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Dissertation defense: J. Kierstead - “A Community of Communities: Associations and Democracy in Classical Athens” Wed. May 22 at 10am

 The Department of Classics at Stanford University invites you to attend a public dissertation defense by James Kierstead, PhD candidate. His talk is entitled

“A Community of Communities: Associations and Democracy in Classical Athens”

Stanford Classics in Theater performs a contemporary re-telling of Euripides' "Cyclops" at Toyon Hall, May 23-25

 

 May 23rd-May 25th

8:00pm--

Toyon Hall

 

Otis and Us of Ithaca, New York are like any old band touring the Williamsburg circuit. They're tearing up stages, bagging chicks, and rolling their own fair-trade tobacco cigarettes all while keeping to a strict locavore, vegan, paleo-diet. Worn and exhausted from their most recent conquests at Coachella, the merry band of brooding hipsters gets lost on their journey home and ends up on star-studded Sunset Boulevard in the lair of Polly Famous, the infamous Hollywood man-eater. Our heroes only ask for some gas and a few munchies, but Polly Famous has other things on her mind, some fresh longpig perhaps? Will the band be able to get back home? Can the power of irony snatch them from the jaws of the one-eyed Polly Famous? Will the Greek chorus of frat boys and sorority girls be any use at all? Or will Earth lose God's gift to humanity as they are doomed to be wasted on Sunset Boulevard forever?

Disseration defense: F. Karachalios - "The Politics of Judgment in Early Greece: Dispute Resolution and State Formation from the Homeric World to Solon's Athens" Fri. May 24 at 3:15pm

Please join us! Public dissertation defense by Classics PhD candidate Foivos Karachalios

"The Politics of Judgment in Early Greece: Dispute Resolution and State Formation from the Homeric World to Solon's Athens"

Friday, May 24 at 3:15pm

Bldg. 110, Rm. 112 (departmental seminar room)

Nancy Worman: Dreams of Order: Landscape Aesthetics in Ancient Poetry and Literary Theory

Thursday, May 30, 2013
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Building 110, Room 112
 
Join us at 5:00pm for light refreshments.
 
 
This talk explores how ancient poets and theorists shaped aesthetic terrains out of familiar topographies in order to highlight certain settings and their resident styles as pl

Classics Commencement 2013

Immediately following the Stanford Commencement Ceremony at the Stanford Stadium, graduates and their guests will disburse to their departmental diploma ceremonies.

The Department of Classics will hold their diploma ceremony at the entrance to Green Library at Centennial Fountain on Lasuen Mall. Cold water and light snacks will greet you when you arrive and the ceremony will begin promptly at 12:30 P.M.  The ceremony will last approximately one hour, followed by a fully catered lunch.

 

Caroline Vout (Cambridge)

Tuesday, September 24, 2013
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Building 110, Room 112
Join us at 5:00pm for light refreshments.

 

Brian Rose (Penn)

Friday, October 4, 2013
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Levinthal Hall at the Stanford Humanities Center

Please join the Department of Classics for a Lorenz Eitner Lecture on Classical Art and Culture.

Pierre Destrée (Université Catholique de Louvaine)

Monday, October 14, 2013
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Building 110, Room 112
Join us at 5:00pm for light refreshments.

Alexander Jones (ISAW)

Thuirsday, October 17, 2013
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Building 110, Room 112
Join us at 5:00pm for light refreshments.

Cargo Culture: Literary and Material Appropriative Practices in Rome

Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2014

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