Past Events
April 2012
Classics Society Movie Night - Wrath of the Titans
Wednesday April 4th @ Silvercity Masonville
cost for seeing this movie in 3D will be $10.50.
Please RSVP by March 30 to svanderp@uwo.ca if you are interested in coming.
March 2012
Horae in Roman Funerary Inscriptions: On Recording the Hour of Death
Thursday March 1st, 10:30 am Talbot College 204
Departmental Research Seminars - Simeon Ehrlich
"The Critique of Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus as an Account of His Own Authorial Voice"
Thursday March 8th, 12:30 pm UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Dr. Kendall Sharp
"Eponymous Nymphs and Greek Identity"
Thursday March 15th, 12:30 pm UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Dr. Bonnie MacLachlan
Classics Society Royal Ontario Museum trip
Saturday March 24th, Bus leaves Western at 9:00am
tickets are $45.00/each
E-mail: staylo95@uwo.ca for info or to book a seat on the bus!
Classics Society information session - Applying to Graduate studies
Thursday March 29th, Lawson Hall 3220
E:mail: Sarah VanderPloeg or Sarah Taylor for more information
February 2012
The Metroön of Kolophon: a Reconstruction of the Sanctuary and Archive
Thursday February 2, 10:30 am Talbot College 204
Dr. Ryan Boehm, Brown University
The Semantics of Showcase in Herodotus' Histories
Tuesday February 14, 4:30 pm Somerville House 2355
Dr. Athena Kirk, Wellesley College
Classics Society Intent to Register Information Session
Wednesday February 29th, 5:00 pm HSB 236
Open to everyone considering a Classics degree
January 2012
Trajan’s Panegyricus (by Pliny the Younger)?
Thursday January 19th @ 12:30pm in UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Dr. Charles Murison
Wealth and poverty in fourth-century Athens
Tuesday January 24 @ 4:30 pm in SSC 3018
Dr. Claire Taylor, University of Newcastle
Sacrifice and the Politics of the Belly
Thursday January 26 @ 10:30 am in TC 204
Dr. Charles Stocking, University of California Los Angeles
December 2011
Scenes from the Casina of Plautus
Performed in the original Latin (with subtitles)
Friday, December 16, 7:00pm
UC 142 - Free of charge
November 2011
"Cicero’s Arena: The Forum Romanum as Courtroom"
Wednesday November 16th @ 5:00pm in SH 2355
Dr. Leanne Bablitz - University of British Columbia
October 2011
"The Roman Odeion at Ashkelon: A Report on the 2011 Season"
Thursday October 6th @ 12:30pm in UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Shimi Ehrlich
"Debating the Peace of Philocrates: Social Memory as Political Factor?"
Thursday October 13th @ 12:30pm in UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Dr. Bernd Steinbock
"Galen’s Therapeutike Methodos: Language and Style"
Tuesday October 18th @ 3:30 pm in TC 341
Professor G. H. R. Horsley - University of New England, Armidale NSW
"A Greek Interlude at Rome: On King Numa Pompilius"
Monday October 24th @ 4:30 pm in UCC 37
Dr. Christopher Smith - Director, British School at Rome
"Approaching 'Ethnic' Communities in the Roman Auxilia."
Thursday October 27th @ 12:30pm in UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Alex Meyer
September 2011
"Kyniska's Victory Epigram (CEG 820) & the Masculine Rhetoric of Athletic Poetry"
Thursday September 29th @ 12:30pm in UCC 37
Departmental Research Seminars - Peter Miller
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
Justice on the Margins in the Ancient World
Where: Conron Hall, University College Room 224, The University of Western ON
When: May 21 - 22, 2011
Check out the April and May issues of eLitterae: eNewsletter for Latin Teachers, for an interview with Professor Debra Nousek about her project, A Caesar Workbook.
April 2011
CAC Lecture Extravaganza
Friday April 29th, 12:30 - 2:30, TC 341
March 2011
Professionalization Workshop Series Schedule
"Industry and Empire: the Roman Metallum of Faynan"
Tuesday March 1, 3:30 pm TC 309
Dr. Hannah Friedman
“Tumbling in Choral Dance: A New Look at Aristophanes' Frogs”
Thursday, March 3, 12:30 pm TC 201
Jonathan Vickers
“The Menexenus: Fragmentary in its Entirety”
Thursday, March 10, 12:30 pm TC 201
Ashley Skinner
Faculty of Arts March Break Open House - To view program click here
February 2011
"CASTRA, QUASI CASTA? Women and Children in the Material Record of Roman Military Communities"
Tuesday February 1, 3:30 pm TC 309
Elizabeth Greene
"The Late Antique Landscape of Roman Ostia"
Thursday February 3, 3:30 pm TC 343
Douglas Boin
“If You Were a Man…”: Sexuality and Liminal Masculinities in Petronius’ Satyrica
Tuesday February 8, 3:30 pm TC 309
Dr. Mark Nugent
"furor armat ministros: (Re)reading the Aeneid in the Octavia"
Thursday February 10, 3:30 pm TC 343
Lauren Donovan
"Maritime Commerce and Community: An Economic Archaeology of the Roman East"
Tuesday February 15, 3:30 pm TC 309
Justin Leidwanger
"Water Channels in a Gymnasium Palaestra? Two Unusual Features in the Gymnasium at Nysa-on-the-Maeander"
Thursday, February 17, 12:30 pm TC 201
Amanda Hardman
January 2011
"Carpe Versum: Seneca and Horace"
Tuesday January 25, 3:30 pm TC 309
Dr. Christopher Trinacty
"Orbis Romanus: Lucan and the Limits of the Roman World"
Thursday January 27, 3:30 pm TC 343
Dr. Randall Pogorzelski
December 2010
“Deflowering Haimon: Performativity and Gender in Sophocles' Antigone"
December 2, 12:30-1:30 TC 201
Peter Miller
November 2010
“Excavations in Nysa, Turkey: A Report on the 2010 Season”
November 11, 12:30-1:30 TC 201
Simeon Ehrlich and Amanda Hardman
"Information Session On Archaeological Digs / Field Schools"
November 25, 12:30-1:30 TC 201
Shimi Ehrlich
October 2010
"The Judgement of Helen: Brides and Wives in Greek Myth and Poetry"
October 14, 12:30-1:30 TC 201
Professor C. Brown
“The 1960 Rome Olympics: Spaces and Spectacle”
Friday Oct 29, 4:45 - 5:45 Room 240, Labatt Health Sciences Bldg
Dr. Corey Brennan - Rutgers University
September 2010
"'Noblest Charis': Pindar and the Scholiasts"
Thursday September 23, 2:30 pm University College, UC 224A
Prof. Filippomaria Pontani Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
"The Judgement of Helen: Brides and Wives in Greek Myth and Poetry"
September 23, 2010, 7:00 pm Landon Branch, London Public Library
167 Wortley Road (in the Martha Bishop Room)
Professor C. Brown
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