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Events
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Events
Evina Sistakou Assistant Professor of Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Fragments of an Imaginary Past: Strategies of Mythical Narration in Callimachus' Aitia
Thursday October 22nd, 6pm, NYU Classics Department Seminar Room
How Ancient Empires Governorganized by Profs. Anne Kolb and Michael Peachin
Conference Schedule
Sunday October 25th
Gregson Davis Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies and Literature and Dean of Humanities, Duke University
TBA
Tuesday October 27th, 12:30 pm, NYU Classics Department Seminar Room
Anne KolbProfessor of Ancient History, University of Zürich
Conception and Practice of Roman Rule: The Example of Transport Infrastructure
Thursday October 29th, 6pm, NYU Classics Department Seminar Room
Honey on the Cup: Didactic in the Ancient World
Saturday November 7, 2009
Jurow Hall
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Coffee and Registration |
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9:45-10:00 |
Welcoming Remarks |
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10:00-11:30 |
Poetics of Didactic
The Poetics of Knowledge in Oppian's Halieutica
Emily Kneebone, Cambridge University
Looking at 'Atomistic' Repetition in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius
Timothy Haase, Brown University
Teaching Stoic(s) Thinking
Orazio Capello, University of Southern California |
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11:30-11:45 |
Break |
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11:45-1:15 |
Receiving Didactic
Fretful Birds and Philosopher Cows: Cicero's Prognostica and Aratus's Diosemeia
Christopher Polt, UNC Chapel Hill
Didactic, Rhetoric and Genre: Reading Lucian's 'Conversations with Hesiod'
Sarah Olsen, UC Berkeley
From Libya to Egypt: Lucan and the Limits of Didactic Poetry
Patrick Glauthier, Columbia University |
| 1:15-3:15 |
Lunch |
| 3:15-4:45 |
Questioning Genre
Simonides' Protagoras Fragment and the Problem of Didactic 'Genre'
Alexander Hall, U Wisconsin, Madison
Thank You for Being a Friend: Ovid's Euxine Instructions to Friends at Rome
Whitney Snead, U Cincinnati
Experto c(r)edite: Vitruvius' New Didactic
John Oksanish, Yale University |
| 4:45-5:00 |
Break |
| 5:00-6:30 |
Keynote Address
Prof. J.S. Clay, University of Virginia
Ways of Knowing and Teaching in Early Greek Poetry |
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Reception to Follow |
Sponsored by NYU Classics Department, NYU Center for Ancient
Studies, NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science, and NYU Institute
for the Study of the Ancient World
Gary Farney Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Sparta and the Construction of Identity in Republican Italy and Rome
Thursday December 10th, 6pm, NYU Classics Department Seminar Room
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