An informal monthly gathering to discuss new inscriptions. The text discussed at each meeting is pre-circulated and available to faculty and students of AHMA and Classics (and others upon request to the director of the Center) at http://bspace.berkeley.edu.
April 8, 2008: An Attic Thiasos with a Woman in Charge - R. Stroud (4-5pm, 7205 Dwinelle Hall)
March 4, 2008: A new proxeny decree from Siphnos - N. Papazarkadas (4-5pm, 7205 Dwinelle Hall)
February 5, 2008: Greeks in Central Asia: A success story in a new Hellenistic epigram from Kandahar (Afghanistan) - A. Bulloch (4-5pm, 7205 Dwinelle Hall)
October 19, 2007: A new inscription of the Boiotian koinon - E. Mackil (12-1pm, 7205 Dwinelle Hall)
The Center organizes and hosts biannual lectures and seminars in Greek epigraphy. Our goal is to invite epigraphists in fields not currently strongly represented among the Berkeley faculty.
Our next visitor will be:
Charalambos Kritzas, Director Emeritus, Epigraphical Museum, Athens
Lecture: "An Epigraphist Climbing the Mountains of Crete" April 14, 2008 (5pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall)
Seminar: "New Inscriptions from Argos: The Archives of the Sacred Treasury (4th century B.C.)" April 16, 2008 (5pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall)
H. W. Pleket, Professor Emeritus, Leiden University: "Sport and Culture in the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire" November 6, 2007 (lecture); "The Professional Organizations in Asia Minor in the Roman Period" November 8, 2007 (seminar)
Alain Bresson, University of Bordeaux: “Coming in and out of a Greek city: a view from the inscriptions” Spring 2007
Michael Wörrle, Kommission für Antike Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich: “Epigraphy in Context: Aizanoi Honors its Local Zeus and Courts the Emperor” Fall 2006
Angelos Chaniotis, University of Heidelberg: “New Inscriptions from Aphrodisias” Fall 2005
Charlotte Roueché, University of London: “Verses on Stone: Epigraphy and Literature” Fall 2003
Michael H. Jameson, Stanford University: “The Sacrificial Calendar of Thorikos” Fall 2001
Stephen V. Tracy, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Angelos P. Matthaiou, Elleniki Epigraphiki Etaireia, Athens: “Athenian Epigrams on the Persian Wars”
Christian Habicht, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: “Missing Festivals”
Joyce Reynolds, Cambridge University
Miltos Hatzopoulos, National Research Institute, Athens
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE ALESHIRE CENTER: Professor Emily Mackil, History (Chair) | Professor Ronald Hendel, Near Eastern Studies | Professor Donald J. Mastronarde, Classics | Professor Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Classics | Professor Ronald S. Stroud, Classics | John Lanier, AHMA (Graduate Representative)
