Classics Research Seminar

Programme, Sem 1, 2011/12

Out of Africa

28/09/11
Dr Josephine Crawley-Quinn (Worcester College, Oxford)
Capitolia in Italy and Africa

05/10/11
Dr Orietta Cordovana (Freie Universitt Berlin)
limes Africae


Reading Homer

12/10/11
Prof. Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh)
ate in the Homeric poems

19/10/11
joint with CAS; start 7 pm
Prof. Ruth Scodel (Michigan)
Mindreading in Odysseys


Writing (ancient) history

02/11/11
Prof. Neville Morley (Bristol)
Thucydides and the modern idea of history

09/11/11
Dr Timothy Duff (Reading)
Rethinking Plutarchs Lives


Death and burial

16/11/11
Dr Markus Scholz (Rmisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz)
Beyond death: funeral monuments as new status symbols in the northern provinces of the Imperium
Romanum (1-3 c. AD)

23/11/11
Dr Maureen Carroll (Sheffield)
Too young for the funeral pyre! Infant death and society in Roman Italy




Venue and time: SHCA, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Teviot Place, Doorway 4; 5.10 pm (unless otherwise stated).



The venue is accessible at ground floor level.
All welcome!
Contact and information: Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (l.llewellyn-jones@ed.ac.uk) or Dr Ulrike Roth (u.roth@ed.ac.uk).