Benefactors' Fund Lecture

The Benefactors' Lecture has been held at Dartmouth each year since 1986 and is usually held on the first Thursday in May. The lecture has been made possible by the generous support of Dartmouth alumni and friends of the Classics Department.

Previous Benefactors' Fund Lectures

• 2009
  "War, Justice, and Empire in Classical Athens" with David Cohen, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor in Rhetoric and Classics at University of California at Berkeley
  
• 2008
  Finding a New Greek Temple: Excavations and Explorations at Bonjaket in Albania.
  Jack Davis, University of Cincinnati, Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
• 2007
  From Roman Games to Reality TV: Spectacles of Humiliation and the Politics of Empire
  Daniel Mendelsohn, award winning author, journalist and critic.
• 2006
  Imitation, Evolution, and Cultural Change: Towards a History of Mimetic Regimes
  Thomas Habinek, University of Southern California
• 2005
  Smoking the Womb: Gynecological Therapy in Ancient Greece
  Lesley Dean Jones, University of Texas at Austin
• 2004
  What is 'Classical' About Classical Antiquity?
  James Porter, University of Michigan
• 2003
  A Higher Order of Killing: The Origin, Evolution, and Canonization of the Roman Amphitheater
  Katherine Welch, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
• 2002
  Storytelling, Metamorphosis, and Reliable Narrators in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  Michael Simpson, University of Texas at Dallas
• 2001
  What Augustine Didn't Confess
  James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
• 2000
  Roman Selfhood: Sensualists, Stoics, and Spectators in the Early Empire
  Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago
• 1999
  Same Sex Marriage in Roman Law
  Bruce Frier, University of Michigan
• 1998
  Imagining Sappho's Music
  Christian Wolff, Dartmouth College
• 1997
  Feasting on Nature: The Archaeology of Roman Leisure
  Bettina Bergmann, Mount Holyoke College
• 1996
  Stringing the Patriarch's Bow: Honor, Class, and the Family in Homer's Odyssey
  William G. Thalmann, University of Southern California
• 1995
  Hypatia: Lynchings Ancient and Modern
  Alan Cameron, Columbia University
• 1994
  The Art of Livia and the Power of Women in the Age of Augustus
  Diana E.E. Kleiner, Yale University
• 1993
  The Gender of Sound
  Anne Carson, McGill University
• 1992
  The Bronze Age Origins of Greek Sculpture
  Jane Carter, Tulane University
• 1991
  The Death of Pleasure: Literary Critics in Technological Societies
  W.R. Johnson, University of Chicago
• 1990
  Ancient Art in the New World: America's Debt to Antiquity
  Maxwell Anderson, Emory University Museum
• 1989
  Hippocleides Doesn't Care: Athenian Drama and the Poetics of Manhood
  John J. Winkler, Stanford University
• 1988
  Cyclic and Homeric in Early Greek Art
  Steven Lattimore, University of California, Los Angeles
• 1987
  A New Pompeii on Cyprus
  David Soren, University of Arizona