Classical Lectures and Conferences

Classical Lectures and Conferences in the Metropolitan Area

The Fall 2008 Meeting will be held on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 3:00 P.M. at the Browning School, 52 East 62nd Street, New York.

Dr. Nancy Worman, Associate Professor, Barnard College, Department of Classics and Ancient Studies will give a lecture "Mapping Literary Judgment in Aristophanes' Frogs."

The Winter 2009 Conference will focus on Greek and Roman elegy and is tentatively scheduled for the end of February. The speakers will be announced soon.

Special Event. We are co-sponsoring with Columbia University a presentation of “Representing Our Ancestors.” This is a program, organized by the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, in which contemporary scholars take on the roles of prominent Classicists from an earlier time and, acting as these scholars, provide us with insights into their lives from their own perspectives. This special event will be held at Columbia University on Saturday March 21st.

The Spring 2009 Meeting will feature Dr. Joanne Spurza who will speak on Ostia. More about this meeting soon.

The Homeric Reading Group of New York will resume its activities this fall, meeting once a week, Saturday mornings, 10 – 12. The only requirement to participate is that potential members of the Group have taken, or are currently taking a course in Homer, or have otherwise read a fair amount of Homer in the original Greek.

The principal aim of the Homeric Reading Group is to enrich our understanding of the Homeric poems by exploring the oral and aural aspects of the poetry. We will work towards hearing and recreating the sounds of Homer’s Greek as authentically as our current linguistic and metrical knowledge permits. This will include an introduction to the restored pronunciation of ancient Greek (based primarily of W.S. Allen’s Vox Graeca, 3rd ed.), the use of quantitative rhythm (based on patterns of long and short syllables), and the use of the musical pitch accents.

The first meeting of the Homeric Reading Group is scheduled for Saturday, 27 September, 10 am, at 425 Riverside Drive (115 St.), apt. 12H. We shall begin where we left off last spring: Odyssey 13.200. Contact: Stephen G. Daitz, City University of New York, Tel. 212-666-6228, Email: sgdaitz@aol.com

The Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature (SORGLL) as revised and expanded its website http://rhapsodoioralgreekandlatin.org. The site so far contains a statement of purpose, a list of officers and of the executive committee, an audio guide to the restored pronunciation of Greek and Latin, and audio selections from the Iliad and the Aeneid as well as renditions of lyric poetry (Arkhilokhos, Alkman, Sappho, Catullus, and Horace). Real Player is required for the audio portions of the site.

Submissions of other selections are welcome (click on Submissions on the website), particularly in Greek and Roman tragedy, comedy, oratory, philosophy, and history.

Request for Information and Announcements: We are seeking to compile a list of lectures and conferences in the New York Metropolitan area with themes related to ancient civilizations and cultures. In order to make this listing as comprehensive and helpful as possible, we are requesting your help. Please fill in and submit this form.

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