Meetings are on Thursdays, 3:00 – 4:30, next to the Classics Cafe in CL 021 unless otherwise noted.

10.2 – Branden Kosch (Chicago, Classics) – “Isocrates’ answer to Plato’s criticism of writing”

10.16 – Christiane Veyrard-Cosme (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) – “To write or to rewrite in Carolingian Latin Culture: the stakes of a narratological approach to Alcuin’s writings.” (Franke Institute in Regenstein Library)

10.23 (at 4:30pm) – Eric Downing (University of North Carolina) “Sympathy for the Real: Painting, Magic, and Stimmung in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich” 

11.13 – Bart Van Wassenhove (Chicago, Classics) – “Truth and Advertising: On the So-Called ‘Failure of Stoic Rhetoric'”

12.4 – Emily Greenwood (Yale University) – “The Great War / Great Wars: Thucydides through WWI Memoirs” Modern sources (novels and memoirs), in a brief document to read in advance, are available here.