The Friends of Ancient History is a loose network of faculty and graduate students across south California institutions, who meet a couple of times a year, at one venue or…
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Greg Woolf | Losing Control of the Gods: How Religion Slipped out of the Hands of Men in the Early Roman Empire
Published: March 30, 2022co-sponsored with the Center for Religion and the Department of History
Read MoreRosa Andújar | Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean
Published: February 10, 2022This lecture discusses La Odilea by Francisco Chofre, a Cuban prose adaptation of the Odyssey, which refigures both Homer’s heroes as guajiros (peasants) and the ancient epic itself through the adoption of an oral Cuban…
Read MoreSheila Murnaghan | Taming the Extraordinary: Shifting Motives and the Psychology of Tragic Actors
Published: January 27, 2022UCLA Department of Classics Joan Palevsky Lecture | Dr Jennifer Stager, “Cut from the Womb: Towards a Feminist History of Ancient Greek Medicine”
Published: January 27, 2022The UCLA Classics Department is pleased to announce that the Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics for 2022 will be delivered by Jennifer Stager, Assistant Professor of History of Art at…
Read MoreLawrence Kim | “Why Do We Call Early Greek Poetry ‘Archaic’? Periodization and Histories of Greek Literature, 1830-2022”
Published: January 12, 2022Zoom Link | Zoom Meeting ID: 3131 1616 94 *There is a password on this account; please contact purves@ucla.edu if you need the password.
Read MoreElliott Piros | Purple Motion: Pantomime Dance in Martial’s Epigrams
Published: January 10, 2022This event will be held in person and on zoom. For in-person non-UCLA attendees, please note UCLA policy for visitors here. All attendees must take the UCLA Covid Symptom Monitoring…
Read MoreJames Uden | The Politics of Pathos in Virgil’s Aeneid
Published: December 15, 2021Virgil’s particular attention to human suffering has long been identified as a defining aspect of his poetry, but critics have had widely different views on the politics of Virgilian pathos….
Read MoreEmily Gowers | Brief Lives: The Case of Crispus
Published: December 14, 2021For inquiries about attending this lecture on zoom, please contact purves@g.ucla.edu
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