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Cultures of the Classical: 2011-17

A Network for Research on Classical Traditions at Yale ‘Cultures of the Classical’ is a network that draws together scholars at Yale who work on receptions of Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity, and the Classical Tradition (including comparative Classical Traditions and rival antiquities). We are particularly interested in complex plays with the past in which texts and works of art, and indeed whole cultural movements, have appropriated aspects of Classical Antiquity while simultaneously asserting their distance from ancient Greece and Rome.

The network is the joint initiative of Classics and Renaissance Studies, and is intended to promote collaboration and discussion between Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History, Modern Languages, and Political Thought. We are an overseas affiliate partner of the Classical Receptions Network (CRSN)

Events 2016-2017

March 8, 2017

The annual Parry lecture, co-sponsored by Comparative Literature and Classics. Speaker: Joshua Scodel, Chicago.  Watch it here: http://classics.yale.edu/events/parry-lecture/past-parry-lectures

Events 2015–2016

October 17, 2015
“Between rhetoric and historiography: Dionysius of Halicarnassus.” Organized by Ben Jerue and the Yale graduate students.

Events 2014–2015

November 14, 2014
Maurizio Forte (Duke): “Immersive Archaeology: New Perspectives for Research, Education, and Museum Communication”

January 28, 2015
Glenn Most (Pisa/Chicago): “Allegoresis and Etymology”

March 23, 2015
Christian Benne (Copenhagen): “Why Scholem read Schlegel and Nietzsche”

Events 2013–2014

November 12, 2013
“Herodotus as anti-classical toolbox”, Suzanne Marchand (LSU)

November 19, 2013
“A Jewish scholar in exile: Eduard Fraenkel in Oxford, 1934–50”, C.A. Stray (Swansea/IAS)

February 10, 2014
“Euripides, Pindar, and others: what makes poetry poetic?”, Michael Silk (KCL)

Events 2011–2012

September 23, 2011
“Race, intermarriage, and Greek literary history”, Tim Whitmarsh (Corpus Christi College, Oxford).

November 4, 2011
‘Aeschylus’ Persians Today”*, Stratos Constantinidis (Ohio State University), Elizabeth Sharffenberger (Columbia University), Sam Lasman (Yale)
A staged reading of Stratos Constantinidis’ new translation of Aeschylus’ Persians, directed by Sam Lasman (Yale) with an introductory talk by Elizabeth Scharffenberger on ‘The Play in Adaptation’. *Sponsored by the Classics Department and the Italian Department at Yale

April 4, 2012
‘Translation as Transgression: Christopher Marlowe and “Lucan’s First Book”’
Emma Buckley (St Andrews University)

Elizabeth Sawyer (Oxford): “Origins of the Great Books Courses” 4/17/2012

“On the reception of Sulpicia.” Will Batstone, Ohio State. 5/3/2012

Events (2010–2011)

September 24, 2010
“Alcibiades at the Crossroads in 18th and 19th Century European Art”, Nick Rynearson (Georgia)

October 21, 2010
“Aztec and Roman Gods: Classical Influences and the interpretation of indigenous culture in 16th century Mexico’, Andrew Laird (University of Warwick)

November 5, 2010
“The Roman Republic in Renaissance Historical Thought’, James Hankins (Harvard)

April 1–3, 2011
Conference: The Past-Colonial: Classics and the Colonization of the Past

April 6, 2011
‘“Our two friends”: the making and remaking of Liddell and Scott’ Chris Stray (University of Swansea)