Classics & Classical Studies

Classics lecture by Lucia Athanassaki, University of Crete

Euripides’ Hippolytus is the only surviving Greek tragedy that offers a scathing account of Theseus. This representation is also at odds with the visual representations of Athens’ mythical king after whom political leaders such as Cimon and, to a certain extent, Pericles modeled themselves. This paper reads the Euripidean portrait of Theseus against Athenian civic iconography and offers a political assessment of Euripides’ radical departure from previous flattering accounts.

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

This talk proceeds from the suspicion that when the Roman jurisprudents of the so-called classical period wrote about law, they were neither necessarily, nor solely, hoping to formulate rules which would regulate litigation in courts of law. Rather, they arguably thought of themselves as authors of a form of literature.

Michael Peachin, Professor of Classics, Director of Undergraduate Studies, New York University

Keynote Address at 2:30: “Politics in Apocalyptic Times: The Case of Machiavelli” by Alison McQueen, Political Science, Stanford University


Panel presentations, Q&A with Faculty at 4:00 featuring Eilat Glikman (Physics), Sarah Laursen (HARC), Paul Monod (History), Daniel Suarez (Environmental Studies) and Larry Yarborough (Religion)

Michèle Lowrie, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Classics and the College at The University of Chicago