Classics Graduate Forum Featuring student papers throughout the day.
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Classics & Careers
This event features three Classics alumni who have gone on to work in a wide-range of occupations. From graduate student to law student, from Google employee to government and non-profit work, these three former students …
Aramean Religion: Models of Flexibility and Adaptability—The Case of Zincirli
Lecture featuring Professor K. Lawson Younger Jr., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School The Arameans were a remarkable group of linguistically and tribally related entities who played a very significant role in the history and culture of the …
What Did Homer See?
Lecture by James Porter, Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric and Classics, UC Berkeley SUMMARY OF TALK: The fates of Homer and of Troy’s destruction are intertwined: the one cannot be imagined without the other. Yet neither Homer …
Plutarch in Byzantium: A Borghesi-Mellon Workshop
First Meeting: “Texts and Influences” Plutarch in Byzantium is a part of the Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities. Learn More!
Jeffrey Beneker to Present
The Long, Glorious, and Unfortunate Life of Pompey the Great Young Pompey was “great” in the way that mattered most to the Romans: on the battlefield. He earned his title at a relatively young age …
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Building The Labyrinth: The Rhetoric of Mazes, Labyrinths and Walls From Antiquity to Trump
A Lecture by Sarah Bond, The University of Iowa How can we use architecture to understand emotion or belief? What can the building of a mosaic labyrinth in a house at Pompeii or within the nave …
Hieroglyphic Texting: Ideologies and Practices of Written Evidence in Classic Maya Epigraphic Landscapes
A Lecture by Sarah E. Jackson, University of Cincinnati Abstract: This paper approaches the topic of ancient epigraphic landscapes by playing with concepts of spatiality and writing technologies. My case study is the Classic Maya …