Lectures

Past Events

• Weighing In: the Priapus Painting at the House of the Vettii - Fri, May 2 2014
• 'Now now, quick quick!' Cursing and magic in late-antique Antioch - Tue, Apr 8 2014
• Plutarch and the Character of History - Fri, Mar 7 2014
• Marvell's Latin and Wordsworth's Greek:  literature and literalism in the classical tradition - Tue, Feb 25 2014
• Masculinity and Social Relationships in Pompeii’s Brothel - Mon, Feb 10 2014
• Fleshing out the Remains: The Local and Regional Context of Roman Republican Sacrifice - Fri, Feb 7 2014
• The Sophist at Home: Herodes Atticus' Villa at Marathon and its Egyptian Sanctuary - Fri, Jan 31 2014
• Sympathy: The Early Life of An Idea - Fri, Jan 24 2014
• Youth and Rejuvenation in Tacitus' Agricola and Dialogus - Fri, Nov 22 2013
• The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae Near Pompeii - Fri, Nov 8 2013
• Ancient Roman Slavery and American History - Wed, Oct 23 2013
• Prof. Blondell to present at GeekGirlCon 2013 - Sat, Oct 19 2013
• NB: THIS LECTURE ('Sympathy: The Early Life of An Idea') HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014.   - Fri, Jun 7 2013
• University Lecture Series 2013: Jews, Greeks, And Romans in The Ancient World: From Marginalization to Multiculturalism - Wed, Apr 10 2013 , Thu, Apr 11 2013 , Fri, Apr 12 2013 , Sat, Apr 13 2013 , Sun, Apr 14 2013 , Mon, Apr 15 2013 , Tue, Apr 16 2013 , Wed, Apr 17 2013 , Thu, Apr 18 2013 , Fri, Apr 19 2013 , Sat, Apr 20 2013 , Sun, Apr 21 2013 , Mon, Apr 22 2013 , Tue, Apr 23 2013 , Wed, Apr 24 2013
• The Borghese Mosaics, Its Gladiators, and Late Roman Spectacles of Death (Lecture sponsored by UW Art History) - Mon, Mar 4 2013
• The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana - Fri, Feb 22 2013
• The Roman World Seen Through Portable Sundials - Thu, Feb 7 2013
• Moral Concerns in the Reception of Roman Poetry in China - Fri, Nov 30 2012
• Writing Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times - Fri, Nov 2 2012
• Why do we know Plato: Byzantium and the Classics - Fri, Oct 12 2012
• Cultural Poetics and Ekphrasis: Shield-Portraits and Shield Description in Imperial Epic - Fri, May 18 2012
• Who, Sappho? - Fri, Apr 27 2012
• The Study of Roman Art: Current Developments and Future Prospects - Thu, Feb 23 2012
• Ambiguous Legacies: The Causa Curiana as mise en abyme in Cicero's Brutus - Fri, Feb 10 2012
• What did an Athenian rhetor do? - Fri, Oct 28 2011