The Leeds International Classics Seminar, Friday 11 May 2007.
Stars and Stylus: Astronomy and Literature in the Graeco-Roman World
10.30 - 11.30: Registration in the Department of Classics
(1st Floor, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds)
11.30 onwards: Papers in Seminar Rooms 3 and 4 of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI) , (29-31 Clarendon Place
11.30 - 12.15: Andrew Gregory (UCL)
Plato and the Stars (TBC)
12.15 - 13.00: Robert Hannah (Otago)
Between Science and Literature: Star Calendars in the Greek and Roman Worlds
13.00 - 14.00: Lunch
(Room 119, Department of Classics, 1st Floor Parkinson Building)
14.00 - 14.45: Matthew Robinson (UCL)
Eratosthenes' Catasterismoi and Roman Poetry
14.45 - 15.30: Josčphe-Henriette Abry (Lyons)
Manilius and Aratus: Two Stoic Poets on Stars
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee (in LHRI)
16.00 - 16.45: Matthew Dickie (St Andrews)
The Preface to Iulius Firmicus Maternus' Mathesis
16.45 - 17.30: Emma Gee (Sydney)
Astronomy and Ideology in Two Renaissance Latin Didactic Poets
Contact the organizer Steve Green by Fri 27th April for details of registration arrangements and fees.
Dr Steven J. Green
Department of Classics
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Email: [log in to unmask]
Office: 0113 343 3540
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/news.htm
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