Boston Area Classics Calendar
September 10, 2010
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*Monday, September 13
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm 133, 12 Quincy Street,
Cambridge, MA
Stephan Heilen (Universität Osnabrück)
"Astrological *concilia deorum* in Late Medieval and Early Modern
Latin Poetry"
*Thursday, September 16
7:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
BOSTON AREA PATRISTICS GROUP, Rabinowitz Room, third floor of the
Andover-Harvard Theological Library, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
02138
Kendra Eshleman (Boston College), "Becoming Heretical: Affection and
Ideology in Recruitment to 'Heretical' Christianities"
For more information, please contact Annewies van den Hoek, Harvard
Divinity School, ahoek(a)hds.harvard.edu
*Monday, September 20
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)
"Law and Order in Classical Athens"
Humanities Center Seminar on Ancient Greece and Rome
*Thursday, September 23
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child's
Portrait and His Poem"
An elaborate funerary altar of Parian marble was discovered immured
inside the Aurelian Wall in Rome in 1871. It commemorates Q. Sulpicius
Maximus, who died in AD 94 at the age of 11. This lecture explores the
technical and aesthetic challenges facing the masons' workshop in
incorporating a statue, a 43-line Greek poem, a Latin epitaph, and two
10-line Greek epigrams on a surface just over five feet high and three
and a half feet wide.
*Monday, October 4
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Anna Chahoud (Trinity College, Dublin)
Sermo, Style & Satire: Lucilius' Language
A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics
*Thursday, October 14
6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Mystic Arts Center, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355
Kathleen Coleman (Harvard University)
"Durable, Colorful, Whimsical: Mosaics of the Roman Empire"
*Friday, October 15
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
Paul Zanker (University of Munich)
"The Arch of Constantine as a Senatorial Monument"
*Tuesday, October 19
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, McMullen Museum of Art, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Devlin Hall, Room 101, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Daria Borghese (American University, Rome)
Palazzo Colonna: The Construction of a Family Through the Building of
its Residence
Free and open to the public
For more information, call 617.552.8587
A Priscilla Durkin Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the McMullen Museum
in memory of Priscilla Durkin, NC '65 and Nancy Durkin Orazem, NC '70
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/events-calendar/index.html
*Monday, October 25
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA 02215
Ruth Bielfeldt (Harvard University)
"Polis Made Manifest: the Physiognomy of the Public in the Hellenistic
City, with a Case Study on the Agora in Priene"
New England Ancient History Colloquium
Commentary by Kenneth Sacks (Brown University)
*Tuesday, November 16
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA
02138
Martin West
"Zeus in Aeschylus"
Lecture in honor of H. Lloyd-Jones
*Monday, March 7
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker Center, Rm. 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge,
MA 02138
Jonas Grethlein
TBA
*April 11 - 15
Jackson Lectures
Speakers and dates TBA
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