University of Nottingham
Department of Classics
Research Workshops 2007/8
All meetings are at 5pm in the Department of Classics unless otherwise
indicated. All welcome! If you would like further information or
directions, please get in touch with Helen Lovatt
(helen.lovatt@nottingham.ac.uk) or Patrick Finglass
(patrick.finglass@nottingham.ac.uk).
2nd October
Roland Deines (Nottingham)
'A Pan Sanctuary in the Holy Land - The Paneion in Caesarea Philippi and
Herodian Policy'
9th October
(jointly with the Institute for the Study of Slavery)
Leanne Hunnings (Royal Holloway), 'The slave-women of the Odyssey'
Lydia Langerwerf (Nottingham) 'Drimakos and Aristomenes. Two stories of
slave rebels in the Second Sophistic'
23rd October
Bob Cowan (Balliol College, Oxford)
'Oops! Accidental death and the limits of teleology in Roman epic'
30th October
Adrian Kelly (Warwick)
'A Babylonian captivity: Homer and the Dios Apate'
13th November
(CA Meeting)
Chris Howgego (Oxford) 'Vespasian and the Blood of Richard the
Lionheart'
7pm The Cecil Roberts Room, Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
20th November
James Roy (Nottingham) 'Lydiadas of Megalopolis, the good tyrant: a
study in Hellenistic tyranny'
7th December
(Wiedemann Lecture)
Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham) 'Defending the 300: Sparta in popular
culture at the turn of the millennium'
6pm, Nottingham University Adult Education Centre, Shakespeare St,
Nottingham
11th December
(jointly with the Institute for Middle East Studies)
Catherine Draycott (Somerville College, Oxford) 'Women between East and
West: observations on gender roles in late archaic/early classical
Western Anatolian funerary art'
29th January
Dalida Agri (Nottingham) 'Jason in Valerius' Argonautica: a wannabe
hero?'
Sarah Miles (Nottingham) 'Strattis and paratragedy: a comic poet at
(tragic) play'
19th February
Eleanor Dickey (Exeter) Title tbc
26th February
Staff research workshop
Mark Bradley, Lynn Fotheringham, and Helen Lovatt present aspects of
their recent research to other Staff Members in the Department.
11th March
(CA Meeting)
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford) 'Fighting for the provinces:
Republican auxiliaries'
Department of Classics
Research Workshops 2007/8
All meetings are at 5pm in the Department of Classics unless otherwise
indicated. All welcome! If you would like further information or
directions, please get in touch with Helen Lovatt
(helen.lovatt@nottingham.ac.uk) or Patrick Finglass
(patrick.finglass@nottingham.ac.uk).
2nd October
Roland Deines (Nottingham)
'A Pan Sanctuary in the Holy Land - The Paneion in Caesarea Philippi and
Herodian Policy'
9th October
(jointly with the Institute for the Study of Slavery)
Leanne Hunnings (Royal Holloway), 'The slave-women of the Odyssey'
Lydia Langerwerf (Nottingham) 'Drimakos and Aristomenes. Two stories of
slave rebels in the Second Sophistic'
23rd October
Bob Cowan (Balliol College, Oxford)
'Oops! Accidental death and the limits of teleology in Roman epic'
30th October
Adrian Kelly (Warwick)
'A Babylonian captivity: Homer and the Dios Apate'
13th November
(CA Meeting)
Chris Howgego (Oxford) 'Vespasian and the Blood of Richard the
Lionheart'
7pm The Cecil Roberts Room, Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
20th November
James Roy (Nottingham) 'Lydiadas of Megalopolis, the good tyrant: a
study in Hellenistic tyranny'
7th December
(Wiedemann Lecture)
Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham) 'Defending the 300: Sparta in popular
culture at the turn of the millennium'
6pm, Nottingham University Adult Education Centre, Shakespeare St,
Nottingham
11th December
(jointly with the Institute for Middle East Studies)
Catherine Draycott (Somerville College, Oxford) 'Women between East and
West: observations on gender roles in late archaic/early classical
Western Anatolian funerary art'
29th January
Dalida Agri (Nottingham) 'Jason in Valerius' Argonautica: a wannabe
hero?'
Sarah Miles (Nottingham) 'Strattis and paratragedy: a comic poet at
(tragic) play'
19th February
Eleanor Dickey (Exeter) Title tbc
26th February
Staff research workshop
Mark Bradley, Lynn Fotheringham, and Helen Lovatt present aspects of
their recent research to other Staff Members in the Department.
11th March
(CA Meeting)
Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford) 'Fighting for the provinces:
Republican auxiliaries'