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2012

 

 

Professor Jeremy Rutter is recognized for Archaeological Achievements in the Dartmouth Now

 

 

 

2011

 

 

 

This lecture is sponsored by the Gino Franco Luigi Zarbin, MD Memorial Fund in the Classics Department.

 

 

Classics Honors Thesis Presentations

Thursday, May 26 at 3:30 p.m.
Location: Reed Hall 104
Reception and Prize & Awards Celebration immediately following in Reed 322

Theses Presenters:
Charles H. Clark       
The Gortyn Laws in Architectural Context

Kathryn T. Mammel       
Bodies in Bloom: The Association of Flora and Female Figures in Late Bronze Age Aegean Iconography

Sarah C. Spangenberg       
Issues of Planning in Diocletian's Palace at Split: Imperial Cult and the Late Antique Palace

 

Classics Benefactors' Lecture by Ellen Oliensis, Berkeley Reading Between the Poems: Desire and Deception in Ovid Amores 2

Thursday May 5 at 4:00 p.m.

Reception following

 

 

 

"Prostitution Ancient and Modern: A Tell-All Confession"

February 22, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Rockefeller 002

Lecture presented by Professor Nicholas K. Rauh, Professor of Classics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Purdue University.

 

 

 

Lecture by Joseph Rife
Thursday, February 3, at 4:00 p.m. in Rockefeller Center I
First Annual Zarbin Memorial Lecture, Department of Classics
CANCELLED - To be rescheduled at a later date.    

 

"Life and Death at a Port in Roman Greece: Recent Investigations at Kenchreai," a lecture by Joseph Rife of Vanderbilt University, will be the first annual Zarbin Memorial Lecture. Presented by the Classics Department, it will take place on Thursday, February 3, at 4:00 p.m. in Rockefeller Center I. A reception will follow. The lecture is sponsored by the Gino Franco Liugi Zarbin, MD Memorial Fund.

The lecture will highlight research at Kenchreai (both excavation and study) that focuses on burial practices and social structure at the Early-Middle Roman port and also touches on other dimensions of the site through Late Antiquity.

 

2010

No Beast So Bloody: Exploring Gender Dynamics in Greek Drama

Scenes from Lysistrata - Medea - Hippolytus

Trojan Women - Agamemnon
Friday, May 28, at 1:45 p.m.
Collis Common Ground

Performed by students in CLST2/THEA10
Directed by David Mavricos
Sponsored by Classics

Lecture with Richard Billows: "Marathon: Why Is a Battle Important to Western Culture?"

Richard A. Billows, professor, specializes in Ancient Greek and Roman History and Greek epigraphy.

Monday, May 17, at 4:00 p.m.
Rockefeller Room 001

Benefactors' Fund Lecture

Pots, Politics and the Impact of Democracy on Athens: How the Iconography of Painted Pottery Changed Between 520 - 440 BC
With Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge, UK

Thursday, May 6, at 4:30 p.m.
Location: Carpenter 013

2009

• Imperial Classics: Culture, Letters, Learning. November 19 - 22, 2009.
  An international conference addressing the intertwined histories of imperialism and classical learning. Keynote speaker: Homi Bhabha. Organized by Margaret Williamson and the Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms, in collaboration with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, and the Office of the Provost. For more information, contact Meredyth Morley, (603) 646-8172.

• Annual Benefactors' Fund Lecture given by David Cohen (UC Berkeley), "War, Justice, and Empire in Classical Athens" on May 7 at 4:00 p.m. in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, reception following.
• A lecture by Coulter George (UVA) entitled "Expressions of Time in Judeo-Christian Greek" Thursday, April 23 at 4:00 p.m., Reed Hall Room 108, reception following in Reed Hall Room 322.
• Co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program.
• Lecture by Stephanie Nelson, "The Bacchae and the Frogs: The Tragic and the Comic Dionysus". Four o'clock on Thursday, April 16, in Silsby 113, reception following in Reed Hall Room 322.