New York University
THE CENTER FOR ANCIENT STUDIES
in conjunction with the
OFFICE OF THE DEAN FOR HUMANITIES
and the
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
announce the
Rose-Marie Lewent Memorial Lecture
Vergil’s Aeneid
and the Destiny of Italy
By Alessandro Barchiesi, University
of Siena at Arezzo and Stanford University
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 5:00 pm
IRVING H. JUROW LECTURE HALL
Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington
Place (wheelchair accessible)
Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact ancient.studies@nyu.edu
ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI is Professor
of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo, and also the G. and
H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University. Professor
Barchiesi is one of the world’s leading scholars of Latin literature, and has
published widely on Augustan poetry, literary theory and the reception of the
classics. A collection of his articles in English translation, Speaking
Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets, appeared in
2001, and his study of Ovid’s Fasti was published in English in 1997 as The
Poet and the Prince. Recently he has co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Roman
Studies and has been general editor for the Fondazione Valla (Rome) of a
complete series of commentaries on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He is editor of Studi
italiani di filologia classica and co-founded the journal Materiali e
discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici. Professor Barchiesi has delivered
the Nellie Wallace Lectures at Oxford, the Gray Lectures at Cambridge, the Jerome
Lectures at the University of Michigan, the Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley, and
the Martin Lectures at Oberlin College. He is a member of the Academia
Europaea.
THIS LECTURE HONORS the memory of
Rose-Marie Lewent (WSC ’45) who passed away on June 29, 2012. A member of NYU’s
Society of the Torch since 1995, Mrs. Lewent was a major benefactor of the
Center for Ancient Studies, endowing our annual conference and supporting many
other projects. In addition to the Center, she generously sponsored programs
and scholarships in the College of Arts and Science and the NYU Langone Medical
Center. Her commitment to the research and teaching mission of her alma mater
has made it possible for generations of students and scholars to engage in the
pursuit of knowledge. Rose-Marie Lewent was an enthusiastic supporter of the
University and it is particularly appropriate that her name will forever be
associated with the Center and the College that she loved.
