Colloquia and Events 2013/14

The weekly Classics Colloquia provide an informal meeting ground for the College's lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Each year, the series brings to campus a number of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archaeological and historical subjects.

Colloquia and Events 2013/14

Fall 2013 Classics Colloquia

Conference: Plato and the Power of Images

Spring 2014 Classics Colloquia

Joel Christensen University of Texas, San Antonio "Odysseus' Nostos and the Odyssey's Nostoi: Homeric Composition and the Epic Cycle"

William Tortorelli Haverford College "Archilochus' Feet and Archaic Poetics"

Joseph Solodow Yale University "Livy XXI: Historical Aims and Method"

Emmanuel Voutiras Aristotle University of Thessaloniki "Purification in the Reconciliation Inscription from the Eretrian Colony of Dikaia"

Wang Shaohui Northeast Normal University, People's Republic of China "The Urns of Zeus: A Tentative Approach"

The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies Sarah Iles Johnston Ohio State University "The Afterlife and Its Alternatives in Greek Mythic Thought"

Seth Schein University of California, Davis "Cognitive Science and Greek Meter: Hermann's Bridge in the Homeric Hexameter and the Interpretation of Iliad 24"

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Amelie Kuhrt Professor Emerita at the University College, London "The Persian View of Their Empire"

Jocelyn Penny Small Rutgers University "Circling Round a Solution to Designing Roman Wall Paintings"

Gareth Williams Columbia University "Double Vision: Reading Seneca's Natural Questions Alongside His Morales Epistulae"

Christopher Parslow Wesleyan University "Julia Felix and Her Praedia in Pompeii"

Graciela C. Zecchin Universidad Nacional de La Plata "Trojan War: Memory, Past and Cretan Perspective in Odysseus' Biographies"

Joan Breton Connelly New York University "The Parthenon Enigma: A New Look at an Old Icon"

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Joel Christensen
University of Texas, San Antonio
"Odysseus' Nostos and the Odyssey's Nostoi: Homeric Composition and the Epic Cycle"

William Tortorelli
Haverford College
"Archilochus' Feet and Archaic Poetics"

Joseph Solodow
Yale University
"Livy XXI: Historical Aims and Method"

Emmanuel Voutiras
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
"Purification in the Reconciliation Inscription from the Eretrian Colony of Dikaia"

Wang Shaohui
Northeast Normal University, People's Republic of China
"The Urns of Zeus: A Tentative Approach"

The Agnes Michels Lecture, sponsored by the Graduate Students in the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
Sarah Iles Johnston
Ohio State University
"The Afterlife and Its Alternatives in Greek Mythic Thought"

Seth Schein
University of California, Davis
"Cognitive Science and Greek Meter: Hermann's Bridge in the Homeric Hexameter and the Interpretation of Iliad 24"

The C. Densmore Curtis Lecture, presented by the Graduate Students in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Amelie Kuhrt
Professor Emerita at the University College, London
"The Persian View of Their Empire"

Jocelyn Penny Small
Rutgers University
"Circling Round a Solution to
Designing Roman Wall Paintings"

Gareth Williams
Columbia University
"Double Vision: Reading Seneca's Natural Questions Alongside His Morales Epistulae"

Christopher Parslow
Wesleyan University
"Julia Felix and Her Praedia in Pompeii"

Graciela C. Zecchin
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
"Trojan War: Memory, Past and Cretan Perspective in Odysseus' Biographies"

Joan Breton Connelly
New York University
"The Parthenon Enigma: A New Look at an Old Icon"