NYU | Ancient Studies

(Fall 2001) Revival of Ideas and Revival of Persons
(Fall 2002) Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology
(Spring 2003) Performing the Classics: Olympia Dukakis with comments by Daniel Mendelsohn
(Spring 2004) From Athens to New York: Athletic Games/Civic Identity
(Fall 2005) Conditions of Democracy: From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq
(Spring 2007) Herodotus Now: The Personal and the Political
(Spring 2008) The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni
(Spring 2009) Writing Science: Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece
(Fall 2009) Legitimating Violence: Execution, Human Sacrifice, Assassination

Rose-Marie Lewent Conferences in Ancient Studies

Each year the Center organizes a Rose-Marie Lewent Conference in Ancient Studies which addresses a topic within the general field. The Conference is free and open to the public.

Previous Lewent Conferences were:

(Fall 1997) Last Things: Death and Immortality in the Ancient World
(Fall 1998) A Future for the Past: Ancient Studies in the Modern University
(Fall 1999) On Moderns on Ancients: Historicism and Philosophy in the Construction of Antiquity
(Spring 2000) Postwar French Thought on Antiquity
(Fall 2000) The Self: Ancient and Modern
(Spring 2002) "Saving the City": War, Disaster, and Recovery in the Ancient World
(Fall 2003) Just War, from Antiquity to Grotius
(Spring 2004) Performing Justice
(Spring 2005) Democracy, Education, and the Classics
(Spring 2006) Enacting Medea: Theater, Opera, and Film
(Spring 2007) "Finding a Place in an International World: How Ancient Peoples Viewed Themselves and Their Neighbors"
(Fall 2008) Discourses of Republicanism
(Fall 2009) Xenophon in a New Voice

Additional Events

(Fall 2008) Clytemnestra: Women and Power from Aeschylus to Martha Graham
(Fall 2008) From Slavery to Freedom: Messene and the Cities of Messenia
(Spring 2009) Democrats vs Republicans-- Ancient Greek and Roman Style