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List of Outreach Lectures |
The Department of Classics Outreach Program
If you would like to have any of our faculty visit your school, please contact the Outreach Coordinator, Candace Kash, (email: ugclass@mail.utexas.edu or phone: 512-471-8502).
Suggested Lecture Presentations:
David Armstrong, Professor"Alcaemenes of Panticapaeum: a visit to Rome in 61 B.C." (Junior Classical League or Grades 11 & 12)
(The ability to present Slides helps.)
Karl Galinsky, Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor; Distinguished Teaching Professor Roman Literature and Civilization"Recut Roman Portraits: Damnatio Memoriae?" (College audiences)
"What is Augustan about the Augustan Age?" (College Audiences)
"Vergil's Aeneid" (various aspects; high school or college)
"E pluribus unum: Roman Religion as a Cohesive Force" (College and general audience)
"Pax Americana and Pax Romana" (high school; general public)
"Were Gladiators the Essence of Rome?" (high school)
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Timothy Moore, Associate Professor"Musical Comedy in Ancient Rome" (can be adjusted for any age)
"The Sound of Latin Poetry" (most appropriate for high school students)
"Why Vergil's Aeneid Is Not a Football Cheer" (most appropriate for high school students)
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Bill Nethercut, Professor(A few possible topics.)
Any topic on Greek and Roman Mythology (can be adjusted for any age)
"Ancient Astronomy and Astrology" (can be adjusted for any age)
"Mysteries of the Pyramids" (can be adjusted for any age)
"Vocabulary Building and Word Derivations" (most appropriate for high school/college students)
"Love in Ancient Rome" (can be adjusted for any age)
"Horoscopes of the Caesars" (can be adjusted for any age)
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Tom Palaima, Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor; Director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP)'Why and How We Learned to Write" (Grades 1-8 or 9-12)
"Writing and fighting" (Grades 1-8 or 9-12)
"Homer's Iliad" (Grades 1-8 or 9-12)
"Homer's Odyssey" (Grades 1-8 or 9-12)
"The first myths" (Grades 1-8 or 9-12)
"Digging Up the Past" (Grades 1-4)
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Cynthia Shelmerdine, Professor"Bronze Age/Homer" (can be adjusted for any age)
"Linear B Writing" (can be adjusted for any age)
"Greek Archaeology" (can be adjusted for any age)
"Greek Mythology" (can be adjusted for any age)
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Stephen White, Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy"Greek Philosophy" (Grades 11, 12 or Adult)
"Socrates the Athenian" (Grades 11, 12 or Adult)
"Stoic Philosophy" (Grades 11, 12 or Adult)
"Ancient Psychology" (Grades 11, 12 or Adult)
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Last Updated 01 August
2003 by the Undergraduate Coordinator.
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