Lectures
Lectures
Upcoming Events
Mary T. Boatwright (Duke University)
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CMU 120 and on Zoom
Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis University)
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THO 101
Bernadette Brooten (Brandeis University)
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Zoom
Sarah Bond (Iowa)
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CMU 120
Past Events
- Finishing the Aeneid: translators' handling of Maffeo Vegio's Book 13 -
- Brothels and Prostitution at Pompeii -
- The Politics of Greek Meter in Modern Asia -
- The Late Bronze Age Eruption of Thera -
- 'Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus' -
- Was Virgil Reading the Bible? Original Sin and an Astonishing Acrostic in the Orpheus and Eurydice -
- Elite Negotiation and Consensus Building: Rewriting early Roman Imperialism -
- Conceptualizing premodernities: What, Why, Who, How? -
- “And they made a pact between themselves”: Female Financial Relationships in Roman Pompeii -
- The Dragon and the Pearl: Late Antique Christian Renditions of an Eurasian Motif -
- Why Hannah Arendt reads the Romans -
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Creativity in the Vase-Painting of Euphronios -
- Materialist Theories of Perception, Belief in Gods, and the Question of Centaurs in Lucretius and Art -
- Family History in Augustan Rome -
- De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources -
- Virgil's Geopoetics -
- On the Trail of Ancient Greeks and Romans in Plymouth Plantation -
- Creativity, Art and Scholarship: the research and writing of The Moor's Account -
- Problems and Pleasures in [Tibullus] 3 -
- Metamorphosis and mutability in late antique epic -
- Warfare in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BC (2015-16 Ridgway Lecture) -
- Thetis in Trojan Myth -
- Aspects of Greek Myth in European Opera -
- 'Sapphic Stanzas: How do we read the rhythm?' -
- 'Sex and Other Things Sell: Athenian Potters and their Foreign Consumers' -
- A rethinking of Sappho in the light of the newest fragments -
- Constructing Memory in Augustan Italy -
- “Orpheus Crosses the Atlantic: Native Americans Writing Latin in the Colonial Period” -
- 'Shaping Audience Perceptions through Deictic Patterns: Aeschylus' Persians' -
- ''The Strangeness and Beauty of Cypriot Art" -
- Reconstructing Dance in the Stone Age? Observations on the Comparative Method -
- Coming of Age at Thermon: Marriage and Its Discontents on the Metopes of Temple C -
- The Psalms and Homer: Late Antique Classicizing Poetry and Christian Exegesis -
- Wondering About, and Wondering At, Metamorphosis in Ancient Myth -
- 'Gladiators and Spectacular Violence in Ancient Rome' -
- Horace, Lucan, and the Beginnings of the Eighteenth-Century Gothic -
- Pyrenaean Mountains and Deep-Valleyed Alps. Geography and Empire in the Garland of Philip -
- Homer and Archaeology -
- Setting and Sense in Sophocles' and Euripides' Electras -
- The choric con-sociality of nonhuman life: Schiller, Hölderlin, and the place of Nature in Hellenistic poetry -
- Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art -
- Imperial Landscapes: Poetry, Demography, History, Geology -
- 'Finding' King Philip II of Macedon, Missing Since 336 BC -
- Family Affairs: A New Interpretation of the Porticus Octavia and Its Neighbors in Augustan Rome -
- Weighing In: the Priapus Painting at the House of the Vettii -
- 'Now now, quick quick!' Cursing and magic in late-antique Antioch -
- Plutarch and the Character of History -
- Marvell's Latin and Wordsworth's Greek: literature and literalism in the classical tradition -
- Masculinity and Social Relationships in Pompeii’s Brothel -
- Fleshing out the Remains: The Local and Regional Context of Roman Republican Sacrifice -