EDINBURGH CLASSICS POSTGRADUATE
SEMINAR SERIES
2019/20
Semester 2
Thursdays 5.10 PM
Jan.30
Eugenio Rallo
(St Andrews)
'Some dramatic terminology. The 'Roman' togata and its problematic meaning'
Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Feb. 6
Tim Penn & Summer Courts
(Edinburgh)
'Gaming and Gambling in Roman Britain: Textual tropes and material evidence'
Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Feb. 13
Madison Rolls
(Edinburgh)
'Their many selves: How Suetonius manipulates language to separate servile educators from the socially and financially mobile versions of themselves'
Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Feb. 27
Aristotelis Nayfa
(Edinburgh)
'"Stratigraphy" in the Byzantine court'
Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Mar. 5
Giovanna Pasquariello
(Edinburgh)
'Celts at the east, Celts at the west: The diplomatic code of Massalia in IMT NoerdTroas6'
Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Mar. 12
Jordan Houston
(The Institute of Classical Studies)
'Globe trotters: The infrastructure and processes of breeding and training horses for the circus'
Seminar Room 6, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Due to the ongoing COVID 19 crisis, we have made the decision to cancel our postgraduate weekly seminar. Seminars will run online starting from next winter Semester (ca October 2020)
EDINBURGH CLASSICS POSTGRADUATE
SEMINAR SERIES
2019/20
Semester 1
Thursdays 5.10 PM
Seminar Room 4, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Oct. 3
Cristiana Lucidi
(Roehampton)
Dying for one’s glory, dying for the fatherland: Euripides and the epitaphios logos as an
Athenian discourse.
Oct. 10
Thaddeus Thorp
(Edinburgh)
The Business Model of the Umbricii Scauri
Oct. 17
Fabian Horn
(LMU Munich)
The Metaphoricity of θυμός in Early Greek Poetry
Oct. 24
Martina Astrid Rodda
(Jesus College at Oxford)
Riverbeds and garden paths: Retracing the reader’s steps in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus
Oct. 31
James Page
(Edinburgh)
Come hell or high water. The rise and fall of Roman influence over the
Po valley’s water network.
Nov. 7
Andrew Mclean
(Edinburgh)
A connecting sea: Circuit theory and approaches to modelling connectivity
across the Adriatic of the early Roman Empire
Nov. 14
Sofia Bianchi Mancini
(Universität Erfurt)
Contesting law: curses in the courts of Selinous and Classical Athens
Nov. 21
Tobias Wild
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Great Rulers – Small Representations? A Bottom-Up Perspective on Kings and Kingship
Nov. 28
Celeste de Blois
(Edinburgh)
Reading Magic in Propertius: the Poetic Carmen as a Spell