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Barbara Gold, Edward North Professor of Classics, has published an article on "Literary Patronage" in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (ed. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A Erskine, and S. Huebner; Blackwell 2013).  This appears in the Wiley Online Library.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, was invited to be a guest at the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in Saint Louis.  While there she gave a lecture titled "Juvenal the Roman Satirist: One Man or Many?"  She also gave a workshop for faculty and graduate students on "What is a Cinaedus?"

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, attended and spoke at an invited, international conference at the Fondation Hardt in Geneva, Switzerland, in October.  This conference center is the site of small international conferences on specific topics in classical studies, Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique.

Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara Gold published an article, “Juvenal: The Idea of the Book,” in A Companion to Persius and Juvenal, edited by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood (Wiley-Blackwell 2012).

An article by Edward North Professor of Classics Barbara K. Gold was reprinted in a collection from Oxford University Press. “The Natural and Unnatural Silence of Women in the Elegies of Propertius" appears in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies, Propertius, edited by E. Greene and T.S. Welch.

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, traveled to Milwaukee, Wisc., to present a paper at the Annual Film and History Conference, which took place from Sept. 26 to 28.  The theme of this year's conference was "Film and Myth," and Rubino's paper was titled "Wounds That Will Not Heal: Heroism and Innocence in Shane and the Iliad."

Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas and one of today’s leading translators of ancient Greek and Latin literature will give a talk and reading centering on The Odyssey on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the Classics Department, is free and open to the public.

Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley presented “Cleopatra: From African Queen to Shifting Icon” on Aug. 12 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) in Utica. The lecture was in connection with the Institute’s current exhibit, “Shadow of the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt and Its Influence.”

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio in Albany will feature a reading by Carl Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, on Tuesday, July 17, as part of the public radio station’s Academic Minute. During his reading, Rubino explains why the Star Wars series is attracting a whole new generation of fans.  “The Star Wars films bear witness to the enduring power of this ancient legacy, which has much to do with the secret of their appeal”

Carl A. Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, recently published an article titled “Long Ago, But Not So Far Away: Another Look at Star Wars and the Ancient World.”