Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series 0151 794 2891 lynnf@liverpool.ac.uk The Maryport Altars in Context: Examining a Cult Complex on Rome’s North West Frontier5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 9th February 2016‘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 2016The spread of Roman citizenship in economic perspective5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 19th April 2016Seminar: Fascism on Stage? Anouilh’s Antigone5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 26th April 2016Alexander in Egypt 5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 1st November 2016Divine ophthalmology: eye-shaped votives for Demeter and Kore5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 15th November 2016Claudian’s epic animals in the arena5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 22nd November 2016Calling Rome without names: the timeless pastoral of “Calpurnius Siculus"5:00pm - 7:00pm / Tuesday 29th November 2016Sulla in the Social War5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 7th February 2017Monstrous Acting: Ancient Monsters on Film5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 14th February 2017Imperial Marble Reconsidered5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 21st February 2017Pathos with a Point. A Re-Evaluation of Tragic Historiography5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 14th March 2017Making Greek Art Roman5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 21st March 2017Our Boys Lost in Fragments. Three New Texts of Greek Literature5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 28th March 2017Ovid's Missing Corpus5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 25th April 2017The Eidolon as Escape: Helen of Troy and the Poetic Imagination5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 3rd October 2017Wealth and laments: Hades giver of good things5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 10th October 2017The intersection of gods and kings in Achaemenid Iran 5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 17th October 2017Quotation into Narrative: Athenaeus and his followers 5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 24th October 2017Greek Tragedy and Agonistic Space: A Contemporary Viewing of The Suppliant Women 5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 31st October 2017Tacitus' Spectacles 5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 14th November 2017Why stuff matters to Ancient History: The Olynthos Project, 20175:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 21st November 2017Winds in Ancient Greek Religion 5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 28th November 2017Religious Fundamentalism at Rome5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 5th December 2017'Resonant Mysteries. Laughter, Illness and Initiation in Lucian’s Podagra' with Dr Georgia Petridou (University of Liverpool)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 13th February 2018'The Trouble with Xenophon: Marching with the Ten Thousand in twenty-first century fiction' with Dr Fiona Hobden (University of Liverpool)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 20th February 2018'Hearing voices: intertextual orality in Plutarch' with Dr Alexei Zadorozhny (University of Liverpool) 5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 13th March 2018'Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero' with Professor Anthony Corbeill (University of Virginia)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 10th April 2018'Fictions of Space from Old to New Comedy' with Professor Niall Slater (Emory University)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 17th April 2018'‘Laying the law down’: the Greek nomothetes, and how Philo, Josephus, and Plutarch made sense of Plato?' with Dr Ália Rodrigues (University of Coimbra) 5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 24th April 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: 'Why aren't there Vandal women? Gender, ethnicity, and dynasty in Vandal North Africa (439-533 CE)' (Robin Whelan, University of Liverpool)5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 2nd October 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: 'Editing Pindar' (Professor Patrick Finglass, University of Bristol)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 9th October 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: 'Musical Instruments in Roman and Late Antique Egypt’ (Dr Ellen Swift, University of Kent)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 16th October 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: ‘Etymology in Oppian’s Halieutica: between poetry, philology, and scholarship’ (Prof. Athanassios Vergados, University of Newcastle)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 23rd October 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: ‘Herodotus and Thucydides in Procopius’ Wars' (Dr Vasiliki Zali, University of Liverpool)5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 30th October 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: ‘Between East and West: the case of Dionysius’ “hybridity” in Chariton’s novel Callirhoe’ (Dr Mai Musié, University of Oxford)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 13th November 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: ‘The production and construction of diplomatic space in ancient Rome’ (Dr Hannah Cornwell, University of Birmingham)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 20th November 2018Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: 'Religious pluralism in Antiquity: Herodotus, the Roman Republic and late Antiquity' (Prof. Jan Bremmer, University of Groningen)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 27th November 2018Readers of Classical Absences: Italo Calvino and Alberto Manguel (Dr Laura Jansen, University of Bristol)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 5th March 2019Greek and Roman Warfare in Terry Pratchett’s 'Discworld' (Dr Juliette Harrisson, Newman University)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 12th March 2019Penelope, Clytemnestra and the challenges of military homecomings (Dr Emma Bridges, Institute of Classical Studies)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 19th March 2019The case against studying popular culture as ‘history’ (Dr Ross Clare, University of Liverpool)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 26th March 2019Roman Noses (Dr Mark Bradley, University of Nottingham)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 2nd April 2019Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series: ‘Leadership through letters: Cicero’s correspondence with Cassius in 44-43 BC' (Dr Henriette van der Blom, University of Birmingham)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 8th October 2019Kalasiris, necromancy, and Egyptian magic in Heliodoros' Aithiopika (Dr Marina Escolano-Poveda, University of Liverpool – Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)5:00pm - 6:00pm / Tuesday 19th November 2019