This Day in Ancient History
ante diem xviii kalendas februarias
- carmentalia (day 2) — an annual festival in honour of the nymph Carmenta (a divinity associated with prophecy and childbirth; also the mother of Evander) celebrated primarily by women on the 11th and 15th of January
CONF: Late Antique and Byzantine Historiography
Late Antique and Byzantine Historiography
A one day colloquium at Cardiff University
Hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture
Date: 21 January 2009, 10.00am-5pm
Place: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Room 2.03
Provisional Programme:
10.00am: Mark Humphries (Swansea), Visa vel lecta? Ammianus Marcellinus and the monuments of Rome
10.45: Andy Fear (Manchester), A new chosen people? Orosius and the epic of Rome
11.30: Coffee break
12: Josef Lössl (Cardiff), Prophecy in historiography
Lunch break
2pm: Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter), Procopius of Caesarea on past and present
2.45: Conor Whately (Warwick), Textual unity in Procopius’ Wars
3.30: Tea break
4pm: Frank Trombley (Cardiff), Michael Attaleiates: professional experience and history writing
For further information please contact:
Dr Shaun Tougher, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Humanities Building, Colum Drive,
Cardiff CF10 3XU, tel: 029-20876228, Email: TougherSF AT cardiff.ac.uk
If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to:
TougherSF AT cardiff.ac.uk
Oxford Lunchtime Seminars
Special Lunchtime Seminar, Hilary Term 2009:
Recent Archaeology in Turkey
First floor seminar room, Ioannou Classics Centre, 66 St. Giles’, Oxford
Week 4 (Feb. 10) – Bert Smith (Oxford), Recent Work at Aphrodisias in Caria
Week 7 (March 3), Reyhan Körpe (Çanakkale University/Martin Harrison Fellow, Oxford), Recent Work in the Troad
Week 8 (March 10), Kutalmiş Görkay (Ankara University/Wolfson College, Oxford), Research at Zeugma
Edinburgh Seminars
Edinburgh Classics Research Seminars – Semester 2
All seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm and, unless otherwise
stated, in Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh
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 1997–2009’
Week 8 | 4 March
Dr JANE LIGHTFOOT (Oxford)
‘Dionysius the Periegete’
Week 9 | 11 March
Professor GIOVAN BATTISTA D’ALESSIO (KCL)
‘A Greek Lyric Poet from Samos to Ghazni’
Week 10 | 18 March
Professor TIM CORNELL (Manchester)
‘Rome’s First Historian: a Reconsideration’
Week 11 | 25 March
Professor JOSEPH ROISMAN (Colby College)
‘Alexander’s the Great Veterans’
15 April | Conference Room
Professor RICHARD HUNTER (Cambridge)
‘The Gods of Callimachus’
13 May | Conference Room
Professor FRANCIS CAIRNS (Florida State University)
‘Elegiac Geography’
20 May | Conference Room
Professor ERICH GRUEN (Berkeley)
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For further details please contact Ursula Rothe (ursula.rothe At ed.ac.uk).
