Dr. Daira Nocera: Rome and the Emperors: new archaeological evidence for understanding the Imperial Fora

Wednesday, April 15

Hellems 201, 5 pm

Since 2000, recent archaeological campaigns in the heart of Rome have uncovered a staggering amount of new data that has improved our knowledge not only of imperial construction projects but also of previous phases of occupation in the area of the Roman Forum and the Imperial Fora. These recent excavations have demonstrated how much is still unknown about the area of the Imperial Fora. After a general overview of the Imperial Fora and the latest reconstruction of the Forum of Augustus, Dr. Nocera's presentation will focus on the Flavian intervention in the area with special attention paid to the projects commissioned by the emperor Vespasian on the occasion of the two thousandth anniversary of his birth, currently celebrated by a grand exhibition in Rome. Dr. Nocera will discuss the latest archaeological data for Vespasian's Temple of Peace and the Forum of Nerva.

Free and open to the public!

Dr. Philip de Souza, University College Dublin: Pirates and Politics in the Ancient World

Monday, 20 April, 7 pm, HUMN 1B50.

Prof.H. Alan Shapiro, Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins: The Banqueting Hero: Shared Motifs in Greek Sculpture and Vase-Painting

Tuesday, March 17, 4:30-6:00 pm

Mabel van Duzee Room, Norlin Library, N424B

H. Alan Shapiro has a particular interest in Greek art, myth and religion in the Archaic and Classical periods. He has written numerous studies of Greek vase iconography, including Personifications in Greek Art (1993) and Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece (1994). His interest in the interrelationship among art, religion and politics is best represented in his book Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens ( 1989; Supplement, 1995). He is currently working on a study of hero-cults in fifth-century Athens.

The mission of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) is to disseminate information about Hellenic civilization throughout the United States and Canada. The Foundation is supporting Prof. Shapiro's visit through its University Seminars Program. Prof. Shapiro is also co-curating the Foundation's current art exhibition "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens" (at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York City through May 9), and he and co-curator  Nikolaos Kaltsas (Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Greece) are co-editors of the exhibition catalogue.

Professor H. Alan Shapiro, Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University: The Invention of Persia in Classical Athens

Monday, March 16, 5 pm

Eaton Humanities 150

H. Alan Shapiro has a particular interest in Greek art, myth and religion in the Archaic and Classical periods. He has written numerous studies of Greek vase iconography, including Personifications in Greek Art (1993) and Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece (1994). His interest in the interrelationship in art, religion, and politics is best represented in his book Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (1989; Supplement 1995). He is currently working on a study of hero cults in fifth-century Athens.

The mission of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) is to disseminate information about Hellenic civilization throughout the United States and Canada. The Foundation is supporting Prof. Shapiro's visit through its University Seminars Program. Prof. Shapiro is also co-curating the Foundation's current art exhibition: "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens" (at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York City through May 9), and he and co-curator Nikolaos Kaltsas (Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Greece) are co-editors of the exhibition catalogue.

Please join us for a reception following the lecture in Humanities 350.

Prof. Jan Willem Drijvers, University of Groningen: Jovian as New Constantine in the Syriac Julian Romance

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 5:00 pm, HUMN 1B50

Reception to follow in HUMN 350

Dr. Stephen Heyworth, Oxford University: Propertius 3.4 and 3.5

Tuesday, March 3rd, 5 pm.
HUMN 250
Everyone is welcome.

Professor Carole Newlands, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Statius' Life of Lucan

Feb. 5, 5 pm, Hale 230

Everyone is welcome.

Dr. Giuseppe La Bua, University of Rome, La Sapienza: Leges, sed retractatum, quae causa recitandi fuit (Plin. Ep. 8.21)

Orality and Writing in Pliny's Epistles.

Tuesday, January13, 5 pm, HUMN 250.
Reception to follow in HUMN 350.

Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University: 'De Laude Scriptorum' From Script to Print, From Print to Bytes

November 20, 5:30 pm, HUMN 250

Servi Sunt: Immo Homines

The Classics Department at CU is pleased to announce a
Graduate Student Conference on Slavery in Antiquity to be held
in the Eaton Humanities building, Room 150, on
Saturday, November 15th from 8am to 5pm.

All talks are free and open to the public.

Conference Schedule

All refreshments served in the Eaton Humanities ground
floor lobby. All talks given in Eaton Humanities 150.

8:00-9:00 Breakfast

9:00-11:00 First Panel: Archaeology and Epigraphy

9:00:  Joey Williams (University of Buffalo)
“The Social Variability of Metallurgical Pollution:
Slaves,Metalworking and Exposure to Environmental
Contamination in the Roman World”

9:40: Stacey King (University of Colorado)
“Epigraphic Evidence forAccumulated Wealth Among
the Servi Caesaris and Its Social Implications”

10:20: Smaranda Andrews (Iowa State University)
“Dacian Slaves, Literary and Archaeological Evidence”

11:00-11:30 Morning Break

11:30-12:10 Keynote Speaker Peter Hunt
(University of Colorado): “Slave Culture in Athens”

12:10-1:10 Lunch

1:10-2:30 Second Panel: Republican Rome

1:10: Daniel Walin (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Slave as Author and Object of Humor in Old Comedy”

1:50: Jacob Morton (University of Colorado)
“Character Over Profit: A Look at What the Ancient
Roman Farm Owners Wanted in a Vilicus and Why”

2:30-3:00 Afternoon Break

3:00-4:20 Third Panel: Imperial and Late Antique Rome

3:00: Andrew Clay (University of Colorado)
“Aspects of Roman Slave Trade in Late Antiquity”

3:40: Carey Seal (Princeton University)
“Seneca, Slavery, and the Philosophical Life: Epistle 77”

4:20-5:00 Keynote Speaker Noel Lenski (University of Colorado)
“Jerome’s Life of Malchus as a Slave Narrative”

Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Some Issues in Ovid's Poetic Career

October 2, 5 pm, HUMN 250

James McKeown, University of Wisconsin Madison: Amores 3.13: Ovid's Least Successful Poem?

April 2, 5 pm, HUMN 135

Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College Oxford: Sacadas' Story

February 27, 2008, 5 pm, HUMN 135

Few scholars have made lasting and influential contributions to as many areas within classical studies as Professor Ewen Bowie, recently retired from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Professor Bowie has published widely on Archaic Greek Elegy and Iambus, Athenian Old Comedy, Hellenistic Poetry, and the literature and culture of the Greek world in the first three centuries CE (especially the so-called “Second Sophistic”). He has devoted particular attention to the ancient novel, and his edition of Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe with commentary, for the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, is eagerly awaited. In his lecture, he will draw on interdisciplinary sources to reconstruct the work of the sixth-century BCE elegiac poet and musician Sacadas, whose compositions on Apollo, now lost, were famous in antiquity.

Judson Herrman, Allegheny College: Divided reactions: Athenian politics after Chaeronea

March 7, 5 pm, HUMN 1B80

Professor Herrman will discuss a newly discovered speech of the fourth century BC in which the Athenian orator Hyperides defends his motion to crown Demosthenes, the foremost politician of the day. In this speech, delivered about four years after Athens lost its independence in foreign policy to Macedon in 338BC, Hyperides defends the hawkish policy of Demosthenes that led to the defeat. The new fragments are strikingly similar to Demosthenes' own defense of his policy, which he presented in his greatest oration, On the Crown, some four years after Hyperides' defense. In this new material Hyperides emerges as a political partner working closely with Demosthenes.

Professor Herrman will focus on this relationship and suggest that it is an example of factional politics in Athens in the 330s.

Laurialan Reitzammer, Stanford University: Sex, Drugs, and Kettle-drums: Euripides' Bacchae and Athenian Religion

February 11, 5 pm, HUMN 250

Peter Mazur, Trinity College Hartford: Apate in Retrospect: Odyssey 9 and Iliad 22

February 8, 2008, 5 pm, HUMN 250

Zoe Stamatopoulou, University of Virginia: Hsiodou tout’epos: Hesiodic Moments in Pindar (Isthmian 6, Pythian 2)

February 4, 2008, 5 pm, HUMN 250

Pauline LeVen, Princeton University: Old Songs for New Gods, or New Songs for Old Gods?: Paeans in the Fourth Century BC

February 1, 2008, 5 pm, HUMN 250

John Gibert, University of Colorado: The New Sappho

October 10th, 3 pm, HUMN 345

Philip Hardie, Cambridge University: Dido and the Plots of Fama

October 2nd, 5 pm, HUMN 250