Empire of Correspondence Oct 4-5 2024, poster with List of speakers

An Empire of Correspondence

Sept. 27, 2024

On October 4 and 5, Prof. Zach Herz will host speakers from three continents in Boulder, CO for a conference entitled "An Empire of Correspondence." The conference will feature talks on the role of imperial letters in social, legal, and political life throughout Roman history. Anyone who wishes to watch...

A marble statuette of Euripides

2024 Fountain Symposium

Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium: "Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides"

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Re-considering the Roman “Arts and Sciences” (artes): Scope, Premises, Problems

Aug. 1, 2024

The CU Classics department and Center for Humanities & the Arts present a talk with Professor James L. Zainaldin from Vanderbilt University: Re-considering the Roman “Arts and Sciences” (artes): Scope, Premises, Problems

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Searching for the Goddess of Countless Names

March 26, 2024

Searching for the Goddess of Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid Lily Panoussi Thursday, April 18, 2024 5pm - Eaton Humanities (HUMN) 250 ABSTRACT This presentation will focus on the depiction of the goddess Isis in Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses. The two authors seem...

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Labor Unions and the "Fall" of Rome

March 7, 2024

Labor Unions and the "Fall" of Rome Sarah E. Bond Wednesday, March 13, 2024 5pm - Eaton Humanities (HUMN) 250 ABSTRACT Arresting a charioteer in the late Roman world was a perilous act. A large portion of the Roman populace felt great affinity for members of one of the four...

Tholos tomb near Palace at Pylos

AIA Lecture - Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece

Feb. 1, 2024

Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece Wednesday, February 21st at 7:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 Free and open to the public Abstract Tholos tomb near Palace at Pylos Over the past few decades, archaeologists have assigned ancestors significant roles in the supernatural orders of most ancient societies. They argue that...

The head of Roma on the front and the two Dioscuri riding horses on the back. Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

McClanahan Essay Prize: Rome’s Other Twins: Ovid’s Gemini in Fasti V.

Jan. 23, 2024

Rome’s Other Twins: Ovid’s Gemini in Fasti V. Rachel Dzugan The head of Roma on the front and the two Dioscuri riding horses on the back. Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The legendary she-wolf suckles Romulus and Remus. Musei Capitolini. Thursday, February 1, 5:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 Free and open...

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Kirk Ambrose: 122nd Distinguished Research Lecture

Jan. 2, 2024

Kirk Ambrose In fall 2023, Professor Kirk Ambrose was selected as a 2023-4 Distinguished Research Lecturer. This prestigious award, one of the highest honors bestowed on the CU Boulder faculty, recognizes colleagues with a distinguished body of academic and/or creative achievement and prominence, as well as contributions to CU's educational...

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Dimitri Nakassis named College Professor of Distinction!

Dec. 14, 2023

Dimitri Nakassis The Department is thrilled to announce that Professor Dimitri Nakassis has been named a College Professor of Distinction, an honorific title awarded by CU’s College of Arts and Sciences that is “reserved for scholars and artists of national and international distinction who are also recognized by their college...

Bronze Head of Artemis from Vis 4th-3rd c BCE

AIA lecture: Interconnectivity and Local Responses: A View from the eastern Adriatic island of Brač

Dec. 12, 2023

Interconnectivity and Local Responses: A View from the eastern Adriatic island of Brač Wednesday, January 24th at 7:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 & Zoom ( REGISTER HERE ) Free and open to the public Abstract: Inhabitants of the islands off the coast of southern Croatia were exposed to the ebb and...

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