Activities

Classics Dessert & Prospective Majors Meeting

Wednesday, March 19, 6:45-8:30 p.m.

Professor Roberts will be hosting an informal dessert for current and potentional majors and minors and students interested in participating in upcoming campus activities. Did I mention dessert?

Prospective majors and minors are encouraged to come at 6:45 for a discussion of majoring and minoring in Classics at Haverford.

Contact Prof. Roberts for directions.

ORALi-Tea '08

April 17, 7:00 in the Common Room, Founders Hall, Haverford College

Please join the Bi-College classics community for an an evening for the Oral Reading of Ancient Literature and (also oral) consumption of dessert.

MARATHON '07: Plato's Symposium

Wednesday, November 14th
Time: 4 P.M.
Location: Sunken Lounge, Dining Center, Haverford College

KINEMA Classica: "300" (2007)

Thursday, September 20th
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Chase Auditorium, Haverford College

Senior Thesis Presentations

Wednesday May 9th, at Haverford, in Hall 107

We will meet 9:30-12:00 and 1:30-4:00 for our two sessions, each with a short break in the middle.

ORALi-Tea '07

April 19, 7:30 in the Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall, Bryn Mawr College

Following on the success of last year's inaugural Orali-Tea, please join the Bi-College classics community for an an evening for the Oral Reading of Ancient Literature and (also oral) consumption of dessert.

Classics Tea

Monday, March 26 at 4:45 p.m.
4:45 p.m. in Hall 112.

Come learn about majoring and minoring in Classics, meet students and faculty, and enjoy tasty refreshements.

Lecture: ''The reception history of Sophocles' representation of pain''

March 28 at 4:30 p.m.

Felix Budelmann (The Open University in the UK; The Center for Hellenic Studies)

Gest 101 (with tea at 4:00)

Conference: "On Translating Homer"

November 18-19

Bi-College Marathon: A Reading of Homer's Odyssey

November 16, Sunken Lounge in the Dining Center

8 A.M. - ???

Lecture: November 2 at 4:30 P.M.

Jonathan Price

Gest 101 (with tea at 4:00).

Cena Romana: October 11 at 6 P.M

A feast with tasty Roman delicacies prepared by Prof. Mulligan.

Menu and Pictures from the Cena

Lecture: September 22 at 4:30 P.M at Bryn Mawr

Michael Fontaine, Cornell University, "The Lesbia Code: Backmasking, Pillow Talk, and Cacemphaton in Catullus 5 and 16"

Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library (Tea at 4 in Quita Woodward Room).

Senior Thesis Defense and Lunch

May 2nd, 9:30-12:30
Bryn Mawr, Thomas 224

Come enjoy a morning of food, friends, and Classics, as Seniors discuss their theses.

The First Annual Bi-College ORALi-tea

Thursday, April 6th at 8 p.m. in Gest 101

An occasion for the Oral Reading of Ancient Literature
and (also oral) consumption of dessert.

Try your hand at recitation and performance along with other students and faculty, or come along as audience for your friends.  If you’re interested in taking part, please get in touch with either Prof. Edmonds or Prof. Walker at Bryn Mawr or Prof. Mulligan or Prof. Roberts at Haverford.

Lecture: Wednesday March 29th at 4:30 p.m.

Phiroze Vasunia, Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Reading, will speak on "Alexander and the British Empire".

Gest 101 (with tea at 4:00).

Classics Tea

Tuesday, March 21st at 4:15 p.m.

4:15 p.m. in Hall 112.

Come learn about majoring and minoring in Classics, meet students and faculty, and enjoy tasty refreshements.

Lecture: Wednesday March 22nd at 4:30 p.m.

William Hansen, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Folklore, Indiana University at Bloomington, will speak on "Packaging Greek Mythology"

Gest 101 (with tea at 4:00).

Trip: Saturday, December 3 at 1 p.m.

The Classics Department is pleased to announce a trip to a performance of Sophocles’ Electra at Arcadia University.

Transportation, tickets to the play, and dinner will be provided by the generous support of the Hurford Humanities Center.

The vans will leave from behind Haverford's Stokes Hall (near the Blue Bus stop) at 1 p.m.

Introduction to Sophocles' Electra and Greek Tragedy

Lecture: Wednesday, November 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Gest 101

Joseph Farrell will give a lecture on “Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent"

Tea will begin at 4:00 p.m.

Classics Dessert

Thursday, November 10, 7:30-10 p.m.

Professor Roberts will be hosting an informal dessert for current and potentional majors and minors and students interested in participating in upcoming campus activities. Did I mention dessert? Contact Prof. Roberts for directions.