Forthcoming Sather Professors
| Year | Professor | University |
|---|---|---|
2024-2025 | A Reprise of Sather "Greatest Hits": Four Returning Sathers give lectures | |
2025-2026 | Emily Greenwood | Harvard University |
2026-2027 | Yopie Prins | University of Michigan |
2027-2028 | Barbara Borg | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
2028-2029 | Kimberly D. Bowes | University of Pennsylvania |
Past Sather Professors
| Year/Semester | Incumbent | Lecture Topic | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
2023-2024 |
Victoria Wohl |
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy |
Not yet published |
2022-2023 |
Greg Woolf |
The Rhythms of Rome: Seasonality and society in the early empire |
Not yet published |
2021-2022 |
Emily Gowers |
The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity |
Not yet published |
2019-2020 |
Josiah Ober |
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason |
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason (Sather 76, 2022) |
2018-2019 |
Jack L. Davis |
A Bronze Age Greek State in Formation |
A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos, with contributions by Sharon R. Stocker (Sather 75, 2022) |
2017-2018 |
Maurizio Bettini |
City of the Spoken Word: Orality and the Foundations of Roman Culture |
Not yet published |
2016-2017 |
Mary Margaret McCabe |
Seeing and Saying: Plato on Virtue and Knowledge |
Not yet published |
2015-2016 |
Philip Hardie |
Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry |
Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry (Sather 74, 2019) |
2014-2015 |
Richard P. Martin |
Comic Community: Laughter and Loathing in Athens |
Not yet published |
2013-2014 |
François Lissarrague |
Panta Kala: Heroic Warriors and the Aesthetics of Weaponry in Greek Art |
Not yet published |
2012-2013 |
Robert Parker |
Greek Gods Abroad |
Greek Gods Abroad: Names, Natures, and Transformations (Sather 72, 2017) |
2011-2012 |
Nicholas Purcell |
Venal Histories: The Character, Limits, and Historical Importance of Buying and Selling in the Ancient World |
Not yet published |
2010-2011 |
Alessandro Barchiesi |
The War for Italia: Conflict and Collective Memory in Vergil's Aeneid |
Not yet published |
2009-2010 |
Heinrich von Staden |
The Scientific Lives of Animals: Ancient Greece and Rome |
Not yet published |
2008-2009 |
Mary Beard |
Roman Laughter |
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Sather 71, 2014) |
2007-2008 |
Helene P. Foley |
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the U.S. Stage |
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage (Sather 70, 2012) |
2006-2007 |
Tonio Hölscher |
"Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome" |
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality (Sather 73, 2018) |
2005-2006 |
Roger Bagnall |
"Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East" |
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (Sather 69, 2011) |
2004-2005 |
David Sedley |
"Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity" |
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (Sather 66, 2008) |
2003-2004 |
Denis Feeney |
"Charts of Roman Time: The Uses of Time in the Formation of Roman Culture" |
Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Sather 65, 2007) |
2002-2003 |
Fergus Millar |
"A Greek Roman Empire: Power, Belief and Reason under Theodosius II (A.D. 408-450)" |
A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450) (Sather 64, 2006) |
2001-2002 |
Gregory Nagy |
"Homer the Classic" |
Homer the Preclassic (Sather 67, 2011) |