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The Institute of Classical Studies in co-operation with The British Academy and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences will hold a one-day colloquium devoted to the newly published palimpsest text of Hypereides. The palimpsest contains fragments of two speeches and is the most exciting discovery in the area of Greek oratory for almost a century. Friday [...]

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 [...]

All papers take place on Tuesdays at 5.30 in the Classics seminar room, K217, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4. 27 January 2009 Dr Helen Dixon, University College Dublin Pomponio in the bath-house: the reception of the thermae Constantinianae in Renaissance Rome 10 February 2009 Professor Judith Barringer, University of Edinburgh The Olympic [...]

University of Oxford Classical Language and Literature Subfaculty Seminar, Hilary 2009 ‘Current Research in Classics’ Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Classics Centre (except 5th wk). Convenors: Ruth Parkes, Sarah Harden, Bob Cowan 1st wk (22nd Jan.): ‘Oops! Accidental death and the poetics of contingency in Greek and Roman epic.’ Bob Cowan [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS Greenscapes ~ Sense and Meaning: Fields of Dreams (Landscapes of Myth and Imagination) October 1-3, 2009, Brock University Our landscapes have long been the unconscious repository of cultural hopes, fears and desires. >From the Garden of Eden to Aboriginal Dreamtime, societies have perceived their surrounding natural environment to express cultural values reflected [...]

Conversational Latin Seminar in Lexington for 2009