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Congratulations to Anna Conser who gave a very well-attended talk (A Deadly Marriage Hymn: The Musical Design of Medea Stasimon) at the seminar Approaches to Ancient Music organized by the University of Oxford on Tuesday January 28th!
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen gives an ATLAS seminar entitled:“Sacred landscape archaeology: micro-mapping a votive deposit at Anavlochos, Crete”, with Sabine Sorin, Séverine Sanz-Laliberté (CNRS - UMR 5133 Archéorient) & Brieuc Guillaume (École Française d'Athènes).
The Atlas Seminar is organized in Athens by the Netherlands Institute at Athens, the Dipylon Society, and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο.
Many congratulations to Dr. Alessandro Battaglia, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Inventing the Roman State: Capacity and Consequences of the Late Imperial Bureaucracy"!
PhD Chair: Marion Kruse
PhD Committee: Peter Van Minnen, Daniel Markovich, Matthijs Wibier
PhD External Committee Member: Shane Bjornlie (Claremont-McKenna College)
Blegen Bulletin 2024, the newsletter of UC Classics, is available as a pdf here!
In this issue:
- Daniel Markovich’s vision as head of UC Classics for the department and the discipline
- The research interests of new faculty members Dylan Kenny and Mathijs Wibier, and the current research projects of Steven Ellis and Marion Kruse
- Events sponsored by UC Classics including brown bag faculty talks, the Semple Symposium on Stobaeus, a celebration of Peter van Minnen’s career, and much more
- The move of two more research resources in Aegean prehistory to UC Classics: the Aegean conferences and Aegaeum publications, and the PASP archives, joining Nestor
- The Rawson Fellowship program and the three Fellows currently resident in Cincinnati: Tom Carpenter, Jan Driessen, and Lynne Lancaster
- An engaging year of student activities, including an original production of Plautus’ Amphitruo, and the study abroad of Semple Scholars
- Books, books, and more books, including four Festschriften honoring members of the UC Classics community
- Brief news and updates about members of the faculty, current students, and alumni—including a profile of Dan Levine (PhD 1980), who was the recipient of the Aristeia Award from the ASCSA.
Enjoy — and send your own news and updates to Carol Hershenson!
The University of Cincinnati Classics Club is presenting a lively, script-in-hand performance of Aristophanes' Frogs with roles performed by graduate and undergraduates students, and faculty !
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