CONF: Reading Seminars
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, [...]
CFP: AMPAL 2009
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 [...]
CFP: Family as Strategy in the Roman Empire
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 [...]
This Day in Ancient History
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