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Saturday, Feb. 26, Conaton Board Room, 4:00 with reception to follow

Guest Speaker: Professor Holt Parker, whose talk is entitled: "Popular Sex and Popular Culture in Antiquity"

02/07/11

Holt Parker, Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati

Holt Parker holds a PhD in Classics from Yale University and is Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati.

He has been awarded the Rome Prize, the Women's Classical Caucus Prize for Scholarship (twice), a Loeb Library Foundation Grant, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published extensively on Sappho, Sulpicia, sexuality, slavery, sadism, and spectacles. His most recent publications include a translation (the first complete in English) of Censorinus' The Birthday Book (Chicago, 2009) and The Hermaphrodite: Antonio Beccadelli (Harvard 2010).