Upcoming Classical Events
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Past Lectures:
The
Wabash Classics Department cordially
invites you
to attend a lecture
by
DAVID KOVACS
University of Virginia
"HOW SERIOUS WAS OLD COMEDY:
THE CASE OF ARISTOPHANES' FROGS"
Monday, February 21, 2005
8:00 pm in Lovell Lecture Room
Baxter Hall, Wabash College
Reception following. All are welcome
Paul Woodruff
of
the
University of Texas at Austin will be giving two
Burleigh Lectures at
DePauw University in Greencastle,
Indiana.
Both talks will be Tuesday, November 16
The
Music of Democracy: Theater as Public Education in Ancient Athens
Peeler Auditorium (in
the Peeler Art
Center), 4:15 pm
Reverence
as a Virtue: Plato vs. the Poets
Peeler Auditorium (in
the Peeler Art
Center), 8 pm
For further information contact Carl Huffman
Professor Woodruff is Darrel K. Royal
Professor of Ethics and American Society at the University of Texas at
Austin. He has served as chair
of the Department of Philosophy and is currently Director of the Plan
II Honors Program. He has won
the Harry Ransom teaching award. He has published a commentary on
Plato's Hippias Major and
numerous articles on such
figures as Plato, Socrates and Protagoras. He has published
translations of Plato's Symposium and
Phaedrus as well as of Euripides' Bacchae, Sophocles' Antigone, Sophocles' Theban Plays (with Peter Meineck),
and an abridged version of
Thucydides' History of the
Peloponnesian War. His book, Reverence:
Renewing a Forgotten Virtue was published by Oxford University Press in 2001 and he was
interviewed about the book by Bill Moyers on PBS on January 3,
2003. His latest book, First Democracy: Facing the Original Ideas,
will be published by Oxford in January 2005.
David
Konstan
(John Rowe Workman
Distinguished Professor of Classics
and the Humanistic Tradition at Brown University)
"The Emotions of the Ancient
Greeks" Tuesday, March 30 at 4pm
When the ancient Greeks spoke of
anger, of envy, of shame, did they
mean exactly the same thing that
we mean by those terms? Did their
definitions correspond to ours? If
not, why not? This talk will examine
how the Greeks spoke about the
emotions, and how they acted them out in
their literature and lives. Some
surprising differences will emerge in
comparison with modern ideas of
the emotions.
"Sacrifice and Revenge in
Euripides" Wednesday, March 31 at 4pm
Is
revenge an immoral impulse? Some
people think so, others do not.
Aristotle believed that
a
desire for revenge
was natural, and a necessary part of justified anger.
Self-sacrifice, which is
among the most selfless gestures a person can
perform, may also be an
instrument of revenge. This talk will explore
the relation between
self-sacrifice, revenge, and honor in several
tragedies of Euripides.
Both of these convocations will be
held in the Peeler Auditorium
in the Peeler Art Center and are free
and open to the public.
The lectures are made possible by the
Burleigh Fund for Classical Studies at
DePauw.
For further information contact Carl Huffman
The Classics
Department
of Wabash College cordially invites you to attend a lecture by:
John Bodel
(of Brown
University)
"The
Elements of a Roman Funeral"
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall at 8:00 p.m.
Refreshments will follow the lecture
Contact at Wabash: Prof. Leslie Day
For more information,
click
here.
The Classics
Department
of Wabash College cordially invites you to attend a lecture by:
Leslie V. Kurke
"Aesop
and
Delphi:
Popular Resistance to Elite Hegemony"
Tuesday, September 24, at 8:00 p.m.
Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall
Refreshments in Rogge Lounge following the lecture
Contact at Wabash: Prof. Joe Day (
dayj@wabash.edu; 765-361-6348)
The sanctuary of the god Apollo at Delphi played a key role in the
development
of the city-state in Greece; but it did so in a way that fostered the
social
and political power of elite individuals and families. In a
lecture
that illustrates her "cultural studies" or "cultural poetics" approach
to
Greek Antiquity, Prof. Kurke will show how an ancient biography of the
fable-teller
Aesop, in particular the story of Aesop's death at the hands of the
citizens
of Delphi, points to the existence of an anti-elite tradition.
Kurke
will argue that already by the fifth century BCE, Aesop had become
"good
to think with": people told stories about him to give voice to a
lower
class or popular critique of elitist privileges in the religious
institutions
of Delphi. This critique is a symptom of an ongoing political
conflict
of ideological positions within Greek cities. However, without
this
sort of careful teasing of meaning out of typically neglected and later
texts
like the Life of Aesop, we only rarely get at the non-elite voices in
these
conflicts.
Leslie Kurke is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at
the
University of California at Berkeley. She also currently holds
prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. She earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr
College
and Ph.D., from Princeton University. She was a Junior Fellow in
the
Society of Fellows at Harvard, and has been at Berkeley since
1990.
She has studied, taught, and lectured in Cambridge, London, Athens,
Tübingen,
Oxford, Berlin, and many universities in this country. Earlier this
year,
Prof. Kurke won a Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley. Her
undergraduate
teaching includes, besides a range of Classics, Greek, and Latin
courses,
classes in Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese literatures, the history
of
Sexualities, and Ideologies of Sex and Gender.
Leslie Kurke has authored or edited four books:
- The Cultures Within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict,
Collaboration
(edited with Carol Dougherty, Cambridge UP 2003)
- Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning
in
Archaic Greece (Princeton UP 1999)
- Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance,
Politics
(edited with Carol Dougherty, Cambridge UP 1993)
- The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social
Economy
(Cornell UP 1991)
Professor Kurke has also written some 20 articles in edited volumes and
peer-reviewed
journals.