THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Classics | David Hume Tower | George Square | Edinburgh EH8 9JX

http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm
Classics Research Seminar 2008/2009 Semester 1
All seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
and, unless otherwise stated, in the Faculty Room North DHT
Week 2 | 1 October
Professor GREGORY HUTCHINSON (Oxford)
Politics and the Sublime in Plinys Speech to Trajan
Week 3 | 8 October | Conference Room DHT
Professor EBERHARD SAUER (Edinburgh)
A Late Antique Frontier Defence System in Northern Iran
Week 4 | 15 October
Dr CAROLINE VOUT (Cambridge)
Rome as City of Seven Hills
Week 5 | 22 October | Conference Room DHT
Professor BRUCE GIBSON (Liverpool)
Silius Italicus: a Consular Historian?
Week 6: Reading Week/No Research Seminar
Week 7 | 5 November
Dr LUKE HOUGHTON (Glasgow)
Virgils fourth Eclogue Historical Soundings
Week 8 | 12 November
Dr MAREK WEOWSKI (Warsaw)
Purposes of Ostracism: for a New Light on Some Old Potsherds
Week 9 | 19 November
Professor ANGELOS CHANIOTIS (Oxford)
The Ithyphallic Hymn for Demetrios Poliorketes and Hellenistic
Religious Mentality
Week 10 | 26 November
Professor MALCOLM HEATH (Leeds)
The Best Kind of Tragic Plot: Aristotles Argument in Poetics 1314
Week 11 | 3 December
Dr GAVIN KELLY (Edinburgh)
An Idiots Guide to Roman History: New Thoughts on the Breviarium of Festus
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Classics | David Hume Tower | George Square | Edinburgh EH8 9JX
http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm
Classics Research Seminar 2008/2009 Semester 2
All seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5 pm
in the Faculty Room North DHT
Week 2 | 21 January
Professor TIMOTHY BARNES (Toronto/Edinburgh)
Christians in the Severan Empire
Week 3 | 28 January
Professor KEITH RUTTER (Edinburgh)
Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily
Week 4 | 4 February
Professor MICHAEL REEVE (Cambridge)
The Vita Plinii and other Pliniana
Week 5 | 11 February
Professor GEOFFREY B. GREATREX (Ottawa)
Patriarchs and Politics in sixth-century Constantinople
Week 6: Reading Week/No Research Seminar
Week 7 | 25 February
Professor MICHAEL FULFORD (Reading)
Going down! The Silchester Insula IX Town Life Project 19972009
Week 8 | 4 March
Dr JANE LIGHTFOOT (Oxford)
Dionysius the Periegete
Week 9 | 11 March
Professor GIOVAN BATTISTA DALESSIO (KCL)
A Greek Lyric Poet from Samos to Ghazni
Week 10 | 18 March
Professor TIM CORNELL (Manchester)
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Week 11 | 25 March
Professor JOSEPH ROISMAN (Colby College)
Alexanders the Great Veterans