Feb 20, 2019

Jim O'Hara (UNC Chapel Hill) "Fake News on Aeneas' Shield?"
Herter 301, UMass Amherst
5:30 pm
Apr 18, 2019

Senior Thesis Symposium
Herter 301
4:00 pm
Apr 26, 2019

Transforming History: Generic Interaction in Roman Historiography
Amherst Room – Tenth Floor of Campus Center
3:30 pm
Roman historians imbued their works with the multi-generic characteristics and styles of tragedy, philosophical dialogues and treatises, and rhetorical speeches. These writers understood the value of borrowing from, alluding to, and interacting with these other genres in order to enhance the story-telling, philosophic, didactic, or rhetorical aspects of their histories.