Boston Area Classics Calendar
December 2023
New Ancient Music for Euripides’
Helen<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Fri., Dec. 8, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Room 110 (Fong Auditorium), Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
02138
Join us for an evening of revived ancient Greek choral music, performed by The Call of
Kinnaru! This band uses replica instruments to perform “new ancient music,” choral
dramatic songs revived using a blend of philology and original composition according to
carefully researched ancient principles. Before the performance, Professor Naomi Weiss
will give an introduction.
Band:
John Franklin (lyre, kinnaru)
Julia Irons (voice)
Rachel Fickes (aulos, lyre)
Jamie Levis (framedrums)
Reception to follow.
[New Ancient Music for Euripides’ Helen]
February 2024
Book Launch and Discussion for "Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical
Athens," Seth Estrin (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Feb. 5, 5 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler Room 427, Department of History of Art and Architecture, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
In Grief Made Marble (Yale University Press, 2023), Seth Estrin (History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University) offers a new account of the relationship between art and
emotion in ancient Greece through a revelatory study of the sculpted funerary monuments of
Classical Athens. He is joined in discussion by Yukio Lippit (History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University), Kathleen Coleman (Department of the Classics, Harvard
University), and Nathan Arrington (Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton
University).
haa.fas.harvard.edu…<https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-and-d…
[Book Launch and Discussion for "Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical
Athens," Seth Estrin (Harvard University)]
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
Dr. Vesta Sarkhosh
Curtis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Apr. 9, 6 – 7:15 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Title TBD
llse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture
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
associationofancienthistorians.org<https://associationofancienthistorian…
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