CONF: Teleology in the Ancient World
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 [...]
JOB: Ancient History @ St Hilda’s
College Lecturership and Classics Faculty Fellowship Ancient History St Hilda’s College University of Oxford http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/RP642/
CONF: Kyknos Seminars (etc.)
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 [...]
CONF: Re-Inventing Athens after Loraux
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 [...]
CONF: Greek Archaeology Group Seminars
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 [...]
CONF: Leeds International Classics Seminar
This is a reminder that the Leeds International Classical Seminar for 2009 on the subject of ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’ will take place on Friday May 15th. Those planning to attend should notify Penny Goodman (p.j.goodman AT leeds.ac.uk) BY FRIDAY MAY 8TH in order to secure lunch. The conference fee, which includes tea / [...]
CONF: Durham Seminars
SEMINAR PROGRAM, EASTER TERM 2009 Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham Tuesday 28 April; 5.30pm [Ritson room, NB replaces Anc. Phil. Reading Group] Mr Jonathan Broyles (Edinburgh) Plato’s Apology and the uniqueness of Socrates Wednesday 29 April, 5.30pm [Ritson room] Dr Alexei Zadorozhnyy (Liverpool) Platonic writtenness and orality in Plutarch’s Life of [...]
This Day in Ancient History
ante diem v idus maias Lemuria (day 2) — a private and public appeasement of the dead; the Roman paterfamilias would rise at midnight to conduct a ritual involving beans and bronze rites in honour of Mania – a Roman divinity who was considered the goddess of the dead; she was also the mother of [...]
