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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 Govern
organized 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 Kolb
Professor 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
9:00-9:45

Coffee and Registration

9:45-10:00

Welcoming Remarks

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

11:30-11:45

Break

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

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