Spring 2015 Schedule

(All meetings take place on Thursdays, at 3pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted)

April 2 – Jonah Radding (UChicago, Classics), “Homeric Authority: Echoes of the Iliad in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis

Respondent: Abigail Akavia (UChicago, Classics)

 

April 16 – James Redfield (University of Chicago) on Xenophon and the Socratics

 

April 30 – Emily Dreyfus (UChicago, Germanic Studies), “Vom Dienste des griechischen Buchstabens befreit:” Poetics of liberation in Hölderlin’s Pindar Fragments”

Respondent: Simon Friedland (UChicago, Germanic Studies)

 

WED. May 13 – Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) on Parmenides, Empedocles, and the epic tradition

*Will be held at 4:30pm in Classics 21, jointly with the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

 

May 28 – Abigail Akavia (UChicago, Classics), “Listening to Electra”

Respondent: Jonah Radding (UChicago, Classics)