Boston Area Classics Calendar
April 2018
Sophocles'
Antigone<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Sun., Apr. 29, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Stadium, 79 N Harvard St, Allston, MA 02134
Come see a spectacle of unprecedented proportions as ARTS FIRST storms Harvard Stadium
with an original translation of Sophocles' ANTIGONE by the Harvard Classics Club!
Featuring a new theatrical score performed by a small army of chorus members, a dynamic
set that breathes with the action, and undergraduate, faculty, and professional actors,
this performance launches ANTIGONE into the heart of contemporary discourse. This event is
free and open to the public at 6:30 pm on April 29 in Harvard Stadium.
Dee Clayman (City University of New
York)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tru…
Mon., Apr. 30, 4 - 6 p.m.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 409, Boston, MA 02215
"Astral Politics: Royal Catasterisms in Callimachus and Aratus."
The Study Group on Myth and Religion in the Ancient World is sponsored by the BU Center
for the Humanities
Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World at Boston
University<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.e…
Emily Greenwood (Yale
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 30, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Aristotle's Slave and Reconstructive Philology"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
May 2018
**Leah Whittington (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., May 7, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 237, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Supplements After Derrida"
GSAS Workshop "Postclassicisms: Literary Secondariness in Antiquity and
Beyond"
Leah Kronenberg (Boston
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., May 8, 5 - 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 114, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"In Praise of Diana? Catullus 34 and the Diana of Valerius Cato"
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greek and
Rome<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/civilizations-anc…
Alan M. Stahl (Princeton
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Tue., May 8, 6 - 7 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Numismatic Archaeology: Interpreting Coin Finds from Excavation Contexts"
Princeton curator Alan Stahl explores how ancient, Islamic, Byzantine, and medieval
contexts have affected the interpretation of coin finds.
Notes: Third floor galleries will be open for one hour after the lecture.
Mildenberg Lecture
www.harvardartmuseums.org.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht…
Trachiniae Study Day - Greek Tragedy
Workshop<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., May 9, 10:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, 60 George Street, Room 008, Providence, RI 02912
A full day of study and discussion focused on Sophocles' Ancient Greek tragedy,
"Women of Trachis." Participants should have read the play in advance, and
should bring a Greek text of the play with them. Lunch will be served!
If you have any questions, please contact the Brown University Department of Classics at
classics_department@brown.edu<mailto:classics_department@brown.edu> or
401.863.1267.
www.brown.edu.<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.…
Paul Cartledge (University of
Cambridge)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Mon., May 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
Discussion of Cartledge's book,
Democracy<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__global.ou…2gxOtN8OX6i4tCxnSqk&e=>.
Featuring Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College) and Danielle Allen (Harvard University).
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