Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 1/28 Jewish Appropriation of Greek Mythology - E.Gruen

    RESEARCH SEMINAR Open to Faculty, Staff, Grad Students, Honors and Undergraduate Students           

    “JEWISH APPROPRIATION OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY”

    January 28th at 12:30pm in Dodd 162

    Please register if attending.  Lunch is provided.

    Erich Gruen is a Classicist and Ancient Historian whose research focuses on identity and otherness in the ancient world.  His many books include Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992), Heritage and Hellenism:  The Reinvention of the Jewish Tradition (1998), Diaspora:  Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (2002), and Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011).

    For more information, contact: Rae Asselin / Judaic Studies at 860-486-2271 / rae.asselin@uconn.edu