[calclass-list] Boston Area Classics Calendar, February 4, 2022

Boston Area Classics Calendar February 2022 Sarah Spence (University of Georgia)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Tue., Feb. 8, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS 116, 685-725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA "Reading Against the Grain: The Cultural Poetics of Roman Sicily" Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_cl… www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.… Louis Zweig (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Feb. 28, 12 – 1 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY (On Zoom) "X marks the spot: The Ecbasis captivi and Jerome's Vita Malchi" John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society> harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ha… March 2022 Mathias Hanses (Penn State University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Thu., Mar. 3, 5 – 7 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Zoom. Registration required.) "Cicero with Local Applications: W. E. B. DuBois' Views of the Ancient Mediterranean at the turn of the Twentieth Century" Registration required<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventb…cM1tkPDhZAcDO-s9F-Q&e=>. Co-sponsors: Classics Department, the Core Curriculum, African American Studies and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor Boston University: Black Classicism—Moving Forward<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_… Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Fri., Mar. 18, 4:30 – 6:15 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAS B18, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Topic TBA Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities Boston University: Myth & Religion In The Ancient World<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_cl… Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?… Mon., Mar. 21, 5:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 "Towards a new edition of Sappho: ordering the fragments of Book 1" Book 1 of the ancient edition of Sappho consisted of all her poems in the sapphic metre. We have quite a lot of evidence for this book (at least, compared to our evidence for all her other books), and this paper looks at one important aspect of it in particular: the order of the poems which it contained. It considers the question under two related headings. First, how much do we actually know about the ordering? For instance, how sure can we be that the famous ‘Ode to Aphrodite’ poem came first in the edition? (Surer than is currently realised, it turns out.) Apart from that first poem, was alphabetical order the rule, or were there further exceptions – and if so, on what basis, and to what effect? Second, how should modern editors approach the issue of how to order the fragments? A modern vulgate order has become established over the past century, and all other things being equal, it is better not to disturb such an ordering without good reason – but are all other things equal, and might there now be a good reason? Or to put it another way, what could a better ordering of the fragments achieve? And if we do reorder, what do we do with the fragments which cannot be firmly placed in any particular location within the book? By considering these points, both theoretical and practical, we can (it is hoped) become more attuned to the editorial shaping of the most-read book of the most-read female writer in antiquity, and thus, perhaps, become better readers of the Sappho known to so many generations across so many centuries throughout the ancient world. James Loeb Lecture Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Tue., Mar. 22, 6 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 Lecture: TBA Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series> April 2022 Katherine Schwab, Fairfield University<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda… Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Schwab, an art historian and archaeologist, will speak about her most recent discoveries in drawing the broken Parthenon metopes. Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Mon., Apr. 18, 5 – 7 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD Book launch for The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe. John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society> Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend… Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002 Ammerman, a classical archaeologist, will speak about votive imagery and the cult of the nymphs at Metaponto. View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar> Subscribe<https://web.lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/calclass-li… to weekly emails. View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar&g…ar>. Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>on>. Contact calclass@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:calclass@fas.harvard.edu> with questions or additions/corrections.