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SUMMARY:PAW Lunch Talk: The Economy of Madness in the Greek and Roman World: Coining the Irrational
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the intersections between madness and economy in Greek and Roman antiquity\, arguing that mental illness was conceptualized not only as a medical or moral condition but also as a financial and social phenomenon. Drawing on literary\, legal\, medical\, and philosophical sources\, the paper investigates how metaphors of currency and ownership shaped ancient understandings of mental disorder. Terms such as parakopê (“cutting a false coin”) and alienatio (“transfer of property”) reveal how financial language was used to describe the loss of rational control and personal coherence. The paper further examines legal procedures\, including the graphê paranoias and the Roman cura furiosi et prodigi\, alongside discussions in Plato’s Laws and in Roman jurisprudence on the sale of slaves with mental defects. By integrating insights from disability studies and ancient economic history\, the paper demonstrates how madness was regulated\, commodified\, and moralized through economic logic. In doing so\, it reframes ancient narratives of unreason within the dynamics of property\, debt\, and social order\, revealing money as a structuring principle even in the realm of irrationality. \nGeorge Kazantzidis (BA\, Thessaloniki; DPhil\, Oxford) is Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Patras and a 2025–2026 Member at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton. He has also held appointments as Visiting Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University\, Visiting Research Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University\, Research Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies\, Harvard University\, Nafplion\, and Onassis Visiting Professor at Boğaziçi University. His research explores intersections between literature\, medicine\, and emotion in classical antiquity\, with a particular focus on mental illness and the medical imagination in Greek and Roman culture. He is the author of Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in De rerum natura (De Gruyter\, 2021) and History of Mental Disorders in Classical Antiquity: Mania and Melancholia (in Modern Greek; Kallipos\, 2025). He has co-edited volumes on topics such as Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity (CUP\, 2023) and Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond (Bloomsbury\, 2025). His current project at IAS\, “The Economy of Madness in the Greek and Roman World\,” investigates how the everyday realities and metaphors of money\, debt\, and ownership informed ancient conceptions of mental disorder\, combining approaches from economic history\, disability studies\, and the history of medicine. \nPlease RSVP for the lunch talk here.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/the-economy-of-madness-in-the-greek-and-roman-world-coining-the-irrational/
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SUMMARY:Seeing and Hearing Divine Music in Ancient Greek Art
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs that depict the gods most frequently shown as musicians. Drawing on recent work in sensory studies\, Carolyn argues that images could visually suggest the sounds of the gods’ music. This representational strategy\, whereby sight and sound are blurred\, conveys the “unhearable” nature of their music: because it cannot be physically heard\, it falls to the human imagination to provide its sounds and awaken viewers’ multisensory engagement with the images. \n  \nCarolyn M. Laferrière is the Assistant Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She is the author of Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: Seeing the Songs of the Gods\, and is the Associate Editor for Greek and Roman Musical Studies. \nPlease RSVP here if you plan to attend. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/seeing-and-hearing-divine-music-in-ancient-greek-art/
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SUMMARY:The End of Popular Participation? City Politics in Post-Imperial Hispania
DESCRIPTION:By the sixth century\, political\, social\, and demographic changes brought traditional popular urban participation in late antique Hispania to an end. This crisis\, however\, did not result in a complete abandonment of non-elite participation. While sources tend to downplay the intervention of non-elite actors and favor the view of a “universal” consensus\, the written evidence occasionally betrays the political action of popular or middling groups. This talk offers different criteria to conceptualize non-elite actors in the textual and material evidence and advances some ideas on how to approach non-elite participation in post-imperial cities. \n  \nDamián Fernández is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He has published on the social\, institutional\, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity\, including a monograph titled Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia\, 300-600 CE. He is currently co-authoring a translation and commentary of the seventh-century law code known as Liber Iudiciorum. \nPlease register here if you plan to attend.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/the-end-of-popular-participation-city-politics-in-post-imperial-hispania/
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SUMMARY:Narratives of Conquest\, Materialities of Destruction: Rethinking the Roman Conquest
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Fernández-Götz is Abercromby Professor at the University of Edinburgh\, where he has also served as Head of the Archaeology Department. \nHe will be holding a lunch seminar with PAW graduate students and faculty. \nPlease RSVP to Barbara Leavey\, blleavey@princeton.edu\, if you plan to attend.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/narratives-of-conquest-materialities-of-destruction-rethinking-the-roman-conquest/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Colonial Entanglements in Iron Age Iberia: Hybridization\, Encounters\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz will hold an informal meeting with PAW graduate students to discuss his research. \n  \nPlease RSVP to Barbara Leavey\, blleavey@princeton.edu\, if you can attend.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/colonial-entanglements-in-iron-age-iberia-hybridization-encounters-and-resistance/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Hellenistic Literature in Context: Poetic Voices and Cultural Experience under Empire
DESCRIPTION:This reading group will meet beginning in the Spring 2022 semester to read and discuss works of scholarship on the development of poetry and art in the Hellenistic period\, with a particular focus on their interaction with the historical development of an imperial multiculturalism. Themes and topics for discussion include: \n-Hellenistic literature in the context of empire\n-The emergence of female voices\, autonomy\, and power in the Hellenistic period\, queenship\n-Hellenistic multiculturalism (e.g.\, with India as well as the various post-Alexandrian empires)\n-Poetics of tyranny and kingship\n-Aesthetics\, ekphrasis\, Hellenistic art \nAll sessions:  \nPoetics of tyranny and kingship (Tuesday\, March 15th\, 4:30-6pm) \nQueenship and female power (Thursday\, March 31st\, 4:30-6pm) \nMulticulturalism (Thursday\, April 7th\, 4:30-6pm) \nInterculturalism (Thursday\, April 14th\, 4:30-6pm) \nContact Sherry chiayil@princeton.edu and Chiara battisti@princeton.edu with any questions. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/hellenistic-literature-in-context-poetic-voices-and-cultural-experience-under-empire/
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SUMMARY:Hellenistic Literature in Context: Poetic Voices and Cultural Experience under Empire
DESCRIPTION:This reading group will meet beginning in the Spring 2022 semester to read and discuss works of scholarship on the development of poetry and art in the Hellenistic period\, with a particular focus on their interaction with the historical development of an imperial multiculturalism. Themes and topics for discussion include: \n-Hellenistic literature in the context of empire\n-The emergence of female voices\, autonomy\, and power in the Hellenistic period\, queenship\n-Hellenistic multiculturalism (e.g.\, with India as well as the various post-Alexandrian empires)\n-Poetics of tyranny and kingship\n-Aesthetics\, ekphrasis\, Hellenistic art \n  \nThe first meeting is scheduled for March 15 at 4:30 pm\, Scheide Caldwell House\, Room 203. We’ll be discussing the intro and chapters 1-2 of Michael Brumbaugh\, The New Politics of Olympos: Kingship in Callimachus’ Hymns. Oxford; New York 2019. \nIf you would like to participate\, or if you have any questions\, please reach out to Chiara (battisti@princeton.edu) or Sherry (chiayil@princeton.edu). \nAll sessions:  \nPoetics of tyranny and kingship (Tuesday\, March 15th\, 4:30-6pm) \nQueenship and female power (Thursday\, March 31st\, 4:30-6pm) \nMulticulturalism (Thursday\, April 7th\, 4:30-6pm) \nInterculturalism (Thursday\, April 14th\, 4:30-6pm) \nMany thanks! \nContact Sherry chiayil@princeton.edu and Chiara battisti@princeton.edu with any questions.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/hellenistic-literature-in-context-poetic-voices-and-cultural-experience-under-empire-4/
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SUMMARY:Hellenistic Literature in Context: Poetic Voices and Cultural Experience under Empire
DESCRIPTION:This reading group will meet beginning in the Spring 2022 semester to read and discuss works of scholarship on the development of poetry and art in the Hellenistic period\, with a particular focus on their interaction with the historical development of an imperial multiculturalism. Themes and topics for discussion include: \n-Hellenistic literature in the context of empire\n-The emergence of female voices\, autonomy\, and power in the Hellenistic period\, queenship\n-Hellenistic multiculturalism (e.g.\, with India as well as the various post-Alexandrian empires)\n-Poetics of tyranny and kingship\n-Aesthetics\, ekphrasis\, Hellenistic art \n  \nThe first meeting is scheduled for March 15 at 4:30 pm\, Scheide Caldwell House\, Room 203. We’ll be discussing the intro and chapters 1-2 of Michael Brumbaugh\, The New Politics of Olympos: Kingship in Callimachus’ Hymns. Oxford; New York 2019. \nIf you would like to participate\, or if you have any questions\, please reach out to Chiara (battisti@princeton.edu) or Sherry (chiayil@princeton.edu). \nAll sessions:  \nPoetics of tyranny and kingship (Tuesday\, March 15th\, 4:30-6pm) \nQueenship and female power (Thursday\, March 31st\, 4:30-6pm) \nMulticulturalism (Thursday\, April 7th\, 4:30-6pm) \nInterculturalism (Thursday\, April 14th\, 4:30-6pm) \nMany thanks! \nContact Sherry chiayil@princeton.edu and Chiara battisti@princeton.edu with any questions.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/hellenistic-literature-in-context-poetic-voices-and-cultural-experience-under-empire-3/
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SUMMARY:New Media 800 BCE -
DESCRIPTION:Princeton/Oxford Workshop\, Jan. 9 & 10 \nSchedule: \nthursday\, january 9\nwelcome remarks (9:35 AM – 9:45 AM)\n\nsession 1: institutions of media (9:45 AM – 10:45 AM)\nchair: jermaine bryant (princeton)\ndan etches (oxford): Squabbling in the Birdcage of McLuhan: Media and Control from Herodotus to Posidippus\nwill pedrick (princeton): An Object Encounter at the Penn Museum: The Liberation of the Senses and the Authority to Interpret Material Culture \ncoffee (10:45 AM – 11:00 AM) \nsession 2: multi-media (11:00 AM – 12:30 PM)\nchair: annee lyons (oxford)\nmark paul (princeton): A picture of Greek art far more richly coloured’: photography and classical art history in the 19th and 20th centuries\ngemma hammond (oxford): The Polis and the Beginnings of Coinage\nashton fancy (princeton): Media on the Move: Messages in Sulla’s Columns of Zeus’ Olympius \nsession 3: place media (1:30 – 2:30 PM)\nchair: paul eberwine (princeton)\nannee lyons (oxford): Textual Modelling of Geographic Space in the Ancient Greek World\nmichael economou (oxford): Landscape as Medium in the Late Second Temple Hill Country \ncoffee (2:30 – 3:00 PM) \nsession 4: media of self and other (3:00 PM – 4:00 PM)\nchair: gemma hammond (oxford)\nhonor cargill-martin (oxford): Augustan Imperial Women as a Medium: Contents of Continuity and Messages of Metamorphoses in the Early Principate\ndaniel sutton (oxford): The Message as Medium: Correcting Names in Ancient Greek and Chinese Thought \ndinner at chennai chimney (6:00 PM) \nfriday\, january 10\nsession 5: performance media (10:30 AM – 12:00 PM)\nchair: ben thorne (oxford)\nchiara battisti (oxford): Media\, Theatricality and Performance in the Dynastic Self-Representation of the Attalids\njermaine bryant (princeton): Spinning an Archive: Weaving and Writing in Metamorphoses VI\nalex antoniou (oxford): Maybe Words do Speak Louder than Actions? Varro and Media in Roman Religion \nsession 6: bodies and media (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM)\nchair: honor cargill-martin (oxford)\nben thorne (oxford): Sybille Krämer’s messenger model: Helot resistance and reprisal in the massacre at Thucydides 4.80.3-4\nimogen whiteley (oxford): “Not a face\, but a narrative”: How Greek perceptions of slave bodies lead to their use as a medium for transmitting messages about slaves and slaveowners\npaul eberwine (princeton): The Vitality of Death: Perspectives on a Suicide Machine \ncoffee and snacks (2:30-3:00 PM) \nart museum visit with will pedrick (3:00 PM) (optional)
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/new-media-88-bce/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T120000
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SUMMARY:The Inscribed Ancient City: Writing and Reading in First Century Pompeii
DESCRIPTION:What occupied the thoughts and interests of the broader population in the early Roman Empire? Without the catastrophic destruction of Pompeii\, we would have barely a clue. The fragile plaster that covered the city’s walls\, however\, reveals a town full of personal musings and written communication: from prayers to the gods to greetings to friends\, from quotations of literature to shopping lists. This talk looks beyond the monumental public spaces to investigate how writing pervaded also shops\, workshops\, and even private homes. Altogether\, the mass of handwritten texts inscribed in Pompeii evokes an ancient city filled with people in motion\, writing\, reading\, and going about their day. This talk discusses the who\, what\, and where\, and explores how inscribed the ancient city might be. \nRebecca Benefiel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire\, particularly as seen through epigraphy. She has authored numerous articles\, and co-edited the volume Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (2016\, Brill). Dr. Benefiel has been a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America\, a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome\, and she is currently Vice President of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. She is Director of The Ancient Graffiti Project (ancientgraffiti.org)\, which is editing and making accessible the thousands of handwritten inscriptions from the first century. \nHer work has been featured in National Geographic\, USA Today\, Science News\, Forbes\, and Smithsonian magazines. She has been interviewed on NPR’s Radio IQ\, and on documentary television programs on the History Channel\, PBS\, and the Smithsonian Channel.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rebecca-benefiel/
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SUMMARY:Paradoxes of Parrhesia
DESCRIPTION:The Greek word parrhesía\, usually translated as “frankness\,” has a long history in Antiquity. Its first known mention is in one of Euripides’ works; he defines parrhesía as a crucial prerogative of the Athenian citizens who are allowed to contribute to debates in the popular assembly. \nDuring Late Antiquity\, the term is still used widely and even becomes a loan word in Syriac and other languages. Obviously\, parrhesía remained an important virtue ascribed to people who were considered to possess the right to be heard in public\, among them philosophers as well as historians and monks. Using entirely different approaches\, modern scholars such as Giuseppe Scarpat or Michel Foucault have convincingly demonstrated the importance and usefulness of this concept. But they paint a more or less linear history of the term\, which will be challenged in book I am writing at the IAS. In my talk\, which is based on this book project\, I will not focus on the parrhesiastés\, as is usually done\, but on the people who are criticized with parrhesía and on the conduct expected from them. Members of Roman and Late Antique elites were supposed to possess enough sophrosýne to bear criticism patiently. Nevertheless\, polite parrhesía seemed to be advisable in many cases\, which\, however\, was often not compatible the fundamental idea that parrhesía should be completely truthful. Based on a small selection of sources\, I will try to explore these tensions in a more detailed manner. \nHartmut Leppin is professor of Ancient History at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and Principal Investigator of the project “Polyphony of Late Antiquity” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.  He is editor of the Historische Zeitschrift and the author of Justinian. Das christliche Experiment\, Stuttgart 2011 and Die frühen Christen. Von den Anfängen bis Konstantin\, 2nd ed. München 2019. He research concerns ancient Christianity and the history of political ideas.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/hartmut-leppin/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:The Temple of Hera at Olympia and Rome
DESCRIPTION:The Archaic temple of Hera at Olympia\, its cult\, and the objects displayed within it were described at some length by Pausanias in the second century CE (Paus. 5.16–20). Modern scholarly inquiry has focused mainly on the possibility that its stone columns were replacements for wooden ones\, and on the marble statue of Hermes and the infant Dionysos attributed by Pausanias to Praxiteles. This talk concerns the cult and games of Hera at Olympia and the large assemblage of divine statues inside the temple. Though it has long been understood that these statues were collected and put on display in the Hera temple at a late date (the first century BCE or the first half of the first century AC)\, it has not been noticed that this collection has much in common with contemporary collections of Greek statues in Rome\, in particular the statues displayed in the Porticus Octaviae. I will argue here that the cult of Hera at Olympia is also late in date: rather than an age-old tradition\, it can be interpreted as an example of the invention of tradition by a Greek community under Roman rule. \nCatherine Keesling is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis and Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories\, both published by Cambridge University Press. Her research concerns the epigraphical evidence for Greek sculpture and\, most recently\, the afterlives of Greek statues in the Roman period.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/catherine-keesling/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Rome\, Byzantium\, and the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo: Imitation\, Reinvention\, or Strategic Adoption?
DESCRIPTION:Please visit the website for the schedule of this two-day workshop: https://csla.princeton.edu/events/workshop-rome-byzantium-and-visigothic-kingdom-toledo-imitation-reinvention-or-strategic \nCosponsored by the Center of Collaborative History\, Program in the Ancient World and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies: \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rome-byzantium-and-the-visigothic-kingdom-of-toledo-imitation-reinvention-or-strategic-adoption/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T133000
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SUMMARY:Placing Odysseus - understanding the longue durée history of the Polis Cave sanctuary on Ithaca
DESCRIPTION:Faculty and Grad Workshop with Catherine Morgan\, PAW Long Term Fellow
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/placing-odysseus-understanding-the-longue-duree-history-of-the-polis-cave-sanctuary-on-ithaca/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T133000
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CREATED:20161222T151926Z
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SUMMARY:Comparing Greek and Near Eastern slavery in the post-Finley era
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/professor-david-lewis/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T120000
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SUMMARY:Rome in the History of Universal Empires
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rome-in-the-history-of-universal-empires/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T133000
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CREATED:20170110T205008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T145319Z
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SUMMARY:“Is there Seleucid history?”
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/is-there-seleucid-history/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160923T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160923T140000
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SUMMARY:“Opening the boxes …New Elephantine Papyri from four millennia”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Dr. Verena Lepper- Director of the ERC-Grant-Project ELEPHANTINE and Curator for Egyptian and Oriental Papyri at the Egyptian Museum Berlin
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/opening-the-boxes-new-elephantine-papyri-from-four-millennia-professor-dr-verena-lepper/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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