UPCOMING SPEAKERS at W&L

Third Annual Hoyt Lecture on the Classics," Classical Archaeology in the Caucasus," Tuesday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m. in Northen Auditorium (Leyburn Library), Susan E. Alcock, Professor of Classics and Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

Thursday, October 4 at 4:30 in Robinson 7, Kenneth Reckford, Emeritus Professor of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill, will speak on the Roman Satirist, Persius. His talk is entitled, "Performing Privately: An Introduction to Persius." All are Welcome.

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Classical Talks at the University of Virginia this academic year

Oct. 11, Vivienne Gray, University of Auckland, 'Formulaic Scenes in Xenophon,' 5 pm. Cocke Hall 115.

 Oct. 20, fall meeting of the Classical Association of Virginia, Newcomb Hall. Details at www.cavclassics.org/nextmeeting.htm

 Oct. 25, Steve Tuck, University of Miami, 'De Arte Gladiatoria: Recovering Gladiatorial Tactics from Artistic Sources,' 5:30 pm, 160

Campbell Hall. (AIA)

 Nov. 1, Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania, 'Confessions of a Troglodyte: Cappadocia Demythologized.' Campbell Hall 158.

Time TBA. (Medieval Studies and Art)

 Nov. 5, Alexander Sens, Georgetown University, '"Some very charming poetry?" Lycophron's *Alexandra* and the Homeric Epics.' Annual

James Constantine Lecture. 5 pm. Gibson Room in Cocke Hall.

Jan. 31 & Feb. 1, Hannah Cotton, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 'The Contribution of the Documents from the Judaean Desert to the Study of

Jewish History under Roman Rule,' 5 pm, Gibson Room in Cocke Hall; seminar Friday on 'The Conception of Jesus and the Documents,' 2 pm. Place TBA. (History, Classics, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Brown College)

 Feb. 16, Annual Classics Graduate Student Conference, keynote speaker David Konstan, Brown University

 March 24, Gareth Williams, Columbia University, annual Arthur F. Stocker Lecture (speaking on Seneca), 5pm, Gibson Room in Cocke Hall.

(Classics)

 Apr. 11-12, international conference 'Proxima Poetis: Ancient Historiography and the Imperial Latin Poets.' Keynote speakers: Shadi

Bartsch (Chicago), Cynthia Damon (Penn), Denis Feeney (Princeton), Philip Hardie (Cambridge). Conference Speakers: Rhiannon Ash

(Oxford), Martin Dinter (London), Bruce Gibson (Liverpool), Jean-Michel Hulls (Oxford), John Jacobs (Yale), Tim Joseph (Holy

Cross), Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Ilaria Marchesi (Hofstra), Christopher Nappa (Minnesota), Damien Nelis (Geneva), Carole Newlands

(Wisconsin), Matthew Taylor (USC), Kathryn Williams (Canisius).