MACS Lecture: Phil Sapirstein (Department of Art, UofT)

LI205

Title: “Digital Autopsy and the Temple of Hera at Olympia: rethinking the origins of Greek monumental architecture”

Ancient History Proseminar: Kenneth Yu

LI205

Title: TBD

LI205

Title: Art, society and context in antiquity: a complicated relation

LI205

Title: “Roman Conquest and Urbanization at Populonia”

LI205

Saturday 29th September

9.30 am Coffee & welcome

10.00 am Robert Tordoff (York): “Characterizing Cleon in Aristophanes’ Cavalry.”

11.00 am Allison Glazebrook (Brock): “The Erotics of Characterization: Problematizing Desire in Lysias 3 and 4”.

12 noon Lunch

1.30 pm Boris Chrubasik (Toronto): “Thinking about Hellenic Imperialism”

2.30 pm Eric Robinson (Indiana): “Was Sparta an Oligarchy?”

3.30 pm Coffee

4.00 pm Matthew Christ (Indiana): “The Conscription of Cavalrymen in Classical Athens”

5.00 pm Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier) “The Haunted Text: Necromantic Encounters, the First Three Thousand Years.”

Sunday 30th September

9.30 am Coffee

10.00 am Sara Forsdyke (Michigan): “The Jury Trial in Ancient Greece: A Revolution in Justice with Implications for the Modern World.”

11.00 am Charles Stocking (Western) “Kratos before Democracy: Force, Politics, and Signification in Homer’s Iliad.”

‘Alcibiades’ Error: Moral Beauty in Plato’s Symposium’

Title: “Maritime Trade and Digital Technologies: an Underwater Survey of an Anchorage at Maroni-Tsaroukkas, Cyprus”

Topic: TBA

Title: Between Prehistory and History: Reconstructing the Early Iron Age Mediterranean

Topic: “Theocritus’ Learned Simplicity: Onomatopoetic Resonances in Bucolic Poetry”