Ancient Societies Workshop

Tuesday, April 1 – Arie Neuhauser (UChicago Classics PhD)
“Norms of Violence in Byzantine Civil Wars: Compatriots and the Ethnic Other”
Thursday, April 10 at 5pm in Swift 200 – Han Yang (UChicago Classics PhD)
“Polis Religion and Carthage: Recontextualizing the Punic Tariff Inscriptions” (co-sponsored with the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop)
Tuesday, April 15 – Lorenzo Miletti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
“The Fall of Byzantium and the Translation of Greek Works in Renaissance
Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous”
Tuesday, April 22 – Christopher Simon (UChicago Classics)
“Plato on the Failed Exemplarity of Brutus”
Tuesday, May 6 – Daniel Ruprecht (UChicago Classics PhD)
“Mandating Guilt: “ἐνθυμιστόν” in Legal Decrees from 4th Century Thasos”
Tuesday, May 20 – Lindsey Mazurek (Indiana University Bloomington)
 “Expanding the Limits of Private Portraiture: Flavia Mysta’s Family Group in the Kalindoia Sebasteion”
Unless otherwise noted, we will be meeting in Classics 21 at 3:30pm with a reception to follow in Classics 116.