Webster Lectures (Past and Present)
Past Events
Talk Description: In this paper, I’ll offer two case studies from the late second or early third century CE, one from Thrace and the other from Phrygia.
Description: Recent work on the Classical Athenian economy has emphasised its dynamism (e.g., Ober 2015; Bresson 2016), and key evidence for this lies in the occupational lexicon, that…
Annual T.B.L. Webster Memorial Lecture - welcome to Professor Clara Bosak-Schroeder from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Enslaved women are perhaps some of the most invisible people in the source record of the ancient Greek world so how should we, as historians, assess their lives?
Annual T.B.L. Webster Memorial Lecture
Who cooked Aristotle’s dinner? Women and the ancient (Greek) economy
Stanford University Department of Classics welcomes Prof. Amy Richlin, Professor of Classics at UCLA for the Annual Webster Lecture.
This talk addresses the destabilizing of social status categories across the Roman empire in the first century of the imperial period, and how we can conceptualize and explain the changes…
Fiction, tradition, and the citizenship in Livy’s history of early Rome
This lecture considers the place of the symposium in the Greek literary imagination.