23RD ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2015
Science & Technology: Ancient Contexts and Modern Applications
Michael Anderson (SFSU)
If Ancient Walls Could Speak, Would They Do So in Binary? Experiences in Digital Classical Archaeology
Reviel Netz (Stanford)
What Have We Learned from the Archimedes Palimpsest?
Malcolm Wilson (University of Oregon)
Weather and Cosmos: Evidence for a New Interpretation of Aristotelian Nature
Maria Pantelia (UC Irvine)
The Future of the Past: Antiquity in the Digital Age
22ND ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2014
Uprising & Revolt
Christopher Krebs (Stanford)
Julius Caesar as a Reader
Lynn Roller (UC Davis)
From Phrygia to Greece and Back Again: Greek Impact on Anatolia
Dennis Campbell (SFSU)
Broken Oaths and Spilled Blood: Rebellion in the Hittite Kingdom
Daniel Turkeltaub (University of Santa Clara)
Dejecting Agamemnon's Scepter: Achilles' Metapoetic Sedition
21ST ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2013
Wining and Dining in the Greco-Roman World
Dr. Alexandra Pappas (SFSU)
Making Sense of Nonsense: Inscriptions and the Ancient Greek Symposium
Dr. Kathryn Topper (University of Washington)
Hetairai at the Symposium? The Evidence from Athenian Vases
Dr. Richard Martin (Stanford)
The Poetics of Potation: Competition, Skolia and the Greek Symposium
Dr. Mark Griffith (UC Berkeley)
What did a Symposium Sound Like? The Music of Dionysos
20TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2012
La Petite et La Grande Mort: Sex and Death in the Ancient World
Dr. David Leitao (SFSU)
The Origin of Platonic Love
Dr. Adrienne Mayor (Stanford)
The Poison King
Dr. J.F. Garcia (University of San Francisco)
The Death of Icarus
Dr. Daniel Turkeltaub (Santa Clara University)
Marrying Death in the Symbolic Landscape of Euripides' Hecuba
19TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2011
The Literature and Material Culture of the Hellenistic World
Anthony Long (UC Berkeley)
What's the Good of Happiness (Eudaimonia) in Hellenistic Philosophy?
Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University)
The Judgement of Paros: Hellenistic Cultural Identities on a Cycladic Island
Reviel Netz (Stanford)
What was Hellenistic about Hellenistic Mathematics?
Erich Gruen (UC Berkeley)
Identity Theft in the Hellenistic World
18TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2010
Oracles, Divination & Prophecy
Susanna Elm (UC Berkeley)
The Divine Speaks, But Who Knows What It Says? Pagan Challenge and Christian Response
Sarah P. Morris (UCLA)
The Delphic Oracle: New Light on the Origins and Function of Apollo's Prophetic Shrine
Ronald Mellor (UCLA)
The Political Context of Roman Astrology
Gillian McIntosh (SFSU)
Eating Tortilla Tables: A Discussion of Readers' Responcesto Prophecy and Fulfillment in Aeneid III and VII
17TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2009
Performance in the Ancient World
Rush Rehm (Standford)
Then & Now: The Ancient Drama of Aeschylus and Sophocles and Modernization
Sander Goldberg (UCLA)
Cicero and the Actors
Erin Moodie (Ohio State University)
Old Men and Metatheater in Terence
16TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2008
Heroes and Anti-Heroes in the Ancient World
Julia Nelson-Hawkins (Ohio State University)
Guilt, Sacrifice and Art at the End of the Aeneid
Tom Hawkins (Ohio State University
The Ugly Philosopher: Socrates as Anti-Hero
John Rundin (UC Davis)
Heracles Triumphant and Transcendant
Seth Schein (UC Davis)
Heroism in Sophokles' Philoktetes
15TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2007
War and Torture in the Ancient World
Dr. Carlos Norena, UC Berkeley
Roman Warfare Between Republic and Empire
Dr. Gaius Stern, SFSU
Roman Soldiers Taken Prisoner of War
Dr. Isabelle Pafford, SFSU
Madness and Self-Mutilation in Herodotus
Dr. Jonathan Roth, San Jose State University
Religious War in the Ancient West
14TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2006
The Gorgeous and the Grotesque
Loretta Reed, Department of History, California State University, Sacramento
In the Eye of the Beholder: Aestheticism Among the Ancients
Elise Earthman, Department of English and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, San Francisco State University
Sex and Death Entwined: Images of the Medusa in Popular Culture
Andrew Stewart, Departments of History of Art and Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Designing Women: The Hetaira as Model from Phintias to Praxiteles
Austin Busch, Teaching Fellow in the Department of Humanities, Stanford University
Visions of Mortality in Seneca's Thyestes
13TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2005
Magic and Superstition in the Ancient World
Ruth Caston, Department of Classics, University of California, Davis
Envy and the Evil Eye in Latin Love Poetry
Marvin Meyer, Department of Religion at Chapman University and Director of the Coptic Magical Texts Project at Claremont Graduate School
Mary Dissolving Chains in Ancient Magic
Mary Kay Gamel, Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Magic in Ancient Mediterranean Drama
Kitty Millet, Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
To Paraphrase the Transcendent: Jewish Mysticism and Magic
12TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2004
Order and Chaos in Ancient Life and Thought
Mark Griffith, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Keeping Satyrs in their Place: Dionysiac Chaos and Civic Order in the Athenian Theater
Jonathan Roth, Department of History, San Jose State University
The Roman Army as an Agent of Order and Disorder
Phillip Stanley, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Order from Chaos in Ancient Myths
Trevor Murphy, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Tiberius and the X-Files
11TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2003
Friends and Enemies in the Ancient World
Linda Ellis, Museum Studies Program, San Francisco State University
Romans vs. Dacians et al.: Friends and Enemies from the Carpathians to the Danube
Richard P. Martin, Department of Classics, Stanford University
Proteus, Porthole and Polyps: Some Archaic Greek Images of Friendship
Richard Hoffman, Department of History, San Francisco State University
De Inimicitia: Cicero and his Political World
Anthony A. Long, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Making Friends with Aristotle
10TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2002
Sex and the City: The Geography of Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
Olympia Dukakis, Academy-Award winning actress
An Evening with Olympia: A Question-and-Answer session on Acting and Greek Tragedy
Ralph Hexter, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Chair of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Mapping Ancient Sexuality: Why It Matters, Why It Happened
Lynn E. Roller, Department of Classics, University of California, Davis
Mother Cybele and Her Eunuch Priests
Karen Bassi, Department of Classics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Shaping Space and Time: The Warrior's Departure
Erich Gruen, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
Sex and Humor in Biblical Narratives: Esther, Judith, and Susanna
David Leitao, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Artemidorus on the Couch: Some Sexual and Transexual Dreams from the Second Century C.E.
9TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2001
Pop Go The Classics! The Ancient World in Popular Culture
Carey Perloff, award-winning Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater
Hecuba and History
Pamela Vaughn, Departments of Classics and World and Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University
The Ancient Hero in Film
Emily Albu, Department of Classics, University of California Davis
Gladiator, America's Rome in Film
Steven Saylor, Best-selling mystery writer of the ROMA SUB ROSA series
Bringing the Late Republic to Life (and putting it to death)
Barbara McLauchlin, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Romancing the Stones (from Agatha Christie to Indiana Jones)
8TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 2000
Ancient Biographies: Individuals of Antiquity
Andrew Stewart, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Alexander Persicus: A New Portrait from Iran
Judy Gaughan, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Mother Knows Best: Cornelia Mater Gracchorum
Jonathan Roth, Department of History, San Jose State University
A Reassessment of Flavius Josephus
Robert Gurval, Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
Dying Like A Queen: Cleopatra and the Asp(s) in Antiquity
7TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1999
Time Travel: Pilgrimages to the Medieval World
Pamela Gehrke, Department of World and Comparative Literature, San Francisco State University
Achilles in Love: Medieval Interpretations of the Trojan War
Pamela Hood, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Sex, Lies, and Monica: Augustine's 'Confessions'
Christopher Hughes, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley
The Bible Moralisée and Thirteenth-Century Pictorial Exegesis
Ralph Hexter, Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Sexual Dissidence and Medieval Latin
6TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1998
A View to the East: The World Beyond Athens and Rome
Laurie Pearce, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
Scribes in Mesopotamia
Lynn E. Roller, Department of Classics, University of California, Davis
Eunuch Priests of Cybele
Jeannine Davis-Kimball, The Center for the Study of Near Eastern Nomads
Warrior Women of the Steppes: Amazons Uncovered
Phillip V. Stanley, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Roman Syria: Where West Meets East
5TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1997
Getting in Touch with Antiquity
Steven Saylor, Best-selling mystery writer of the ROMA SUB ROSA series
Blood in the Forum
Margaret Henry, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Roman Designs for Living: Exploring Architectural Patterns in Rome, Ostia, and Pompeii
Robert C. Knapp, Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
Render Unto Caesar: Coin Types, Identity, and Power
Gary B. Miles, Departments of Classics and History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thugs by Choice: Roman Portraiture in the Late Republic
4TH ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1996
The Divine and the Human: Religion in Antiquity
Susanna Elm, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
God's Servants, God's Slaves
David Leitao, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Orpheus and the Third Sex: Homosexual Ecstasy in some Orphic Cults?
John J. Glanville, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
Simplicius and Late Pagan Piety - The Confrontation with Christianity, and Philoponus
Laurie Pearce, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University
The Mesopotamian Religious Experience
Christopher Simon, Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society
Gifts for the Gods: Dedications in Ancient Greece
Lisa Maurizio, Department of Classics, Stanford University
Female Voices, Divine Speech: The Pythia, Cassandra, and Apollo
3RD ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1995
Gender Issues: The Male and Female in Antiquity
Karen Bassi, Department of Classics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Orality, Masculinity, and the Greek Epic
Seth Schein, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
Female Representations and Interpreting 'The Odyssey'
Charlayne Allan, Department of Classics, University of California, Davis
Women in Antiquity: Enduring Images
Helen Moritz, Department of Classics, Santa Clara University
Sophocles' 'The Women of Trachis'
2ND ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1994
Intercultural Influences in the Ancient World
Vulindlela Wobogo, Department of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University
The Cosmogony of Egypt: Its Influence on the Mediterranean
Richard Hoffman, Department of History, San Francisco State University
Rome in North Africa: The Confluence of Four Cultures
Erich Gruen, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley
Pagans and Jews: Multiculturalism or Anti-Semitism
Barbara McLauchlin, Department of Classics, San Francisco State University
Greece and Anatolia
1ST ANNUAL SPRING LECTURE SERIES: 1993
Jacob Needleman, Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University