May 11, 2009
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TELEOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The Dispensation of Nature The University of Exeter, 8-11 July, 2009 Organisers: Dr. Julius Rocca and Prof. Christopher Gill An international conference on how teleological arguments were used in medicine and philosophy in antiquity, and how these arguments have continued to inform and influence current debate on evolution, creationism, and…
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College Lecturership and Classics Faculty Fellowship Ancient History St Hilda’s College University of Oxford http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/RP642/
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KYKNOS: THE SWANSEA, LAMPETER, AND EXETER CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE NARRATIVE LITERATURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Below is given the KYKNOS programme for Easter term 2009. For more information about the various activities of the research centre, please visit our website (www.kyknos.org.uk) or contact Professor John Morgan (John.Morgan AT swansea.ac.uk) or Dr Magdalena Öhrman…
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Re-Inventing Athens after Loraux: A Workshop on the Funeral Oration Organisers: Julia L. Shear and Ian Ruffell Saturday 27 June, 10 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Department of Classics 65 Oakfield Avenue University of Glasgow Originally published in 1981, Nicole Loraux’s book L’invention d’Athènes: histoire de l’oraison funèbre dans la “cité classique” quickly became the main…
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Trinity term programme Tuesday lunchtimes (1 pm) weeks: 2 – 5 Oxford, Institute of Archaeology, Beaumont St., Lecture Room *Week 2 (5 May) – Thomas Kiely (British Museum) Re-excavating Kourion, Cyprus. The British Museum Cyprus Digitisation Project *Week 3 (12 May) – Peter Haarer (Oxford) Alphabets and Iron Week 4 (19 May) – Nicoletta Momigliano…