March 29 (3:30 pm): Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Classics), “Idealizing the Chorus: Sophocles and lyric in the Nineteenth Century”

April 11 (4:30 pm): Rana Saadi Liebert (University of Chicago, Classics), “Pity and Disgust in Plato’s Republic: The Case of Leontius”

Co-sponsored by the Ancient Philosophy Workshop

*Note that this meeting is taking place on a Wednesday*

April 20 (3:30 pm): Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell, Classics), “The Upheaval That Wasn’t: An Earth-Shattering Misreading of Thucydidean Kinesis.”

Co-sponsored by CLS

*Note that this meeting is taking place on a Friday*

April 26 (3:30 pm): Alison Lanski (University of Illinois, Classics), “‘Typical’ emissaries and authorial craft in Herodotus’
Histories”

May 24 (3:30 pm): Helene Foley (Columbia University, Classics), “Reconsidering ‘The Mimetic Action of the Chorus.'”