April 2009
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DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS UNIVERSITY OF READING Mary Beard (Cambridge) “Laughing with (or at?) the Romans” Room: HumSS 175 14 May 2009, Thursday, 4 p.m. Robert Parker (Oxford) “Sacrifice: The Big Issues” Room: HumSS 175 20 May 2009, Wednesday, 4 p.m. Terence Irwin (Oxford) “Beauty and Morality in Aristotle” Room: HumSS 175 27 May 2009, Wednesday,…
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The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature 2009 will be held at the University of Birmingham on 14-15 November 2009. AMPAL is a conference for postgraduates studying ancient literature which is now in its fifth year. It allows students to present their research, to take part in discussion and exchange of ideas, and to…
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10TH UNISA CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM in cooperation with the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Studies University of South Africa, Pretoria Date: October 15 – 17, 2009 THEME: ‘Family as Strategy in the Roman Empire’ Papers are hereby invited on any aspect of the family in Greco-Roman antiquity and early Christianity that may be seen…
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pridie kalendas maias ludi Florae (day 4) 65 A.D. — death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus … a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning) 304 A.D. — beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius 311 A.D. — Edict of Toleration of Galerius 1936 — death of A.E. Housman
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Classical Reception in English Literature, 1660-1790 An international Workshop in connection with The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (published by Oxford University Press) 27-28 June 2009, University of Bristol The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature is a new, five-volume publication, offering a comprehensive survey and investigation of the reception…
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