Research Seminars
Semester 2, 2011-12
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.
Friday 10 February:
Eric Rebillard: Communal hostility and communal resistance in episodes of persecution in North Africa, 180-305.
Friday 17 February:
Andrew Barker: Greek impressions of Indian music
Friday 24 February:
Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones:"Beautiful to behold is the king": the body and dress of the Achaemenid monarch
Friday 2 March:
Ian Haynes: 'To bury Jupiter, not to praise him'? Excavations at Maryport 2011 and the reinterpretation of an exceptional series of Roman altars
Friday 9 March:
Emma Gee: Planetary motion in Roman poetry
Friday 16 March:
Lisa Hau: ‘The Genre(s) of ancient historiography’.
Friday 23 March:
Anna Clark: Gods as epistolary elements
BREAK
Friday 13 April:
Laura Swift: myth, identity, and morality in the new Archilochus
Friday 20 April:
Jon Hesk: 'Eris, neikos and opacity in Odyssey 8'.
Friday 27 April:
John Morgan: The monk’s tale: the Narratio of pseudo-Nilus of Ancyra
Wednesday 2 May:
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer: Socrates and Sexuality in Persius’ Fourth Satire.
Friday 4 May:
one-day workshop on 'Metaphor in Greek and Roman literature and culture',
including a paper by Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, at the usual seminar time.
'The Pleasure of the Trope: Pagan and Christian Authors on the Ethics of Metaphor'.
Friday 18 May: EXTRA SEMINAR:
Yiannis Lolos:"The archaeological exploration of Sikyon: a comprehensive approach to the study of a Greek city-state"
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