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Fall 2009

Troy

The Trojans are Coming! ND vs USC, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, 3:30 pm.

The Play Before the Play: When Did a Greek Play 'Begin'?
A lecture by Ian C. Storey, Professor of Ancient History & Classics, Trent University

Wed., Oct. 28, 2009 at 4:30 pm in 404 Main Bldg.

Classics & Arabic invite you and your friends to our beginning of year reception:

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

Hammes Student Lounge

Coleman-Morse Center 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Come meet faculty and majors and enjoy good food and fellowship.

Revisiting Ancient Greece--via Alexandria in Egypt

A lecture by Prof. Paul Cartledge, Clare College, Cambridge University

Friday, Sept. 18, 2009; 4:00 p.m. in Geddes Hall Auditorium, Rm. B001 (Center for Social Concerns)

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Spring 2009 (archives)

The Origins of Platonist Dogmatism

Lecture: Monday, April 27, 2009
5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
303 Main Building
Lunch: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
11:00 a.m.
303 O'Shaughnessy

Presented by Professor John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin
Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy, and the Department of Philosophy.

The Eruption of Vesuvius (1631) and the Redisocovery of Pompeii

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
5:30 p.m.
Montgomery Theater, LaFortune Student Center

Presented by Professor Ingrid Rowland
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. She is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome and The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. She has published a translation of Vitrivius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

The Sound of Classics

Friday, February 20th
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Great Hall of O'Shaughnessy

Come and enjoy readings from Classical Literature, in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and English. View the Poster.

Fall 2008

View the Movie "300"

Wednesday, November 12th
7:30-10:30 p.m.
Hesburgh Auditorium , 107

Professor Ian MacGregor Morris, University of Nottingham, UK will supply an introduction to the movie and a question and answer session afterwards.

The Enlightenment and the Birth of Ancient History

Lecture by Prof. Ian MacGregor Morris
University of Nottingham, UK
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
5:00-7:00 p.m.
DeBartolo Hall, Room 138

The discipline of Ancient History, in the academic imagination, remains an invention of the nineteenth century, dominated by the twin giants of Grote and Niebuhr. The scholarship which preceded the professionalisation of the discipline is generally dismissed as the prejudiced works of Gentlemen amateurs; Gibbon apart, no historian of the ancient world who wrote before 1800 impinges upon the academic consciousness.
Yet this paper will argue that not only is there much of interest in the works of the historians of the long eighteenth-century, but an understanding of their work is crucial for any understanding of the origins, shortcomings and prejudices of the modern discipline. In the years between the English and French Revolutions there developed a close engagement with antiquity which would become a defining feature of the Enlightenment, and the scholarship which powered this engagement would also lay the foundations of the modern discipline.
In conjunction with the forthcoming volume, Reinventing History: The Enlightenment Origins of Ancient History (London 2008), this paper will reveal the enduring relevance of Enlightenment histories of antiquity, and consider the ways in which the professional historians of the nineteenth century deliberately sought to write their predecessors out of the canon of history.

The Classics Department in the News

Read an article about the Classics Department in Notre Dame Magazine's summer 2007 issue: "Classics revival in the 21st century."

Study Abroad Meeting

If you are interested in studying abroad in the Mediterranean world, I would like to invite you to come to an informational session:

Wednesday, Octoer 8, 2008

5:00-6:00 p.m.

Classics Department Seminar Room (303 O'Shag.)

Study abroad durng the academic year or summer break. Meet and greet our students who have returned from study abroad. Get all your questions answered. Apply before Nov. 1st.

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Spring 2007

Ovid in Exile

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Lecture by Stephen Hinds

Friday, March 14

4:30 p.m.

Eck Visitors' Center Auditorium

Stephen Hinds (BA Trinity Coll. Dublin, PhD Cambridge) is doing some of the most imaginative work in any field of literary studies today. His ground-breaking study in literary allusion, Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry, followed what has become a basic textbook for students of Classics and of Ovid, The Metamorphosis of Persephone. His work is profound, learned, and witty; he is a gifted teacher and a scholar of international prestige. The Classics department warmly invites you to come hear a talk by this versatile intellectual.

Arabic Culture Night

Thursday, March 13

7:00-8:00 p.m.

Jordan Auditorium in Mendoza

Open to all and admission is free!

The Arabic Club is hosting the Arabic Culture Night this Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 pm in the Jordan Auditorium in Mendoza. This event will be a night of Middle Eastern music, dance, poetry and theater. It should last about an hour and admission is free and open to all.

Trip to Indy Musuem of Art

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Indianapolis, IN

We are organizing a bus trip to see "The Romans Are Coming," an exhibit of Roman art from the Louvre--check it out at theromasarecoming.com. The bus will leave at approximately 7:00 am for a 2.5 hour bus ride to Indianapolis. (Don't worry--we will return to campus in time for the kickoff of the UCLA football game at 8:00 pm!) This event is limited to Classics and Arabic majors and the bus can only seat 56 people. The cost is covered. If you are interested in attending, please contact Professor Tadeusz Mazurek (tmazurek@nd.edu) with your name and major as soon as possible. More details are coming, so please check here for updates!

Greco-Roman Idol

April 12, 2007
Eck Visitors Center
5:00-6:30 pm

Come join us to meet and greet Classics department faculty and students. Learn more about majoring in Classics, Classics graduate school, studying abroad in the Mediterranean, and summer archaeology field school opportunities. The
event will conclude with the world-premier performance of "Greco-Roman Idol," produced by our Classics Club Thespians. Whom will the judges select as the next Idol--Socrates, Nero or Helen of Troy?

Classics Live!

Wednesday, October 25 4-6 p.m.

Stonehenge (on the Fieldhouse Mall)

We want to showcase the talents of all our wonderful Classics students. Students will recite poems in Latin, Greek and English; stage mock gladiator fights; showcase artwork; dress in ancient garb; sing Latin hymns; etc. As the centerpiece of the event we would like to stage a few scenes of ancient comedy. If interested in helping out with this event, please contact Professor Tadeusz Mazurek (tmazurek@nd.edu).

Learn more about the event >

Symposium on Cicero's Practical Philosophy

October 27-28, 2006

While assessing and celebrating the renewal of Cicero studies over the past two generations, the Symposium seeks to contribute to this renewal by providing an occasion for conversation and collaboration among political theorists, classicists, historians and scholars of ancient philosophy interested in the moral and political philosophy of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

For program details, see the website of the Notre Dame Workshop on Ancient Philosophy http://www.nd.edu/~ndwap/.

For information including on registration and accommodations, contact Harriet Baldwin at (574) 631-7864 or Baldwin.1@nd.edu.

Hesiod Reading by Henry Weinfield and Catherine Schlegel

November 6, 2006 7:30 p.m.

Coleman-Morse Lounge

The Classics and PLS deparments are proud to present the reading of a new translation of Hesiod's The Theogony and Works and Days, by Henry Weinfield and Catherine Schlegel. Refreshments and a book-signing will follow the reading.

The Gospel in Arabic: An Inquiry into its Origins and Development

November 15, 2006 4:00 p.m.

210-214 McKenna Hall

Professor Joseph Amar will present his recently published book, Dionysius Bar Salibi's Response to the Arabs. A scholar in classical and Christian Arabic, Syriac literary culture, and early interactions between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Professor Amar directs the Arabic and Syriac programs at the University of Notre Dame and serves on the editorial board for the Library of Early Christianity. His other books include St. Ephrem the Syrian, and The Mimra of Jacob of Sarug on Holy Mar Ephrem.