Temple Classics Colloquia

And Events

Spring 2007

2 May 2007. "Cicero's Verrines: A New Man in Old Clothes." Laura Samponaro, Columbia University. 11 a.m. AB306

March 30-April 1: Combined PCA Meeting and Eta Sigma Phi convention.

Fall 2006

On Thursday, 26 October, at 5:30 p.m. in the Department of Art History (Ritter Hall), Jan Gadeyne of the faculty at Temple Rome will talk about his work on excavating a Roman villa at Artena, where the Italian government is creating an archaeological park.

On Friday, 27 October, 9:40-11 a.m., in the Women's Studies Lounge, eighth floor Anderson, Jan will talk to G & R Classics faculty and students about his archaeological work and about the program at Temple Rome. Brunch food and drink will be available.

Dr. Jack Mitchell (poet, novelist and assistant professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross) will give a lecture to the Classics department entitled:


Sympathizing with the Bad Guys:
Negotiating Roman Politics in a Historical Novel

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 (Halloween)
Time: 2:40-4:00pm
Location: IH Lounge
There will be refreshments!

From Professor Jane Evans: "Sigma Phiers and Honors students are specially invited to hear Special Agent Robert Whitman, of the FBI Art Theft Squad, on Nov 20 at 4 PM, when he comes to talk to my "Ancient Counterfeits, Looting, and the Ethics of Collecting". He will be speaking on his role in cracking art theft cases. Place to be announced once I can gauge public interest."

Spring 2006

(All spring colloquia will be in Anderson Hall AB 306)

  • April 14th (Friday), Classics Colloquium, "Playing" on the Margins: Socrates the Gardener in Plato's Phaedrus," Laurialan Reitzammer, University of California, Berkeley, 3 p.m.
  • April 18th (Tuesday) Classics Colloquium, "Vestal Virgins?" Sarolta A. Takacs Rutgers University, 4 p.m.

  • January 24th (Tuesday), Classics Colloquium, "Beyond Ustinov - the Representation of Nero in 90 Years of Cinema," Anja Bettenworth, University of Michigan (during 2005-6), 4 p.m.
  • February 7th (Tuesday), Classics Colloquium, "Fantasies of Homer in Lucian's True Stories," Larry Kim, University of Texas, 4 p.m.
  • March 14th (Tuesday), Classics Colloquium, "Paradoxes of Presentation: Persians in Aeschylus and Herodotus," John Marcincola, Florida State University, 4 p.m.

Fall 2005

  • October 11th (Tuesday), Classics Colloquium: "Rationalizing the Past: Simonides' Corinthian Epigram," Stephanie Budin, Temple University, 4 p.m.
  • October 28th (Friday), Classics Colloquium, "Late Roman Slavery: Some New Questions to Some Old Answers," Campbell Grey, University of Pennsylvania, 4 p.m.
  • November 15th (Tuesday), Classics Colloquium, "The Dying Gift of Seneca," James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, 4 p.m.
  • November 28th (Monday), Classics Colloquium, "Odysseus among the Fisheaters, or What the Fisheaters Saw. Allusion and Meaning in Herodotus 3.17-25," Elizabeth Irwin, Columbia University, 4 p.m.

December 5th (Monday), 12-2, Annual Winter Solstice Party

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