DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY, EXETER UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH SEMINAR, Semester 1 NB: UPDATED VERSION
Seminars are held on Thursdays 4-6 in Amory 128, 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.
(A special seminar on pseudo-Xenophon, ‘The Constitution of the Athenians (‘The Old Oligarch’) is being organised, to mark the publication of a new edition by John Marr and Peter Rhodes. The rearranged date for this (no longer Oct 22nd) will be circulated separately.)
Term 1
Week 1, Oct 9 no seminar
Week 2, Oct 16 Richard Seaford (Exeter)
‘Aeschylus and Pythagoreanism’
Week 3, Oct 23 Martin Lindner (Oldenburg)
‘Old New Myths: Classical Reception and Modern Nationalism’
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 Rebecca Langlands (Exeter)
‘Getting a Rise out of the Tourist: the Suburban Baths in Pompeii and the Interplay of Academic and Popular Imaginations’
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 NB: UPDATED VERSION
Seminars are held on Thursdays 4-6 in Amory 128, 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.
(A special seminar on pseudo-Xenophon, ‘The Constitution of the Athenians (‘The Old Oligarch’) is being organised, to mark the publication of a new edition by John Marr and Peter Rhodes. The rearranged date for this (no longer Oct 22nd) will be circulated separately.)
Term 1
Week 1, Oct 9 no seminar
Week 2, Oct 16 Richard Seaford (Exeter)
‘Aeschylus and Pythagoreanism’
Week 3, Oct 23 Martin Lindner (Oldenburg)
‘Old New Myths: Classical Reception and Modern Nationalism’
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 Rebecca Langlands (Exeter)
‘Getting a Rise out of the Tourist: the Suburban Baths in Pompeii and the Interplay of Academic and Popular Imaginations’
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’