Symposium: A Celebration of International Greek Language Day
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CASymposium: International Greek Language Day | Sunday, February 9 Abstracts of talks Brent Vine (UCLA). Greek in the Bronze Age: Linear B and Mycenaean Greek. 2:10-2:50pm Almost unique among languages of the world, the Greek language provides continuous written documentation over a span of more than three millennia, and has retained its identity as “Greek”...
Spring Events Cancelled
Due to university measures to restrict the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we must, regretfully, cancel all in-person spring events.
Finding Atlantis | Kathryn Morgan
This talk (offered on Zoom) by Professor Kathryn Morgan, Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics, explores the origins and some of the development of the myth of the lost island of Atlantis, from Plato to contemporary video games. This legend has fascinated its audiences since it first appeared in the works of the philosopher...
UCLA SNF Center-Benaki Museum Lecture on Classical Greek Marriage Rituals
Please join The UCLA SNF Center on Thursday, June 11th for a lecture on Classical Greek marriage rituals by Irini Papageorgiou. Irini is the Curator of the Department of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum. To receive a Zoom link for this lecture, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
“A Future for Old Age in Cicero’s de Senectute.” | Andre Matlock
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92259904483Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92259904483
“Writing from the end of the Iliad”: the Scriptor Cyclicus in the Ars Poetica | Jennifer Weintritt
Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94 OR Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/alexpurves Password: myth
Irene Han & Ella Haselswerdt in conversation: “Lesbian Sappho”
Please contact Savannah Shapiro (sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu) for Zoom link.
