Boston Area Classics Calendar
February 2023
Mark Letteney
(
MIT)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Thu., Feb. 23, 5 p.m.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Room 4-163, Building 4, 182 Memorial Dr, Cambridge,
MA 02142
"Reframing Roman Incarceration"
Speaker: Mark Letteney, ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at the Literature
Section, MIT
Abtract: The Roman empire was a carceral state. Prisons dotted the landscape, but an
overly credulous reading of legal sources has left Roman incarceration woefully
understudied. This lecture outlines the archaeological evidence for Roman incarceration,
and shows how archaeological record can help to reframe papyrological, legal, and literary
sources for prisons in antiquity.
Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Presented by the Litshop & Ancient Medieval Studies Colloquium
[Mark Letteney (MIT)]
Nadav Asraf (Havard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Feb. 24, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"A Case Study in Homeric Versification and Technique: The Homeric Forms πέρθετο
(Il.12.15), περθομένη (Il.2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and πέρθαι (Il.16.708) as Bardic
Usages"
The Homeric averbo of the verb πέρθω 'destroy, sack [a city]' presents a few
unique forms and usages: first, the forms πέρθετο and περθομένη, which, despite being
present formations, have aoristic value; second, the form πέρθαι which is a morphological
mystery. The solutions proposed thus far sought to explain these forms as either
linguistic archaisms or as the outcome of ad hoc linguistic changes. The talk will examine
these explanations and offer a new explanation, one rooted in the formulaic and metrical
constraints of Homeric versification.
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
March 2023
Alexander Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
NYU)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Wed., Mar. 1, 5:15 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
"Representations of Time and Space on Greco-Roman Timekeeping Devices"
Two technologies predominated in Greco-Roman timekeeping: sundials, which were static
objects exploiting the changing directions of sunlight and shadow, and waterclocks, which
translated a controlled flow of water into a display of time. It was characteristic of
both technologies to represent both the season of the year and the time of day, measured
in hours of seasonally varying length such that the intervals separating sunrise and
sunset always comprised twelve equal hours. The grids of "day curves" and
"hour curves" featured in varied ways on sundials and mechanized waterclocks
were not merely a means of reading off the present date and time, but also a diagrammatic
image of the spherical framework of Greek cosmology embedding astronomical definitions of
uniform motion and measurable time.
Also sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Diagrams Across Disciplines:
History, Theory,
Practice<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/diagrams-ac…ce>.
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
Jorge Wong (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 3, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
The -εσσι Datives in Homer and Lesbian Aeolic
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Arsen Nisanyan (Harvard
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Wed., Mar. 8, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Kindling the song of Humanism: How one translation of Homer's Iliad changed the
intellectual life of modern Turkey"
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
David Stifter (Maynooth
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Fri., Mar. 10, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
What’s the News in Ancient Celtic?
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman
Empire<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Mar. 16 – Fri., Mar. 17
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
The Boston University Classical Studies Department will be holding a conference entitled
"Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire" on
March 16th and 17th.
Thursday, March 16 (2:00 to 5:30 p.m., BU Law School, Barrister’s Hall)
Alain M. Gowing, “‘Tangled, chaotic and hideous’: the triumviral proscriptions in Roman
memory”
Michèle Lowrie, “The caring leader perverted, Lucan’s De bello civili”
Gareth Williams, “The Insecurities of Therapeutic Philosophy in Roman Discourse: Some
Symptoms, Effects, Consequences, and Implications”
Maia Kotrosits, “Late Ancient Hagiography as Literature of Grief”
Reception to follow
Friday, March 17 (9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., BU School of Theology, Room B24)
Speakers:
Erica James, Keynote
James Uden, “Embodying the Wounded Veteran in the Roman Empire”
Luis Menéndez-Antuña, “Analgesic literary strategies: how do the canonic gospels blunt the
crucifixion pain?”
Tori Lee, “Hic crine, hic veste: Violence and Bodily Violability in Imperial Pastoral
Literature”
Virginia Closs, “Solitudo as State and Space in Early Imperial Literature”
Christopher A. Frilingos, “The Suffering and the Glory: Problems in the Therapeutic
Criticism of the Book of Revelation”
Zsuzsa Várhelyi, “The ghosts of Neronian Rome: narrative and affective strategies of
coping with recent traumatic experiences in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia”
Inger Kuin, “Coping Without the Gods? Religious Disbelief and Insecurity in the Roman
Empire”
Basil Dufallo, “Optimism Beyond Political Trauma in Tacitus and Pliny”
For a full schedule and updates on registration, check the departmental website:
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
Sponsored by Boston University Center for the Humanities, Department of Classical Studies,
Department of Religion, the Health Humanities Program, and the Women’s, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies Program.
www.bu.edu…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.bu.…
classics@bu.edu<mailto:classics@bu.edu>
[Experiencing Insecurity: Pain, Trauma and Suffering in the Roman Empire]
Classical Association of New England Annual
Meeting<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Fri., Mar. 17 – Sat., Mar. 18
ST. SEBASTIAN'S SCHOOL, 1191 Greendale Avenue, Needham, MA 02492
The CANE annual meeting takes place March 17–18, with programming across the two days.
caneweb.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__canewe…
president@caneweb.org<mailto:president@caneweb.org>
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Tue., Mar. 21, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Gyges: Parable, Greek mythos and the Near East"
Professor Rosalind Thomas presents the first of her Jackson Lectures. Her lecture series,
titled "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the
Greeks," will reexamine the Greeks' relation with Lydia in the archaic period in
the light of the important recent archaeological discoveries. Lectures will include
discussion of Gyges, the Greek cities of Asia Minor, Lydian tradition and Xanthos of
Lydia, the impact of Lydia on the Greeks and on Greek traditions, Greek fable in contrast
to Near Eastern evidence.
The lectures are open to the public.
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Thu., Mar. 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"The East Greek cities and Lydia"
Professor Rosalind Thomas presents the second of her Jackson Lectures. Her lecture series
is titled "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the
Greeks."
Reception to follow.
Jackson Lecture Series
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Mon., Mar. 27, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Lydian tradition, Xanthus and post-military Lydia
Professor Rosalind Thomas presents the third of her Jackson Lectures. Her lecture series
is titled "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the
Greeks."
Jackson Lecture Series
Biennial Lecture: Research and Excavations at
Sardis<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Tue., Mar. 28, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
In this year’s Sardis Biennial lecture, Professor Nicholas D. Cahill of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis, one of the great ancient
cities of western Türkiye from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The Archaeological
Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University
since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Recent
accomplishments at the site include the discovery of some of the world’s earliest silver
coins in a historical context, the restoration of antiquity’s largest synagogue, and the
unearthing of Roman houses destroyed by a devastating earthquake.
Please see the Harvard Art Museums events calendar for full event details:
https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/research-and-excavations-at-sardis&l…
©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College
Sardis Biennial Lecture
harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-…
Contact: am_sardis@harvard.edu<mailto:am_sardis@harvard.edu>
[Biennial Lecture: Research and Excavations at Sardis]
Rosalind Thomas (University of
Oxford)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?t…
Wed., Mar. 29, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Sackler 004, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Croesus and the Lydian empire: Some thoughts"
Professor Rosalind Thomas presents the fourth of her Jackson Lectures. Her lecture series
is titled "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the
Greeks."
Jackson Lecture Series
April 2023
Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown
University)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calend…
Mon., Apr. 10, 5 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Barker 133, 2 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
“Night Shifts”
Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Civilizations of Ancient Greece and
Rome<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/civilizations-ancient-gr…
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu…<https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harva…
Alexander Vega (Harvard University) and Maxwell Wade (Boston
College)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Wed., Apr. 12, 5 – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Topics TBD
John Duffy
Society<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/links/john-duffy-society>
Thórhallur Eythorsson (University of
Iceland)<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?…
Thu., Apr. 13, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Boylston 335, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Oblique Subjects in Indo-European: a Reassessment
GSAS Workshop "Indo-European and Historical
Linguistics”<https://linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/pages/indo-european-wor…
The Many Faces of James
Loeb<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?trum…
Sun., Apr. 16, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
HARVARD ART MUSEUMS, Deknatel Room, Lower Level, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Venture into the world of James Loeb as three specialists from different fields help us
uncover his personality, examine his influence on ancient studies, and delight in the
small objects that filled his life. This event accompanies the exhibition “A World within
Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection.”
Florian Knauss, director of the State Collections of Antiquities in Munich and professor
at the University of Augsburg, will discuss Loeb as a collector and philanthropist. He
will highlight objects from the collection, give an overview of Loeb's collecting
activities and the legacy of his charitable achievements.
Mirte Liebregts, doctoral candidate at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has delved deeply into the establishment of the Loeb Classical
Library, the bilingual publication series founded by James Loeb. She will examine Loeb’s
motivations for creating the series and their relationship to his collecting.
Richard Thomas, George Martin Lane Professor of Classics, Harvard University and Trustee
of the Loeb Classical Library Foundation will moderate a conversation after the two
presentations.
The galleries will be open until 5:00. You are encouraged to view the exhibition either
before or after the event.
This program is sponsored by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University and
organized in conjunction with the special exhibition “A World within Reach: Greek and
Roman Art from the Loeb Collection.” Support for the exhibition, on view at the Harvard
Art Museums, from January 28 – May 7, 2023, is provided by the Kelekian Fund.
harvardartmuseums.org…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-…
A Symposium: Antiochus III’s Edict(s) to Jerusalem: Between Imperial Stress and Local
Agency<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calendar?tr…
Thu., Apr. 20 – Fri., Apr. 21
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street,, Cambridge, MA 02138
Rotem Avneri Meir and Julia Rhyder (co-organizers)
See
website<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochus-iiis-edicts…
for details.
cjs.fas.harvard.edu…<https://cjs.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/antiochu…
Harvard Classics Graduate Student
Conference<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Fri., Apr. 21 – Sat., Apr. 22
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
"Abundance and Scarcity in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
Keynote speaker: Eric Cline (George Washington University)
See the Call for
Papers<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-papers-2023-graduate-s…
for details.
classics.fas.harvard.edu…<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/news/call-pap…
contact: harvardgradconf@gmail.com<mailto:harvardgradconf@gmail.com>
Following in the Footsteps of Hadrian: An Evening with Carole Raddato,
Photographer<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calen…
Thu., Apr. 27, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, TBA, Cambridge, MA 02138
So far, Carole Raddato has photographed over 1,000 sites and museums focusing on the
classical past (especially Roman), many outside continental Europe. Her images, archived
since 2019 at the American Academy in Rome, are reproduced in hundreds of academic books.
Raddato is currently engaged in a 17-year project to follow Hadrian’s journeys in the
order in which he undertook them, as recounted in her photo blog,
FollowingHadrian.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A_…GcfkhFsLZxInqvnItWI&e=>.
Her visit to the east coast of the US in April 2023 marks her first lecture tour in North
America.
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America.
contact: Bryan Burns, bburns@wellesley.edu<mailto:bburns@wellesley.edu>
A Symposium in Honor of Ioli
Kalavrezou<https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/boston-area-classics-calenda…
Sat., Apr. 29, 9:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Lower-Level Auditorium, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
02138<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__maps.google.co…
Students and colleagues will gather to celebrate the career of Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton
Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art, Harvard University. The symposium will feature papers by
her students. This event is free and open to the public.
www.sebastesymposium.org<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http…
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