DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY, EXETER UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH SEMINAR, Semester 1
Seminars are held on Thursdays 4-6 in Amory 128, with the exception of week 3, when a special seminar on pseudo-Xenophon, ‘The Constitution of the Athenians (‘The Old Oligarch’) will be held on Wednesday October 22nd, to mark the publication of a new edition by John Marr and Peter Rhodes.
Seminars can be on any topic but one of the themes of the year is Galen and medical history.
Seminars marked CA are lectures delivered to the Classical Association and begin at 5 in Amory 417.
Term 1
Week 1, Oct 9 no seminar
Week 2, Oct 16 Richard Seaford (Exeter)
‘Aeschylus and Pythagoreanism’
Week 3, Oct 22 Old Oligarch seminar, WEDNESDAY Oct 22, 2-5, Amory 501
Week 4, Oct 30 CA: Barbara Borg (Exeter)
‘What’s in a Tomb? Roman Death Public and Private’
Week 5, Nov 6 Ivana Petrovic (Durham)
‘Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo and Greek Metrical Sacred Regulations’
Week 6, Nov 13 CA: Robert Fowler (Bristol)
‘Herculaneum and the Villa of the Papyri: Recent News’
Week 7, Nov 20 Martin Lindner (Oldenburg)
‘Old New Myths: Classical Reception and Modern Nationalism’
Week 8, Nov 27 CA: Nick Fisher (Cardiff)
‘Festivals, the Charities and Social Cohesion in Greek City States’
Week 9, Dec 4 Masahiro Imai (Hirosaki)
‘The Hippocratic Tradition in Early Alexandrian Medicine’
Week 10, Dec 11 Dr Julius Rocca (Exeter)
‘Reading Galen: by Galen’
TERM 2
Week 11, Jan 15 Mark Jackson (Centre for Medical History, Exeter)
‘Classical Asthma: from Homer to Galen’
Week 12, Jan 22 Sarah Hitch (Bristol)
‘Food for the Greek Gods: A Mythological Paradox’
RESEARCH SEMINAR, Semester 1
Seminars are held on Thursdays 4-6 in Amory 128, with the exception of week 3, when a special seminar on pseudo-Xenophon, ‘The Constitution of the Athenians (‘The Old Oligarch’) will be held on Wednesday October 22nd, to mark the publication of a new edition by John Marr and Peter Rhodes.
Seminars can be on any topic but one of the themes of the year is Galen and medical history.
Seminars marked CA are lectures delivered to the Classical Association and begin at 5 in Amory 417.
Term 1
Week 1, Oct 9 no seminar
Week 2, Oct 16 Richard Seaford (Exeter)
‘Aeschylus and Pythagoreanism’
Week 3, Oct 22 Old Oligarch seminar, WEDNESDAY Oct 22, 2-5, Amory 501
Week 4, Oct 30 CA: Barbara Borg (Exeter)
‘What’s in a Tomb? Roman Death Public and Private’
Week 5, Nov 6 Ivana Petrovic (Durham)
‘Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo and Greek Metrical Sacred Regulations’
Week 6, Nov 13 CA: Robert Fowler (Bristol)
‘Herculaneum and the Villa of the Papyri: Recent News’
Week 7, Nov 20 Martin Lindner (Oldenburg)
‘Old New Myths: Classical Reception and Modern Nationalism’
Week 8, Nov 27 CA: Nick Fisher (Cardiff)
‘Festivals, the Charities and Social Cohesion in Greek City States’
Week 9, Dec 4 Masahiro Imai (Hirosaki)
‘The Hippocratic Tradition in Early Alexandrian Medicine’
Week 10, Dec 11 Dr Julius Rocca (Exeter)
‘Reading Galen: by Galen’
TERM 2
Week 11, Jan 15 Mark Jackson (Centre for Medical History, Exeter)
‘Classical Asthma: from Homer to Galen’
Week 12, Jan 22 Sarah Hitch (Bristol)
‘Food for the Greek Gods: A Mythological Paradox’