Amphitruo – Plautus
19 April 2023, 3:00 pm ET
On Wednesday, April 19th at 3:00 pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns with Plautus’ Amphitruo! Read more
Archive
Oedipus Tyrannos – Sophocles
4 April 2023, 3:00 pm ET
On Tuesday, April 4th the sixth season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online continues with a live dramatic reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos! Read more
Electra – Sophocles
27 March 2023, 5:00 pm ET
Monday, March 27 the 6th season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online kicks off with a live dramatic reading of Sophocle’s Electra, translated by Anne Carson! Read more
Reading Greek Tragedy Online Season 6!
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17 March 2023
Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns this Spring with a new season of performances taking place on screen and in person. Read more
Fellow Talk | Stella Katsarou
22 March 2023, 11:00 am ET
Greece hosted vibrant Neolithic communities that spread over various landscapes, including caves in all settings. The absence of textual evidence makes materiality our utmost medium through those communities’ social and spiritual worlds. Read more
Distinguished Lecturer: Paulin Ismard
21 March 2023, 6:00 pm ET
A question keeps coming up about slavery in the Greek world: how is it possible that the great thinkers of classical Athens never denounced, and even endorsed, the crime of slavery? Read more
19th Annual Frank M. Snowden Jr. Lecture
28 February 2023, 5:30 pm ET
Jackie Murray is an associate professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and at SUNY at Buffalo. She completed her BA at the University of Guelph, MA at Western University, and PhD in Classics at the University of Washington. Read more
Fireside Chat with Jackie Murray
27 February 2023, 6:00 pm ET
Please join us in person at House A for a fireside chat with Jackie Murray. A reception will follow, with a tour of the Black Classicists Exhibit. Read more
Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal Art
Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered words are but a part of OFT, and OFT is only a part of scholarship on weathered words. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings… Read more
Fellow Talk | Jessica Lamont
15 February 2023, 11:00 am ET
Grounded in social history, the talk explores the emergence of medical pluralism—the interwoven professional and cultural systems or “marketplaces” that evolved to manage health and disease—in Greek communities across the ancient Mediterranean. Read more