Classics seminars

Clare Rowan (University of Warwick)

Efrosyni Boutsikas (University of Kent)

'In the footsteps of Glaucus of Chios. Tradition and innovation in Aegean metal technologies'

Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture - 'New debates in ancient economics'

'Four Burgundian kings in 5th-century Gaul? The case of Sidonius Ep. 5.7'

'A numismatic event: the nature of "early Greek coinage"’

TBC

Inaugural Lecture as Personal Chair of Greek History - 'Greek subjective rights? Justice, legal discourse, and legal institutions'

'The archaeology of late Bronze to early Iron Age Greece: from resilience to transformation'

Thu 16 Mar

POSTPONED

'Catullus and the three hearts of Quintus Ennius'

Thu 23 Mar

POSTPONED

'How federal was the political organization of the Locrians in central Greece?'

Friday 24 March,

POSTPONED

'Delphic oracles and Greek history: A reassessment'

'The explored exploring'

'De principiis iuris. Tacitus talks legal history'

'A Persian version? Ctesias on Xerxes’ invasion of Greece'

'Questions around Hellenistic ‘Hellenicity’: the case of IK Laodikeia am Lykos 1'

Wed 26 Apr

'Starting from the end: Pompey the Great in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia'

'Best friends forever: Seneca’s letters on friendship and death'

'Finding intramural burials in the towns of late antique and early medieval Italy: visibility, accessibility and memory'

'Out of Steppe: Art in post-Getic Olbia'

'Late Roman Italy, late Roman Gaul: their strategic and geographic relationship'

'Heroes, sex and shadows: Vergil’s dead revived in Petronius’ brothel (Sat. 6-8)'

'Resilient cities: urban renewal in Jerash (Jordan) after the earthquake of ad 749'

Wed 21 Sep

Donncha O’Rourke (University of Edinburgh)

G.04, 50 George Square

(CAS)

Wed 28 Sep

'A new document from Spain on the accession of Tiberius'

Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School

Thu 29 Sep

'Leaders, followers and fellow-travellers: (re)translating some familiar Greek words and what they tell us about Roman medical history'

Wed 5 Oct

Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh)

'The Court, the Polis and Hellenistic intellectual culture'

Wed 12 Oct

Book Launch

 Maureen Carroll - "The making of a Roman imperial estate. Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia" (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022) and Alastair Small and Carola Small - "Archaeology on the Apulian-Lucanian border' (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002). With contributions from Maureen Carroll (Sheffield), Alastair Small (Edinburgh), Carola Small (Edinburgh), Robert Leighton (Edinburgh), and Ben Russell (Edinburgh). Reception sponsored by Archaeopress.

Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School

Thu 20 Oct

'From the Black Sea to the Antonine Wall: Roman funerary landscapes and their social agency'

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Doorway 3, Old Medical School (hybrid)

Wed 26 Oct

'Dress code and dress as code in Roman art: togas, trousers, paenulae and more'

G.04, 50 George Square

(CAS)

Thu  27 Oct

'Theocritus and things: Material agency in the Idylls'

1M473, Teaching Room 13, Doorway 3, Old Medical School (hybrid)

Wed 2 Nov

'The invention of the body in Greece and China'

'Parthia and Rome: interaction and conflict'

To be followed by a celebration of the publication of Eberhard Sauer et al., "Ancient arms race: Antiquity’s largest fortresses and Sasanian military networks of Northern Iran" (Oxford: Oxbow, 2022)

'Antigone in Aotearoa: Performing Sophocles’ tragedy in New Zealand'

'The Proem to the Theogony: Hesiod and the Helikoniades'

'Etymology as a hermeneutic instrument in Heraclitus’ Homeric Allegories'

G.04, 50 George Square

(CAS)

'Group dynamics: On the art of being together in early imperial Roman portraiture'

G.06, 50 George Square 

'When you don’t know you’re Roman: Diomedes in the Latin Iliad'