What: "The Jew and 'the Other' in Antiquity: Alienation or Integration?"

When: Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 7:00 PM

Who: Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley

Where: Kane Hall, Room 110, University of Washington Campus

About the lecture:
The lecture will address the standard perception of ancient Jews as anti-social and xenophobic, sticking to their own kind, keeping gentiles at arm's length, and endeavoring to maintain their own traditions unsullied by contact with others. It attempts, however, to draw out a contrasting strain in Jewish thinking and practice that places Jews in a very different light - - and one that should have some resonance for contemporary circumstances in the Middle East.

About the speaker:
Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the Berkeley faculty for thirty eight years, and received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987. He helped to found the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology and served for seventeen years as its chair. He has overseen the PhD dissertations of more than 65 students in AHMA, History, Classics, and the Graduate Theological Union. He has also been a visiting professor at Princeton, Cornell, the Hebrew University, University of Minnesota, and University of Colorado.

Gruen has twice held Guggenheim fellowships and twice been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and served as President of the American Philological Society in 1992. In 1999 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Letters. Gruen has written extensively in the areas of Roman and Greek political, diplomatic, and intellectual history. His more recent books have explored the cultural interconnections between the classical world and that of the Jews. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition was published in 1998, and Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans appeared in 2002. He is currently engaged in ongoing research on cultural appropriation and collective identity among peoples and ethnic groups in antiquity.

Sponsors:
Graduate School, Department of Classics, Department of History, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Jewish Studies Program, Northwest Chapter - American Research Center in Egypt,

For more information see: http://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/schedule.htm#Gruen

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::Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:23:07 AM::

CANE Summer Institute 2005
 GOLDEN AGES

            The Classical Association of New England Summer Institute (CSI) will hold its 23rd annual program at Dartmouth College from July 11-16, 2005. Our theme for 2005 will be Golden Ages. Lectures and courses will investigate and challenge the concept of a golden age and of antiquity as a golden age of the West.
 
The program will be of interest both to teachers in all humanities disciplines and to members of the general public who are interested in the ancient world. Faculty and participants share a dormitory and cafeteria, making informal time together as valuable as class time. Teachers will meet colleagues refreshing their skills (and their spirits) with adult-level reading and discussion of ancient texts and artifacts. In its 23rd year, CSI is known for its comfortable and collegial atmosphere, its excellent faculty, and its openness to all those with an interest in the classics.

 The lecture program includes:

 The Matthew I Wiencke Memorial Lecture (reception following)

"Ariadne, I love you": European Opera's Torch for Athenian Tragedy

Roger Travis, University of Connecticut

Past Perfect; Future Conditional. The Concept of a Golden Age
Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College

Haghia Sophia: Realizing the Perfection of Wisdom
Roger Ulrich, Dartmouth College

The Romans Invent "The Glory that was Greece"
Miranda Marvin, Wellesley College

The Midas Touch: Freedmen and the Golden Age of Augustus
Barbara Kellum, Smith College

Reading and Believing Greek Beauty in Renaissance and Early Modern Empires
Miranda Marvin, Wellesley College

What Men or Gods are These? Nineteenth Century Visions of Antiquity
Margaret Williamson, Dartmouth College

Golden Legends, Greek Revivals
Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College

The Golden Age of Psychology: Classics and Our Understanding of the Mind
Mark Adair, Clinical psychoanalyst and independent scholar

Courses offered include:

Ovid and the Augustan Golden Age
Elaine Fantham, Princeton University, Emerita                      

Starting with Ovid's description of the original Golden Age in Metamorphoses 1, the course will discuss connections with Catullus 64, Georgics 1, and Aratus. It will consider also Ovid's representation of the Augustan city and its social activities in Ars Amatoria 1 and 3, Tristia 2, and selected other exile poems.
 

The Golden Age of Augustan Rome

Barbara Kellum, Smith College

The first emperor boasted that he had found Rome ˜built of brick and left it clothed in marble.™ The ghost of Mussolini still haunts the interpretation of the Augustan golden age and the emperor™s transformation of the capital city. However, by examining the monuments of Augustan Rome in relation to their appropriations in municipalities throughout Roman Italy, especially at Pompeii, the social alchemy of the golden age comes into focus as does the nature of artfulness in the Augustan era.
 

World Enough and Time: The Biblical Apocalyptic Tradition
Peter Machinist, Harvard Divinity School      

From the book of Daniel to Waco and beyond, the theme of Apocalypse and the attractions and dangers it poses remains with us to expose the corruption and oppression of the present situation and purvey promises of a world-wide transformation that will usher in a new and better future; indeed, a new and ideal world. While apocalyptic is not exclusive to any one human group it has particularly strong ties to the scriptural traditions of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament and the contemporary and later literature associated with these texts. In the present course, we shall explore aspects of this Biblical apocalyptic universe by focusing on several of its major literary products: the book of Daniel, selections from the Qumran (Dead Sea Scroll) community, the book of Revelation, and if time permits, a piece of Biblicizing apocalyptic of recent vintage.
 

Opera and Tragedy: The Nostalgia of European Music-Drama
Roger Travis, University of Connecticut         

On the day of his mental breakdown, Friedrich Nietzsche sent Cosima Wagner a postcard that said only "Ariadne, I love you." Monteverdi, Gluck, and Wagner are only the most obvious examples of great composers of opera whose faith and interest in their operatic projects stemmed from a belief that they were bringing back to life the greatest artistic form of all, the tragedy that flourished in Athens in the 5th C. BCE. In this course, we will discuss their understandings of what tragedy was, and trace the effect in their works. At the same time, we will try to discover what elements of tragedy escaped the composers of opera, and what this can tell us about the practice of tragedy in classical Athens.
 

Hippocrates and Asklepios: Scientific Medicine and Healing Art in a Golden Age.

Arnold Katz, M.D. University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Dartmouth Medical School

This course will examine disease and treatment as described in works attributed to Hippocrates and testimonials from Temples of Asklepios and other healing Gods. Differences between medical "science" and "art" in the Golden Age of Greece will be compared briefly with differences between scientific medicine and the healing art in today's Golden Age of Medicine.
 

Restoration Greek: Review, Relearn, Rejoice in Reading Ancient Greek

Edward Bradley, Dartmouth College [Greek Reading Course]

This is a course for those who would like to polish up their "rusty" Greek. We will review the grammar of Ancient Greek through the close reading of short passages from Thucydides, Euripides, Hesiod and Plato, focusing particularly on the splendid (but trying?) intricacies of the Greek verb. Content of the passages will be relevant to the larger theme of the Institute. Anyone who has studied Ancient Greek at any level in the past and would like to get "up close and personal" with Greek again is welcome to participate.
 

The Golden Age of Athens
Blaise Nagy, Holy Cross College                       

"And we will be admired by present and future generations" (Thuc. II. 41.4)

With these words, Pericles proclaims the greatness of Athens, a city unlike any other in his estimation. Most of us today would share in this estimation and see in Periclean Athens a kind of a Golden Age. But Athens, along with its institutions, had its critics in antiquity, some harsher than others, and it is this admixture of ancient sentiments towards the Athens of the Periclean Age that we will examine in this course
 

Cosmology and Architecture
Roger Ulrich, Dartmouth College

This course will explore how scientific and philosophical ideas about the organization of the universe influenced architects and their buildings in Greece, Italy, and the world of Early Christianity.

Islam and the Western Mind: Greek to Arabic to Latin

Frank Peters, New York University

Between 750 and 1000 AD, Muslim intellectuals engineered one of the most spectacular technology transfers in human history. Under caliphal patronage the greater part of Greek scientific and philosophical learning was translated from Greek into Arabic. Two centuries later this broad stream of Arab-Islamic learning returned to the West. Europe rediscovered its own Greek past in Arab garb and began re-translating texts into their own scientific vernacular, Latin. They discovered Islam as well. The course will look at these two moments and will inspect what was (and was not) translated, how and why.
 

Revisioning Cassandra and Medea
Phyllis Katz, Dartmouth College

German novelist Christa Wolf takes the myths of two women and rewrites them in the context of the modern world. This course looks at the ancient tellings of the stories of Cassandra and Medea and at Christa Wolf™s retellings. Wolf transforms and vindicates her heroines: Cassandra™s prophecies are not madness, but the truth that no one wants to hear; Medea has murdered neither her brother or her children. Wolf™s Cassandra sees the futility of external war, Wolf™s Medea the corrosive and destructive nature of internal political power. The novelist™s re-visioning of these myths suggests that women can save mankind; as such Wolf™s myths are utopian, imagining a Golden Age without external war or internal struggles for political power.
 

Aristophanes & Michael Moore: The "Golden" Boys of Art & Social Criticism

Lon Winston and Valerie Haugen, Thunder River Theatre Company

Aristophanes and Michael Moore share the comedian's courage to risk an impudent attack on the popular opinion. Aristophanes' Knights was the Fahrenheit 9/11 of ancient Greece. This course will compare Knights and Lysistrata with Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. We will consider whether these golden boys achieved the results they wanted. Through theatrical ritual and mask, the students will create their own "Fahrenheit.�

Those Whom We Love to Hate: Literary Portraits of The Enemy in Roman Literature [Latin Reading Course]
J. Douglas Marshall, St. Paul's School, Emeritus

Enemies of Rome - Jugurtha, Catiline, Vercingetorix, Cleopatra, and Calgacus -- are described Sallust, Cicero, Caesar, Horace, and Tacitus. We will analyze the language used to describe these hostes. We will also consider the degree to which these literary inventions are intended to furnish a commentary on Rome. Are Rome's hostes barbarians who lack the civilizing graces that furnish greatness or are they noble savages devoid of the corrupting vices that haunted their conquerors?

Additional Events Include:

Optional Greek and Latin reading groups. The Latin group will be led by Elaine Fantham and be based on readings from her course on Ovid. The Greek group will be led by Blaise Nagy and based on his forthcoming Thucydides reader.

Special exhibit and discussion group at Dartmouth™s Hood Museum. Ellen Perry of the College of the Holy Cross will lead three lunch hour sessions at the Museum, discussing several objects from the Museum™s collections related to our theme, which will be gathered in a special study space for our use. Please note: due to space limitations and the Museum™s rules for the protection of the objects, only the first 45 registrants will be able to participate.

Banquet and opera presentation. The closing banquet will be followed by a presentation by Ann Suter, University of Rhode Island, and Geoffrey Gibbs, the librettist and composer respectively of Potnia, a new opera based on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Professional singers will perform arias from the work.
 
All lectures are open to the public. Courses and other CSI events are open only to registered participants. Registered participants attend all lectures and two courses of their choice from the list of twelve given above. Course assignments are made on a first-come, first-served basis. Except for the two designated Greek and Latin reading courses and the optional reading groups, all readings are in English. The registration fee for the six-day Institute is $410 for CANE members and $450 for non-members. The fee includes all events, room (double), lunches, and dinners, including banquet. The fee for attendees who choose not to stay at the college during the Institute is $260 (member commuters) or $310 (non-member commuters.) The commuter fee includes all events, lunches, and banquet.

For a registration form and further information on courses and faculty, go to www.wellesley.edu/ClassicalStudies/cane or contact:

 Erin Perkins Bennett
Erin.P.Bennett@Dartmouth.edu
Classics Department
Reed Hall 6086
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755

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::Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:20:40 AM::

The Department of Classics at the Florida State University announces the 2005 Langford Symposium:

Greek Religion and the Orient: From Ishtar to Aphrodite
Friday and Saturday February 25-26, 2005

Broad Auditorium, Pepper Center,  Florida State University

* Introduction:   Ian Rutherford , FSU
* Prof. Sandra Blakely, Emory  "Black Hephaistos?  Gender, magic and metallurgy between Greece and Africa"
* Prof. Ian Moyer, Pomona College "Craftsmen of the Sacred and their Golden Fetters: Models of Mobility in the Graeco-Egyptian Evidence"
* Prof. Billie-Jean Collins, Emory      "Pigs for the Gods. Sacrifice East and West"
* Prof. Fred Naiden, Tulane     "Greek and Hebrew Examples of Rejected Sacrifices"
* Prof. Jan Bremmer, Groningen    "Jason, Medea and the Ancient Mediterranean/Anatolia Cultural Koine"
* Carolina-Lopez Ruiz, Chicago  "Old gods for new spirits. The function of some oriental elements in the  Orphic cosmogonies"
* Prof. Jane Carter, Tulane   "Dining with the Dead in Greece and the Near East"
* Dr. John Franklin      "Lyre Gods East and West" 
* Prof. Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv      "Ino-Leukothea between East and West"
* Prof. Mary Bachvarova, Willamette      "Divine Justice Across the Mediterranean: The Context of Orestes' Trial in Aeschylus"

The Symposium schedule is to be found at: http://www.fsu.edu/~classics/langford/LangfordProgramFeb2005.htm
for more information, please contact Ian Rutherford  (irutherf@mailer.fsu.edu)

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::Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:15:46 AM::