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Boston Area Classics Calendar 2005/2006: #30 (4/28/06)
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Thurs., Fri., Sat., Apr. 27, 28, 29, 7:30 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE TIME
CHANGE)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Agassiz Theater, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Classical Club presents:
Aristophanes' "The Birds" in original translation
Ticket Prices: $5 for students, $7 for non-students
Sat., Apr. 29, 11:00 a.m.
SMITH COLLEGE, Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Art Building, Northampton, MA
16th Annual Lehmann Lecture
Susan Rotroff (Washington University)
"Industrial Religion: Ritual Pyres in Ancient Athens"
Reception following
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Mass.
Society
Mon., May 1, 1:30 - 6 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Hassenfeld Conference Center, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA
BACCHUS COMES TO BRANDEIS: A Symposium on Euripides and Athenian Tragedy
Refreshments will be served
For further information contact Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow at 781-736-2183
or <aoko(a)brandeis.edu> or Janet Barry at 781-736-2180 or
<jbarry(a)brandeis.edu>
For directions see
http://www.brandeis.edu/overview/directions.html)
All symposium, lecture, round table, and theatre events are free and
open to the public;
see details below
Mon., May 1, 1:45 - 2:45 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Hassenfeld Conference Center, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA
The Classical Colloquium Series
Eric H. Hill (Brandeis University)
"Dionysus' Body: In Search of the God on Stage"
Mon., May 1, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Hassenfeld Conference Center, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA
A Jennifer Eastman Lecture in Classical Studies
Mary Ebbott (Holy Cross)
"'How Do I Look?': Dynamics of Performance in Euripides'
'Bacchae'"
Mon., May 1, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Hassenfeld Conference Center, Levine-Ross 1/2, 415
South Street, Waltham, MA
The Classical Colloquium Series
"Round Table on Performing 'The Bacchae'"
Eric H. Hill, Director, with the Cast of "The Bacchae" (Brandeis
University)
Moderators Leonard C. Muellner, Classics and Tom King, English
Mon., May 1, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, alfresco, the Spingold Theater grounds, Waltham, MA
SPECIAL Director's Performance of Euripides' "Bacchae"
Eric H. Hill, Director (Brandeis University)
Free admission; all are welcome
Wed., May 3, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center, 12
Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Marek Wecowski (Warsaw University and Center for Hellenic Studies)
"Symposion, Homeric Banquet, and Early Greek Conviviality"
Thurs., May 18, 7:30 p.m.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
David Reeve (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Plato's Goat-Stags: Philosophers and Cities in the Republic"
Commentary by Mark McPherran (U Maine, Farmington)
For more information contact Margaret Graver
<margaret.r.graver(a)dartmouth.edu>
APPENDIX:
Wheelchair access:
to the Barker Center at Harvard via the ramp at the main entrance off
Quincy Street, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to
the Humanities Center; to Boylston Hall at Harvard via the ramp to the
basement at the main entrance in the Yard, and from there by the
elevator
to the W. S. Fong Auditorium (a.k.a. Boylston Auditorium) on the first
floor; to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School via the sign-posted
entrances, and from there along the same level (i.e. first floor) to the
Sperry Room. There is regrettably no wheelchair access to the Semitic
Museum
at Harvard.