SEPTEMBER
12 & 13, 2002
James
Davidson
Professor, University of Warwick
"GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY
BEYOND THE BEDROOM: THE POLITICS OF LOVE IN ANCIENT GREECE"
4:00pm
(Sept 12)
513 Fayerweather Hall
Seminar
about buddies and 'homosexual friendships' in classical Greece.
10:00am (Sept 13)
5th floor Conference Room, Italian Academy
SEPTEMBER
30, 2002
"COLOSSAL LOSSES:
ZEUS, ALEXANDER AND THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN"
Lecture
by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge), author of Enduring Creation:
Art, Pain, and Fortitude (2001) and numerous other works.
5:00pm
5th floor Conference Room, Italian Academy
OCTOBER
11-12, 2002
ANCIENT ALEXANDRIA: BETWEEN GREECE AND EGYPT
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
speaker
abstracts
Teatro,
Italian Academy
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11:
Paolo
Gallo (Turin)
"The Pharaonic Monuments of Alexandria: an Overview"
Walter
Scheidel (Chicago)
"Creating a Metropolis: a Comparative Demographic Perspective"
John
Baines (Oxford)
"Egyptian Elite Self-Presentation in the Context of Ptolemaic
Rule"
Dorothy
Thompson (Cambridge)
"Ptolemaic Alexandria, an Up-country View"
Ellen
Birnbaum (Harvard)
"Jews' Perceptions of Themselves and Others in Ancient Alexandria"
Mostafa
al-Abbadi (Alexandria)
"The Island of Pharos in Myth and History"
Peter
Bing (Emory)
"Kallikrates of Samos between Egypt and Greece: the Evidence
of the New Posidippus Papyrus"
Jean-Yves
Empereur (Alexandria)
"Recent Rescue Excavations in Alexandria: a Contribution to
the Topography of the Capital of the Ptolemies"
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 12:
Livia
Capponi (Oxford)
"The 'oikos' of Alexandria"
Christopher
Haas (Villanova)
"Hellenism and Opposition to Christianity in Alexandria"
Fabienne
Burkhalter (Bordeaux)
"Hierothytai: a Greek Magistracy in Alexandria"
Nicola
Bonacasa (Palermo)
"Realism and Eclecticism in Alexandrian Art"
Mohammed
Abd-El-Ghani (Alexandria)
"Alexandria and Middle Egypt: some aspects of social and economic
contacts under the Roman Rule"
Heinrich
von Staden (IAS, Princeton)
"Galen of Pergamum on Alexandria and Egypt"
Mona
Haggag (Alexandria)
"Some Unpublished Magical Figurines from Upper Egypt"
Giovanni
Ruffini (Columbia)
"Late Antique Pagan Networks from Athens to the Thebaid"
OCTOBER
18, 2002
VISUAL
VOCABULARY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
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title for program
OCTOBER
21, 2002
"PAGANS,
CHRISTIANS AND MODERNS ON PERSONAL SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH"
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Richard
Sorabji
Professor, University
of London
6:00pm
614 Schermerhorn Hall, Morningside Campus
OCTOBER
26, 2002
SEMINAR
IN COMMEMORATION OF JOHN D'ARMS
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NOVEMBER
8, 2002
"MARATHON:
THE MYTH"
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Hans-Joachim
Gehrke
Professor, Universität Freiburg
Author
of Stasis. Untersuchungen zu den inneren Kriegen in den griechischen
Staaten
11:00am
513 Fayerweather Hall
reception in Art History Lounge (8th floor Schermerhorn Hall)
NOVEMBER
22, 2002
"SEXUAL
CRIMES IN ATHENIAN LAW"
SPONSORED
BY THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Eva Cantarella
Professor,
University of Milan
11:00
am
717 Hamilton Hall
reception in Classics Lounge, 6th floor Hamilton Hall
DECEMBER
6-7, 2002
HERODOTUS,
THUCYDIDES, POLYBIUS: THE GREAT GREEK HISTORIANS IN AN AGE OF
AMBIGUITY AND UNCERTAINTY
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title for program
DECEMBER
9, 2002
"MONEY AND SEX: ANCIENT ATHENIAN BANKING
SCANDALS"
Edward E. Cohen
Author of Athenian Economy and Society (1992) and The
Athenian Nation (2000)
CO-SPONSORED
BY THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY AND THE CENTER FOR THE ANCIENT
MEDITERRANEAN
6:00
pm
513 Fayerweather Hall
