36, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Meet Me Outside: Mythological Courage and Cowardice Beyond the Hero"
Description: This talk will examine the representation of courage and cowardice beyond the paradigmatic hero in early Greek myth. We will look at examples of courage on the battlefield among foreigners and women and consider why non-elites seem to be excluded from the kleos economy. This study reveals some of the ��hard lines�� that limit the mythological imagination, suggesting an enduring anxiety about internal stasis.
Sponsors: BU Department of Classical Studies & The Boston University Center for the Humanities
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
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[Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy Cross)]
Gallery Talk: Gods at the Table (Chinese) ���Č��[������ľ���<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 31, 12:30 �C 1 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This event requires registration; see further details below.
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An ancient Greek symposium was, essentially, a ritualized drinking party. What did the ancient Greeks drink, what kind of vessels did they drink out of, and which deities did they worship at these parties? This talk, offered in Chinese, delves into the practice and reception of the ancient Greek symposium by taking a closer look at a variety of vessels in the ancient art galleries.
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Led by:
Vivian Jin, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the Classics, Harvard University; and graduate student intern, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
Gallery talks are limited to 18 people and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__secure.touchnet.net_C2…>, beginning at 10am the day of the talk.
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Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.
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The Harvard Art Museums are now offering free admission<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…> every day, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvardartmuseums.org_…> to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums.
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The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register(a)harvard.edu<mailto:am_register@harvard.edu> at least 48 hours in advance.
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Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Oct. 31, 6 �C 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Featuring introductory remarks by Professor Panagiotis Roilos: "On Trauma in Ancient Greek Tragedy"
Harvard Greek Film Society
dourou(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:dourou@fas.harvard.edu>
[Screening of Michael Cacoyannis' film "The Trojan Women"]
November 2023
Felipe Soza (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 2, 3 �C 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA, and over Zoom
"Terror of history? The Administration of Time in Independent Delos"
During the early Hellenistic period (323�C167 BC), the very small island of Delos rose to prominence as an independent polis and political center of the southern Aegean. Several hundred decrees on stone testify to Delos�� wealth, its connections with the wider world, and the presence of all the important actors of the period in Delian life. Yet, the decrees issued by the civic bodies of Delos during the period of independence consistently avoided the inclusion of dating formulae. This regular, extended and presumably deliberate practice is a feature of a scale found nowhere else in the Greek world. I wish to suggest that the absence of official temporal markers from Delian civic decrees responds to the Delian need of constructing their own political context in times when things changed constantly, rapidly and drastically. The Delians sought to cut ties from their Athenian past, protect their actions from the vicissitudes of time, and construct their own self-governing context in a world in which a historically significant, but freshly independent and conspicuously small polity had a fragile position in international affairs.
Sponsors: Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University; Williams College; Harvard University; University of Sevilla
rcc.harvard.edu��<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/terror-history-administration-time-independen…>
Organizer: Unai Iriarte Asarta (uiriarte(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:uiriarte@fas.harvard.edu>)
Alexander Riehle (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Nov. 3, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
"Towards a History of Women's Writing in Byzantium"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
[Alexander Riehle (Harvard University)]
Eric Driscoll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Nov. 7, 5 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Building 14, Room 14E-304, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
"Hellenism, Archaeology, Apocalypse"
This talk offers a reading of Kostas Vrettakos��s 1980 documentary short, The Layer of Destruction, in the context of the modern Greek archaeological and folkloric imaginaries. In the 1970s, Greece constructed a dam across the Mornos river, near the southern end of the Pindus Mountains, to create a reservoir that would supply Athens with drinking water. Today, below the waters of this artificial lake lie the remains of an ancient city, Kallipolis or Kallion. In Layer of Destruction, Vrettakos creates a lyrical memorial for Kallion by depicting his visits to the excavations conducted in the late 1970s as the reservoir��s rising waters threatened and eventually covered the site. In the Greek national narrative, archaeological excavation is conceived as an additive process that recovers what Yannis Hamilakis calls ��fragments of national memory�� and thereby restitutes missing fragments of a collective history. But in Vrettakos��s film, archaeology emerges instead as a form of destruction, a force that��in the language of Jacob Taubes��reinserts time into eternity and suggests that ��the order of the world is gripped by death,�� that ��time�� moves toward an end.�� Recovering artefacts does not fully recuperate memory or revivify lost time, but in fact accelerates their ultimate loss. What does it mean to see national archaeology as destructive, self-contradictory, and apocalyptic rather than triumphant and restorative?
Bio: Eric Driscoll is a Hellenist, classical archaeologist, and historian of the ancient Mediterranean world. He studied Classics at the University of Chicago and holds a PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before moving to Cambridge in 2021 to teach at Harvard and now at MIT, where he is Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Studies, Eric lived in Greece for five years, including two spent serving as the Assistant Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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[Eric Driscoll (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)]
II Edition of the RCCHU Ancient History International Seminars<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 8, 4 �C 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, MA, and over Zoom
PANEL III. Section 1. Ancient Rome
Sponsors: Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University; University of Cordoba; Complutense University of Madrid; Harvard University; University of Seville
rcc.harvard.edu��<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/panel-iii-section-1-ancient-rome>
Organizer: Unai Iriarte Asarta (uiriarte(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:uiriarte@fas.harvard.edu>)
Jorge Wong Medina (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 9, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Contraction and Diectasis in Homeric Diction"
Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Nov. 10, 4:30 �C 6:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Room 224
"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Citationality of Ancient Greece & Rome"
Description: Du Bois�� interest in and use of sources from ancient Greece and Rome has been a hot topic in recent years, evidenced by a special volume of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2019) and a conference at Penn State (2021). In the concluding essay of the former, Patrice Rankine noted ��the need to postpone the word citation, given the difficulty of locating Du Bois�� exact sources of influence�� and the accompanying turn to Gates��s theory of ��Signifyin(g).�� In this lecture, I use archival resources to survey Du Bois�� citations of ancient Greece and Rome. While citations of Greek and Roman sources are minimal features within Du Bois�� enormous oeuvre, they are prominent in his understanding of history and humanism in education. At the same time, Du Bois�� classical references suggest an ironic relationship to the citationality of Greece and Rome in mainstream white media, one that is supported by more acerbic writings by Du Bois�� NAACP colleague (and Yale classics major) William Pickens. Du Bois and Pickens�� particular brand of citation adds breadth to our understanding of exclusionary practices of the past.
Sponsors: Boston University Department of Classical Studies, Core Curriculum, Department of African American & Black Diaspora Studies, and the Boston University Center for Humanities
Boston University: Black Classicism��Moving Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_de…>
www.bu.edu��<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)]
Niek Janssen (Amherst College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 15, 4:45 �C 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room B18, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Making Fit: Parody and Decorum in Greco-Roman Literature"
Description: The concepts of decorum and to prepon pervade Greco-Roman ethical and aesthetic thought. Yet ancient theorists from Plato to Dionysius, Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian struggle to articulate what "appropriateness" is and how it is grounded. By confronting these theorists with parodic and comedic texts, which stand in a double, transgressive-yet-conservative relationship to decorum, I argue that this inarticulability is a feature, not a bug, of the concept. Texts like Hegemon's Parodies, Plautus' Asinaria, and the Pseudo-Virgilian Culex reveal the instability of decorum as a basis for normative thought--as a principle for aesthetic judgment and social inclusion/exclusion.
Sponsors: BU Department of Classical Studies & The Boston University Center for the Humanities
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
www.bu.edu��<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Niek Janssen (Amherst College)]
December 2023
Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Dec. 2
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Early Greek Art Gallery, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
In celebration of Kore 670, a stunning archaic Greek statue now on view in Gallery 213, see live performances by Emerson College students and area high school students adapting excerpts from ancient Greek tragedies. From Elektra and Antigone to Cassandra and Iphigenia, women featured prominently in ancient Greek theater, yet their roles were performed by men. In three 20-minute performances, students studying theater actively disrupt that traditional practice, revealing how gender bias��both in the ancient world and now��is hardly a new concept.
Saturday, December 2
11:00�C11:20 a.m.
1:00�C1:20 p.m.
2:00�C2:20 p.m.
www.mfa.org��<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_spec…>
Danny Cashman | dcashman(a)mfa.org<mailto:dcashman@mfa.org>
[Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy]
Benjamin Dunning (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 8, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
April 2024
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 �C 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 �C Mon., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
associationofancienthistorians.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__associationofancienthi…>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2023
Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop, with Ross Clare (University of Liverpool) and Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Oct. 25, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 203, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us for a session of the Harvard Classical Receptions Workshop on “Ancient World, Modern Media: The Afterlife of the Classical in the Entertainment Industry (Film, Television, Videogames).” This will be a special format—a moderated discussion with the authors of the assigned readings, Dr. Ross Clare (virtually) and Prof. Kathleen Coleman (in person).
Join us as we discuss phenomena that inform the contemporary reception of ancient Greece and Rome in mass media and the entertainment industry, along with everything that entails: violence, spectacle, transmediality, commercialization, outreach, authenticity, gender, genre, and the power of popular imaginaries in shaping how antiquity is repackaged for mass consumption. A central aim will be to consider reception not just as inhered in individual works of media, but as a process implicated in larger systems of production.
We’ll be discussing these readings:
Clare, Ross. (2021) Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia, chapter 2, pp. 35-79. IMAGINES—Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts. Bloomsbury.
Coleman, Kathleen. (2004) “The Pedant Goes to Hollywood: The Role of the Academic Consultant,” in Gladiator: Film and History (ed. Martin M. Winkler), pp. 45-52.
Those interested in attending should contact the organizer Kevin Wong (kevinwong(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kevinwong@g.harvard.edu>) for the readings.
kevinwong(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kevinwong@g.harvard.edu>
Jordan Kodner (Stony Brook University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Oct. 27, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 305, Emerson Hall, 29 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Language Acquisition and a Process-Centered View of Language Change"
Abstract: I argue that the actuation of a diverse range of diachronic phenomena in phonology, morphology, and syntax can be subsumed under the process of generalization learning during child language acquisition. These include, among others, a secondary split in 20th century Menominee and instance of phonemicization by phonological `rule reversal' in Middle High German (Richter, 2021), the sporadic `irregularization' of Early Modern English past tense forms (Ringe & Yang, 2022), the analogical extension of minority inflectional patterns at the expense of statistically predominant patterns in Late Latin past participles (Kodner, 2022) and Iranian Armenian aorists (Kodner and Dolatian, in prep), `Dative Sickness' ongoing in Icelandic morphosyntax (Nowenstein, 2021), and the proliferation of the to-dative construction (Kodner, 2020) and argument structure change for psych-verbs (Trips & Rainsford, 2022) in Middle English. But learning in itself is an insufficient explanation for population-level change, both because one does not entail the other and because not every change is apparently child learner-driven (cf. Labov, 1994; Labov, 2007). Combining insights from competing grammar accounts (Kroch, 1994), the sociolinguistics of peer-oriented early childhood interaction (e.g., Roberts & Labov, 1995; Nardy et al., 2014; Loukatou et al., 2021), and experimentation on leveling and matching of variable input by children and adults (e.g., Hudson Kam and Newport, 2005; Newport, 2020; Austin et al., 2022), this yields insights (Kodner, 2023) into how and why some innovations may progress through actuation and gain a foothold in a population while others may not. This in turn provides a means for distinguishing instances of child-driven from adult-driven change in cases where direct observation is no longer possible.
Taken together, this has broad implications for how we conceptualize language change: an ontology of effects in language change will not line up with an ontology of processes. An approach to the study of change which focuses on processes or mechanisms (including but certainly not limited to generalization learning) rather than outcomes and effects stands to bring clarity to a confusing tangle of descriptive phenomena. It reconceptualizes the problem space in a way that cross-cuts and reduces traditional taxonomies of effects (analogical leveling, extension, phonemicization, secondary splits, grammaticalization, bleaching, etc.) and opens the door for new insights into when, why, and how language change occurs.
Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy Cross)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Oct. 30, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room B36, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Meet Me Outside: Mythological Courage and Cowardice Beyond the Hero"
Description: This talk will examine the representation of courage and cowardice beyond the paradigmatic hero in early Greek myth. We will look at examples of courage on the battlefield among foreigners and women and consider why non-elites seem to be excluded from the kleos economy. This study reveals some of the “hard lines” that limit the mythological imagination, suggesting an enduring anxiety about internal stasis.
Sponsors: BU Department of Classical Studies & The Boston University Center for the Humanities
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy Cross)]
November 2023
Alexander Riehle (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Nov. 3, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Jorge Wong Medina (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Nov. 9, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 237, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Contraction and Diectasis in Homeric Diction"
Niek Janssen (Amherst College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Nov. 15, 4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts & Sciences, Room B18, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
"Making Fit: Parody and Decorum in Greco-Roman Literature"
Description: The concepts of decorum and to prepon pervade Greco-Roman ethical and aesthetic thought. Yet ancient theorists from Plato to Dionysius, Cicero, Horace, and Quintilian struggle to articulate what "appropriateness" is and how it is grounded. By confronting these theorists with parodic and comedic texts, which stand in a double, transgressive-yet-conservative relationship to decorum, I argue that this inarticulability is a feature, not a bug, of the concept. Texts like Hegemon's Parodies, Plautus' Asinaria, and the Pseudo-Virgilian Culex reveal the instability of decorum as a basis for normative thought--as a principle for aesthetic judgment and social inclusion/exclusion.
Sponsors: BU Department of Classical Studies & The Boston University Center for the Humanities
Boston University: New Approaches to Classics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
classics(a)bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Niek Janssen (Amherst College)]
December 2023
Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Sat., Dec. 2
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Early Greek Art Gallery, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
In celebration of Kore 670, a stunning archaic Greek statue now on view in Gallery 213, see live performances by Emerson College students and area high school students adapting excerpts from ancient Greek tragedies. From Elektra and Antigone to Cassandra and Iphigenia, women featured prominently in ancient Greek theater, yet their roles were performed by men. In three 20-minute performances, students studying theater actively disrupt that traditional practice, revealing how gender bias—both in the ancient world and now—is hardly a new concept.
Saturday, December 2
11:00–11:20 a.m.
1:00–1:20 p.m.
2:00–2:20 p.m.
www.mfa.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mfa.org_event_spec…>
Danny Cashman | dcashman(a)mfa.org<mailto:dcashman@mfa.org>
[Activating Kore 670: Women's Voices and Greek Tragedy]
Benjamin Dunning (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Dec. 8, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Feb. 23, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
April 2024
Sarah Olsen (Williams College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 12, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-greece>
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 18 – Mon., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
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