University of Nottingham
Department of Classics
Classics Research Workshop 2005-6
Autumn semester:
All seminars unless otherwise stated at 5 on Tuesday in C6, Archaeology
and Classics Building, Nottingham
October 4 Chris Pelling (Oxford) Judging Julius Caesar
Oct 11 Staff Research Forum
Oct 18 Peter Heslin (Durham) Dante and the meaning of the
Thebaid
Oct 25 David Raeburn (Oxford) Ovid's Metamorphoses as Performance
Poetry
Nov 1 Bert Smith (Oxford) Local contexts and historical
meanings: Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600
Nov 15 Dunstan Lowe (Cambridge) Le freak, c'est chic:
Interpreting hermaphrodites, emperors and other disturbing novelties
Tom Murgatroyd (Cambridge) Lucan on dividing up the world
Nov 22 Tom Harrison (Liverpool) Achaemenid Persia and the British
Empire (Classical Association Meeting)
Nov 29 Matt Edge (Cambridge) Two Types of Democracy
Friday 2 Dec WIEDEMANN LECTURE
Olivier Hekster (University of Nijmegen) Spindoctoring the Roman Empire
(7.30pm at Nottingham University Adult Education Centre, Shakespeare St,
Nottingham, 0115 951 6516)
Dec 6 Zenon Papakonstantinou (Newcastle) Doctors, Wine and
Alcoholism in the Greek world
Dec 13 Carsten Lange (Nottingham) Commemorating Actium
Ed Bragg (Wadham College, Oxford) "Show us your scars
Manius Aquillius"- the employment of the military record in defence
speeches during the Roman Republic
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Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity
Corpus Classical Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2005
Topics in Augustan Poetry
Convenors : Philip Hardie and Stephen Harrison
Wednesday, 5.00, Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College
Refreshments afterwards - all welcome
week 1 (12/10) Peter Knox (Boulder)
'Getting it right: Ovid on alluding from exile'
week 2 (19/10) Richard Thomas (Harvard)
' "O sol pulcher, o laudande" : Feigned praise in
Horace'
week 3 (26/10) Francesca Martelli (Oxford)
'The literary monument from Horace's Odes to Ovid's
Tristia'
week 4 (2/11) Rebecca Hughes (Oxford)
‘ “Dum vernat sanguis”: Horatian seasons in Propertius 4.5’
week 5 (9/11) Emily Gowers (Cambridge)
'The Cor of Ennius'
week 6 (16/11) Meghan Reedy (Oxford)
Propertius 2.1 and 2.3 : puncturing political correctness'
week 7 (23/11) Garth Tissol (Emory)
'The Ancient Reception of Ovid's Ex Ponto'
week 8 (30/11) James Burbidge (Oxford)
'The contribution of self-allusion to characterization in
Virgil's
Aeneid'
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The Department of Greek and Latin, University College London, will be
hosting the following
LUNCHTIME RESEARCH SEMINARS
Sharon L. James (Chapel Hill)
‘Women Reading Men: On the Fictive Female Audience of the Ars Amatoria’
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 1-2 pm
Marco Fantuzzi (Firenze / Macerata)
‘Typologies of Variation on a Theme in Epigraphic Epigrams’
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 1-2 pm
Both seminars will take place at 25 Gordon Square, Room 107.
All enquiries to Jula Wildberger ([log in to unmask]).
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Edinburgh Classics Research Seminars, Autumn 2005
All seminars take place in the David Hume Tower, Room 4.01, at 5.30pm.
All welcome!
28/09/05 Glenys Davies (Edinburgh)
'Can we (should we?) study classical body language?'
05/10/05 Kevin Greene (Newcastle)
'The Roman economy: material perspectives'
11/10/05 Harry Love (Otaga)
'The last message: alternative rhetoric in the messenger speeches of the
last plays of Sophocles and Euripides'
12/10/05 Johannes Deissler (Mainz)
'Johann Friedrich Reitemeier, ancient slavery and the Scottish
Enlightenment'
19/10/05 Margaret Williams (Edinburgh)
'Jewish festal names as cultural indicators in antiquity - a neglected
area of onomastic research'
02/11/05 Stephen Colvin (UCL)
'Ancient Chancellery language and the beginnings of the Koine'
16/11/05 Peter Derow (Wadham, Oxford)
'tba'
23/11/05 Peter Liddel (Manchester)
'Political obligation in ancient Athens'
30/11/05 Barbara Graziosi (Durham)
'The lives of the Greek poets'
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the Dept. of Classics & Ancient History at Manchester University will be
hosting the following research seminars in Sept. - Dec. 2005. All welcome.
All seminars take place at 5 p.m. on a Thursday in S1.2 in Humanities,
Lime Grove [note change from normal venue], University of Manchester
(followed by dinner with the speaker).
All enquiries to [log in to unmask]
Best wishes,
Roy Gibson
Manchester Classics & Ancient History Seminars 2005-6
Thurs. 29 Sept.
Lucy Grig (Edinburgh)
"Approaching 4th century Rome: From Theology to Ideology"
Thurs. 6 Oct.
Tim Parkin (Brisbane)
"Ancient ageing in the 21st century"
Thurs. 13 Oct.
Peter Oakes (Manchester)
'Status and Afterlife in Roman Macedonia'
Thurs. 20 Oct.
Steve Hodkinson (Nottingham)
'How significant was the military in classical Spartan society?'
Thurs. 27 Oct.
Csaba La'da (Manchester)
'Wiener Melange - Documents Mixed with Literature'
Thurs. 10 Nov.
Chris Pelling (Oxford)
'The Memoirs of Augustus: was there a genre of 'the autobiography'? Or,
did Augustus know what he was doing?'
Thurs. 17 Nov.
Gareth Sampson (Manchester)
"Property is Theft!
Misunderstanding Roman Agrarian Legislation"
Thurs. 24 Nov.
Roberto Chiappiniello (Manchester)
"Hidden Enemies in Late Antiquity"
Thurs. 1 Dec,
Kate Gilliver (Cardiff)
"A cruel and unusual punishment? Decimation in the Roman army"
Thurs. 8 Dec.
Emma Griffiths (Manchester)
"Identity, personality and pity in Greek tragedy."
Thurs. 15 Dec.
William Fitzgerald (Cambridge)
"Cruel narratives in Apuleius' Golden Ass."
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UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS RESEARCH SEMINARS
2005-2006
We're pleased to announce our 2005-6 seminar programme. An electronic
version will soon be available via the Department homepage,
www.classics.arts.gla.ac.uk. -GN
Tuesday 25 October 2005
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Professor Niall Rudd Editing a text
Wednesday 26 October 2005
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Professor Olivia Robinson tba
Wednesday 2 November 2005
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Dr Diana Spencer In and out of Rome: Statius’ discursive villas
Wednesday 30 November 2005
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Dr Ulrike Roth Cato's creche - refiguring republican history
Wednesday 7 December 2005
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Dr Ian Ruffell 'Socrates himself is particularly missed': Plato
and Comedy
Wednesday 25 January 2006
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Professor David Langslow The Latin Alexander: the making of a late
antique medical book
Wednesday 8 February 2006
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Dr Gideon Nisbet ‘Rubbish heaps confused together’: the Greek
Anthology in English translations
Wednesday 8 March 2006
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Dr Sam Barnish tba
Wednesday 19 April 2006
Department of Classics, 65 Oakfield Avenue, The University of Glasgow,
5:00 pm Dr Rhiannon Ash Victim and Voyeur: Rome as a Character in Tacitus
Histories 3
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