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Local Event: The Ancient Spartans - A Very Peculiar Society?
The Dr. Nicholas Matsakis Memorial Lecture at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Professor Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge
Classical Club of St. Louis: Book discussion with Barry Strauss
Professor Barry Strauss of Cornell University will discuss the battle of Salamis with local Classics enthusiasts.
The Law of Periandros: Financial Syndication and Risk Allocation in 4th-Century Athenian Naval Finance
Professor J. Andrew Foster, Fordham University
Art and Politics on the Euripidean Stage: The Case of Hippolytus
Professor Lucia Athanassaki, University of Crete
Classical Club of St. Louis: lecture by Rebecca Sears
Our own Professor Rebecca Sears will discuss the transformation of stories from Ovid into music by Karl Dittersdorf.
The Biggs Family Residency in Classics: Dr. Susan Rotroff
Susan Rotroff is Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis. She is an archaeologist specializing in Greek pottery, especially that from the Hellenistic period in Athens. She retired from teaching in 2015, after two decades at Washington University. She has held a McArthur Fellowship and been awarded a Gold Medal from the Archaeological Institute of America. The department is thrilled to welcome back our own colleague as the 2019 Biggs Family Resident in Classics.
At War with Rome’s ‘Most Baffling’ Goddess
Lisa Mignone, Margo Tytus Visiting Research Scholar, University of Cincinnati; Research Affiliate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Local Event: Sex in the Roman Arena
Professor Alison Futrell of the University of Arizona will give the Joukowsky Lecture, speaking on matters of gender and power in the Roman arena.
The Homeric Epics in Early Silent Cinema
Jon Solomon, Professor of Classics, Cinema Studies, and Medieval Studies, and Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture at the University of Illinois
Classical Club of St. Louis: lecture by Jon Solomon
Professor Jon Solomon of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will lecture on Greco-Roman Allusions in Popular Cinema.
"Roman Gladiators and Pompeii" at the St. Louis Science Center: presentation by Tom Keeline
Professor Tom Keeline will give a talk at the St. Louis Science Center, entitled "Roman Gladiators and Pompeii," as part of the St. Louis Science Center's First Friday: Gladiator programming.
Meeting of the Missouri Classical Association
Mylonas Lecture: "Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age: Homeric Heroes, Near Eastern Potentates, or Something Else?"
Dimitri Nakassis, Professor of Classics, University of Colorado Boulder
Fiction and Philology: Classics and the Historical Novel
Anne Fortier, Author
Going Pro: Taking Your Academic Skills to the Writing Market
Anne Fortier, Author
Classics and Mathematics: A Personal Odyssey
Tom Keeline
Do Objects Have Something to Say? Performance, Agency and Ontology of Objects in Greek Tragedy
Anne-Sophie Noel, University of Lyon
Classical Club of St. Louis: A Boy, a Book, a Bomb, a Biography
Jim Lowe, John Burroughs School
Unseen and at Hand: Slaves, Tablets, and Roman Literary Production
Joseph Howley, Department of Classics, Columbia University