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Brent Shaw, the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics and chair of the Program in the Ancient World at Princeton University, will present the Winslow Lecture titled “The End of Sacrifice,” on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. His lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton Classics Department and is free and open to the public.
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Although they are sometimes hard to see through the smog and light pollution, the stars illuminate the night sky as they have for millions of years. While many of us enjoy driving out on country roads to admire the star-studded landscape of the night, few can look into the heavens and see thousands of years of human history like Anthony Aveni can.
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Anthony F. Aveni, the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University, will present the Winslow Classics Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 4 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. Aveni’s lecture, titled "Scientific Astronomy in Hesiod? The Roots of Prehistoric Star Gazing," is free and open to the public.
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Joann Fletcher and Stephen Buckley, research fellows at the University of York, will present the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, March 29, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. They will discuss the cultural significance and influences of the lesser-known female pharaohs in ancient Egypt. The lecture is sponsored by the Classics Department and is free and open to the public.
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Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, will present the Winslow Lecture on the topic of “Poetics, Translation, and Performance” on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center Kennedy Auditorium. The event is hosted by the Classics Department and is free and open to the public.
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Brooks Haxton, author of six published collections of original poetry and professor of English at Syracuse University will present the Winslow lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Candor and Wisdom: the Poetry of Early Classical Greece,” is sponsored by the Department of Classics and is free and open to the public.
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Kate Cooper, professor of ancient history at the University of Manchester (UK), will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4:10 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center. The lecture “City, Empire, Family Belonging and Resistance in the Prison Diary of Perpetua of Carthage,” is free and open to the public.
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