DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF WALES LAMPETER
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CLASSICS: RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2007-8
Papers start at 6pm and are held in Burgess Lecture Room, Department of Classics. All welcome. For more information please contact either Dr Mirjam Plantinga (m.plantinga AT lamp.ac.uk) or Dr Federico Santangelo (f.santangelo AT lamp.ac.uk).
Thursday 18 October
Dr Emma Stafford (Leeds University)
‘Herakles heros theos: how to worship a hero-god’
Thursday 25 October
Dr Ruth Parkes (Oxford University)
‘What’s in a name? The ambushers of Statius’ Thebaid’
Thursday 1 November
Dr Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham University)
‘Ancient Commentary: Asconius and Cicero on Milo and Papirius’
Tuesday 6 November
Prof. Helen Lovatt (Nottingham University)
‘Monumentally epic: Medusa, heroism and the epic gaze?’
Thursday 15 November
Dr Sarah Hitch (Bristol University)
‘Horses and hair. The trouble with sacrifice in the Iliad.’
Thursday 22 November
Charlotte Greenacre (UCL)
‘Numbers from Nowhere. A Critical Analysis of Scheidel’s Human Mobility’
Thursday 29 November
Owen Hodkinson (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Philostratus’ /Erotic Epistles/ and Latin elegy’
Thursday 17 January
Dr Peter Liddel (Manchester University)
‘The Decree-Cultures of Ancient Greece’
Thursday 24 January
Errietta Bissa (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Man, Woman or Myth? Gender Trouble in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans.’
Thursday 31 January
Prof. Andrew Laird (Warwick University)
‘The Creation of Virgil’
Thursday 7 February
Dr Helen van Noorden (Cambridge University)
‘Apocalypse how?’
Thursday 21 February
Dr Victoria Moul (Oxford University)
TBC
Thursday 28 February
Dr Matthew Wright (Exeter University)
‘Aristophanes’ Frogs: agony and irony’
Thursday 6 March
Dr Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge University)
‘Strabo on cultural centres across the Mediterranean’
Thursday 17 April
Dr Carrie Roth-Murray (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Ritual interaction in colonial contexts’
Thursday 24 April
Prof. Geoffrey Eatough (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘How to write the history of the New World: Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo’
Thursday 1 May
Dr David Fearn (Oxford University)
TBC
Thursday 8 May
Dr Katerina Oikonomopolou (St Andrews University)
‘Athenaeus’ Ethnography’
Thursday 22 May
Prof. John Rich (Nottingham University)
‘Lex Licinia, Lex Sempronia: B.G. Niebuhr and the limitation of landholding under the Roman Republic’
Thursday 29 May
Prof Tom O’Loughlin (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Cassiodorus the Dialectician’
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CLASSICS: RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES 2007-8
Papers start at 6pm and are held in Burgess Lecture Room, Department of Classics. All welcome. For more information please contact either Dr Mirjam Plantinga (m.plantinga AT lamp.ac.uk) or Dr Federico Santangelo (f.santangelo AT lamp.ac.uk).
Thursday 18 October
Dr Emma Stafford (Leeds University)
‘Herakles heros theos: how to worship a hero-god’
Thursday 25 October
Dr Ruth Parkes (Oxford University)
‘What’s in a name? The ambushers of Statius’ Thebaid’
Thursday 1 November
Dr Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham University)
‘Ancient Commentary: Asconius and Cicero on Milo and Papirius’
Tuesday 6 November
Prof. Helen Lovatt (Nottingham University)
‘Monumentally epic: Medusa, heroism and the epic gaze?’
Thursday 15 November
Dr Sarah Hitch (Bristol University)
‘Horses and hair. The trouble with sacrifice in the Iliad.’
Thursday 22 November
Charlotte Greenacre (UCL)
‘Numbers from Nowhere. A Critical Analysis of Scheidel’s Human Mobility’
Thursday 29 November
Owen Hodkinson (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Philostratus’ /Erotic Epistles/ and Latin elegy’
Thursday 17 January
Dr Peter Liddel (Manchester University)
‘The Decree-Cultures of Ancient Greece’
Thursday 24 January
Errietta Bissa (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Man, Woman or Myth? Gender Trouble in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans.’
Thursday 31 January
Prof. Andrew Laird (Warwick University)
‘The Creation of Virgil’
Thursday 7 February
Dr Helen van Noorden (Cambridge University)
‘Apocalypse how?’
Thursday 21 February
Dr Victoria Moul (Oxford University)
TBC
Thursday 28 February
Dr Matthew Wright (Exeter University)
‘Aristophanes’ Frogs: agony and irony’
Thursday 6 March
Dr Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge University)
‘Strabo on cultural centres across the Mediterranean’
Thursday 17 April
Dr Carrie Roth-Murray (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Ritual interaction in colonial contexts’
Thursday 24 April
Prof. Geoffrey Eatough (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘How to write the history of the New World: Peter Martyr’s De Orbe Novo’
Thursday 1 May
Dr David Fearn (Oxford University)
TBC
Thursday 8 May
Dr Katerina Oikonomopolou (St Andrews University)
‘Athenaeus’ Ethnography’
Thursday 22 May
Prof. John Rich (Nottingham University)
‘Lex Licinia, Lex Sempronia: B.G. Niebuhr and the limitation of landholding under the Roman Republic’
Thursday 29 May
Prof Tom O’Loughlin (University of Wales Lampeter)
‘Cassiodorus the Dialectician’