Lectures & events 2009—10
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Aldo Setaioli, Emeritus, University of Perugia, Italy
"Philospohy as Therapy, Self-Transformation, and Life-Style in Seneca”
Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, 2:30 pm
Alain Bresson, UChicago and Ausonious-Bordeaux
"The Origin of Lydian and Greek Coinage: Cost and Quantity"
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Andrea Cucchiarelli, L’Università degli studi di Roma
"Virgil and the Invention of the Augustan Age: Divine Models and Political Language in the Eclogues and Georgics"
Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, 4:30 pm, Beinecke Library
David Ganz, Institute for Advanced Study
"Einhard at the Beinecke: The Testimony of Ninth Century Manuscripts of Carolingian Legislation"
Tuesday , Oct. 27, 2009, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Judy Barringer, University of Edinburgh, AIA lecture
"Olympia Before the Temple of Zeus"
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, 5:30 pm, The Graduate Club
Deborah Boedecker, Brown University. Yale/Brown at Yale.
"Harems and Harridans? Gender Relations in Herodotus' Persian Courts"
Response by Emily Greenwood, Yale University
Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm, CT Hall 104
Gail Fine, Cornell University
Sponsored by the Working Group in Ancient Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy. "Aristotle's Two Worlds: Knowledge and Belief in Posterior Analytics 1.33"
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, 5 pm, Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
Ian Morris, Stanford University. Second Annual Rostovtzeff Lecture.
"What is Ancient History?"
Reception to follow in Room 108. Download Rostovtzeff Poster
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Susan Wood, Oakland University. AIA lecture
"The Flavian Women: A Family Drama on Coins"
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 3:00 pm, PH 407
Rachel Sternberg, Case Western Reserve University
"Cyrus the Great in 18th Century English Drama"
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 3:00 pm - PH 407
Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas
"Androgynous Gods and Androgynous Nouns in Archaic Rome"
Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Nancy Wilkie, Carleton College, AIA lecture
"Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Prospects for the Future"
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen—co sponsored with Divinity School and Department of Religious Studies
"Tours of Hell: Greek and Roman, Jewish and Christian"
Tuesday, March 25, 2010, 4:30 pm, PH 407
Stephen Oakley, Cambridge University
"Tacitus' Agricola, Dictys of Crete, and a Scribe who Ended up in New Haven"
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 4:30 pm - PH 407
Sian Lewis, St Andrews (Exchange Scholar)
Title to be determined
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 4:30 pm - PH 407
Caroline Kroon, The Free University of Amsterdam
Title to be determined
Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 4:30 pm - PH 407
Monica Gale, Trinity College Dublin
Title to be determined
