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Past Calendar of Events

Year 2009-2010


November 19, 2009, 1:00 pm - November 20, 2009 7:30 pm
Tragedy, Translation, Ethnicity, and Imperialism
The Blackwell Inn
Sponsored by the Department of Theatre .
More information: See the program

November 18, 2009, 4:30 pm
Demeter, Myth and the Polyvalence of Ritual.
University Hall 448
Who: Sarah Iles Johnston (OSU Dept. of Greek & Latin)

November 13, 2009, 3:30 pm
Colloquium in World History : Post-Roman, Postcolonial: Postcolonial and Diaspora Theory in Late Roman and Early Medieval History
University Hall 014
Who: Michael Kulikowski (University of Tennessee)
Sponsored by the Department of History .

November 8, 2009, 6:00 pm - November 20, 2009
Persians : by Aeschylus, Translated by Stratos Constantinidis
For specific times and locations, please visit link.
Performances from November 8 to 20.

The Persians are coming to Ohio State this November. This award winning classical Greek tragedy is the first play in the world to survive intact from antiquity. It was written by Aeschylus, a veteran of the Greek-Persian Wars, and was produced by Pericles of Athens in 472 B.C.E. The play reports on the naval battle at Salamis that caused the single greatest loss of human life in recorded history up to that time. Or, as Aeschylus put it in Ancient Greek, "Remember this well, never in one day has such a great number of human beings died." This play, translated into English by Stratos E. Constantinidis, shows how the Homeland Security Council of the Persian Empire accepted the news of the defeat that stopped its colonial expansion.
Sponsored by the Department of Theatre .
More information: Persians


November 6, 2009, 9:00 am - November 7, 2009 5:30 pm
Texts and Contexts Conference : A manuscript conference at The Ohio State University, sponsored by The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies
90 Science and Engineering Library, 175 W. 18th Avenue
Sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies .
More information: Texts and Contexts

October 19, 2009, 4:30 pm
Pompa Verborum : Style and Ceremony in Late Latin Poetry
Thompson Library 165
Who: Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University)
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion .
More information: Ancient Ornamentalism: Sacred Poetry and the Aesthetics of Late Antiquity

October 12, 2009, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The Sixteenth Annual Carl Schlam Memorial Lecture : Poetic Careers, Ovid to Boccaccio
The Faculty Club
Who: Alessandro Barchiesi (Università degli Studi di Siena/Arezzo and Stanford University)
More information: Read More

October 9, 2009, 3:30 pm
OSU History Dept., Colloquium in World History : The Diaspora and the 'Assimilated' Jew
University Hall, room 014
Who: Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)
Sponsored by the Department of History .

October 7, 2009, 8:00 pm
AIA Lecture: Pyramids, Mummies, and Magic: An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Funerary Beliefs and Practices
University Hall, room 014
Who: Lanny Bell (Brown University)