Join us to hear the intrepid Roberta Mazza discuss the darker sides of ancient studies: The Corrupting Text: Papyri, Academia and the Antiquities Market
"Love in the Age of War: Soldiers in Menander" with Professor Wilfred Major, (LSU/STANFORD) - In fourth-century BCE Greece, a revolution in stage comedy gave birth to situation comedies, but it is the soldier characters of the revolution's leading playwright that may have the most important lesso
Before the introduction of Greek alphabetic writing in the 8thcentury, incised and painted ceramic objects had long served the social needs of drinking and dining, and religious and funerary ritual.
In the De rerum natura, at 2.7-8, Lucretius references ‘holding serene temples’ (tenere..templa serena). Scholars have previously suggested that this refers to holding onto symbolic temples of philosophy.
The Golden Age is counted among a handful of “slaveless societies” envisioned by Greek and Roman thinkers, typically on the grounds that the earth’s spontaneous abundance in this era precluded the need for slave labor.
Languages and Literatures is pleased to invite UC Davis students, faculty, and lecturers to its annual fall welcome. Meet your instructors, peers, staff, and administrators and chow down on some delicious food!
