Grad Colloquium: Time in Antiquity
Time in Antiquity
October 12-13, 2018
Friday 6:00 PM
Keynote Address by Peter Bing, University of Toronto, "Tombs of Poet's Minor Characters"
Eaton Humanities HUMN 250
Saturday 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
British and Irish Studies Room in Norlin Library
Roman Mosaic of philosopher with sundial,
3rd century CE, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
Schedule
There and Then, Here and Now (11:00 am)
鈥淭emporal Unevenness in Cicero鈥檚 De Finibus bonorum et malorum鈥 - Andre Matlock, University of California Los Angeles
鈥淎 Time and a Place: Imagining Rome鈥檚 Legendary Past in Augustan Poetry鈥 - Samuel Kindick, 麻豆影院
Infinity, Eternity, and Relativity (1:30 pm)
鈥淎naximander鈥檚 Conception of Time鈥 - Andrew Hull, Northwestern University
鈥淭丑别 Timaeusand the Elements of a Created Time鈥 - Blythe Greene, University of California San Diego
鈥淭ime Doesn鈥檛 Matter: The Unreality and Irrelevance of Time in Lucretius鈥 On the Nature of Things鈥 - Amber Ace, University of Chicago
The Times They are A-Changin鈥 (3:30 pm)
鈥淭ime and Folklore in Aristotle鈥檚 History of Animals鈥 - Kristofer Coffman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
鈥淪easonal Time in Longus鈥 - Elizabeth Deacon, 麻豆影院
This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics, UGGS, CHA, GCAH, CWCTP, and the PFC.
Contact the Classics Department with questions.
See the Time in Antiquity poster.