February 3, 2012
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Seen on the Classicists list: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome International Conference, Leiden University, 31 May and 1 June 2012 The Greek rhetorician and historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus settled in Rome in 30 BC. His rhetorical works, critical essays and history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities) are inextricably linked with the culture of Augustan…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Metaphor in Greek and Roman Literature and Culture (a one-day workshop) Friday 4 May, 2012 School of Classics, University of St Andrews * Anna Uhlig (Cambridge): Sea as metaphor in fifth-century Greece. * Sebastian Matzner (KCL): Metaphor’s other: making sense of metonymy. * Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews): The erotics of…
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2012.02.04: Achim Lichtenberger, Severus Pius Augustus: Studien zur sakralen Repräsentation und Rezeption der Herrschaft des Septimius Severus und seiner Familie (193-211 n. chr.). Impact of empire, 14. 2012.02.03: Suzanne Saïd, Homer and the Odyssey (originally published 1998). 2012.02.02: Fabio Berdozzo, Götter, Mythen, Philosophen: Lukian und die paganen Göttervorstellungen seiner Zeit. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und…
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ante diem iii nonas februarias 316 a.d. — martyrdom of St. Blaise 1995 — death of John Pinsent (classicist and founder of Liverpool Classical Monthly)
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