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.