Classics & Classical Studies

Prof. Erich Gruen, Wood Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

James J. O’Hara, the George R. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will give the second annual Eve Adler Memorial Lecture.  Refreshments provided.

“Ecologies of Freedom: Global Political Thinking in the Age of Socrates” A lecture by Joel Alden Schlosser, Department of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College Drawing on the ancient historian Herodotus as well as ancient Greek poetic and scientific texts, this talk will consider an underappreciated strand of political thinking in the classical world, one deeply concerned with the complexity and interdependency of geography, culture, and political structure among diverse groups of people.

Commencement Reception for Philosophy, Classics and Classical Studies Seniors and their families.

Commencement Reception for Philosophy, Classics and Classical Studies Seniors and their families.

Sir John Myres posed this question in his 1927 Sather Lectures at the University of California Berkeley. Contrary to many scholars of his day, Myres did not believe that the issue of Greek identity was self-evident and he argued that it had arisen slowly over a period of time on Greek soil. This lecture will examine how, why, when, and on what grounds the ancient Greeks began to think of themselves as a singular ethnic entity and will trace developments in the definition of what it meant to be Greek in the ancient world. Jonathan M.

Antony Augoustakis, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Episodes of death, elaborate ritual, and burial abound in Flavian epic poetry. In this talk, I examine the episodes that describe a “fake” funeral to investigate the strong ties between burial, lament and civil war. In particular, female lament is opposed to and complements male grief, as lamentation becomes a vessel for letting out the darkest side of human predisposition towards despotism.

James Romm, the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics; Director, Classical Studies Program at Bard College

Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago

A celebration of Ovid and the College’s recent purchase of a 1521 edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Featuring Prof. Angeline Chiu of UVM and members of LATN 0202.