Classics@Cambridge: Recent Episodes
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The Corbett Lecture is an annual lecture by a distinguished scholar on a theme connected with ancient Greece. 2018's lecture was given by Dr Hans Van Wees on 'Homer and Miletus: The early history of the Iliad'.
Security: a Roman metaphor Lectures on the idea of security in Roman thought and literature Professor Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago Securitas: emperor and citizen
Security: a Roman metaphor Lectures on the idea of security in Roman thought and literature Professor Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago Cura: anxiety and tending in Vergil and Horace
Security: a Roman metaphor Lectures on the idea of security in Roman thought and literature Professor Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago Salus: hierarchy, reciprocity, and embodied safety
The Corbett Lecture is an annual lecture by a distinguished scholar on a theme connected with ancient Greece.
This lecture 'How to Know Everything: Protagoras and the Birth of Philosophical Argument', was given by Rachel Barney (Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto & Princeton University), on Tuesday 7 November 2017 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.
The inaugural lecture by Professor James Clackson, Professor of Comparative Philology, at Little Hall, Sidgwick Site on May 19, 2017.
A lecture by Professor John R. Clarke, Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor in Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. More information about The Oplontis Project is available:
A lecture by Professor John R. Clarke, Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor in Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. More information about The Oplontis Project is available:
The Corbett Lecture 2016 is given by Andreas Willi, Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology, University of Oxford. The title is 'Of prickly heroes, powerful gods, and puzzled sailors - or how much Indo-European did Homer know?'
The Seminar from the Gray Lecture Series 2015. Malcolm Schofield discusses "Plato's Puppet
The second of the 2015 Gray Lectures, given by Professor Malcolm Schofield on Thursday 21 May 2015. Introduction and concluding remarks by James Clackson.
The first of the 2015 Gray Lectures, given by Professor Malcolm Schofield on Tuesday 19 May 2015. Introduction by James Clackson; concluding remarks by David Sedley.
An interview about the study of Classics today from a perspective of two lifetimes in Classical studies. A shortened version is printed in the 2015 Faculty Newsletter.
Godlikeness - a Valedictory Lecture by David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy.
J H Gray Lecture 2014
"Rethinking Greek Historical Linguistics"
Donald Ringe Khan Term Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
‘FORWARD TO THE PAST! HELLO TO DEMOCRACY, SPARTA, AND ALL THAT’ A VALEDICTORY Lecture by THE AG LEVENTIS PROFESSOR OF GREEK CULTURE Professor Paul Cartledge On THURSDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2014 at 5pm Venue: Mill Lane Lecture Theatre 3, Mill Lane, Cambridge
'Forever Young: why Cambridge has a Professorship of Greek Culture' An inaugural lecture by Professor Paul Cartledge to mark the establishment of the A G Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture Recorded Monday 16th February 2009 at Mill Lane Lecture Theatre
The delivery of a cast of the Samos kouros sculpture to the Faculty of Classics, February 16 2007