Boston Area Classics Calendar
October 2023
Johannes Haubold (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., Oct. 17, 3 – 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Words Matter: Cosmogony and Divine Speech in Babylon, Israel and Greece"
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors
Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
Erika Valdivieso (Yale
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Oct. 20, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Searching for Dido"
Erika Valdivieso is an assistant professor of Classics at Yale University, where she is a
faculty member of the Program in Early Modern Studies. Her current project, provisionally
titled "Empire's Companion: Virgilian Epics from the Americas," draws
attention to the relationship between education, literature, and imperial imagination in
four Latin epics from Iberoamerica. She is interested in the history of the book in
Spanish and Portuguese America and has published on the dissemination and transmission of
classical texts in early modernity.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
[Erika Valdivieso (Yale University)]
Katherine Lu Hsu (College of the Holy
Cross)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
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…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
classics@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-calend…
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-gr…
Niek Janssen (Amherst
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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…
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
classics@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?t…
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.mf…
Danny Cashman | dcashman@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-calend…
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-gr…
February 2024
Tom Sapsford (Boston
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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-gr…
April 2024
Sarah Olsen (Williams
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
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-gr…
Association of Ancient Historians 2024 Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Apr. 18 – Mon., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBD, Cambridge, MA 02138
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