Welcome back to a new quarter! We have a great group of speakers lined up for spring:

April 5^th Andreas Schwab (Heidelberg/Wisconsin-Madison)

“From God to Genealogy: Achaemenid Royal Ideology in Xerxes’ Rhetoric (Hist. 7.8-11)” cosponsored with Rhetoric & Poetics

April 12^th Nick Venable (UChicago, Classics)

“Roman Law, Social Knowledge, and Dispute Resolution in Coptic Hagiography”

April 26^th Seth Richardson (UChicago)

“Obedient Bellies: Hunger and Food Security in Mesopotamia”

May 3^rd Chris Faraone (UChicago)

“Empedocles the Poet, Philosopher, Scientist … and Magician?”

May 17^th Benjamin Keim (Pomona College)

“Harmodius’ Sister, or Rethinking Women and Honor in Classical Athens”

May 20^th Aglaia McClintock (Università degli Studi di Sannio)

“Nemesis, Augusta, Regina. A Representation of Imperial Justice”

May 23^rd at 4:30 Thomas Benfey (Princeton, Near Eastern Studies)

“Religion and Skepticism from Sasanian Iran to the Abbasid Caliphate”

All meetings will be held in Classics 21 at 3:30 pm (unless otherwise noted).

January 26^th CAMWS mock talks

February 9^th Kiersten Neumann (UChicago)

“More Than Meets the Eye: The Multisensory Experience of the Neo-Assyrian Temple”

February 18^th Paul Vadan (UChicago, Classics)

“Hellenistic Risk Agenda”

February 23^rd Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)

“Greek Mythology and the Making of Constantinople”

Anthony Kaldellis will also be delivering a talk on “The Byzantine Loss of Asia Minor in the Eleventh Century: Causes and Models” on the following day (Feb. 24th) in the John Hope Franklin Room SSRB 224 at 3:30.

All meetings will be held in Classics 21 at 3:30 pm.