On Saturday, April 30, join us for a live webcast of the CHS Research Symposium, featuring talks by the 2010-11 CHS Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The live webcast will be available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with a Quicktime Player. To download and install Quicktime from Apple, please go to… Read more
Recently I participated in a conference in Germany, entitled “Prehistoric and ancient goddesses.” My interest was in violence towards goddesses’ images, particularly Christian attacks on pagan divinities. I focused my paper on how the citizens of Aphrodisias in southwestern Turkey eradicated the cult of Aphrodite, and in so doing transformed… Read more
Since I won't have time to talk about this in detail during my ten minute bit for our Future of Classics discussions, I thought that the blog might be the appropriate forum to pre-emptively follow-up (if such time travel is in fact possible) on a point which I will make tomorrow about what can be done in with relative speed and ease using data and tools that are already available… Read more
Humanities may be under attack, but thankfully Greek Epigraphy keeps thriving, at least in terms of sheer number of publications, as can be seen in SEG for which I have been working as an assistant editor since 2007. SEG LVI (2006) came out at the very end of 2010, but… Read more
In my last post, I mentioned a talk I will be giving at the University of Toronto’s Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy on April 8. I’m under water this week, so I thought I’d put up a preview of that talk: The… Read more
