Marathon Readings
Please contact Trish Dougherty if you would like to be on the mailing list for our annual marathon reading. The readings take place on the steps of the main library each October during Fall Family Weekend. Baklava is provided for everyone but you must register beforehand if you wish to wear the laurel wreath and read.
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Gatherings
To celebrate the achievements of our students (both majors and non-majors) and the vibrant Classics community on campus, the Classics Department sponsors several gatherings each year. Last year we had an end of first semester party at 51 Main Street an end of school year BBQ, organized by our students, on the lawn behind Twilight Hall, and a commencement reception (together with the Philosophy Department) for our graduating majors and their families.
All 2012-2013 Events
October 5-7: marathon reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses
October 10: Matter and Memory Lecture Series in the History of Art False Friends: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art by Elizabeth Marlowe, Assistant Professor, Colgate University
October 27: Vermont Classical Language Association annual meeting
November 28: Saturnalia gathering at 51 Main
February 20: Ian M Sutherland, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Villa Arianna - Aristocratic Roman villa on the Bay of Naples.
Mar 16 Ancient Roman Water Rights and Commons Theory Cynthia Bannon, 10:45 am Robert A. Jones '59 House Conference Room
Mar 18 To whom does Solon speak? Rebecca Irwin, 4:30 Axinn 229
All 2011-2012 Events
October 14-16: Marathon Reading of Homer's Odyssey.
November 1: The Politics of Freedom in Rome: Caesar and Augustus as Liberators? A lecture by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Brown University
November 17: Classical archaeology; the Villa Arianna, a noble Roman villa at Stabiae on the Bay of Naples in Italy. A lecture by Prof. R. Lindley Vann, from the University of Maryland
November 30: Saturnalia at 51 Main
February 21: From Gilgamesh to GenesisA lecture by David Damrosch the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University
April 11: The Cause of the Trojan War: The Humanity of the Stranger in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey by Marc Witkin
April 27: Speculating in Unreal Estate: "The World of Plautus's Mostellaria" a lecture by Prof. Niall Slater of Emory University.
May 3: "Reading Virgil in the Nineteenth Century: From Berlioz to Tennyson" a lecture by Richard Thomas, Professor of Greek and Latin, Harvard University
May 14: Annual BBQ on the lawn of Twilight
All 2010-2011 Events
September 30: Beginning of year gathering for majors and minors.
October 8-10: Marathon Reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
October 29: Lecture on Euripides' Hecuba by Prof. Justina Gregory, Smith College.
October 30: Symposium on Euripides' Hecuba.
November 18-21: Euripides' Hecuba, a production by the Theatre department.
All 2009-2010 Events
October 2-4: Marathon Reading of Homer’s Iliad.
October 9: University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology on-campus presentation.
November 14: Behind the Scenes of HBO’s Rome. A presentation by director Stephen Shill, historical advisor Jonathan Stamp, and actor Michael Nardone.
January 13: Material Matters: Cultural Contexts of Classical Archaeology. A lecture by Prof. Ian Sutherland, Gallaudet University and ICCS-Sicily.
January 14: Neoclassicism and the Notion of Classical Architecture. A gallery talk by Prof. Pieter Broucke, Middlebury College.
February 18: The Idyll, the Ideal, and the Real: The Rediscovery of Greek Architecture and Its Consequences in the 18th and 19th Centuries. A lecture by Prof. Frank Salmon, Cambridge University.
February 24: The Man Who Came Between Augustus and Livy: Portrait of an Epitomator. A lecture by Prof. Jane Chaplin, Middlebury College.
March 9: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Art. A lecture by Prof. Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia.
March 11: Recent Acquisitions in Ancient Art at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. A gallery talk by Prof. Pieter Broucke, Middlebury College.
April 18: The Twenty-Second Annual Hannah A. Quint Lectureship in Jewish Studies. A lecture by Prof. James Kugel, Harvard University.
Prof. Marc Witkin with Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, Christ Church, Oxford University. Prof. Pelling visited Middlebury to deliver a lecture on Plutarch and Shakespeare.