Grad Colloquium: Time in Antiquity
Time in Antiquity
October 12-13, 2018
Friday 6:00 PM
Keynote Address by Peter Bing, Թ 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)
“Temporal Unevenness in Cicero’s De Finibus bonorum et malorum” -Andre Matlock, Թ of California Los Angeles
“A Time and a Place: Imagining Rome’s Legendary Past in AugustanPoetry” -Samuel Kindick, Թ of Colorado Boulder
Infinity, Eternity, and Relativity (1:30 pm)
“Anaximander’s Conception of Time” -Andrew Hull, Northwestern Թ
“T Timaeusand the Elements of a Created Time” -Blythe Greene, Թ of California San Diego
“Time Doesn’t Matter: The Unreality and Irrelevance of Time in Lucretius’On the Nature of Things” -Amber Ace, Թ of Chicago
The Times They are A-Changin’ (3:30 pm)
“Time and Folklore in Aristotle’s History of Animals” -Kristofer Coffman, Թ of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Seasonal Time in Longus” -Elizabeth Deacon, Թ of Colorado Boulder
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.