The Penn CLST colloquium meets every Thursday when
classes are in session at 4:30 in COHN 402 or 337.
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FALL 2008
September 4
James Ker, University of Pennsylvania ames Ker, University of Pennsylvania
"Seneca's final consolation"
September 11
Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
"Choroi Achoroi: The Athenian Politics of Tragic Choral Identity"
September 18
Astrid Moeller, University of Freiburg
"Shifting margins, shifting narratives: Going back to Naukratis"
Friday, September 26
APA/Classical Studies Lecture
Jeffrey Henderson, Boston University
"Oikeia Pragmata: Portrayal of the Ordinary in Fifth-Century Drama"
Cohen Hall, Terrace Room
Reception immediately following
October 2
Casper de Jonge, Leiden Unversity
"God, the Religious and the Sublime.
Dionysius and Longinus on hupsos "
October 9
Philip Sapirstein, University of Pennsylvania
"Potters and the Disk Acroterion in Archaic Greek Architecture"
October 16
Thomas Tartaron and David Romano, University of Pennsylvania
"Field Reports from the Saronic Gulf and from Mt. Lykaion"
October 23
André Lardinois, University of Nijmegen
"New Philology and the New Sappho"
October 30
Martha Taylor, Loyola College
"Thucydides on Stasis and the Athenian City on Samos"
November 6
Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago and Institute for Advanced Study
“Boubrôstis, Meat Eating and the Comedy: Erysichthon as Famine Demon in Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter"
November 13
Jorie Woods, University of Texas
"Emotion, Manipulation, and Creativity: Rhetorical Heroines of Vergil and Statius in Medieval and Renaissance Classrooms"
November 20
Stephen Wheeler, Penn State University
"Amor inuersus: Roma from Propertius to Urban VIII"
November 27
Thanksgiving Holiday
December 4
Sarah Wahlberg, University of Pennsylvania
"Ovid's Fasti and Callimachus' Aetia"
December 11
Clemente Marconi, New York University
"Archaic Greek Temple Decoration and the Viewer"
December 18
APA Practice lectures