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Classics Graduate Program Marks Many Successes

Lively Lectures Abound This Year

Meet Bekki Richards, an Innovator in Distance Education

Legio XIIII Invades CU's Campus

Alumni Secure Prestigious Positions

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Lively Lectures Abound This Year

This year the Department has an outstanding lineup of public lectures. Thanks to our faculty's active recruitment of top speakers in the field, we have already hosted three guest lecturers on the CU campus this fall. Ted Lendon of the University of Virginia offered a rousing treatment of "Revenge and the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian Wars" on October 26 to an audience of nearly 80. On November 2 Scott Scullion of Union College generated a spirited response with his fascinating discussion "Nothing to do With Dionysus", a compelling revision of old orthodoxies on the role of Dionysian ritual in Athenian Drama. Volker Losemann of the University of Marburg treated us to a superb survey of "Classics in Germany during World War II" on November 14. In addition, our own Eckart Schutrumpf delivered a provocative lecture on "Teen Sex, Abortion and Related Issues in Aristotle's Best State" on November 29.

This spring promises more excitement when four additional scholars will visit the campus and offer public lectures. On February 18, Cynthia Damon of Amherst College will speak about her specialty, Roman Historiography. On March 21 and 22, Elizabeth and Garth Fowden of the National Research Foundation in Athens will turn our attention to Late Antiquity. Elizabeth will offer an examination of "Sharing the Holy in the Late Antique East" and Garth will enlighten us on "Hellenism and the Umayyad Leadership." Working at the other end of Antiquity, Donald Mastronarde of the University of California Berkeley will speak about Euripides on April 10. And finally, toward the end of April - a date has not yet been set - Johann Thom, currently at the Institute for Advanced Study, will speak on Hellenistic History.

All of these events are open to the public. Alumni in the area are especially encouraged to attend. The lectures will all begin at 4:00 pm (venues to be announced) and generally last one hour followed by a half hour of questions and then a reception where all are welcome to meet the speaker. If you have further questions about any upcoming lectures, contact our departmental lecture coordinator Noel Lenski (303-492-8184 or lenski@colorado.edu).