Classical Humanities Society - Past Speakers
What follows is a mostly compelete list of all guest speakers we have had. If you
feel a name is missing from this list or have some photos/recollections of your expriences
with the CHS, please contact us.
An asterisk by the year in the table below denotes that some text or footage is available
for your perusal. Please note that an event in solid blue denotes an audio portion
of the lecture; purple is for video and red is for a summary.
As lecturers were no longer asked to provide summaries of papers to be delivered,
the CHSSJ began taping them. Thus, there is - to this point - neither video nor audio
from before the 2003-04 season.
Anyone wishing to listen to/watch any of the complete lectures may contact us to set
up a session.
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/1/1972 | Palmer Bovie | Rutgers | Ovid's Amores & the Invention of Love |
10/1/1972 | Margaret Mayo | Rutgers | A Sexy Gesture in Greek Vase Painting |
12/1/1972 | Demetrios Constantelos | Stockton | Survival of the Classics in the Middle Ages |
1/1/1973 | Wade Stephens | Lawrence | Decipherment of Linear B |
2/1/1973 | John Sweeney | Seton Hall | Classical Epic Tradition in Medieval Heroic Poety |
3/1/1973 | Frank Bourne | Princeton | Treatment of Crime & Development of Criminal Law in the Roman Republic |
5/1/1973 | Allen Lacy | Stockton | Death of the Past & Preservation of the Cultu |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1973 | Royce Burton | Stockton | Socrates Through the Eyes of Aristophanes |
11/1/1973 | Anna Benjamin | Rutgers | Industrial Athens: The Seamy Side of 5th Century Greece |
12/1/1973 | James Hollis | Stockton | Thucydides: Politics as Strategy |
2/1/1974 | Yechiel Lehavy | Atlantic Community College | Anthropological Archaeology: Cyprus |
3/1/1974 | David Silhanek | Lehigh | Homer and Kazantzakis |
4/1/1974 | Robert Connor | Princeton | Opposition to the Peloponnesian War |
5/1/1974 | Peter Schaeffer | Seton Hall | Rediscovery of Tacitus' Germania & Beginnings of German Nationalism |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1974 | Charles Brand | Bryn Mawr | John Kinnamos: Byzantine Historian & Humanist |
12/1/1974 | Gary Carriveau | Brookhaven | Archeometry: Modern Scientific Techniques for Archeological Dating |
1/1/1975 | Hubert Maultsby | Stockton | Persian Origin of Light/ Darkness Theme in John's Gospel & the Dead Sea Scrolls |
2/1/1975 | Joseph Russo | Haverford | Epic vs. Folklore in Homer's Odyssey |
3/1/1975 | Stewart Farrell | Stockton | Ores, Metals and Ancient Mineralogy |
3/1/1975 | Russell Scott | Bryn Mawr | Roman Gladiators and Gladiatorial Schools |
4/1/1975 | Penelope Fullard | Germantown Friends School | Madness in Greek Drama |
5/1/1975 | Frances Novack | Stockton | Classical Myth in French Drama |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1976 | Brunilde Ridgeway | Bryn Mawr | Kouroi & Korai: Guys & Dolls in Ancient Greece |
11/1/1976 | Aurel Trofin | University of Babes-Bolyai (Cluj) | Roman Dacia |
12/1/1976 | Robert Wind | Muhlenberg | Myth and Religion in the Alcestis of Euripides |
1/1/1977 | Charles Tuckwood | - | Coins of Early Christianity |
2/1/1977 | Ann Bergren | Princeton | Time in Homer |
3/1/1977 | Timothy Renner | Montclair | Papyri & Egypt |
4/1/1977 | David Kelly | Montclair | Women in Antiquity: Marriage Contracts |
5/1/1977 | Martin Jones | Stockton | Virtue in the Meno of Plato |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/1/77 | Niki Stavrolakis | - | Aegean in Underwater Archaeology |
11/1/77 | Michael Sollenberger | Rutgers | The Two Helens of Troy |
12/1/77 | Gerald Verbrugghe | Rutgers | Roman Border Defenses & The Great Wall of China: Why One Worked and the Other Didn't |
1/1/78 | Leonard Swidler | Temple | Status of Women in Classical and Judeo-Christian Society |
2/1/78 | Angeliki Laiou | Rutgers | Women in Byzantium |
3/1/78 | Arthur Hanson | Princeton | The Golden Ass of Apuleius |
4/1/78 | John Crawford | U Delaware | The Excavations at Sardis |
5/1/78 | Bruce Jennings | Stockton | Rediscovery of POLIS in Contemporary Political Theory |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1978 | Meryl Levy | Stockton | Costumes in Antiquity |
10/1/1978 | Amy Richlin | Douglass | Out of the Closet: Obscenity in the Tradition of Latin Literature |
11/1/1978 | Robert Antezak | Seton Hall | Being Old, Then and Now |
12/1/1978 | James Luce | Princeton | Graeco-Roman Influences on the American Republic |
1/1/1979 | James Miller | Stockton | The Last Bastion of the Ancient World: The Survival of the Classics |
2/1/1979 | Gerald Culley | U of Delaware | Prometheus: Saint or Demon? |
4/1/1979 | John Barker | Newark Museum | Bringing Ancient Egypt to Life: An Ancient Craftsman's House Reconstructed |
5/1/1979 | Robert Henson | Glassboro (Rowan) | Rome in the East: The Persistence of the Armenian Question |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1979 | James Hollis | Stockton | On Myth & Mythmaking |
11/1/1979 | Joseph Russo | Haverford | The Myth of Narcissus |
12/1/1979 | Thomas Figueira | Rutgers | Warfare and Trade: The Birth of Greek Slavery |
1/1/1980 | Lois Hinckley | Princeton | Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Vindication & Complement to Epic & Tragic Heroes |
2/1/1980 | George Nugent | Princeton | The Neronian Age |
3/1/1980 | Richard Burgi | Princeton | The Classic Tradition in Slavic Literature |
4/1/1980 | Harry Evans | Rutgers | Ovid's Exile Poetry |
5/1/1980 | Sarah George | ASCSA | Greek Theories of Human Procreation |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1980 | Fredrick Brandfon | Stockton | The Coastal Plain of Israel in the Classical Period |
11/1/1980 | Nicolas Gross | U of Delaware | Antigone: Archaic Thought & Bassileia |
2/1/1981 | Stephen Patrick | - | Centurion: An Ancient Combat Simulation |
3/1/1981 | John Mayer | - | Pyramids, Mayan and Egyptian |
4/1/1981 | Martha Davis | Temple | Silius Italicus: Literature or History |
5/1/1981 | Ross Kraemer | Stockton | Sabos & Dionysos: Problems in the Study of Greek Religion |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
12/1/1981 | Fred Mench | Stockton | The Motel of Mysteries: An Archaeological Spoof |
1/1/1982 | Eva Marie Thury | Drexel | Concepts of Deity: Mythological Transformation |
2/1/1982 | Robert Bull | Drew | Roman & Byzantine Caesarea |
3/1/1982 | Katherine Olstein | Rutgers | Hesiod the Misogynist |
4/1/1982 | Audrey Napp & Richard King | Cumberland County Community College | Monuments of Ancient Egypt |
5/1/1982 | Cindy Jassel | Stockton | The Lesser Social Virtues in Aristotle's Ethics |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
11/1/1982 | Demetrios Constantelos | Stockton | Continuity & Discontinuity in the Greek Tradition |
12/1/1982 | Elizabeth Block | U Penn | Why Did Ovid Give Up Tragedy? |
2/1/1983 | David Siegfried | Stockton | Ancient Greek Theaters |
3/1/1983 | Mary Lewis | Kean | Santorini & Crete |
3/1/1983 | Deborah Roberts | Haverford | Greek Oracles |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
12/1/1983 | Demetrios Constantelos | Stockton | Jews & Greeks 1000BCE to 1000CE |
1/1/1984 | Ross Kraemer | Stockton | Jewish Community & Family Life in Hellenic Judaism |
2/1/1984 | Bonnie Ford | Cherry Hill | Ovid & Mythology |
3/1/1984 | Phillip Betancourt | Temple | Excavations at Kommos (Crete): Bronze Age to Roman |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1984 | Michael Eisman | Temple | Synagogues of the Greco-Roman Period |
11/1/1984 | David Weinberger | Stockton | The Origins of Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics |
12/1/1984 | Richard Hamilton | Bryn Mawr | Rites of Passage in Ancient Athens |
1/1/1985 | Michael Sollenberger | Rutgers | The Tradition & Transmission of Ancient Wisdom-Gnomic Anthologies |
2/1/1985 | Richard Martin | Princeton | Fire on the Mountain: Lysistrata & the Lemnian Women |
3/1/1985 | Barbara Burrell | Swarthmore | Classics and the New Archaeology |
4/1/1985 | Gerald Verbrugghe | Rutgers | Pieces of the Roman Historical Tradition |
5/1/1985 | Fred Booth | Rutgers | Ovid & Pound: Myth & Metamorphosis |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/1/1985 | Kenneth Dover (film) | - | The Greeks: Greek Beginnings |
11/1/1985 | Kenneth Dover (film) | - | The Greeks: Heroes and Men |
12/1/1985 | Kenneth Dover (film) | - | The Greeks: The Classical Age |
2/1/1986 | Kenneth Dover (film) | - | The Greeks: The Minds of Men |
4/1/1986 | Laura Inglis | Stockton | The Royal Archives of Elba (film) |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
11/1/1986 | John Romer (film) | - | Ancient Lives 1 & 2 |
1/1/1987 | John Romer (film) | - | Ancient Lives 3-5 |
3/1/1987 | John Romer (film) | - | Ancient Lives 6-8 |
5/1/1987 |
Kenneth Clark (film) |
- | In the Beginning |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
12/1/1987 | James Romm | Cornell | Kepler's Somnium: Science Fiction Story & Its Greek Sources |
1/1/1988 | John Traupman | St. Joseph's | Narcotica in the Greco-Roman World |
2/1/1988 | Anna Benjamin | Rutgers | The Athenian Agora and the Textile Industry |
3/1/1988 | David Kelly | Montclair | Aspects of Greek Myth: The Trojan War |
5/1/1988 | Henry Bender | St. Joseph's Prep. | The Sculpture at Tiberius' Villa in Sperlonga |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/1/1988 | Nynke Smits | Drew | Sulpicia: A Forgotten Roman Poet |
10/1/1988 | Lasrissa Bonfante | NYU | Mothers & Children in the Art of Ancient Italy |
10/1/1988 | Judith Hallett | U of Maryland | The Friendship of Men & Women in Classical Rome |
11/1/1988 | Eugene Borza | Penn State | The Grave Goods of Alexander the Great |
12/1/1988 |
Carrie Cowherd |
Howard | Aspects of Roman Society from Persius' Satires |
2/1/1989 | Fred Mench | Stockton | Perseus & Pegasus: A Post-Classical Mythical Borrowing |
3/1/1989 | John Ziolkowski | George Washington | Two Comedies: Thornton Wilder's Matchmaker & Terence's Phormio |
4/1/1989 | Phyllis Culham | US Naval Academy | Women, Slaves & Freedmen: Weber, Marx and Concepts of Citizenship at Rome |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/1/1989 | James Wright | Bryn Mawr | Between the Mountains & the Sea: The Cultural Ecology of the Nemea Valley |
10/1/1989 | Mabel Lang | Bryn Mawr | Ostraka & Ostracism |
11/1/1989 | Gloria Pinney | Bryn Mawr | Imagery in Greek Vases: Current Interpretations |
12/1/1989 | Lowell Edmunds | Rutgers | Comparative Approaches to Greek Myth: Oedipus |
1/20/1990 | Johanna Glazewski | Drew | Stereotypes of Women in Ancient Literature |
2/11/1990 | Elaine Fantham | Princeton | The Gaze of the Gorgon |
3/18/1990 | George Radan | Villanova | Anatomy of a Sarcophagus |
5/1/1990 | Robert Penella | Fordham | The Emperor Julian the Apostate & the Jews |
5/1/1990 | Sally Rackley | Drew | Alexander & the Deaths of Philotas & Parmenion |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/30/1990 | Matthew Santirocco | U Penn | Poet & Patron in Ancient Rome |
10/28/1990 | Alice Donohue | ASCSAE | Winckelmann & the History of Greek Sculpture |
11/18/1990 | Lee Pearcy | Episcopal Academy | Ancient Science: How We Know What We Know |
1/27/1991 | David Romano | U Penn Museum | Roman Colonial City Planning Corinth Computer Project 1988-90 |
2/17/1991 | Julia Gaisser | Bryn Mawr | Catullus & the Catullan Tradition |
3/11/1991 | Andrew Ford | Princeton | Poetry & Immortality in Homer |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/21/1991 | Robert Lamberton | Princeton | Hesoid & the Thespian Festival of the Muses |
10/12/1991 | Jack Cargill | Rutgers | Athenian Colonies |
11/1/1991 | Ralph Rosen | U Penn | The Poetry of Abuse |
2/1/1992 | Susan Auth | - | Bringing Ancient Egypt to Life - An Ancient Craftman's House Reconstructed |
3/7/1992 | Sheila Murnagham | U Penn | Male & Female in Classical Myth & Literature |
4/4/1992 | Rosaria Munson | Swarthmore | Ancient Concepts of Slavery |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/1/1992 | Bonnie Magness Gardner | Bryn Mawr | Hittites: Portrait of Imperial Power During the Late Bronze Age |
10/17/1992 | Ted Champlin | Princeton | Nero the Hero |
11/14/1992 | Gerald O'Sullivan | Stockton | Horace: Poet & Persona |
1/1/1993 | W.R. Marisa | - | Greatest Archaeological Dig of the 20th Century |
2/21/1993 | Susan Rotroff | Hunter College | Free Lunch: Dining at Public Expense in Classical Athens |
3/28/1993 | Tom Kinsella | Stockton | Classical Rhetoric & 18th Century Drama |
4/1/1993 | Gregory Dickerson | Bryn Mawr | History of the Eleusinian Mystery Cult |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/18/1993 | Alden Smith | Rutgers | Ovid's Orpheus: Some Thoughts About Reading Latin Poetry & More |
10/21/1993 | Sarah George | ASCSA | Cult of Asklepios |
11/21/1993 | Brunhilde Ridgway | Bryn Mawr | Athena Parthenos in Nashville & Athens |
12/3/1993 | James Luce | Princeton | Livy's View of Roman National Character |
1/22/1994 | Edward Weston | Bryn Mawr | Lucan the Satirist |
2/20/1994 | Andre Lardinois | Princeton | Beyond Hegel & Schlegel: An Ambiguous Reading of Sophocles' Antigone |
3/27/1994 | Thomas Figueira | Rutgers | Money in 5th Century BC |
4/1/1994 | James Hollis | Linwood | Hamartia: The Myth of the Tragic Flaw |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/16/1994 | Yechiel Lahavey | Atlantic Community College | Neolithic by the River: Dhali-Agridhi, Cyprus |
11/12/1994 | Henry Bender | St. Joseph's Prep/Villanova | Time for All Seasons: Augustus' Solarium: More Than a Sundial |
12/3/1994 | Jerry Culley | U of Delaware | Zanger's Flood from Heaven: Was Atlantis Troy? |
1/28/1995 | Jerry Verbrugghe | Rutgers-Camden | Why Do Civilizations Die? Case Studies: Ancient Egypt & Ancient Mesopotamia |
3/5/1995 | Jennifer Sheridan | St. Joseph | Power of the Pen: Cultural Aspects of Women's Literacy in 4th Century CE Egypt |
4/9/1995 | Richard Thomas | Stockton | Lucretius' Venus: Poetry & Imagery in DRN |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
10/8/1995 | Matthew Benjamin | Stockton | Theater: Ancient & Modern |
11/12/1995 | Linda Roccos | Rutgers | Creating the Past: Roman Villa Sculptures |
3/10/1996 | John Lenz | Drew | Greek Humanism: For & Against |
4/6/1996 | Robin-Mitchell-Boyask | Temple | Is There a Doctor in the House? Asclepius & the Theater of Dionysus |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/22/1996 | Patrick Bradley | Westown | Xenophon's Anabasis: Historical and Narratalogical Comparisons |
10/6/1996 | Niki Kantzios | Bryn Mawr | Hercules among the Egyptians: Greek Views of the Egyptians |
11/16/1996 | Victoria Larson | Montclair | An American Symbol & its Classical Context: The Statue of Liberty |
12/8/1996 | Ippokratis Kantzios | Stockton | Herodotus & the Ends of the World |
2/16/1997 | Alan Mattlage | Stockton | Stonehenge & Megalithic Europe |
4/5/1997 | Michael Sollenberger | Mount Saint Mary's | Theophrastus - Himself a Character |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/21/1997 | Stephen Ciraolo | Baldwin | Sound & Sense in Greek Poetry |
11/22/1997 | Demetrios Constantelos | Stockton | The Classical Background of Christian Philanthropy in the Early Byzantine Era |
12/5/1997 | Bruce Routledge | U Penn | Greece and the Near East in the Iron Age: How Hazael's Horse Bridle Got to Greece |
2/14/1998 | Ippokratis Kantzios | Stockton | Divine Inspiration & Craftmanship in Homer |
3/7/1998 | Carolyn Routledge | Stockton | Popular & State Religion in Ancient Egypt |
4/4/1998 | Niki Kantzios | Bryn Mawr | The Cretan Personae of Odysseus |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/16/2000 | Demetrios Constantelos | Stockton | Byzantine Philanthropy & Its Echo in the Medieval Latin West |
10/21/2000 | Christopher Long | Stockton | Ethics and Ontology in Aristotle |
11/19/2000 | Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen | Episcopal Academy/Bryn Mawr | Imitation: Homer, Vergil & Silius Italicus |
12/16/2000 | Melissa Morison | Boston U | The Romans in Captive Greece: Changes in Technology and Diet |
1/20/2001 | Alexander Alexakis | Stockton | Byzantine Daily Life and Classical Education in 9 Letters of Psellus |
2/25/2001 | Janice Siegel | Temple | The Wondrous Legacy of the Ancient Greeks: How We Know What We Know About the Greeks (illustrated) |
3/24/2001 | Gerald O'Sullivan | Stockton | The Trial of Jesus: What Do We Know |
4/21/2001 | Peter King | Temple | The New Testament and Rome |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/23/2001 | Richard Thomas | Stockton | Light & Dark Imagery in Oedipus Rex. |
10/20/2001 | Carolyn Routledge | Stockton | Ma`at and Social Relations in Ancient Egypt |
11/17/2001 | Gerry O'Sullivan | Stockton | The Human Element in Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus vs Euripides |
1/20/2002 | Tom Papademetriou | Stockton | Greek Paideia in the Ottoman Empire |
3/3/2002 | Lee Pearcy | Episcopal Academy | Aristophanes in Philadelphia |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
10/2/2002 | Dan Tompkins | Temple | Ancient Slavery and Its Legacy | |
11/16/2002 | T. Corey Brennan | Rutgers | Roman Chariot Racing, Then & Now | |
12/14/2002 | Mark Mallet | Stockton | Staging Drama, Ancient & Modern | |
1/25/2003 | Gerald Verbrugghe | Rutgers-Camden | Why Didn't Ancient Mesopotamians or Egyptians Invent History? | |
2/15/2003 | Prudence Jones | Rutgers | - | |
3/29/2003 | Robin-Mitchell-Boyask | Temple | The Marriage of Cassandra in Aeschylus' Agamemnon | |
4/12/2003 | John Traupman | Saint Joseph's | Tombaroli: Robbers of Etruscan Tombs |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture |
9/21/2003 | Steven Sidebotham | U of Delaware | Ancient Peoples on the Ancient Trade Routes: A Case Study of Berenike, Egypt |
10/19/2003 | Fr. George Liacopulos | Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church | Traditional Christianity and its Relationship to Paganism and to Contemporary Neopaganism |
11/15/2003 | Travis Quay | Absegami HS | Chianciano Fegato Sano: Recent excavations at a 2nd century AD Roman Bath in Tuscany |
1/24/2004 | Prudence Jones | Rutgers | Trends in the Reception of Cleopatra |
2/13/2004 | Mary Dabney | Stockton | Marketing Myceanaen Styl |
2/13/2004 | David Roessel | Stockton | Bloodthirsty Tyrants & Happy Little Extroverts: Myceanaeans & Minoans in Literature |
2/21/2004 | Anne Pomeroy | Stockton | Plato's Georgias and the Responsibility of Educators |
3/6/2004 | Tighet Westr | Stockton | Summer Archaeological Digs in Britain & Santorini |
3/6/2004 | Amanda Coles | U Penn | Greek & Roman Religious Foundations of Colonies & Their Temples |
4/10/2004 | John Lenz | Drew | Why the Greeks Sacrificed Animals to the Gods and What This Shows about Greek Religion |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
9/12/2004 | John Traupman | Saint Joseph's | Schliemann's Treasures from Troy & Mycenae | |
10/17/2004 | David G. Romano | U Penn Museum | The Ancient Olympic Games: Athletes and Heroes | |
11/6/2004 | Jack Cargill | Rutgers | How a Historical Study Became a Novel (sort of): The Development of Mercenary of the Gods | |
12/11/2004 | Stephanie Budin | U Penn/Temple | Miasmic Sex: Herodotos and the Creation of Sacred Prostitution | |
1/22/2005 | David Roessel | Stockton | Bloodthirsty Tyrants & Happy Little Extroverts: Myceanaeans & Minoans in Literature | |
2/13/2005 | Mary Dabney | Bryn Mawr/Stockton | Marketing, Myceanaen Style | |
3/6/2005 | Amanda Coles | U Penn | Greek & Roman Religious Foundations of Colonies & their Temples | |
4/1/2005 | John Muccigrosso | Drew | Could the Romans Understand Their Own Texts? |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
9/24/2005 | Andrew Szegedy-Maszak | Wesleyan | Nineteenth-Century American Photographs of the Acropolis | |
10/16/2005 | Carrie Cowherd | Howard | Classical Influences in W.E. B.DuBois' Souls of Black Folk | |
11/12/2005 | Michael Sollenberger | Mount Saint Mary's | Strato of Lampsacus | |
12/4/2005 | Patricia Dailey | Oakcrest HS | Minoan Palaces: Space & Space Use | |
1/21/2006 | Laura Zucconi | Stockton | Defining and Treating Illness in the Ancient Near East | |
2/19/2006 | Sheila Murnaghan | U Penn | Women in Sophoclean tragedy | |
3/25/2006 | Lucio Pritivello | Stockton | In Union with Love: A Mytho-genealogy of Eros in Hesiod's Theogony | |
4/1/2006 | Alice Rignos | Howard | Examined Lives: The Figure of Socrates in the Classical World |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
9/23/2006 | Fred Mench | Stockton | Fictional Rome: Recent Historical Novels, an Update | |
10/8/2006 | Edmund Keeley | Princeton | Poems from the Greek Anthology | |
11/11/2006 | Peter Amato | Drexel | Gadamer's Republic and Other Dialogues | |
12/2/2006 | Eric Thurman | Drew | Fantasies of Masculinity | |
1/27/2007 | Tom Kinsella | Stockton | John Quicy Adams, Cicero and the Classics: The Pocket and Pillow Companions of Every Man | Part 3 |
2/10/2007 | Joshua Ramsey | Temple | Versions of the Antigone | |
3/25/2007 | Emily Wilson | U Penn | Socrates as a Tragic Character | |
4/21/2007 | Marina Angel | Temple | Aristophanes and Susan Glaspell's Trifles |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
9/15/2007 | George Diamond | Stockton | Palace or Not: Minoan Arkhanes | |
10/27/2007 | Stephen Patrick | - | The Fall of the Roman Empire in the West: It was the Army's Fault | |
11/10/2007 | Demetrios Constantelos | Stockton | The Bible and the Classics in Ninth-Century Byzantium | |
12/8/2007 | Maria Hnaraki | Drexel | Unraveling Ariadne's Thread: Cretan Music and Dance | |
1/26/2008 | Mark Mallett | Stockton | O'Neil and the Tragic Greek: Desire Under the Elms and Classical Dramatic Structures | |
2/23/2008 | Kate Ogden | Stockton | The Classical Tradition in Art | |
3/1/2008 | Rob Nichols | Stockton | How Greek is Greco-Buddhist Art? | |
4/13/2008 | Pavlos Avlanis | Princeton | Popular Books and Readers in the Roman Empire |
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
10/1/2008 | Katerina Baitinger | New Jersey City University | Odysseus Elytis's Poetry as inor Literature | |
11/1/2008 | Katherine Panagakos | Stockton | Good Boys Gone Bad: Pirates and Robbers in the Ancient Novel | |
12/1/2008 | Prudence Jones | Montclair University | Ceasar and Cleopatra | |
12/2/2008 | William Lubenow | Stockton | The Cambridge Ritualists: Greek Studies and the Social Basis of Commensurability, 1876-1924 | |
1/1/2009 | David King | Stockton | The Poetry of Epic Gore: Mutilation in The Aeneid and The Song of Roland | |
2/1/2009 | Ralph Rosen | U Penn | The Greeks on Beauty and Ugliness | |
3/1/2009 | John Lenz | Drew | From Political Power to Salvation through Philosophy: Myth in Plato's Replublic, Herodotus and Empedocles | |
4/25/2009 | Duane Roller | Ohio State University | Cleopatra of Egypt: Debunking the Myth |
On September 26th, the season kicked off with an excellent lecture by CHS co-founder Fred Mench. We scrambled to find more seats, as attendance was unexpectedly high. On October 24th, we were very excited to present Rowan University's Joshua Delpech-Ramey, who visited us a lecturer for the second time. We look forward to reading his new publication. On November 21st, the first half of the 2009-10 series came to an end with Rebecca Goldner's lecture on the new translation of the Aeneid. For a complete summary of the Fall 2009 series by CHS President Privitello, please click here.
The Classical Humanities Society returned on February 27th, 2010 with the first part
of an exciting second half theme of sexuality that will be remembered for a long
time. A summary of those three lectures can be found here.
Our appreciation and affection go to all of our guests for the time and excellent
lectures.
These pages sometimes (and from here on) feature media from some of the lectures. For audio (blue), powerpoint (yellow) and video clips (purple), please go to the media column and click on the part you would like. For summaries, click anywhere on a red bar (if applicable).
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media |
9/26/2009 | Fred Mench | Stockton | The Pygmalion Theme from Ovid to Lars and the Real Girl or In Whose Image: Pygmalion and Galatea, Then & Now | |
10/24/2009 | Joshua Delpech-Ramey | Rowan | Rumor Has It: Plato's Other Politics of Truth | |
11/21/2009 | Rebecca S. Goldner | Villanova | A Woman's Game to Me | |
2/27/2010 | J. Eric Butler | Villanova | Aristotle and the Science of Sexuality | |
3/20/2010 | Fulvia Serra | U Penn | The Secret of Good Love: Perception of Gender and the Art of Good Taste in Plato's Time | |
4/24/2010 | John M. Carvalho | Villanova | For the Love of Boys: Knowledge and Pleasure Among the Greeks |
For the third year in a row, the CHS has enjoyed consistenly high attendance. A complete summary of this season, along with a preview of the 2011-2012 line-up, by CHS President, Lucio Privitello, can be found here. Many thanks to all of our guest lecturers and supporters.
These pages sometimes feature media from some of the lectures. For audio (blue), PowerPoint (yellow) and video clips (purple), please go to the media column and click on the part you would like. For summaries, click anywhere on a red bar (if applicable).
Date | Name | Institution | Lecture | Media | |
9/18/10 | Lynn Sawlivich | University of Delaware | Truth and Memory in Classical Mythology | Click Here | |
10/16/2010 | Valentina DeNardis | Villanova | The Rise and Fall of Icarus: Myth and Metaphor | Click Here | |
11/13/2010 | Edward Siecienski | Stockton | The Church Fathers as Humanists | ||
02/26/11 | Adeline Koh | Stockton | The Politics of Classical Tragedy in Chinua Abebe's Things Fall Apart: Rewriting the Colonial Library | ||
3/26/11 | Lucio Angelo Privitello | Stockton | The Classics in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time | ||
4/16/11 | Katherine Panagakos | Stockton | When Love Unites with the Soul: The Cupid and Psyche Story in Apuleius and C.S. Lewis |