Events

The Classical Studies Department's Annual Wine and Cheese Gathering will be held on Friday, October 10 at the University Club. It will take place at 5:30pm, following a lecture from Dr. Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto) from 4:00-5:30.

Please RSVP to bschneeb@uwaterloo.ca by September 30.

Few individuals from history have captured the imagination quite like Alexander the Great (336-323 B.C.). He is most famous for his vast military success. He is so monumental a figure, however, that he also had a large impact on the development of every aspect of Ancient Greek Culture. Dr. Waldemar Heckel from the University of Calgary will be delivering a lecture titled The Alexander Sarcophagus from Sidon: no open-and-shut case​.

The Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies is pleased to present a research workshop on the subject of “Hellenistic Queens”. This workshop is intended to allow participants to present and discuss work in progress on a variety of topics relating to female royalty in the Hellenistic period: their titles, their public image, and the question of queenly political power.  The workshop is held in STC (Science and Technology Complex) 2002 from 9:15-4:30. 

The Department of Classical Studies and the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies present a lecture by Professor Phil Harland (York Univeristy), "Climbing the Ethnic Ladder: Ethnic Hierarches in Philo, Paul and Josephus" on Monday February 6th from 4-5:30 in HH 139.  Please see poster for more information.

The Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies and the Parochial Polis Research Network at McGill University will jointly host a conference on “Localism in the Hellenistic World” in April 2018. The Hellenistic period is generally seen as a time of expanded horizons and shifting frontiers, with a diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean and the Near East unprecedented in any previous era.

Hellenism, defined as the "adoption or limitation of (elements of) the ancient Greek language, culture, philosophy, etc." (OED) is central to Roman civilization throughout long periods of its history.  Yet the matter of what scholars do when they compare different types of Roman Hellenism, and the practical and conceptual issues that such acts of comparison presuppose and raise, have never received a focused study of their own.  These pertain to processes of acculturation at Rome, how the Romans' created meaning and identity, the ways in which various art forms expressed cultural values, an

The Peripatetic Critolaus of Phaselis (c. 200-c. 118 BCE) travelled from Athens to Rome in 155 BCE with the Academic Skeptic Carneades and the Stoic Diogenes of Babylon.

Join senior Greek scholar Professor Kostas Buraselis as he explores the ancient and modern relevance of the Battle of Marathon. Through new analyses of archaeological and historical evidence, Professor Buraselis will discuss the global importance of this moment in Greek history.

"Arts of Allusion: Greek Intertextuality over Time", a conference organized by Regina Höschele, Peter Bing, and Andrew Faulkner, will take place on September 16-17, 2022 in Room 220 of the Lillian Massey Building.