Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2022
Alexander O'Hara (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 28, 5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building E51, E51-095, Cambridge, MA
"The Irish at the Carolingian Court and the Europeanization of Europe"
Note: Attendees who are not members of the MIT Community on COVID Pass must contact tranvoj(a)mit.edu<mailto:tranvoj@mit.edu> for a Tim Ticket. More info on COVID-19 protocol here: covidapps.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__covidapps.mit.edu_visit…>
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
[Alexander O'Hara (Harvard University)]
Reading Greek Tragedy Online Live: Sophocles’ Philoctetes<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Mar. 30, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hilles Cinema, Student Organization Center at Hilles, 59 Shepard St, Cambridge, MA (and live-streamed over YouTube)
Reading Greek Tragedy Online has been bringing ancient Greek tragedies to life through performance and discussion to worldwide audiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This dynamic reading of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, a play in which themes of disease and isolation loom large, will be the first in the series with a live, in-person audience. The performance will be directed by Paul O’Mahony of Out of Chaos Theatre and interspersed with discussion between faculty and students, facilitated by Professor Joel Christensen of Brandeis University. The entire event will be simultaneously live-streamed over YouTube.
chs.harvard.edu…<https://chs.harvard.edu/programs/reading-greek-tragedy-online/>
[Reading Greek Tragedy Online Live: Sophocles’ Philoctetes]
April 2022
Aurelio Conference in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 1, 2 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (behind Marsh Chapel)
Conference Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Reception Time: 6 p.m. EST
Dinner Time: 7:15 p.m. EST
The program for the 2022 Conference is as follows:
Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
'The Homeric Helen as Weaver and Spinner'
Helene Foley, Barnard College
‘Euripidaristophanizing’
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
‘Greek Comedy and the Question of Seriousness: Some New Approaches’
Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University
‘A Maculate Muse in Byzantium: Four Epigrams by Agathias of Myrina (AP 9.642-644, 662)’
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Registration in advance of the conference is encouraged, with walk-ins welcome.
To attend the dinner, dinner registration and a small fee are required by March 25th, 2022. Dinner registration will open soon. For more information and to register for the conference and/or dinner, please visit: https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/aurelioconference/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
The Aurelio Conference is sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Boston University Department of Classical Studies, and the William Goodwin Aurelio Professorship.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (1 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Epic Maroons"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-1>
Katherine Schwab (Fairfield University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Polychromy, New (and Old) Technologies, and the Parthenon Metopes
Dr. Katherine Schwab will speak on a selection of Parthenon metopes to analyze technologies, past and present, to better understand the original compositions and their polychromatic appearance. The original ninety-two carved marble panels displayed four major mythological battles prominently positioned above the columns on all four sides of the temple. Today we have a greatly altered impression due to their current state of damage and location. From graphite drawings to Virtual Reality, we are in a position to better understand these nearly life-sized compositions that formed the public face of Athena’s temple on the Athenian Acropolis.
The event is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 6, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (2 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Zealots"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-2>
Lawrence Kim (Trinity University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 6, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Rhode Island Hall, Room 109, Providence, RI
"Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic'?"
docs.google.com…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_…>
[Lawrence Kim (Trinity University)]
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 7, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, on Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (3 of 3)
"Classicism and Other Phobias: Let Met Clear My Throat"
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
These three lectures will take as their focus one question: is classicism, understood as a historically contingent technology for the assignment and distribution of aesthetic value, broadly compatible with the affirmation and protection of Black life? In the pursuit of some answers to this question, the lectures will concern themselves less with the enumeration of Black thinkers who write back to or otherwise unsettle White-centering paradigms of classicism (see, most recently, David Withun on W.E.B. Du Bois), and more with the consideration of those properties that may or may not align classicism as a political and affective economy with Black pasts and futures.
Part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture Series<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/annual-lecture-series>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-3>
Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
TBA
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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>
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 6 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE & CULTURE, HARVARD MUSEUM OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (Zoom)
The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt (Virtual Lecture)
Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt? In this talk, Wendy Doyon will discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad) Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal, state within the late Ottoman Empire—and explain how the power of the Egyptian state in the nineteenth century was built, in large part, on the creation of modern antiquities land and the organization of Egyptian workers as state assets controlled by Mehmed Ali Pasha and his dynasty-building successors.
Presented by Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
hmsc.harvard.edu…<https://hmsc.harvard.edu/event/power-antiquity-making-modern-egypt>
hmscpr(a)hmsc.harvard.edu<mailto:hmscpr@hmsc.harvard.edu>
[Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt]
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
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Boston Area Classics Calendar
March 2022
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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_classics_ne…>
Patrick Finglass (University of Bristol)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 21, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, 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.
Ellen Oliensis (UC Berkeley)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 22, 5:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 85 Waterman St., Room 130, Providence, RI
"What's Past is Prologue: Plautus Menaechmi"
Michael C.J. Putnam Lecture
Free and open to the public.
This lecture will develop a close reading of Plautus' Menaechmi, demonstrating the remarkable care with which this perennially popular comedy is constructed. The play will emerge from this discussion as the comic counterpart, not in its content but in its form, of Sophocles' Oedipus. As in Oedipus, the onstage action is determined by an unrecognized past: everything the titular twins do and suffer in the course of the comedy attests to a knowledge they don't know or can't admit that they possess. It is by giving them the chance to work through their past that the comedy enables the twins to achieve their "happy ending."
Ellen Oliensis is the Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Roman literature (especially Ovid), translation, literary form, and psychoanalysis.
Named in honor of Professor Emeritus, Michael Putnam, and funded by the Putnam Flexible Research Fund, the Putnam Lecture is an annual talk delivered by an invited scholar on a topic related to the particular specialties of Professor Putnam.
[Ellen Oliensis (UC Berkeley)]
Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Mar. 22, 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sever 113, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
Lecture: "Archives, Archaeology, and the Anthropocene: Reconciling Disparate Epistemic Foundations in a Time of Precarity"
Zoom link<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hu-2Dmy.sharepoint.com…>
Note from speaker: In this presentation I critically engage R.G. Collingwood’s provocation that “archaeology is the methodology of history.” In distinction from typical definitions of “text-aided archaeology,” which imply the use of documentary sources to contextualize the archaeological record and aid interpretation of its content, I underscore the importance of a complementary process of using the archaeological record to enrich interpretations of epigraphical sources. Relying on inscriptional, archaeological, and geological data from ancient and medieval southern India as source material, I illustrate how the cultural significance of inscriptional records for ritual activities in the interior Deccan was related to the shifting materialities of agricultural land use that can be documented only archaeologically. When taken together, the disparate evidentiary sources demonstrate how changes in land use and inscriptional practices articulated with newly emergent social relationships and politicized conditions of precarity, both challenging and complementing previous inscription-based historiography of the region. Building on this case study, I highlight how treating documentary and archaeological sources more equally within the same hermeneutic process can augment and diversify environmental imaginaries needed to address the politics and publics of contemporary climate change.
Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series<https://ancientstudies.harvard.edu/visitors-series>
[Ancient Studies Visitors Series: Andrew Bauer (Stanford University)]
Ilana Freedman (Harvard, Dept. of Comparative Literature)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Mar. 25, 3 – 4 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Zoom)
"The Classical Past as Cultural Capital: Transcultural Perspectives"
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, "Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"<https://wcfia.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/seminars/cultural_politics/sche…>
harvard.zoom.us…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_meetin…>
Respondent: Panagiotis Roilos
Alexander O'Hara (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Mon., Mar. 28, 5:15 p.m.
MIT, Building E51, E51-095, Cambridge, MA
"The Irish at the Carolingian Court and the Europeanization of Europe"
Note: Attendees who are not members of the MIT Community on COVID Pass must contact tranvoj(a)mit.edu<mailto:tranvoj@mit.edu> for a Tim Ticket. More info on COVID-19 protocol here: covidapps.mit.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__covidapps.mit.edu_visit…>
MIT Ancient & Medieval Studies Colloquium Series
[Alexander O'Hara (Harvard University)]
April 2022
Aurelio Conference in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 1, 2 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Barrister's Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (behind Marsh Chapel)
Conference Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Reception Time: 6 p.m. EST
Dinner Time: 7:15 p.m. EST
The program for the 2022 Conference is as follows:
Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University
'The Homeric Helen as Weaver and Spinner'
Helene Foley, Barnard College
‘Euripidaristophanizing’
Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania
‘Greek Comedy and the Question of Seriousness: Some New Approaches’
Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University
‘A Maculate Muse in Byzantium: Four Epigrams by Agathias of Myrina (AP 9.642-644, 662)’
The conference is open to anyone interested and is free of charge. Registration in advance of the conference is encouraged, with walk-ins welcome.
To attend the dinner, dinner registration and a small fee are required by March 25th, 2022. Dinner registration will open soon. For more information and to register for the conference and/or dinner, please visit: https://www.bu.edu/classics/news-events/aurelioconference/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.edu_classics_ne…>
The Aurelio Conference is sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Boston University Department of Classical Studies, and the William Goodwin Aurelio Professorship.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (1 of 3)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-1>
Katherine Schwab (Fairfield University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 5, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
Polychromy, New (and Old) Technologies, and the Parthenon Metopes
Dr. Katherine Schwab will speak on a selection of Parthenon metopes to analyze technologies, past and present, to better understand the original compositions and their polychromatic appearance. The original ninety-two carved marble panels displayed four major mythological battles prominently positioned above the columns on all four sides of the temple. Today we have a greatly altered impression due to their current state of damage and location. From graphite drawings to Virtual Reality, we are in a position to better understand these nearly life-sized compositions that formed the public face of Athena’s temple on the Athenian Acropolis.
The event is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Wed., Apr. 6, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (2 of 3)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-2>
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 7, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom
Du Bois Lecture Series (3 of 3)
Registration<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.zoom.us_webina…>
hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu…<https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/event/dan-el-padilla-peralta-3>
Christian Thomsen (University of Copenhagen)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Tue., Apr. 12, 5:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 (and on Zoom)
TBA
Nate Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff (Harvard University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
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>
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 12 – 1:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Rebecca Miller Ammerman (Colgate University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Thu., Apr. 21, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Fayerweather Hall 115, Amherst, MA 01002
On Sacred Ground: Interpreting Votive Images at Metaponto in Southern Italy
The chora or territory lying beyond the walls of the urban center of Metaponto has been the focus of pioneering archaeological fieldwork for more than half a century. Metaponto’s chora may thus rightly boast to be the most thoroughly investigated of any city-state in the ancient Greek world. This path-breaking research on the dynamic landscape of the countryside forms the backdrop to Dr. Ammerman’s study of the statuettes and relief plaques made of baked clay that generations of worshippers dedicated as votive offerings at the rural sanctuary of Pantanello. Dr. Ammerman will illustrate the different angles from which she has analyzed this large assemblage of figured terracottas in order to shed light on the nature of the cult practiced at Pantanello and the concerns that worshippers hoped would be addressed by the patron deity of the sanctuary to whom they made their votive gift. Dr. Ammerman's Lecture is made possible by the Amherst College Department of Classics and the Lamont Lecture Fund.
COVID protocols: Attendees not participating in the Amherst College COVID testing program will be required to show either proof of full COVID vaccination and proof of booster, or a negative result from a test taken within 72 hours preceding the event. Indoor masking is required.
www.amherst.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amherst.edu_academ…>
Text Editing Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trumbaEmbed=…>
Fri., Apr. 22, 2 – 3:15 p.m.
Zoom
John Duffy Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
View the entire calendar online<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>
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View calendar<http://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar>.
Submit events using our event submission form<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/event-submission>.
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