Ancient Greek Lists

Ancient Greek Lists: Catalogue and Inventory Across Genres

Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite.

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Jill Frank

President White Professor of History and Political Science and the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government

Classics, Government, Society for the Humanities

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The War That Made the Roman Empire

Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome—Antony and Caesar’s chosen heir, young Octavian, the future Augustus. When Antony fell in love with the most powerful woman in the world, Egypt’s ruler Cleopatra, and thwarted Octavian’s ambition to rule the empire, another civil war broke out. In 31 BC one of the largest naval battles in the ancient world took place—more than 600 ships, almost 200,000 men, and one woman—the Battle of Actium.

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Charles Brittain

Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters

Classics, Medieval Studies Program, Philosophy, Religious Studies Program

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Cornell University

Poster for Adelphoe

The Department of Classics together with the Classics Society and Quodlibet present ADELPHOE "The Brothers" by Terence in the original Latin (supertitles in English) on Friday, April 22 at 7:00 PM in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.

Sponsored by the SAFC.

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Cornell University

Ancient torso/image courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

Film screening and discussion: Fall into Ruin

Friday, May 13, 2022 at 5:00pm

Klarman Hall, Atrium
232 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853

Fall into Ruin tells the story of artist William E. Jones’s relationship with Alexander Iolas (1907-1987), a Greek art dealer from Alexandria active in New York and European cities from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Iolas had close connections to the Surrealists, to artists associated with Nouveau Réalisme, and to American artists such as Ed Ruscha, Harold Stevenson, and Paul Thek. At the height of his career, he maintained galleries in New York, Paris, Madrid, Geneva, Milan, and Athens.

After Iolas’s death from AIDS in 1987, the art collection in his house disappeared; this collection included Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, as well as works by artists Iolas represented, including Max Ernst, René Magritte, Man Ray, Victor Brauner, Matta, Yves Klein, Takis, and Niki de Saint Phalle. The empty house was later vandalized extensively. For Fall into Ruin, Jones returned to a place he first visited when he was 19 years old. The film includes not only contemporary images of the site in its ruined state, but also photographs Jones took in 1982 of Iolas’s house in its glory.

The screening is part of a series events related to the exhibition The Sculpture Shoppe at Ithaca Mall (open May 5-30). It will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the exhibition’s curators (Annetta Alexandridis, David Nasca, and Verity Platt), after which attendees are invited to a reception in the History of Art gallery.

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Caitie Barrett

Professor

Anthropology, Archaeology Program, Classics, Jewish Studies Program, Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies Program

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Cornell University

Poster for the Sculpture Shope at Ithaca Mall

Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 5:00pm

Ithaca Mall 40 Catherwood Road Ithaca, NY 14850

Opening times are Wednesdays and Thursdays 4:00-8:00 PM and Saturday and Sunday 12:00-5:00 PM, starting May 5 until the end of the month.

The Sculpture Shoppe at Ithaca Mall is an exhibition of plaster reproductions of classical Greco-Roman art from the Cornell Cast Collection and responses to cast culture and classical art by contemporary artists and thinkers. The exhibition will take place from May 5-31, 2022, in a former retail space at the Ithaca Mall (next to the Food Court). By bringing classical art and contemporary responses into an unexpected context through the venue of the near-abandoned shopping mall, we hope to draw the public into conversations about the history, problematics, and mutability of the “western canon”.

The exhibition opening will feature a live performance at 6:00 PM:

MUSE–AK: a Mall Performance of Ancient Greek Song
 
Like statues from antiquity, ancient Greek song comes mediated: in fragments, etched in stone, recast in modern “Classical” molds, or revived in attempts to recover an “original.” MUSE–AK: a Mall Performance of Ancient Greek Song reinterprets three such songs as muzak in the style of so many mass-produced soundtracks to retail spaces such as the Ithaca Mall. The concert features human musicians and an animatronic statue named Muse 3000.

Artists featured:

Katherine Akey, Daniel G. Andújar and Richard Fletcher (Minus Plato), Sherwin Banfield, Laurie Berenhaus, WonJung Choi, Jeanne Ciravolo, Dan Daly, Benjamin Entner, Pablo Garcia-Lopez, Gemelxs VS, William E. Jones, Athena Kirk, Angaelica LaPasta, Gracelee Lawrence, Rebecca Levitan and Danny Smith, Virginia Maksymowicz, Leeza Meksin, Muse AK (Rusty Keeler, Stephen Sansom, Norm Scott, and David Fifield), Sofia Moreno and David Nasca, Joshua Reiman, Marina Resende Santos, Kaitlin Santoro, Ciaran Short, Jeffrey Slomba, Kyle Staver, Rhonda Weppler, and Christina West.

 

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Mensch und Tier in der Antike

Mensch und Tier in der Antike. Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung.

Humans and Animals in Antiquity. Boundaries and Transgressions.

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