On Saturday, September 29 at 11:00 am, Allison Glazebrook will deliver a lecture titled, “The Erotics of Characterization: Problematizing Desire in Lysias 3 and 4.” She is speaking at the Midwestern Ancient Greek History and Theory Colloquium at the University of Toronto. The colloquium will take place 29-30 September in Room 205, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park.
Congratulations to Angus Smith for receiving the 2018 Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity! Smith’s research in mortuary archaeology and Aegean Bronze Age ceramics, as well as his fieldwork in Mochlos, Ayia Sotira, and Gournia, have resulted in important scholarly contributions and myriad opportunities for student learning in the field and in the classroom.
This month’s Archaeology Magazine features an article about the Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project. Led by Dr. Elizabeth Greene, Brock students participated in the underwater excavation of this late antique shipwreck as part of the Archaeological Practicum in Mediterranean Lands.
“Nearly 1,500 years ago, a Byzantine merchant ship swung perilously close to the Sicilian coastline, its heavy stone cargo doing little to help keep it on course. The ship’s crewmen were probably still clinging to the hope that they could reach a safe harbor such as Syracuse, 25 miles to the north, when a wave lifted the vessel’s 100-foot hull and dashed it on a reef, sending as much as 150 tons of stone to the seafloor. The doomed ship was carrying a large assemblage of prefabricated church decorations—columns, capitals, bases, and even an ornate ambo, or pulpit. These stone pieces lay on the seafloor for 14 centuries until a fisherman spotted some in 1959 while hunting for cuttlefish.”
Read more here: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/309-1809/features/6856-sicily-byzantine-shipwreck.
MA student Esther Knegt sketches two columns beneath a large boulder. In the background, Classics graduate Alex Moore ’18 excavates around another column.
Congratulations to Professor Allison Glazebrook, recipient of this year’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Humanities, awarded by Carol Merriam, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, at the Spring Convocation ceremony on June 8th!
“As a professor of Humanities,” she says, “my goal is for students to come out of my classes with greater confidence in their abilities as thinkers, public speakers and writers, as well as enthusiasm for learning in general.”
“She has a reputation for excellent mentorship both in and outside of the classroom,” says Department Chair and Associate Professor Angus Smith. “Her teaching brings her influential research into the classroom.”
Read the full story in the Brock News.
Congratulations to Dr. Allison Glazebrook, who has just begun her three-year term as President of the Classical Association of Canada (CAC).
The CAC was founded in 1947 as a national non-profit organization. Its official languages are English and French. It aims to advance the study of the civilizations of the Greek and Roman world, their later influence, and their creative presence in modern culture. The Association works to promote the teaching of classical languages and civilizations in Canadian schools, colleges and universities, the publication of research in classical studies, and public awareness of the contribution and importance of classical studies, and liberal studies in general, in Canadian education and life.
The CAC is in good hands!
Faculty, students, and graduates from the Department will present an exciting array of papers at the upcoming annual meeting of the Classical Association of Canada in Calgary, AB from May 8 – 10, 2018.
Alison Innes (Brock Classics M.A. and Social Media Coordinator, Faculty of Humanities, Brock University), “Using Social Media for Public Engagement” on Tuesday, May 8th at 8:30 am.
David W. Rupp (Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics and Canadian Institute in Greece), “The Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2017” on Tuesday May 8th at 8:30 am.
Christopher Dawson (Brock Classics M.A. and Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient Studies, Thorneloe University at Laurentian), “honore contentus pecuniam remisit: Public Honours as Performance in Africa Proconsularis” on Tuesday May 8th, at 4:15 pm.
Francesca Patten (M.A. Student, Department of Classics), “Role-Playing a Murderer: Using Creative Pedagogies to Teach About Women’s Lives in Antiquity” on Wednesday, May 9th at 11:00 am.
Allison Glazebrook (Professor, Department of Classics), “Out of Place: Timarchos in Aeschines 1” on Thursday, May 10th at 8:30 am.
For further information on the conference see https://cacscec2018.wordpress.com/
Join the students from Greek Lyric and the Roman Villa for presentations of their research projects. Talks begin at 10 AM and continue until 5 PM according to the program below:
10.00-10.30 Vanessa Cimino, A Place for the Invisible: The Allocation of Slave Space in Roman Villas
10.30-11.00 Taylor Johnston, Villas à la Martial: A Study of Villas in Book 10
11.00-11.30 Francesca Patten, Mental and Emotional Wellness in Greek Lyric
11.30-12.00 Jeff Masse, In Search of the Better: Naturalizing the Epistemology of Xenophanes
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-1.30 Nicole Gavin, Recreating an Imperial Roman Garden: The Reflection of the Villa of Livia’s Garden Room
1.30-2.00 Natalie Armistead, Blurred Lines: Landscape Paintings in the House of Menander in Pompeii
2.00-2.30 Heather Roy, These Floors were Made for Walking: Socio-Political Pathways at Piazza Armerina
2.30-3.00 Rick Castle, The Nature of Memory (or Memory of Nature) in Sappho’s Poetics
3.00-3.30 Tea/Coffee
3.30-4.00 Esther Knegt, The Network of Lesbian Trade in the Archaic Period
4.00-4.30 Brian Abfal, The Cotswolds Estates: Assessing Roman Villa Culture in Southwest Britain
4.30-5.00 Marina Ekkel, The Homeric ideal of Κλέος in the poetry of Callinus and Tyrtaeus
Join us for the 29th annual Brock University Archaeological Society (BUAS) scholarly symposium. Please support our students for what should be a fantastic event featuring speakers from McGill, York, and Brock who explore the borders of the ancient world!
Here are the talk titles:
The event will take place in Academic South 217 from noon to 5 PM on Saturday March 10th. Contact society officers:buarchaeologicalsociety@gmail.com to reserve tickets for the symposium or banquet.
On Wednesday, February 28th, Carrie Murray will deliver a lecture as part of the Brock Talks series. Dr. Murray’s talk is titled, “Female Votive Figures: Religious Worship in the Ancient Mediterranean.” The lecture will take place at 7 PM in the Mills Room at the Central Library. Find more information plus directions and parking here: http://www.stcatharines.library.on.ca or contact 905-688-6103 ext 211.
An abstract of the talk follows:
The Lago di Venere (Lake of Venus) on the Italian island of Pantelleria is a volcanic crater lake that attracted people to its shores for millennia. At the end of the 1800s, the discovery of a small cache of votive figurines near the lake suggested that the area might have been the focus of ancient religious activity. The Brock University Archaeological Project at Pantelleria (BUAPP) has been investigating the lake site for four years. The figurines bring about important questions concerning religious worship in the Mediterranean. Complicated issues of where the votives were produced and who brought them to the island are still being investigated.
Just out from Bloomsbury, a new sourcebook on ancient Rome by Fanny Dolansky and Stacie Raucci (Union College).
According to the publisher’s website: The ancient city of Rome was the site of daily activities as well as famous historical events. It was not merely a backdrop, but rather an active part of the experiences of its inhabitants, shaping their actions and infusing them with meaning. During each period in Rome’s imperial history, her emperors also used the city as a canvas to be painted on, transforming it according to their own ideals or ambitions.
Rather than being organized by sites or monuments, Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City is divided into thematic chapters. At the intersection of topography and socio-cultural history, this volume examines the cultural and social significance of the sites of ancient Rome from the end of the Republic in the age of Cicero and Julius Caesar, to the end of the fourth century. Drawing on literary and historical sources, this is not simply a tour of the baths and taverns, the amphitheatres and temples of ancient Rome, but rather a journey through the city that is fully integrated with Roman society.
