04/08: Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania, Classical Studies): “Plato on Divination as a form of Non-Rational Cognition” (this talk is sponsored by the Classical Lecture Society).

04/22:  Ewen Bowie (Emeritus, Corpus Christi College, Oxford): “The Origins of the Theognida: A Modest Proposal”.

05/14 (Friday, 4:30 pm): Robert Kaster (Princeton University, Classics): “Cicero in Mourning” (this talk is sponsored by the Classical Lecture Society).

05/20: Nancy Worman (Columbia University, Classics and Comparative Literature): “Pindar, Proust, and the Flower of Metaphor” (co-sponsored with the Poetry & Poetics workshop)

05/27: Teresa Lemieux (University of Chicago, Classics), “Pitying Electra: The Agency and Affection of οἶκτος in Sophocles”.

06/03: Ursula Bergstrom (University of Chicago, Classics),”Who Done It? On the Nature of the Divine in Callimachus’ Bath of Pallas”.

All talks are at 3:30 pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted.

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"Who Done It? On the Nature of the Divine
in Callimachus' Bath of Pallas."