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Date Host/Venue Speaker/Program Event/Topic
February 15
9:30 a.m.
N.Y.U. Program in Hellenic Studies
Jurow Lecture Hall
100 Washington Square East
Information: (212) 998-3990
  "Philosophy as Politics:
A Conference in Honor of Aristides Baltas," co-sponsored by the N.Y.U. Philosophy Department and the National Technical Univ. of Athens
February 16
3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Jean Sorabella
Smith College
Gallery Talk: "Materials and Methods of Greek and Roman Art"
February 18
4:00 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
617B Hamilton Hall
Bruce King Colloquium: "On the interpretation of Akhilleus and Patroklos"
February 18
4:10 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Uris Center Auditorium, ground floor
Free with museum admission
Konstantinos Zachos
Curator of Antiquities
Archaeological Museum
of Ioannina
Lecture: "The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus: The Tropaeum of Actium at Nikopolis"
February 21
4:30 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., Room 9205
Open to the public
Prof. Victor Bers
Yale University
Lecture: "Fetishizing the Chorus of Attic Tragedy"
February 22-23
4:10 p.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
betw. 116th and 118th Sts.
Registration by email
Program Conference: "One Island, Many Languages: Art and Architecture in Ancient Sicily (Archaic to Hellenistic)"
February 26
5:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
617B Hamilton Hall
Open to the public
Stephen O’Connor Colloquium: "Consuls, War and Intervention in Illyria (230-229 BC)"
March 1
11:00 a.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "Dress and Undress in Greek Art"
March 1-2
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Columbia Center for Archaeology
614 Schermerhorn Hall
Free and open to the public
No registration required
Program Second Annual Graduate Student Conference: "Empire and Identity: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry"
March 3
4:30-7:30 p.m.
Center for Ancient Studies, et al.
Hemmerdinger Hall
100 Washington Sq. East, 1st Fl.
Reservations required by Feb. 28;
RSVP to Shayne Figueroa at (212) 998-8980 or via email
Program "New Research into the Dead Sea Scrolls"
March 4
4:30 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
617B Hamilton Hall
Open to the public
Garth Tissol
Emory University
Vassar College
CV
Colloquium: "Consigned to the Flames: Tristia 1.7 and the Fate of the Metamorphoses"
March 7
4:00 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Clemente Marconi
Art History Department
Columbia University
Daniel Silberberg Lecture:
"Kosmos: The Imagery of the Archaic Greek Temple"
March 10
6:00 p.m.
Archaeological Institute of America/ New York Society
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
David Stronach
University of California at Berkeley
Ira Haupt II Lecture: "Cyrus, Darius, and Alexander: Some New Perspectives on Achaemenid Art, Architecture, and History"
March 10
7:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
(Contact via email)
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Dimitris Matsas Lecture: "The Minoans in Samothrace"
March 11
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
617B Hamilton Hall
Open to the public
Pedro DeBlas
Abstract and bio
Colloquium: "Plato's Laws and the Politics of Writing"
March 13
1:00 p.m.
Fordham Classics Dept.
Music Room
McGinley Center, 2nd floor
Fordham-Rose Hill campus
Bronx (see directions)
Judith Hallett
University of Maryland
Lecture: "Nancy Drew in the Roman Forum: Sleuthing for Writings by Roman Women"
March 13
5:30 p.m.
Rutgers Classics Dept.
Ruth Adams Building 003
See directions
Thomas Johansen
University of Edinburgh
Institute for Advanced Study
Lecture: "The Separation of Soul from Body in Plato's Phaedo"
**CANCELLED:**
March 28
4:30 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., Room TBA
Open to the public
Rosaria Munson
Swarthmore College
Lecture: "Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians"
March 27
2:00-3:15 p.m.
N.Y.U. Classics Dept.
Silver Room 520
Open to the public
James Rives
York University
Toronto
Lecture: "Magic as a Criminal Offense in the Roman World"
March 27
5:00 p.m.
Columbia University
Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
612 Schermerhorn Hall
John Baines
Oxford University
Graduate Student Lecture Series: "The Body in Egyptian Art: From the Daemonic to the Divine"
March 27
5:00 p.m.
Rutgers Classics Dept.
Ruth Adams Building 003
See directions.
Gregory Nagy
Harvard University
Lecture: "The Lives of Homer as Aetiologies of Homeric Poetry"
March 27
7:30 p.m.
University Seminar Movement
Columbia University
1512 International Affairs Bldg.
118th St. between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr.
Information: (212) 316-0373
or via e-mail
Emma Dench
Birkbeck College
University of London
Institute for Advanced Study
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: "Writing the Roman ‘Race’: Ancient Myths and Modern Narratives." See abstract.
March 30
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Teatro, Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
betw. 116th and 118th Sts.
Registration by email
or call (212) 854-1621
Program "Symposium on the Expansion of Christianity in the First Four Centuries"
April 2
4:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Uris Center Auditorium
Free with museum admission
Brian Shefton
University of Newcastle;
Founding Curator,
Shefton Museum of Greek Art
Lecture: "The Greeks and the Adriatic"
April 4
2:45 p.m.
New York Classical Club
Event location:
Stuyvesant High School
345 Chambers St.
second-floor lobby
via Tribeca Bridge
Contact: Dr. Susan Brockman
at (718) 499-4675 or via email.
  120th Annual High School Latin Sight Translation Contest
April 4
4:00 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., 3rd floor
Open to all interested
graduate students
Bibliography Graduate students’ reading group: secondary sources in German and French pertaining to Livy and Euripides courses at the CUNY Graduate Center
April 4
1:30 p.m.

April 5
10 a.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
April 4: 501 Schermerhorn Hall
(on-site registration begins 1 p.m.)
April 5: Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Registration by email
or call (212) 854-1621
Program Conference: "The Reception of Greek Tragedy Since Antiquity"
April 4
7:30 p.m.

April 5
2:00 & 7:30 p.m.
The Barnard & Columbia Classical
Drama Society
Performance location:
Minor Latham Playhouse
118 Milbank Hall, Barnard College
(enter campus at 117th St.,
west side of Broadway)
Reservations: 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com
Program Theater performance: Sophocles’ Ajax, performed in the original Greek with English surtitles
April 5
11:00 a.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "The Potting and Painting of Greek Vases"
April 8
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
617B Hamilton Hall
Open to the public
Silviu Anghel
Benjamin Straumann
Colloquium: "Polybius’ Symploke: From Personal to Interstatal Relations" (Anghel);
"Classical Antiquity as a Source of Hugo Grotius' Early Modern Natural Law" (Straumann)
See abstracts.
April 8
5:00 p.m.
Rutgers Classics Dept.
Ruth Adams Building 003
See directions
Philip van der Eijk
Newcastle upon Tyne
Lecture: "Soul, Body, Divination and Prognosis: the Hippocratic Work 'On Dreams' and its Near Eastern Background"
April 11
11:00 a.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
5th fl. conference room
Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
betw. 116th and 118th Sts.
Directions
Mary Beard
Cambridge University
Lecture: "'Deeds of Wanton Destruction': The Ruination of the Athenian Acropolis from Count Morosini to Heinrich Schliemann"
April 11
4:00 p.m.
Hunter College Classics Dept.
Event location:
615 Hunter West Building
68th St. and Lexington Ave.
Reception at 3:30 p.m.
Contact: (212) 772-4960
Sarah B. Pomeroy
Hunter College
CUNY Graduate Center
66th Annual Josephine Earle Memorial Lecture: "Spartan Women among the Romans"
April 12
9:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m.
South St. Seaport Museum
aboard the tall-ship Peking
Free and open to the public
Robert Fagles, et al.
Program
Poetry Reading: Homer’s Odyssey
April 12
9:30 a.m.
N.Y.U. Classics Dept.
Jurow Lecture Hall
100 Washington Square East
Open to the public
Registration by email to
John Marincola
Program "Past and Present in Roman Historiography: A Conference in Honor of A.J. Woodman"
April 12
2:00 p.m.
New York Classical Club
Event location:
Barnard College
Spanish Room, 207 Milbank Bldg.
Broadway at West 120th St.
Contact: Dr. S.G. Daitz
at (212) 666-6228 or via email
  Greek and Latin Oral Reading Contest
April 14
6:30 p.m.
New York Aegean
Bronze Age Colloquium
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
James Wright
Mary Dabney
Geoffrey Compton
Lecture: "A Mycenaean Mortuary Landscape in the Nemea Valley: Excavation, Prospection and Geographic Information Systems"
April 17
12:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Classics Dept.
7th fl. seminar room
25 Waverly Place
Braden Mechley
College of the Holy Cross
Lecture: "Narrative Epic Modes and Gestures in Lucretius’ de Rerum Natura"
April 18
11:00 a.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
5th fl. conference room
Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
betw. 116th and 118th Sts.
Directions

Gil Renberg
Duke University

Lecture: "Dreams and Visions in Ancient Religious Life: A Reassessment of the Epigraphical Evidence"
April 18
3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Nancy Thompson Gallery Talk: "Glimpses of Ancient Roman Life"
April 24
7:30 p.m.
University Seminar Movement
Columbia University
Schermerhorn 930
Information: (212) 316-0373
or via e-mail
Carol Mattusch
George Mason University
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: "Speaking with Authority: the Impact of the Rediscovery of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum"
April 25
1:30-5:00 p.m.
New York Classical Club
Event location:
N.Y.U. Classics Dept.
25 Waverly Place
7th floor seminar room
  The Undergraduate Greek and Latin Sight Translation Contests
Greek: 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Latin: 3:15-4:45 p.m.
**CANCELLED:**
April 26

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
5th fl. conference room
Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
betw. 116th and 118th Sts.
Program "Context and Identity: Exiles in Greek and Roman Culture"
April 26
3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Deirdre Larkin Gallery Talk: "Plant Symbols and Motifs in Greek and Roman Art"
April 25-27

Columbia Center for Archaeology
405 Milbank Hall
Barnard College
Registration by email or call Lucas Rubin at (212) 854-4606
Program Interdisciplinary Conference: "Excavating Memories: The Archaeology of Remembering and Forgetting"
April 30
12 noon
Brooklyn College Classical
Studies Society
Brooklyn College Library Auditorium (1st floor of library)
Open to all students
Contact: Aaron Angel via email
Roger Dunkle
Brooklyn College
Lecture: "The Gladiator"
May 1
5:00 p.m.
N.Y.U. Classics Dept.
7th fl. seminar room
25 Waverly Place
René Nünlist
Brown University
Lecture: "Further Voices on Ancient Literary Criticism: the Scholia"
**CANCELLED:**
May 2
4:30 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., Room 9207
Reception to follow
Open to the public
Timothy Moore
UT-Austin
Lecture: "Why Plautine Meter Matters"
May 3
4:00 p.m.
New York Classical Club
The Hewitt School library
45 East 75th Street
Reception to follow
Free and open to the public
Alan Cameron
Columbia University
Spring meeting: “A New Chapter in the History of Ancient Forgeries.” See abstract.
**CANCELLED:**
May 3
4:00 p.m.
New York Classical Club
The Hewitt School
45 East 75th Street
Registration required; see the
NYCC site for details
Timothy Moore
UT-Austin
Spring meeting: "Music in Roman Drama"
May 5
12:15-1:50 p.m.
Brooklyn College Classics Dept.
Brooklyn College Student Center (SUBO)
Open to the public
John Marincola
New York University
The Costas Lecture: "Past Passion: Emotions, Epic and History"
May 5
7:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "Children in Greek and Roman Art "
May 6
7:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
(Contact via email)
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Oliver Dickinson Lecture: "The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change"
May 9
6:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Uris Center Auditorium
Free with museum admission
Larissa Bonfante
University of Richmond
Lecture: "Drapery in Classical Art"
May 10
3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "The Potting and Painting of Greek Vases"
May 17
7:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Jennifer Chi Gallery Talk: "A Merry Band of Revelers: The Dionysiac Thiasos in Greek Art"
June 13
2:00-
3:30 p.m.
The New York Public Library
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Event Location:
Trustees’ Room, NYPL
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
Registration recommended;
contact via email, or call
(212) 930-0915
Bernie Frischer
UCLA; American Academy at Rome
Lecture/Demo: "The Virtual Reconstruction of the Roman Forum: Using 3-D Modeling as a Scholarly Tool"; read the abstract
June 14
7:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Jennifer Chi Gallery Talk: "Emperor, Empress, and Citizen: Imperial Roman Portraiture"
May 24 through
June 29

Tues.-Fri.:
8 p.m.
Saturday:
3 & 8 p.m.
Sunday:
3 & 6:30 p.m.
National Actors Theatre
Michael Schimmel Center
for the Arts, Pace University
Spruce Street betw. Park Row
and Gold St.

See map.
Information on
discount tickets available to www.classicalnyc.org users; student discount also available
Theater performance: A new version of “The Persians” by Ellen McLaughlin
July 5
11:00 a.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Elizabeth Kessler Gallery Talk: "Life and Death in Ancient Greece"
July 13
11:00 a.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "The Potting and Painting of Greek Vases"
August 2
3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Elizabeth Kessler Gallery Talk: "Life and Death in Ancient Greece"
Aug. 8, 2003
7:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Jennifer Chi Gallery Talk: "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Representations of the Symposium in Classical Greek Art"
Aug. 9, 2003
11:00 a.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "Ancient Athenians and Their Tomb Monuments"
Through
Aug. 17, 2003
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor
Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
  Special Exhibition: "Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus"
Aug. 17, 2003
3:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Beth Cohen Gallery Talk: "Dress and Undress in Greek Art"
Aug. 23, 2003
7:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
Free with museum admission
Jennifer Chi Gallery Talk: "Funerary Monuments from the Greek and Roman World"
Sept. 9, 2003
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
Helene Foley
Barnard College
Colloquium: “Women in Ancient Epic: Gilgamesh to Imperial Latin Epic”
Sept. 17, 2003
6:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Contact via email
Open to the public
Bernice Jones
Queens College/CUNY
Lecture: "Frescoes from the ‘Cult Center’ at Mycenae: A New Reconstruction and Interpretation of the ‘Mykenaia’ and Other Figures”
Sept. 18, 2003
7:30 p.m.
University Seminar Movement
Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
More information
Contact: (212) 695-9679
or via e-mail
Ann Hanson
Yale University
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “Galen’s Pediatrics and the Iliad’s Infants and Toddlers”
Abstract
Sept. 19, 2003
4:30 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., Room C205
Open to the public
Prof. Susanna Braund
Yale University
Lecture: "Libertas or Licentia, Freedom and Criticism in Roman Satire"
Sept. 18-20, 2003 Columbia University Seminar on 18th-cent. European Culture & the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Event Location:
Kellogg Conference Center
International Affairs Bldg., 15th Fl.
Columbia University
Registration required
Contact: Martha K. Zebrowski, Program Director, via email
Program Symposium: "Classical, Hellenistic, and Late Antique Texts in the Eighteenth Century"
Sept. 24, 2003
7:00 p.m.
N.Y.U. Classics Dept.
25 Waverly Place, Room 706
Edith Hall
University of Durham
Lecture with slide-show: “Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra versus her Senecan tradition”
Sept. 25, 2003
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean

Event location:
Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Ave., 5th fl.
See map.
Abstract Interdisciplinary Workshop for New Work
Sept. 30, 2003
8:00 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
Horace Mann Auditorium
Teachers’ College
(147 Horace Mann, Broadway and 120th St. — or enter through Teachers’ College main entrance on 120th St. between B’way and Amsterdam Ave.)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
www.ladycavaliers.com
Press release Theater performance: “Camilla: Vergil’s Warrior Princess,” translated and adapted from Vergil’s Aeneid by Peter Hilton

THIS IS A FREE PREVIEW PERFORMANCE.
Oct. 1, 2003
4:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Free with museum admission
Vassiliki Machaira
Research Center for Antiquity
Academy of Athens
Lecture: “Hellenistic Sculptures from Rhodes in Their Topographical Context”
The following event has been CANCELLED and will be rescheduled at a time TBA:
Oct. 7, 2003
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
David Ratzan
Ph.D. candidate
Classical Studies
Columbia University
Colloquium: “Space and Time in Lucian’s Icaromenippus.” See abstract.
Oct. 10, 2003
4:00 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Björn Ewald
Yale University
Daniel Silberberg Lecture:
“Love in the Face of Death: the Notion of the Couple in Roman Funerary Art”
Oct. 16, 2003
7:30 p.m.
University Seminar Movement
Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
More information
Contact: (212) 695-9679
or via e-mail
Elaine Fantham
Princeton University
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “Dialogues of Displacement: Seneca’s Consolations to Helvia and Polybius”
Oct. 16, 2003
6:00 p.m.
Center for Archaeology
Columbia University
Schermerhorn 612
Ian Hodder
Stanford University
Lecture: “Towards a Hybrid Archaeology: Excavating Catalhoyuk”; see excavation website
Oct. 18, 2003
4:00 p.m.
New York Classical Club, with the Foundation for Hellenic Culture
Event location:
7 West 57th St., Suite 1
Free and open to the public
Victor Bers
Yale University
NYCC fall meeting and lecture: “Keeping Your Cool in an Athenian Lawcourt”
See abstract.
Oct. 21, 2003
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
Victor Bers
Yale University
Colloquium: “Fetishizing the Chorus of Greek Tragedy”
Oct. 19-25, 2003
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue at 10th St.
Contact: (212) 726-8301
www.ladycavaliers.com
Press release
(includes showtimes and ticket information)
Theater performance: “Camilla: Vergil’s Warrior Princess,” translated and adapted from Vergil’s Aeneid by Peter Hilton
Oct. 22-25, 2003

Wed.-Fri. at 8 p.m.;
Sat.: 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
The Theatre of Riverside Church
120th St. and Claremont Ave.
For credit card reservations and box office hours call (212) 870-6784
$10.00 general admission,
$5.00 students and seniors
Theater performance: Seneca’s Thyestes, adapted and directed by Paul Peers of Columbia School of the Arts
Oct. 23-24,
2003
Rutgers Classics Dept.
Event Location:
Scholarly Communication Center
Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ
See directions
Link to program and registration information Conference: “Critical Divergences: New Directions in the Study of Roman Literature”
Oct. 23-25, 2003

Oct. 23
6:30 p.m.
(free show);
Oct. 24-25
8 p.m.
Barnard College Theater
Minor Latham Playhouse
118 Milbank Hall, Barnard College
(enter campus at 117th St.,
west side of Broadway)
Call 854-5638 for information and reservations.
Program Theater performance: “Iphigenia and Other Daughters,” by Ellen McLaughlin; directed by Rebecca Guy
Oct. 28, 2003
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
Roy Gibson
University of Manchester
Colloquium: “The Politics of Excess in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria
Oct. 29, 2003
12:15-2:15 p.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Event location:
513 Fayerweather Hall
Columbia University
Abstract Interdisciplinary Workshop for New Work
Oct. 29, 2003
6:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
(Contact via email)
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Steven Soter
American Museum of Natural History
Lecture: “Early Bronze Age Helike: Discovery of a Prehistoric Coastal Town on the Gulf of Corinth”
Oct. 30, 2003
4:30 p.m.
St. Francis College
Presidential Conference Room, 7th floor
180 Remsen St.
Brooklyn Heights
Subway to Jay St./Borough Hall/Court St.
Contact: (718) 489-5409
Matthew McGowan
St. Francis College
Lecture on Ovid’s Metamorphoses: “Pythagoras and Numa: Exile at the beginning of Roman religion and law”
Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2003 Fordham University
Lincoln Center
33 W 60th St.
  International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Nov. 5, 2003
4:00 p.m.
Fordham Classics Dept.
co-sponsored by the Philosophy Dept.
Event location:
Faculty Lounge
McGinley Center
Fordham-Rose Hill campus
Bronx (see directions)
Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Bolton Institute
University of London
Lecture: “Is Plato’s Ion a Romantic Manifesto?”
Nov. 6, 2003
5:45 p.m.
Fairfield University
Co-sponsored by the History Dept.
and the Office of the Dean
Event Location:
Dolan School of Business Dining Room, Barlow Road
See a map and directions.
Contact: Prof. Marsha McCoy via email or (203) 254-4000 x3083
Adele Scafuro
Brown University
New England Ancient Historians Colloquium: “Masters of Ceremonies: Magistrates with Hegemony in the Courts of Athens,” with comments by Josiah Ober, Princeton University
Nov. 7, 2003
5:00 p.m.
Rutgers Classics Dept.
Ruth Adams Building 003
See directions
Michael Flower
Princeton University
Lecture: “The Iamidae: A mantic family and its public image”
Nov. 11, 2003
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
Ed Harris
Brooklyn College
Colloquium: “Historical Evidence and Literary Genre: The Political Background of Aeschylus’ Oresteia Revisited”
Nov. 12, 2003
7:00 p.m.
NYU Classics Dept.
25 Waverly Place, 7th floor
Ewen Bowie
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Lecture: “Rape, violence, gender and story-telling in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
Nov. 13, 2003
6:00 p.m.
New School University
Graduate Faculty
Philosophy Department
Event Location:
Machinist Conference Room
Mezzanine Level
Graduate Faculty Bldg.
65 Fifth Avenue
Dept. phone: (212) 229-5707
Katja Vogt
Columbia University
Lecture: “Early Stoics on Life in the Cosmic City”
Nov. 14, 2003
4:30 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., Room 9205
Open to the public
Alfredo Morelli
Univ. of Cassino (Italy)
Lecture: "Sighs of Lost Love: The Cycle of Rufus in Martial (Mart. 1.68 and 1.106)"
Nov. 18, 2003
4:00 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
John North
University College London
Colloquium: “Divination in the Late Republic”; see abstract
Nov. 19, 2003
6:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
(Contact via email)
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Michal Artzy
University of Haifa
Lecture: “Tell Abu Hawam as part of the Late Bronze II Entrepôts System”
Nov. 20, 2003
4:00 p.m.
College of Staten Island Library
2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Is.
Contact via email
or (718) 982-4004
See more information
Open to the public
Christopher Lightfoot
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lecture: “Roman Glass in the Roman World”
Nov. 20, 2003
7:30 p.m.
University Seminar Movement
Columbia University
612 Schermerhorn Hall
More information
Contact: (212) 695-9679
or via e-mail
Bettina Bergmann
Columbia University and
Mt. Holyoke College
University Seminar in Classical Civilizations: “Painted Garland: Weaving Words and Images in the House of the Epigrams in Pompeii”; see abstract
Nov. 20-22, 2003

Thurs.-Sat. at 8 p.m.; also Sat. at 1 p.m.
Columbia Musical Theatre Society
Black Box Theatre
Alfred Lerner Hall
2920 Broadway at W. 115th St.
See map
Tickets $5; box office opens two hours before show Theater performance: Euripides’ “Trojan Women”
Dec. 2, 2003
4:00 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
Stephen O’Connor
Ph.D. candidate
Ancient History
Columbia University
Colloquium: “Greek Armies and Greek Markets in the Late 5th and Early 4th Centuries B.C.E.”; see abstract
Dec. 5, 2003
5:00 p.m.
Center for the Ancient Mediterranean,
Columbia University Classics and History Departments
Event location:
614 Schermerhorn
James E. Packer
Northwestern University
Lecture: “Rethinking Pompey’s Theater: The Pompey Project, Documentation, and Excavation (1996-2003)”
Dec. 6-7, 2003 Princeton University
Philosophy Department
Event Location:
Bowl Room 16, Robertson Hall
Program and registration information The Program in Classical Philosophy Colloquium: “Aspects of Ancient Science: Medicine, Mathematics, and Music”
Dec. 9, 2003
4:10 p.m.
Columbia Classics Dept.
616 Hamilton Hall
Contact: Gerry Visco
(212) 854-7821
Edith Hall
University of Durham
Colloquium: “Childbirth and Family Crisis in Ancient Drama”
Dec. 10, 2003
6:30 p.m.
N.Y.U. Institute of Fine Arts
Sponsored by the New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
(Contact via email)
1 East 78th St.
Open to the public
Lyvia Morgan Lecture: “The Hunt Frieze at Tell Dab’a”
Dec. 12, 2003
5:00 p.m.
CUNY Classics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave., Room 4108
Open to the public
Joanne Spurza
Hunter College
Lecture: “No Place Like Home: Reading Houses and Urban Design at Roman Ostia”

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