Jackson Lectures
The Department of Classics at Harvard University conducts a public lectureship in memory of Carl Newell Jackson (Harvard College Class of 1898). The Jackson Lectures are delivered annually by a scholar on a classical subject. Below is a chronological list of lectures.
| Year | Lecturer(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
2025 | “Nationalism, origins and the politics of Latin literature” | |
2023 | Rosalind Thomas | "'...than the Chariots of the Lydians': Archaic Lydia and the Greeks" |
2015 | Barbara Borg | "The Roman art of commemoration" |
2014 | John Haldon | "Goldilocks in Byzantium: the paradox of East Roman survival" |
2013 | Mark Griffith | "Music and difference in Ancient Greece" |
2011 | Brad Inwood | "Ethics after Aristotle" |
2008 | Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg | "Isaac Casaubon" |
2005 | Crawford Greenwalt | "Sardis" |
2002 | First Jackson Colloquium | "War, culture, and imperialism in the Roman Republic" |
2000 | Claude Calame | "Time in ancient Greece: heroic narrative, poetic memory, ritual pragmatics" |
1998 | Katherine Dunbabin | "Conspicuous conviviality: images of the Roman banquet" |
1996 | Myles Burnyeat | "Freedom, anger, tranquillity: an archaeology of feeling" |
1994 | Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood | "Greek tragedy and Athenian religion" |
1992 | Peter Dronke | "Verse with prose: from Petronius to Dante" |
1990 | Anna Davies | "Greek dialects" |
1987 | Fergus Millar | "The Roman Near East" |
1984 | Machteld Mellink | "Greeks and West Anatolians" |
1982 | Walter Burkert | "Ancient mysteries: faith and functions" |
1980 | E. J. Kenney | "Ovid" |
1978 | Eugene Vanderpool | "Marathon" |
1976 | Peter Brown | "The making of late Antiquity: social and religious change from Aelius Aristides to St. Anthony" |
1974 | Jacqueline de Romilly | "Magic and rhetoric in ancient Greece" |
1972 | Denys Page | "Folk tales in Homer’s Odyssey" |
1968 | Arnaldo Momigliano | "The development of Greek biography" |
1966 | Roger Mynors | "The transmission of the Latin classics" |