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Lectures
The Department of Classics sponsors several lectures every semester. Several distinguished lecturers have presented their scholarly work at Baylor University in the past. Check out our website for the upcoming lectures this semester!
LECTURES SPRING 2009
•Monday, April 20, 2009
Prof. Gareth Williams of Columbia University
"Health Matters: Apollo and Aesculapius in Ovid's Metamorphoses"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:30 pm
•Monday, February 16, 2009
Prof. Ewen Bowie of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
"Sacadas' Story: A Sixth Century BC Argive Elegist
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:00 pm
LECTURES SPRING 2008
•Friday, April 4, 2008
Dr. Anthony Corbeill of the University of Kansas
"On Weeping Statues, Weeping Gods, and Prodigies from Republican to Early-Christian Rome"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:00 pm
•Friday, February 8, 2008
Dr. David H. J. Larmour of Texas Tech University
"Juvenal Ante Portas: The Porta Capena in Satires 3 and 8"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:00 pm
LECTURES FALL 2007
•Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Dr. Peter Artz-Grabner of the University of Salzburg
Neither a Truant nor a Fugitive: Some Remarks on the Sale of Slaves in Roman Egypt and Other Provinces
Morrison Hall, Room 120, 4 pm
•Monday, November 12, 2007
Dr. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis of the Johns Hopkins University
"The Social Life of Elaborately Dressed Komasts"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:00 pm
LECTURES SPRING 2007
•Thursday, April 26, 2007
Dr. Giorgio Filippi, Curator of the Epigraphic Collection of the Vatican Museums and Director of Excavations, St. Paul's Outside the Walls
"Through the Grating: Lights and Shadows on St. Paul's Tomb in Rome"
Barfield Drawing Room, Bill Daniel Student Center, 4:00 pm
•Thursday, March 29, 2007
Giancarlo Abbamonte of the University of Naples
"From Printing to Manuscripts: The Use of the Printed Text of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica among the Italian Humanists (1469-1521)"
•Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Giancarlo Abbamonte of the University of Naples
"Between Zenodotus and Aristarchus: Apollonius of Rhodes and the Debate about Homer's Text in the Alexandrian Museum"
•Monday, March 26, 2007
John F. Miller of the University of Virginia
"The Gods at Virgil's Battle of Actium"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:30 pm
•Monday, March 19, 2007
Victor Castellani of the University of Denver
"Now You See Her, Now *You* Don't: Athena and Friends in Greek Art and Literature"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:30 pm
•Friday, February 23, 2007
Monica S. Cyrino of the University of New Mexico
"From Santa Fe to Jerusalem: Governor Lew Wallace and the Idea of Empire in Ben-Hur"
Lecture Room, Armstrong Browning Library, 3:00 pm
LECTURES SPRING 2006
•Monday, March 27, 2006
Michael C.J. Putnam of Brown University
"The Aeneid and Paradise Lost: Ends and Conclusions"
•Friday, February 24, 2006
Marilyn Skinner of the University of Arizona at Tuscon
"Mother of All Empires"
•Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Gerhard Petersmann of the University of Salzburg
"Propertius 1.18: Bucolics vs. Elegy"
•Friday, February 10, 2006
Carole Newlands of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Problems of Violence in Ovid"
LECTURES FALL 2005
•Friday, November 11, 2005
Alexander McKay of Concordia University, Montreal
"Vergil's Sibyl at Cumae: Mystery and Imagination"
•Friday, September 16, 2005
Herbert W. Benario of Emory University
"Boudica: Warrior Queen"
LECTURES SPRING 2005
•Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Andrew Rigsby of the University of Texas at Austin
"Problems in Roman Database Design"
•Thursday, April 21, 2005
Duanne Roller of the Ohio State University
"Pytheas in the North"
•Friday, February 25, 2005
Patricia Rosenmeyer of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Julia Balbilla and the Ghost of Sappho: Greek Inscriptions from Egyptian Thebes"
•Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Ian Storey of Trent University, Ontario
"Kratinos' Dionysalexandros"
LECTURES FALL 2004
•Monday, October 11, 2004
Robert Fagles of Princeton University
"An Afternoon's Odyssey"
•Thursday, September 30-Saturday, October 2, 2004
2004 Pruit Memorial Symposium
"Slavery, Oppression, and Prejudice: Ancient Roots and Modern Implications"
Guest lecturers: Peter Arzt-Grabner, Peter Hunt, Noel Lenski, Grace West
LECTURES SPRING 2004
•Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Peter E. Knox of the University of Colorado at Boulder
"Propertian Intertexualities"
•Friday, February 6, 2004
Niall Slater of Emory University
"Empire and Legitimacy: Nero's Cultural Politics "
LECTURES FALL 2003
•Monday, November 3, 2003
Alessandro Barchiesi of Stanford University and the University of Siena, Italy
"Vergilian Geopoetics"
•Friday, September 26, 2003
Stephen J. Harrison of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, England
"Beyond Pastoral? Generic Pressures in Vergil's Eclogues"
LECTURES SPRING 2003
•Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Gianluca Delmastro of the University of Naples, Italy
"The Villa of the Papyri: Between Archaeology and Philology"
•Tuesday, April 8, 2003
Peter Bing of Emory University
"Wondrous Cures: Posidippus' Iamatika and the Miracle Tales of Epidaurus"
•Thursday, March 20, 2003
Karl Galinsky of the University of Texas at Austin
"Damning Evidence: Altered Statues and Altered States in Imperial Rome"
•Friday, February 7, 2003
Elizabeth Barber of the Occidental College
"Penelope and the Origins of Greek Art"
•Thursday, January 30, 2003
David Armstrong of the University of Texas at Austin
"Homeric Ethics: The Conflict between Competitive and Co-operative Values"
LECTURES FALL 2002
•Monday, November 18, 2002
Helene Foley of Columbia University
"Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy"
•Friday, November 1, 2002
Gregson Davis of Duke University
"The Discourse of Loss and Consolation in Vergil's Bucolics"
•Thursday, October 10, 2002
Andrew Riggsby of the University of Texas at Austin
"The Past and the Other Past: Exemplary and Historical Time in the Roman World"
LECTURES SRPING 2002
•Thursday, March 21, 2002
Professor Duane W. Roller of The Ohio State University
"Romans on the Desert Frontier: the Imperial Presence in Northwest Africa"
•Friday, April 19, 2002
Professor James C. McKeown of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Catullus as a Revolutionary Poet"
LECTURES FALL 2001
•Friday, November 30, 2001
Peter Burian of Duke University
"Persuasion and Justice in Aeschylus' Oresteia"
•Thursday, November 29, 2001
John Hare of Calvin College
"The First Sentence of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics"
•Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, England
"Greco-Roman and Chinese Technology: Stereotypes, Institutions and Ideologies"
•Monday, October 15, 2001
James Ruebel of Ball State University
"Political Ambiguities in the Late Roman Republic"
•Monday, October 8, 2001
Katherine A. Geffcken of Wellesley College
"The Janiculum Hill, Rome: Aqueducts, Villas, and Battlefield"
LECTURES SPRING 2001
•Monday, April 30, 2001
David Martinez of the University of Texas at Austin
"Ancient Greek Love Magic"
•Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Richard Sorabji of King's College London, England
"Theories of Personal Survival, Ancient and Modern"
•Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Olof Brandt of the Swedish Institute for Classical Studies in Rome
"A Case Study in Early Christian Baptism: Archaeology and the Baptistry of San Lorenzo in Lucina"
•Tuesday, April 3, 2001
Katriona Munthe-Lindgren, Executive Director of the Munthe Family Foundation
"Reflections on Axel Munthe"
•Thursday, February 22, 2001
Charles Segal of Harvard University
"Dionysus and the Bacchae"
LECTURES SPRING 2000
•Friday, April 27, 2000
David Kovacs of the University of Virginia
"How Serious was Old Comedy: The Case of Aristophanes' Frogs"
•Monday, April 17, 2000
David Larmour of Texas Tech University
"The Ancient Olympia: Strife and Sacrifice"
•Friday, March 31, 2000
Richard Seaford of the University of Exeter, England
"Dionysos, Money, and Tragedy"
•Thursday, March 30, 2000
Philip Lockhart of Dickinson College
"Aesop for Adults"
•Thursday, March 23, 2000
Denis Feeney of University College, Oxford University, England
"Barbarians Meet the Muse"
LECTURES FALL 1999
•Thursday, September 16, 1999
Lowell Edmunds of the Rutgers University
"The Strength of Truth and Skill Surpassing Skill: Complete Forms of Knowledge in the Teiresias Scene (Soph. OT 216-462"
LECTURES SPRING 1999
•Friday, April 30, 1999
Paul Gooch of the University of Toronto
"No Answer: Silence in C.S. Lewis and the Gospels"
•Friday, April 23, 1999
Francis Cairns of the University of Leeds, England
"Propertius the Lawyer?"
•Tuesday, March 30, 1999
Stephen Hinds of the University of Washington
"Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Virgil to Statius"
•Thursday, March 18, 1999
Jan Stubbe Ostergaard of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark
"Signs of Life: Recent Research on Imperial Roman Funerary Monuments"
•Wednesday, February 17, 1999
Niklas Holzberg of the University of Munich, Germany
"Apollo's First Love Takes Plot: Ovid's Tale of Daphne as a Blueprint for his Metamorphoses and its Impact"
LECTURES FALL 1998
•Thursday, November 12, 1998
Paul Gooch of the University of Toronto
"Lessons from Jesus and Socrates"
•Wednesday, September 9, 1998
Simon Goldhill of the University of Cambridge, England
"Is There A History of Reading: Body/Politic?"
LECTURES SPRING 1998
•Friday, April 3, 1998
Kirk Freudenburg of the Ohio State University
"Remembered Monsters: Juvenal and the Poetics of Too Much, Too Late"
•Tuesday, March 23, 1998
Don Fowler of Jesus College, Oxford University, England
"Virgil's Satan"
•Friday, March 20, 1998
Julia Dyson of the University of Texas at Arlington
"The Golden Bough Revisited: A Barbaric Cult in Virgil's Aeneid"
•Thursday, February 26, 1998
Karl Galinsky of the University of Texas at Austin
"Vergil's Aeneid: From Homer to Multiculturalism"
LECTURES FALL 1997
•Monday, December 1, 1997
Margaret Musgrove of the University of Oklahoma
"Memories of War and Memories of Literature in Ovid's Metamorphoses"
•Friday, October 10, 1997
Robert W. Ulery Jr. of Wake Forest University
"Humankind(ness): A Classical Perspective"
•Tuesday, September 30, 1997
Tony J. Woodman of the University of Durham, England
"Biformis Vates: Horace, Catullus and Greek Lyric"
•Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Philip Hardie of the University of Cambridge, England
"Why is Rumor There? Tracking Virgilian and Ovidian Fama"
LECTURES SPRING 1997
•Thursday, April 10, 1997
Joseph B. Solodow of Southern Connecticut State University
"Religion and Historiography: The Case of Livy"
•Thursday, March 6, 1997
Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Do We Have the Original New Testament? Christian Scribes and the Transmission of Scripture"
LECTURES FALL 1996
Homer Colloquium
Thursday, October 3-Saturday, October 5, 1996
The Epic Journey: New Directions in Homeric Interpretation
Guest Speakers: Robert Rabel, Steve Reece, Erwin Cook, Leon Golden, Donna Wilson, Daniel Levine
LECTURES SPRING 1996
•Wednesday, April 3, 1996
Carlo Gasparri of the University of Naples, Italy
"Greek Sculpture in the Roman Age: The Activity of Copyists in the Imperial Period"
•Friday, March 29, 1996
John Nordling of Valparaiso University
"Perspectives on Paul's Epistolary Style: The Letter to Philemon"
•Thursday, March 28, 1996
Leon Fitts of Dickinson College
"Observations on Roman Britain: Cartimandua and Stanwick"
•Friday, March 22, 1996
David Armstrong of the University of Texas at Austin
"Philodemus the Epigrammatist and Philodemus the Formalist in Horace"
•Monday, March 4, 1996
Paolo Liverani, Director of Restoration of Classical Antiquities in the Vatican Museums
"The Origins of the Vatican Area: From the Ager Vaticanus to the Vaticanum"
