Boston Area Classics Calendar 2009/2010: #1 (9/11/09)
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*Fri, September 25, 4:00pm – 6:00pm
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture
Paul Zanker (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) “Living with Myths in
Pompeii and Beyond”
*Thurs., Oct. 1, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on the Civilizations of Greece and Rome
Andrea Cucchiarelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
“Virgil and the Invention of the ‘Augustan Age’ (Divine Models and
Political Language in the Eclogues and Georgics)”
*Thurs., Oct. 1, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485
Broadway, Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Lecture
Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College)
"Rediscovering Boscoreale: Roman Country Villas and Their Treasures”
*Thurs., Oct. 8, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Room 318, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA
M. Victor Leventritt Seminar
Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College) and Victoria I (artist/
designer)
"The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space"
*Fri., Oct. 16, 5:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston Hall, Fong Auditorium, Cambridge, MA
Department of the Classics, Loeb Lecture
Marguerite Rigoglioso
“The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece”
*Tues., Oct. 20, 6:00 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Humanities Center, Barker Center, Room 133, 12
Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seminar on Modern Greek Literature and Culture
"Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke to Read Her Poetry at Harvard"
APPENDIX:
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.
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