EDINBURGH CLASSICS POSTGRADUATE
SEMINAR SERIES
2015/16
Semester 2
THURSDAYS, 5.10 PM
ROOM G.06, 50 GEORGE SQUARE
28th January
Thomas Nelson (University of Cambridge)
‘Indices of Allusion in Early Greek Epic’
4th February
Harry Morgan (University of Oxford)
‘Battle of the Bands: The Games of L. Anicius Gallus and the Cultural Politics of Musical Theatre in Republican Rome’
11th February
Giuditta Mirizio (University of Bologna – Heidelberg)
‘La mémoire perdue in the transmission of messages in Ptolemaic Egypt’
25th February
Meg Moodie (University of Edinburgh)
‘Between the desert and the deep blue sea. Numidian monuments in the Hellenistic World’
3rd March
Tatjana Sandon (University of Edinburgh)
‘Social and economic role of freedwomen in Roman society’
10th March
Pietro Morlacchi (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Failed domestication: Propertius at Cynthia's in 1.3’
17th March
Paul Jarvis (University of Edinburgh)
‘Pertinax, the Antistii, and aristocratic politics under Marcus and Commodus’
24th March
Yukiko Saito (Kyoto Seika University - University of Liverpool)
‘Insights on Brightness in Homer’s Iliad’
31st March
Alessandro Fabi (University of Pisa)
‘Conjecturalism and conservatism in Accius’ Armorum Iudicium’
14th April
Rossana Zetti (University of Edinburgh)
‘Two Twentieth-Century Adaptations of Antigone: between politics and war’
21st April
Peter Swallow (University of Oxford)
'Constructing and Deconstructing Utopia in Aristophanes’
28th April
Janja Soldo (Birkbeck College, London - LMU Munich)
‘Drunken speech and torture: Maecenas in Seneca’s epistle 19.9’
5th May
Gianmario Cattaneo (University of Florence)
‘ζωῆς ἄμπελός εἰμι. Dionysian Presences in Nonnus, Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel, XV, 1-30’
12th May
Giacomo Ranzani (University of Salerno)
‘Caesar's second expedition to Britain, a research for new enemies: narrative technique and events manipulation in De Bello Gallico V 1-7’
Semester 1
THURSDAYS, 5.10 PM
SYDNEY SMITH LECTURE THEATRE, DOORWAY 3,
MEDICAL SCHOOL, TEVIOT PLACE
24th September
Alan Montgomery (Birkbeck, University of London)
‘Searching for a Classical Caledonia’
1st October
Elke Close (University of Edinburgh)
‘What is a good leader? Polybius on Morals’
8th October
Max Stocker (University of Edinburgh)
‘The Construction of Identity in Greek and Egyptian Epic Poetry: Personal and Cultural Identity in Homer’s Odyssey and the Tale of Sinuhe’
15th October
Xu Hong (University College Dublin)
‘Did Philip V of Macedon intend to invade Italy? A case study for the application of the realist paradigm to Hellenistic international relations’
22nd October
Bill Beck (University of Pennsylvania)
‘The Turning Post and the Finish Line: False Boundaries in the Iliad’
29th October
Aaltje Hidding (Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München)
‘Visiting the Sanctuary of Saint Colluthus in Antinoopolis: A Regional Perspective on the
Great Persecution.’
5th November
Gary Vos and Gabriela Ingle (University of Edinburgh)
‘Re-evaluation of some 'Christian' funerary inscriptions’
12th November
Lucia Michielin (University of Edinburgh)
‘Doors and Windows through the Romans’ eyes. Literary, epigraphic and visual sources. Some examples’
19th November
Sonja Gammage (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
‘The Use of Linguistic Atticism in the Novel of Achilles Tatius’
26th November
Oliver Schwazer (University College London)
‘Trimalchio and the laws of his time: Some considerations on the date of Petronius’ Satyrica’
3rd December
Dylan James (University of Oxford)
‘Languages in Herodotus' Ethnographic Project’
10th December
Monica Park (Harvard University)
‘The Hellenistic logoi and historical authority in Pausanias Book 1’
This last seminar will take place at 5.10pm in Room G200, Doorway 3, Medical School, Teviot Place.