Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series

‘An Egyptian poetaster and Rome's Eastern troubles in the year 260’

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 23rd February 2016

‘Singles and the Single Life in the Roman World’

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 8th March 2016

‘The myth of the mighty Roman father’

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 15th March 2016

roman citizenship

The spread of Roman citizenship in economic perspective

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 19th April 2016

Seminar: Fascism on Stage? Anouilh’s Antigone

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 26th April 2016

Alexander in Egypt

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 1st November 2016

Divine ophthalmology: eye-shaped votives for Demeter and Kore

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 15th November 2016

Claudian’s epic animals in the arena

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Calling Rome without names: the timeless pastoral of “Calpurnius Siculus"

5:00pm - 7:00pm  /  Tuesday 29th November 2016

Sulla

Sulla in the Social War

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 7th February 2017

Monster

Monstrous Acting: Ancient Monsters on Film

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 14th February 2017

Polychrome Marble Floor

Imperial Marble Reconsidered

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 21st February 2017

Polybios

Pathos with a Point. A Re-Evaluation of Tragic Historiography

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 14th March 2017

Roman Art

Making Greek Art Roman

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 21st March 2017

Papyrus

Our Boys Lost in Fragments. Three New Texts of Greek Literature

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 28th March 2017

Ovid

Ovid's Missing Corpus

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 25th April 2017

Book cover

The Eidolon as Escape: Helen of Troy and the Poetic Imagination

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 3rd October 2017

Attic red figure kylix tondo, Kodros Painter, c. 430-20 BC; London, BM E 82.

Wealth and laments: Hades giver of good things

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 10th October 2017

The Behistun Inscription; photo: Christopher Taplin

The intersection of gods and kings in Achaemenid Iran

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 17th October 2017

Symposium scene. Side A of an Attic red-figure kalyx-krater, 510–500 BC; source: Wikipedia Commons

Quotation into Narrative: Athenaeus and his followers

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 24th October 2017

Tacitus in Wien, Photo: Ellen O'Gorman

Tacitus' Spectacles

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 14th November 2017

The Olynthos team at work. Photo: Zosia Archibald.

Why stuff matters to Ancient History: The Olynthos Project, 2017

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 21st November 2017

Boreas and Oreithyia | Athenian red-figure amphora C5th B.C. | Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

Winds in Ancient Greek Religion

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 28th November 2017

Augustus as pontifex maximus, c. 20 BC, National Museum of Rome

Religious Fundamentalism at Rome

5:00pm - 6:30pm  /  Tuesday 5th December 2017

Roman Noses

Roman Noses (Dr Mark Bradley, University of Nottingham)

5:00pm - 6:00pm  /  Tuesday 2nd April 2019