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Prescott W. Townsend

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Townsend Lectures. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Barbara Graziosi, Professor of Classics at Princeton Univeristy, will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2019 on ‘Homecoming and Homemaking in the Ancient Mediterranean.’ In this series of lectures, Prof. Barbara Graziosi asks what it means ‘to go back where you came from’ and what it takes to make a new home somewhere. She returns to the most influential ancient narratives of homecoming and founda

Fall 2019 - Barbara Graziosi - Townsend Lectures

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Townsend Lectures. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Greg Woolf, Director Institute of Classical Studies will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2018 on: Classic Roman The dates and titles of the three lectures are: Wednesday, September 12 - Oh Brave New Romes! G64 Goldwin Smith Hall Friday, September 14 - Post-Classical G64 Goldwin Smith Hall Monday, September 17 - Cultural Creativity in an Age of Empire 165 McGraw Hall All lectures will begin

Fall 2018 - Greg Woolf - Townsend Lectures

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The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Albio Cesare Cassio, Professor at University of Rome 'La Sapienza,' will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Spring of 2018 on "En Route to Athens: Cultural Contacts and Dialect Variation in the Latest Phases of the Homeric Epics." The dates and titles of the three lectures are: Friday, April 13 - Rare Pronouns & Crucial Problems: A Look at the Language of Iliad Book 8 Tuesday, April 17 - “Dorisms in Homer Fit No One’s Theories

Spring 2018 - Albio Cesare Cassio - Townsend Lectures

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The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Jennifer Trimble, Associate Professor of Classics, Stanford University, will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2016 on "The Visual Culture of Roman Slavery." The dates and titles of the three lectures are: Friday, September 9, 4:30 PM - Seeing Roman Slaves: Conditions of Visibility Monday, September 12, 5:30 PM - Slaves, Gladiators, Space and Graffiti: the House of the Gladiators at Pompeii Wednesday, September 14, 4:

Fall 2016 - Jennifer Trimble - Townsend Lectures

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The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Isabelle Bochet, CNRS, Institut des Études Augustiniennes (Paris), will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Spring of 2015 on "Fides as Assent According to Augustine: Philosophical Tradition and Scritpure." The dates and titles of the three lectures are: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - Consentire sapientiae: Going beyond Skepticism in the Contra academicos Friday, May 1, 2015 - Justifying Belief: Using Arguments of the Academics

Spring 2015 - Isabelle Bochet - Townsend Lectures

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The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics Stanford University, will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2014 on "The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece." The dates and titles of the three lectures are: Wednesday, September 17 - Greek Exceptionalism: Measuring Development Thursday, September 18 - Decentralized Cooperation & the Politics of Economic Growth Monday, September 22 - Classical Peak, Po

Fall 2014 - Josiah Ober - Townsend Lectures

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Fall 2013 - Jörg Rüpke - Townsend Lectures

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Fall 2012 - Stephen Halliwell - Townsend Lectures

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TOWNSEND LECTURES. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Raffaella Cribiore, Professor of Classics, New York University, will deliver three Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2010. The title for the series is Studies on Libanius: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion. The dates and titles of the three lectures are: Friday, October 15 - Kaufmann Auditorium - Libanius: Rhetoric and Reality Monday, October 18 - G22 Goldwin Smith Hall - A Rhetor and His Audience: The Role of Invec

Fall 2010 - Raffaella Cribiore - Townsend Lectures

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TOWNSEND LECTURES. The department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce Prof. Robert C. T. Parker MA, DPHIL, FBA, Fellow, New College, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, will deliver seven Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2008 on “Approaching Greek Religion.” The dates and titles of the seven lectures are: Wednesday, October 1 - “Why Believe Without Revelation? The Evidences of Greek Religion” Wednesday, October 8 - “What Greek Gods Are” We

Fall 2008 - Robert C. T. Parker - Townsend Lectures

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TOWNSEND LECTURES. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Professor Katherine Dunbabin, McMaster University, will deliver the Townsend Lec-tures in the Spring of 2005 on ‘Spectacular images: performance in the art of the later Roman Empire’. The dates and titles of her seven lectures are: March 29 - "Greek festivals in Roman Art," April 5 - "The traditional theatre," April 12 - "Pantomime and mythological spectacle," April 19 - "Mime and popular entertainment," April 2

Fall 2005 - Katherine Dunbabin - Townsend Lectures

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TOWNSEND LECTURES. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Natalie Boymel Kampen, Pro-fessor of Women’s Studies, Barnard College, will deliv-er three Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2002 on “The Image of Manhood: Roman Representations of Mas-culinity in the Art of the High and Late Empire.” The dates and titles of her 3 lectures are: Tuesday, October 22 - “Antinoos The Beautiful: From Queer to Kin,” Thursday, October 24 - “Death and Social Pretension: The Late Antique R

Fall 2002 - Natalie Kampen - Townsend Lectures

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TOWNSEND LECTURES. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Professor François Lissarrague, Directeur d'Études à l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, will deliver a lecture series "Image and Ritual in Athens" for the Spring 2002 Townsend Lectures. The dates and titles of his three lectures are: Friday, February 22 - "The Function Of Images," Monday, February 25 - "Visual Space And Ritual Space: Sacrifice, Wedding, Funeral," and Wednesday, February 27 - "Spe

Spring 2002 - François Lissarrague - Townsend Lectures

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TOWNSEND LECTURES. The Department of Classics at Cornell University is pleased to announce that David. N. Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, will deliver the Townsend Lectures in the Fall of 2001 on Plato's Cratylus. The dates and titles of his seven lectures are: September 25 - “Author, Cast, and Plot,” October 2 - “Plato the Etymologist,” October 16 - “Linguistic Science,” October 23 - “Cosmological Etymologies,” October 30 - “The Dominance of Flux,” Novembe

Fall 2001 - David Sedley - Townsend Lectures

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Spring 1997 - Julia Annas - Townsend Lectures

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Spring 1995 - Jerome Pollitt - Townsend Lectures

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Fall 1994 - Timothy D. Barnes - Townsend Lectures

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Spring 1993 - Nicole Loraux - Townsend Lectures

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Fall 1992 - Richard Sorabji - Townsend Lectures

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