Boston Area Classics Calendar 2006/2007: #18 (1/26/07) This calendar appears weekly during term. Information about upcoming events and subscription requests should be sent to an address dedicated exclusively to this calendar: calclass(a)fas.harvard.edu. Please send information as plain text e-mail in the format shown below instead of as word-processor file attachments. NEW ITEMS AND CORRECTIONS RECEIVED BEFORE 5 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY WILL APPEAR IN THE CALENDAR WHICH IS SENT OUT ON FRIDAY OF THE SAME WEEK. Any items received after that time will appear in the Calendar issued the following week. Please circulate as widely as possible. PLEASE NOTE: * = new entry ** = alteration or addition to a former entry Thurs., Feb. 1, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics Guido Schepens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) "History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek Historiographical Tradition" Thurs., Feb. 1 - Fri., Feb. 2 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, and Eliot House Library, Cambridge, MA A workshop sponsored by the Department of the Classics "Greek Historiography in the Fourth Century BCE: Decline or Development?" See Appendix for details Wed. Feb. 7, 7:00 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge MA Sponsored by the Semitic Museum Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau (Tel Aviv University) "Divine Banquets and Infernal Feasts: The Origins of Philistine Iconography" Reception preceding at 6:15 at the Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue Free and open to the public For more information contact Dena Davis (617-495-4631 or davis4(a)fas.harvard.edu) Fri., Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Barnum Hall, Room 008, 163 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classics, Tufts University Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James" Mon., Feb. 12, 4:30 p.m. AMHERST COLLEGE, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather 115, Amherst, MA Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Massachusetts Chapter, and Amherst College Department of Classics Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Masada: Last Stronghold of the Jewish Resistance Against Rome" Reception following Mon., Feb. 26, 7:00 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Cabot Auditorium, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Herodotus on the Happiest Man in World We Have Lost" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) Tues., Feb. 27, 7:00 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Braker Hall 001, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Thucydides on Democratic Rationality and Military Efficiency" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) Wed., Feb. 28, 7:00 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Braker Hall 001, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Plato's Socrates on Wise Athenians and Wandering Cows" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) Thurs., Mar. 1, 7:00 p.m. TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Braker Hall 001, Medford, MA Miriam S. Balmuth Lecture Series, generously underwritten by the family and friends of the late Professor Miriam S. Balmuth, on "Ancient Greek Democracy and the Invention of Modernity: Rational Choice, Dispersed Knowledge, and Public Action" Josiah Ober (Stanford University) "Aristotle on Political Animals" For more information contact the Department of Classics at Tufts University (617-627-3213 or classics(a)tufts.edu) *Wed. March 21, 4:15 p.m. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA A James Loeb Lecture sponsored by the Department of the Classics and the Standing Committee on Archaeology Jutta Stroszeck (German Archaeological Institute, Athens) "A Spartan Heroon in the Athenian Kerameikos" Fri., Mar. 30, 6:00 p.m. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Riley Seminar Room, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA Co-sponsored by the International Catacomb Society, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Joseph Rife (Macalester College) "Death, Ritual and Society at a Port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project" Free and open to the public; MFA admission not required Wed., Apr. 11, 6:00 p.m. BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences Building, Room 224, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA Co-sponsored by the Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Department of Archaeology at Boston University, and the Gabel Museum of Archaeology at Boston University Donald Easton (Independent Scholar) "Troy: New Reflections on an Old Site" *Mon., Apr. 16, 4:30 p.m. MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, Gamble Auditorium, South Hadley, MA AIA Lecture, co-sponsored by Mt. Holyoke Classics Department Norton Lecture: "Living it up in the Late Roman World: the Country Mansions of the Mega-Rich" Roger Wilson (University of British Columbia) For more information contact Geoffrey Sumi (gsumi(a)mtholyoke.edu) Thurs., Apr. 19, 5:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, specific location TBA, Amherst, MA Spring Meeting of the New England Ancient Historians Colloquium Speaker: Serena Connolly (Yale University) title and respondent TBA Schedule: 5:30 Wine and Cheese, 6:30 Dinner, 7:30 Paper, Response, and Discussion For more information contact Cynthia Damon (cdamon(a)amherst.edu, 413-542-8126) Spring 2007 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA For collections on view during renovations, see Appendix APPENDIX: Thurs., Feb. 1 - Fri., Feb. 2 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, and Eliot House Library, Cambridge, MA A workshop sponsored by the Department of the Classics "Greek Historiography in the Fourth Century BCE: Decline or Development?" Thurs., Feb. 1 (Barker Center, Room 133, 12 Quincy Street): 4:15 p.m.: Guido Schepens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), "History and Historia: Inquiry in the Greek historiographical tradition" Fri., Feb. 2 (Eliot House Library): 9:00 a.m.: Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University), "Remembering Herbert Bloch" 9:20 a.m.: Pietro Vannicelli (Università; di Urbino), "The beginning of history from Herodotus to Pompeius Trogus" 10:00 a.m.: Roberto Nicolai (Università; di Sassari), "Historiography on the borderline: Xenophon and his corpus" 10:40 a.m.: coffee break 11:00 a.m.: Riccardo Vattuone (Università; di Bologna), "The use of sources in Thucydides' archaiologia and in Aristotle's Athenaion politeia" 11:40 a.m.: Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford), "Historians and their contemporary world: nostalgia and novelty in 4th c. historiography" 3:00 p.m.: Michael Flower (Princeton University), "The place of Ctesias of Cnidus in the development of Greek historiography" 3:40 p.m.: John Marincola (Florida State University), "Rethinking Isocrates and history" 4:20 p.m.: coffee break 4:40 p.m.: Giovanni Parmeggiani (Università; di Bologna), "The causes of the Peloponnesian War: Ephorus, Thucydides, and their critics" 5:20 p.m.: Nino Luraghi (Harvard University), "The return of the Heraclidae in fourth-century Peloponnesian politics" 6:00 p.m.: general discussion, introduced by Guido Schepens Spring 2007 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA FOR YOUR COURSE PLANNING, MFA NEWS: The good news is that we are about to enter into a period of extensive renovations and gallery changes that will ultimately result in an expanded, unified, and updated galleries. The down side is that we cannot keep everything on view while we are doing this. We know that many of you use the collections for teaching, and we want to provide an update so that you might be able to use the visible parts of the collection in your classes. If you have questions about particular pieces, you can reach the Classical offices at (617) 369-3259. Spring 2007 On view: Assos and East Greek Archaic and Classical Greek (1st and 2nd floor galleries) Etruscan Art Hellenistic Art Roman art in so called Roman Court (newly relabeled, including the Italian loan of Eirene) East Mediterranean Art, includes Antioch mosaic (this gallery is visible but not open) Expected to go off view during Spring 2007: Bronze Age Early Black Figure Currently off view: Late Provincial Roman (although some pieces have been incorporated into the East Mediterranean gallery) Much of the Early Greek collection 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.