Spring 2024 Schedule

April 4: Alexander Loney (Wheaton College) “Homeric Nostalgia” April 11: Sam Lee (UChicago Social Thought) “Nameless Galatea: Sprezzatura and the Aesthetics of Concealment in Ovid’s Pygmalion Myth” April 18: Jimmy White (UChicago Classics/Social Thought) “‘Where the Wild Things Are’: Narrative Empathy and Fellow-Feeling with Monsters in the Poetry of Stesichorus” May 2: Serena Ammirati (visiting scholar from Università Roma Tre) “Latinum est, non legitur: The Challenge of Latin Papyri” *co-sponsored with Regenstein Special Collections, held in Special Collections room 136 May 16: Seva Khusid (UChicago MAPH) “Prometheus Bound and Court Rhetoric in Modern Russia”

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