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Tue, Nov 24, 2009 3:30 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Elizabeth Fentress: "Frank Brown, Andrea Carandini, Cosa, and its Territory in the Last Sixty Years."

Sat, Nov 21, 2009 1:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

First Neoplatonism Lectio: Plotinus, Ennead 5.1

Fri, Nov 20, 2009 4:00 PM | ART 1.120

Anthony Kaldellis, Ohio State University, "New Chapters in the History of the Parthenon: Recent Controversies and Byzantine Perspective"

Wed, Nov 18, 2009 4:00 PM | Institute of Classical Archaeology, West Pickle Research Campus (RSVP required)

Francesca Silvestrelli, University of Salento: Metapontine Morphologies: Shape Repertoires in Metapontine Fine Wares from the Second Quarter of the 5th to the Early 4th Centuries B.C.

Fri, Nov 13, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University: "Orchestrated Violence: The Role of Music in the Roman Amphitheater"

Thu, Nov 12, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto: "Under the Sceptre of Agamemnon? Economy, Archaeology and Texts in Mycenaean Greece"

Wed, Nov 4, 2009 8:00 PM | DFA 2.204

John Papadopoulos on "Molossis, Illyria and Corinthians: Greece and its Northern Neighbors from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age."

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 11:20 AM | TRINITY UNIVERSITY, Chapman Auditorium

Jen Ebbeler, U.T. Austin: "Apuleius' Golden Ass"

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 4:00 PM | Texas Union 3.116 (Governor's Room)

CANCELLED, TO BE RESCHEDULED. Stephennie Mulder, U.T. Austin: “Seeing the Light: Polyvalent Iconographies at Three Medieval Syrian Shrines”

Fri, Oct 30, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Corinne Pache, Trinity University: "Of Nymphs and Men: Nympholepsy Between Myth and Cult"

Wed, Oct 28, 2009 3:00 PM | UT Rec Sports Center 2.112

The Great Debate: Palaima vs. Graglia on UT football

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 10:00 AM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116 / AT&T Conference Center

Texas Classical Association Annual Meeting

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Classics Department Family Weekend Reception

Fri, Oct 23, 2009 10:00 AM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116 / AT&T Conference Center

Texas Classical Association Annual Meeting

Mon, Oct 19, 2009 5:00 PM | Texas Union African-American Culture Room, UNB 4.110

David Lambert, U.T. Austin: “The Composition of the Torah in the Pseudepigraphic Imagination”

Fri, Oct 16, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Christopher Moore, U.T. Austin: "Socrates, Persuasion, and Teaching"

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 8:00 PM | Doty Fine Arts 2.204

Jennifer Gates-Foster, U.T. Austin: "Forts, Frontiers, and the Roman Soldier in Egypt"

Tue, Oct 13, 2009 11:20 AM | TRINITY UNIVERSITY, Chapman Auditorium

Stephen White, U.T. Austin: "Plato's Symposium"

Mon, Oct 12, 2009 4:00 PM | Art Building 1.120

Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA: "New Light on the First Archaeological Discovery of Chinese Bronzes"

Mon, Oct 12, 2009 12:00 PM | WCH 4.118, Meyerson Conference Room

"Conversing with the Ancients: A Brown Bag Discussion on the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Worlds."

Tue, Oct 6, 2009 4:00 PM | Texas Union 3.128, Sinclair Suite

Jennifer Ebbeler, U.T. Austin: "Augustine, the Donatists, and Letters of Peace"

Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:00 AM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Livy and Intertextuality

Wed, Sep 30, 2009 4:30 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto "The Eye of the Beloved: Opsis and Eros in Socratic Pedagogy"

Sat, Sep 26, 2009 | Arthouse at the Jones Center

Building Rome in a Day

Fri, Sep 25, 2009 4:00 PM | MEZ 1.306

William J. Battle Lecture:Ian Morris, Stanford University, "What is Ancient History?"

Fri, Sep 11, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Barbara Weinlich, Texas Tech University: "Geographical Games and Social Constructs: The Rhetoric of Dominion in Propertius 3.13 and 14"

Wed, Sep 2, 2009 10:00 AM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Welcome Back Taco Soiree

Mon, Aug 31, 2009 1:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Farewell Gathering for Matt

Wed, Aug 26, 2009

First day of Fall Semester classes

Mon, Jul 13, 2009

First day of Second Summer Session

Fri, Jul 10, 2009

Exams for short Summer Session

Thu, Jun 18, 2009 | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

From Practice to Metaphor in Seneca's Moral Epistles

Thu, Jun 4, 2009

First day of Summer Session

Fri, May 1, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

Forms and Conceptions of "Dike" in Euripidean Tragedy

Fri, Apr 24, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

Music and the art of seduction: Lucian's musical lovers

Tue, Apr 21, 2009 4:00 PM | ART 1.120

Mapping India: Ancient Fantasies.

Fri, Apr 17, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

"Scire Nefas": Knowledge and Impiety in Statius' "Thebaid"

Fri, Apr 17, 2009 1:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Eta Sigma Phi Research Symposium

Wed, Apr 15, 2009 2:00 PM | Sinclair Suit, Texas Union 3.128

Valentinian Christians and their Demons: Fate, Deception, and Seduction in the Quest for Virtue

Tue, Apr 14, 2009 4:00 PM | ART 1.120

Friars in the City: Italian Centers and Mendicant Architecture.

Fri, Apr 10, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Lemnian Deeds in Hypereides' "Against Timandros"

Wed, Apr 1, 2009 8:00 PM | JGB 2.218

The Looting of the Iraq Museum

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 2:00 PM | Eastwood room (Texas Union 2.102)

Theologies of Almsgiving in Early Judaism and Christianity.

Wed, Mar 25, 2009 4:00 PM | ART 1.120

A Regional Center in East Crete: Makrygialos Revisited

Tue, Mar 24, 2009 4:00 PM | ART 1.120

The Ceramic Neolithic Period in Cyprus: the case of Kantou-Kouphovounos Settlement

Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:00 AM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

Review for the Texas ExCET Exam in Latin

Thu, Mar 12, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

The Wolf and the Dragon: Empire in Ancient Rome and China

Wed, Mar 4, 2009 8:00 PM | DFA 2.204

The Lord of Ucupe: A Moche Ruler at Huaca el Pueblo, North Coast of Peru

Mon, Feb 23, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

In loco parentis: Familial Hierarchies and Political Office in Republican Rome

Sat, Feb 21, 2009 11:00 AM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Getting Rid of Africanus, or, Closural Anxiety in the Scipionic Trials

Fri, Feb 20, 2009

Magic and Religious Authority in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana -- CANCELLED

Fri, Feb 20, 2009 1:00 PM | Texas Union, room 4.206

Ascetic Literacy: Books and Readers in the Christian Middle East, ca. 500-823 C.E.

Mon, Feb 16, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

A Place for Fear: Politics and Emotion in Aeschylus' Eumenides and Euripides' Bacchae

Fri, Feb 13, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge (WAG 116)

Tragic Ways of Looking at Archaizing Sculptures:

Thu, Feb 12, 2009 4:00 PM | ART 1.120

Hercules, Histrionics, and a Dead Husband:

Mon, Feb 9, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Time for Eloquentia?

Fri, Feb 6, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Begging, Pleading, and Supplicating:

Wed, Feb 4, 2009 8:00 PM | DFA 2.204

Charon’s Bowls: Burial and Ritual in Late Medieval Cyprus

Mon, Feb 2, 2009 4:00 PM | Classics Lounge, WAG 116

Laws, Courts, and Culture in Rome's Eastern Provinces

Fri, Jan 30, 2009 3:00 PM | WMB 6.146

Islam in a Rural Setting:

Thu, Jan 29, 2009 5:00 PM | RAS 218

Trading and Raiding on the Eurasian Steppe:

Wed, Jan 28, 2009

The issue of the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles -- CANCELLED

Sun, Jan 25, 2009 | Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas

From the Temple and the Tomb

Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:00 PM | WAG 116

The Fertile Shores of Sobek:

Wed, Jan 21, 2009 8:00 PM | DFA 2.204

The Oplontis Project 2007-2008: New Collaborations, New Discoveries"

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