Alex-Jaden Peart gave a talk at the Classical Association of Atlantic States in Philadelphia on 7 October 2023:
"Perikardion: Theorizing Embodied Cognition in Homer's Iliad and Empedocles D237, 239–40"
Lisa Haney and Joshua Cannon, both affiliated with the Department of Classics, are doing cutting-edge work musem archeology, guiding Honors College and Classics students to digitize collections at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Read about their recent work on an Etruscan mortuary statue here.
Christian Wildberg gives a talk at the 4th Annual Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
organized by the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, on 14 May 2023. The title:
"On Platonisms & Hermetisms: New Adventures in Ancient Philosophy."
John Newell has published a new article:
"Finding Ithaca, and Sense in Parmenides B1.3: the Homeric Meaning of ΕΙΔΩΣ" Classical Quarterly 72 (2022) 53-68.
Christian Wildberg has published "And Plato imitates Moses also in this regard: Philoponus on Genesis and the Timaeus"
in Angela Longo, Tiziano Ottobrini (eds.), L'esegesi aristotelica alla prova dell'esegesi biblica. De opifico mundi di Giovanni Filopono,
Rome 2023: 95–111.
Andrew Korzeniewski was invited to give a lecture at the Carnegie Science Center on Mars, the god, not the planet.
This is in connection with their latest exhibit “Mars: The Next Giant Leap.”
The Zoom talk took place on Thursday, 20 April, 6:00PM-7:00PM.