Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #10 (10/29/04)

Boston Area Classics Calendar 2004/2005: #10 (10/29/04)

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Jul. 21 - Nov. 28
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
An exhibit on "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete"
See Appendix for details

*Fri., Oct. 29, 3:00 p.m.
BOSTON COLLEGE, Burns Library, within Bapst Library, 140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Chestnut Hill, MA
Co-sponsored by the Burns Library, the Dept. of Classical Studies,
and the University Seminars Program of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (USA)
Euthymios Soulogiannis (Academy of Athens; Visiting Onassis Scholar)
"The New Library of Alexandria"
For further information: Dia Philippides (617-552-3664; Dia.Philippides@bc.edu)

Fri., Oct. 29 - Sun., Oct. 31
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Thompson Room, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A Conference sponsored by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
"New Directions 2: The Early Middle Ages Today"
Full details, including directions and information about registration and
accommodations, are available on the conference website:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~medieval/nd2/

Mon., Nov. 1, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Salomon, 001, Providence, RI
Kirk Lecture Series 2004-5: Writing History in the Ancient World
Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University)
"Perceptions of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia"
Made possible by a generous gift of the Kirk Foundation
and a contribution by the Charles K. Colver Lectureship Fund
For further information: Maria Sokolova
(401-863-1994, Maria_Sokolova@Brown.edu)

Tues., Nov. 2, 6:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, College of Arts and Sciences 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B12, Boston, MA
Sponsored by the Center for Archaeological Studies and the
Department of Archaeology
Part of the Alexander Papamarkou Lecture Program of the Cycladic Art Foundation of
Athens and New York
Dr. Alexandra Karetsou (Archaeological Institute of Crete)
"The Role of Peak Sanctuaries in Minoan Society: The Case of Mount Juktas"

Thurs., Nov. 4, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Room 102,
Providence, RI
Mark Toher (Union College)
"How Traditions are Formed: Caesar's Assassination and Octavian's Beginnings"

Sun. Nov. 7, 3:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Christine Kondoleon (Curator of Greek and Roman Art, MFA)
"Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete"
Free admission
For further information go to http://www.mfa.org
Made possible by the Lowell Institute

Thurs., Nov. 11, 4:30 p.m.
YALE UNIVERSITY, 407 Phelps Hall, New Haven, CT
Alexander Hardie (Oriel College, University of Oxford)
"Juno, Hercules and the Muses at Rome"
Reception to follow

*Mon., Nov. 15, 4:00 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 745 Commonwealth Avenue,
Room 409, Boston, MA
Kristina Milnor (Barnard College)
"We came here desiring: class and canon in Pompeian literary graffiti"
For more information, please contact Sal Sordillo, salvy@bu.edu, 617-353-2427

Mon., Nov. 15, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Salomon, 001, Providence, RI
Kirk Lecture Series 2004-5: Writing History in the Ancient World
Marc Brettler (Brandeis University)
"The Historical Texts of the Bible and the Bible as History"

Made possible by a generous gift of the Kirk Foundation
and a contribution by the Charles K. Colver Lectureship Fund
For further information: Maria Sokolova
(401-863-1994, Maria_Sokolova@Brown.edu)

Tues., Nov. 16, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Mary Rose D'Angelo (University of Notre Dame)
"Roman Imperial Family Values and Ancient Jewish and Christian Sexual Politics"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow@Brown.edu)

Wed., Nov. 17, 4:30 p.m.
AMHERST COLLEGE, Alumni House, Amherst, MA
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
"Lessons from Ancient History:" A Panel on Thucydides
Alan Boegehold (Brown University), Paula Debnar (Mount Holyoke College),
Barry Strauss (Cornell University)
Made possible by a generous gift from the Lamont Fund
For directions or information please contact swupton@amherst.edu

Thurs., Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Department of Classics, 48 College Street, Room 102,
Providence, RI
Christina Kraus (Yale University)
"Caesar's Account of the Battle of Massilia: Historiographical and
Narratological Approaches"

Fri., Nov. 19, 2 - 9:30 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, "The Castle," 225 Bay State Road, Boston, MA
A conference sponsored by the Institute for the Classical Tradition and the
Department of Classical Studies, with the support of the International
Society for the Classical Tradition:
"The Aesthetics of Power and the Classical Epic Tradition" (marking ten
years of International Journal of the Classical Tradition)
For details and registration information, see the conference website:
www.bu.edu/ict/ijct/conf.html. For more information, contact the Institute
for the Classical Tradition by telephone at (617) 353-7370, by fax at (617)
353-7369, or by email (isct@bu.edu).

Sun. Nov. 21, 2:00 p.m.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
Dramatic Reading: Homer's *Iliad*
Equity actors directed by David Muse (Shakespeare Theater, Washington D.C.) with commentary by Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
Reception following
General admission $18; seniors, students, and MFA members $15
For further information or to purchase tickets, call 617-369-3306
or go to http://www.mfa.org
Made possible by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)

Mon., Nov. 29, 4:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Medieval Studies
Ihor Sevcenko (Harvard University)
"How to Edit the Life of a Ninth-Century Byzantine Emperor? Quandaries of a
Byzantinist as Compared to the Quandaries of a Classical Philologist"

Mon., Nov. 29, 8:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Salomon, 001, Providence, RI
Kirk Lecture Series 2004-5: Writing History in the Ancient World
Wai-Yee Li (Harvard University)
"Guises of the historian in Early Chinese Historiography"
Made possible by a generous gift of the Kirk Foundation
and a contribution by the Charles K. Colver Lectureship Fund
For further information: Maria Sokolova
(401-863-1994, Maria_Sokolova@Brown.edu)

*Mon., Dec. 6, 8:00-9:15 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, First Baptist Church of America, 75 North Main Street,
Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Department of Classics
Latin Carol Celebration
Free admission; open to the public

Thurs., Dec. 9, 4:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Room 133, Barker Center,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome
Renata Schlesier (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
"Dionysos in the Underworld: The Problem of the Bacchic Mysteries"

Wed., Feb. 9, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Department of Classical Studies, 415 South Street,
Shiffman 201, Waltham, MA
The First Annual Jennifer Eastman Lecture in Classical Studies
Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
"The Three Songs of Demodokos in *Odyssey* viii: A Reassessment"
For further information: Janet Barry (781-736-2180 or JBarry@brandeis.edu) or
Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (781-736-2183 or aoko@brandeis.edu)

Tues., Feb. 15, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, title TBA
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow@Brown.edu)

Tues., March 15, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University)
"De-orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamia and Greece"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow@Brown.edu)

Tues., April 19, 12:00 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Program in Ancient Studies, Annmary Brown Memorial,
21 Brown Street, Providence, RI
Culture and Religion of the Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium
Burkhard Meissner (Brown University)
"Siege Warfare and Its Socio-Political Conditions: Near-Eastern Precedents,
Classical Models, and Hellenistic Innovation"
For more information: Michael Satlow
(401-863-3911, Michael_Satlow@Brown.edu)

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.

APPENDIX:

July 21 - November 28
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
"Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete"

As in the United States today, sports were a vital part of daily life in Ancient
Greece. "Games for the Gods" will be held in conjunction with the celebration of
the Olympic Games in Greece in the summer of 2004 for the first time since their
revival in 1896. The Greek Games were the site for the creation of local heroes
and the stage where the values of the society were played out.

The MFA exhibit will focus on the origins of the games, the gods (Zeus, Herakles,
Hermes) and the sanctuaries associated with them (Olympic Sanctuary model), and
illustrate precisely the various athletic events, the prizes given, and the names
and cities of the victors. We will also use ancient imagery and artifacts to
illustrate various athletic contests (running, jumping, javelins, discus throwing,
wrestling, boxing, horse racing and chariot racing). The exhibit will invite the
public into the ancient gymnasium and illustrate the preparations for the games.
Finally, statues of the victors and their actual prizes will be on view. We will
make connections between ancient and contemporary games by juxtaposing video
footage and photographs of today's athletes with the ancient artifacts depicting
actual events.

More than three quarters of the exhibition of 180 objects will be drawn from our
own world-class collection, but there will be important loans from other US
museums (Metropolitan, Los Angeles County, Princeton, Detroit, etc.) that will
enrich our presentation with the most dramatic and illustrative objects. This is
the most comprehensive and largest exhibition of its kind to be organized by an
American museum on this topic.

For more information please contact Dr. Christine Kondoleon (ckondoleon@mfa.org)