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2024 Fountain Symposium

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2024 Fountain Symposium Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/06/2024 - 14:09

Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides

Saturday, September 14, 2024
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MDT (GMT/UTC-6)
Cofrin Auditorium (Atlas 100, CU 91��) and via live-stream

A link to the video recording of the Symposium is available here

A complete program is available here: Fountain Symposium - 2024 Program

In November of 2022, a team of archaeologists led by Basem Gehad of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities recovered several papyri from a simple grave in the cemetery of Philadelphia in the Fayoum. The best preserved includes nearly 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the Athenian playwright Euripides - the most significant discovery of new tragedy in nearly 60 years. CƯ's Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, the team's papyrological expert, invited her colleague John Gibert, a specialist in Greek drama, to join her and Dr. Gehad in preparing the first edition of the text: here, for the first time in nearly 2,000 years readers will encounter gripping scenes from two plays based on little-known but intriguing incidents from the mythical careers of Dionysus' aunt Ino/Leucothea, the Cretan king Minos, and the seer Polyidus. The Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium will introduce the discovery and explore its contexts in archaeology, literature, mythology, and vase painting.

The papyrus was officially published on August 27, 2024, in the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (vol. 230, pp. 1–40). It will take a while for it to reach libraries, but you may view the table of contents here.
Rob Cioffi discusses the papyrus in the London Review of Books here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/robert-cioffi/euripides-unbound
Colorado Public Radio’s Anthony Cotton (“Colorado Matters”) discusses the papyrus and the upcoming Symposium with Yvona and John here: https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/digging-into-the-greek-life-cu-scholars-interpret-rare-euripidian-find/
Brown University Professor Johanna Hanink discuses the papyrus with John and Yvona on her podcast Λέσχη here: https://leschepodcast.buzzsprout.com/
In June, 2024, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies hosted a two-day conference devoted to further exploration of the newly discovered text by specialists. The proceedings will eventually be published in an online, open-access book, but in the meantime, there is information about the conference here and here, including a repertory of conjectures and several pre-prints (or choose Preprints from the Publications pull-down menu on the main page).
This discovery was recently featured in CU's Arts & Sciences Magazine: Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’
On September 4, 2024, the Times Literary Supplement (London) published “Greek tragedies from an Egyptian tomb: Discovering a new Euripides papyrus,” by Bill Allan.

The Fountain Symposium is sponsored by the generous support of Celia M. Fountain, the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and the Classics Department.
It is free and open to the public

classics@colorado.edu | www.colorado.edu/classics | 303-492-6257

Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium: "Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides"

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Congratulations to our Faculty Award Winners!

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Congratulations to our Faculty Award Winners! Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/29/2020 - 00:00

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Congratulations to Lauri Reitzammer!

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Congratulations to Lauri Reitzammer! Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/22/2020 - 16:18

The Department of Classics congratulates Lauri Reitzammer!

Lauri Reitzammer has won a LEAP (Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion) Growth Grant, that will give her a teaching release next academic year to work on her current book project: Resident Aliens and Sacred Sightseers: Female Immigrants and Travelers in Athenian Tragedy.

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Summer Online Greek - 2020

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Summer Online Greek - 2020 Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 02/01/2020 - 00:00

OFFERING BEGINNING CLASSICAL GREEK

Beginning Classical Greek provides an opportunity for highly motivated students to immerse themselves in the study of ancient Greek so that they may progress rapidly through Greek grammar and then into reading Greek texts at the intermediate level. This two-course series will be intense and fast-paced, with daily quizzes, as well as weekly tests. It will require a substantial time commitment. However, upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to begin reading the likes of Homer, Plato, and Sophocles -- and that is a summer well-spent!

Introductory Greek 1 June 1 - July 2
Introductory Greek 2 July 7 - August 7
Tuition and Fees: $1,708 each course

For more information, contact Professor Lauri Reitzammer (reitzammer@colorado.edu)
On Facebook

No affiliation with the 91�� necessary. Course may be completed remotely, entirely online.

See the full Online Greek Poster

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Lauri Reitzammer named winner of the 2018-19 CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching!

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Lauri Reitzammer named winner of the 2018-19 CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/28/2019 - 10:55

This award recognizes outstanding college and university teachers of Classics.

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McClanahan Lecture: Travelers and Immigrants

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Travelers and Immigrants in Greek Mythology
presented by Professor Lauri Reitzammer

Wednesday, October 11th
7:00 PM in HUMN 250

Greek Mythology is filled with travelers, wanderers, immigrants, exiles, and refugees. This lecture discusses some famous travelers and immigrants from Greek mythology with an emphasis on the representation of foreigners and outsiders in classical Athenian tragedy and comedy. Although classical Athenian drama includes xenophobic depictions of “barbarians,” nevertheless, in tragedy and comedy, outsiders could also be portrayed as offering potential benefits to the Athenian polis.

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the Department of Classics.

Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building.

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Summer Online Greek - 2017

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Summer Online Greek - 2017 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/24/2017 - 15:46

BEGINNING CLASSICAL GREEK

ONLINE - SUMMER 2017

Introductory Greek 1 June 5 - July 7
Introductory Greek 2 July 10 - August 11
Tuition and Fees: $1588
($3176 for both courses)
Instructor: Sam Kindick
For more information, contact
Professor Lauri Reitzammer (reitzammer@colorado.edu)

http://www.facebook.com/ClassicalGreekOnlineAtCU

www.colorado.edu/classics/

No affiliation with the 91�� necessary.
Course may be completed remotely, entirely online.

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The Adonis Festival in Context

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The Adonis Festival in Context Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/17/2016 - 00:00

Book by CU Classics scholar finds gendered subversion in Athenian festival of Adonis.

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2024 Fountain Symposium

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Congratulations to our Faculty Award Winners!

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Summer Online Greek - 2020

OFFERING BEGINNING CLASSICAL GREEK

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Lauri Reitzammer named winner of the 2018-19 CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching!

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McClanahan Lecture: Travelers and Immigrants

Wednesday, October 11th 7:00 PM in HUMN 250

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Summer Online Greek - 2017

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The Adonis Festival in Context

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Wednesday, October 11th
7:00 PM in HUMN 250