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2011- 2012 ACADEMIC YEAR

19th January 2012
'Japanese views on Rome in anime and manga'
Jen Cresswell (Edinburgh)

26th January 2012
'Wini, widi et non audiwi: Why modern scholars have got Latin voiced fricatives wrong and made our lives miserable'
Juan Lewis (Edinburgh)

2nd February 2012
'Attitudes to Suffering in Sophocles' Ajax'
Joseph Walsh (Edinburgh)

9th February 2012 
'Mosaic motifs for late empire Christian and pagan emperors' / 'More than a Mother? Tertullian on the Creation of Women'
David Greenwood (Edinburgh) / Kathryn Thostenson (Edinburgh)

1st March 2012
'Leo the Great's Use and Abuse of Rhetoric: The Elements of Style and the "Tome"'
Matthew Hoskin (Edinburgh)

8th March 2012
'Pigpen Epicurus: The Philosophical Education of L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus'
Cas Campbell (Edinburgh)

15th March 2012
'Inconsistencies in Herodotean Theology'
Anthony Ellis (Edinburgh)

22nd March 2012
'A Society in Stasis: Sicily at the End of the Second Century B.C.'
Peter Morton (Edinburgh)

29th March 2012
'Constructing Ancient Mechanics: Definitions and Perceptions'
Finlay McCourt (Glasgow)

5th April 2012
'Hats and Gods: problems of iconography on southern-Italian vase paintings'
Nicola Nenci

19th April 2012
'The Political Currency of Galeria Valeria Augusta'
Belinda Washington (Edinburgh)

26th April 2012
"Cicero's Engagement with Hellenistic Philosophy"
Gabriel Evangelou

13th October 2011 
'Rethinking the Pompeian House: A Functional Model'
Taylor Lauritsen

20th October 2011 
'Plato's Divided Line'
Jane Orton

3rd November 2011 
'The divine parents of Demetrios Poliorketes. Cosmic and memorial significance in the Athenian ithyphallic hymn'
John Holton

10th November 2011 
'Caracalla and Geta: Sibling Conflict at the Pinnacle of Empire' 
Alex Imrie

17th November 2011 
'Adulterous Slaves?  A reappraisal of the role of slaves in the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis'
Amy Bratton

24th November 2011 
'A discussion about the different views on the development of the catacombs in Rome'
Gabriela Nawrot

1st December 2011 
'That Buzzing Affliction: or, how an insect betrays states of mind' 
James Livingston

15th December 2011 
'Creating the antique: the restorations of G.B. Piranesi'
Fiona Mowat

2nd June 2011 
'Lucretius on the Origin of the World' 
Abigail Buglass  

26th May 2011
'Epic Influences in the Early Hellenistic World: the Heroic Presentation of Alexander's Successors' 
John Holton 

19th May 2011
'None but the Barbarian and the Slave are Foreign: An Introduction to the Constitutio Antoniniana' 
Alex Imrie 

12th May 2011
'Natura ut illi pater es, consiliis ego: the Consequences of Adoption for the Father and Son Relationship in the Middle and Late Republic' 
Lauren Murray

5th May 2011 
'Shall I compare thee... : the Place of History in the Verrine Orations' 
Peter Morton 

28th April 2011
'Herodotus and the Insignificance of Persians in the Greco-Persian War' 
Laurel Kelly 

21st April 2011 
'History from Coins?  The Coinage of Eucratides I of Bactria' 
Simon Glenn

24th March 2011 
'The Magistri Militum of the Fourth Century (AD 342-92)' 
Alexander Lawrie 

17th March 2011
'The Platonic Account of philia: Problems of Interpretation of the Lysis' 
Gabriel Evagellou

3rd March 2011
'The Rediscovery and Post-Classical History of Christian Catacombs' 
Gabriela Nawrot 

24th February 2011 
'Jealous Gods and Herodotus' Histories' 
Anthony Ellis 

17th February 2011
'Leto as Mother: Representations of Leto with Apollo and Artemis in Attic Vase Paintings of the 6th and 5th Centuries BC' 
Lavinia Foukara 

10th February 2011 
'Mathematics in the Meno' 
Jane Orton 

3rd February 2011
'Cinerary Monuments and Symbolism: the Problems with Interpreting Roman Funerary Art' 
Fiona Mowat

27th January 2011 
'A Compassionate Ruler He Ain't!  Cui bono Claudius Caesar servos in insulam Aesculapii expositos liberos fecit... or the Hidden Motives in Claudius' Edict on the Abandonment of Sick Slaves' 
Juan Lewis
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