Research seminars
Forthcoming
All seminars take place on Fridays, starting at 4.05 p.m. in Swallowgate 11, unless otherwise stated. Papers are followed by discussion. All are very welcome.
| 15 February 2013 |
Speaker: Phillip Horky (Durham) The place of Agathon in Plato's Symposium |
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| 22 February 2013 |
Speaker: Jakob Wisse (Newcastle) History, tyranny, and memory: Tacitus on the death of Cremutius Cordus (Annals 4.34-35) |
| 27 February 2013 |
Speaker: Oriol Olesti Vila (Barcelona) The land surveyors experiences in Roman Spain |
| 01 March 2013 |
Speaker: Jonathan Prag (Oxford) Inscribed rostra from the First Punic War and the quaestorship in the third century BC |
| 08 March 2013 |
Speaker: Benet Salway (UCL) Divide and rule (or ‘437 and all that!’): boundaries and jurisdictions in late antiquity |
| 15 March 2013 |
Speaker: Will Wootton (KCL) The art of making in antiquity: presenting and interpreting Roman stone carving techniques |
| 05 April 2013 |
Speaker: Andrew Laird (Warwick) Aztecs on Olympus: classical learning and native traditions in post-conquest Mexico |
| 12 April 2013 |
Speaker: David Pritchard (University of Queensland) Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens |
| 19 April 2013 |
Speaker: Lyndsay Coo (Cambridge) Sophocles' Eurypylus |
| 24 April 2013 |
Speaker: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford) The strangeness of buying and selling in antiquity |
| 26 April 2013 |
Speaker: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford) Roman Baiae Part of a one day workshop: 'Landscapes of pleasure' |
Research seminars 2012 - 2013
| 08 February 2013 |
Speaker: Catherine Ware (Liverpool/Maynooth) Singing of kings and battles: Vergil as panegyrist in late antiquity |
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| 01 February 2013 |
Speaker: Alexander Loney (Yale) An Ethical Hermeneutic of the Odyssey Part of a one day workshop: Ethics in Greek rhetoric and poetry |
| 30 January 2013 |
Speaker: Alexander Loney (Yale) Hesiod’s incorporative poetics in the Mecone episode |
| 30 November 2012 |
Speaker: Virginia Campbell (St Andrews) Visiting scribblers: non-Pompeian graffiti and dipinti in Pompeii. |
| 23 November 2012 |
Speaker: Jill Harries (St Andrews) The Death of Constantine |
| 16 November 2012 |
Speaker: Richard Buxton (Bristol) The ambiguity of metamorphosis: from Homer to du Maurier |
| 09 November 2012 |
Speaker: Nikoletta Manioti (St Andrews) Another Medea? Procne in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6 |
| 02 November 2012 |
Speaker: Gabor Betegh (Central European University) The cosmology of Archelaus of Athens. The opening paper for the ‘Ancient Cosmologies’ conference.Further information >> Please note: the venue has changed to School 2, St Salvator's Quad |
| 26 October 2012 |
Speaker: M.M. McCabe (KCL) Transformative goods: Plato on moral vision. |
| 19 October 2012 |
Speaker: Steve Mason (Aberdeen) Does the siege of Masada ‘teach us’ anything about Judaean militancy or Roman power? |
| 12 October 2012 |
Speaker: Nora Goldschmidt (Durham) Epic examples: Ennius and Virgil |
| 05 October 2012 |
Speaker: Judy Barringer (Edinburgh) The changing image of Zeus at Olympia |
| 01 October 2012 |
Speaker: John Solomon (Illinois) Greco-Roman music in the 1890s: from excavation to the Olympic Congress to Broadway Spectacular (Monday 1 October) An extra seminar in addition to the usual Friday programme. |
| 28 September 2012 |
Speaker: Robert Witcher (Durham) On Rome’s ecological contribution to British flora and fauna: landscape, legacy and identity |
| 21 September 2012 |
Speaker: Adrian Kelly (Oxford) Aias in Athens |
Events Enquiries
Conferences
Research Seminars
Please direct enquiries to:
Jason König,
School of Classics,
University of St Andrews,
St Andrews KY16 9AL.
Tel.:
01334-462618.
E-mail:
jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk