SEMINAR PROGRAM, EPIPHANY TERM 2009
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham
Wednesday 21 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Daniela Colomo (Oxford)
The Leipzig Callimachus: scholia to Iambus XII on a new papyrus fragment
Wednesday 28 January, 5.30pm [PG20]
Professor Ulrich Eigler (University of Zürich)
The death of a villain
Wednesday 4 February, 5.30pm [Seminar room] [Classical Association]
Dr Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham)
Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII
Wednesday 11 February, 5.30pm [PG20]
Professor Maurizio Bettini (Siena)
Figuratively speaking: Greek and Roman metaphors for being human
Wednesday 18 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Malcolm Heath (Leeds)
Human uniqueness and human diversity in Aristotle
Wednesday 25 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Martin Ruehl (Cambridge)
Greeks, beasts, supermen: Nietzsche’s anti-humanist philhellenism
Wednesday 4 March, 5.30pm [Seminar room] [Classical Association]
Professor Tom Harrison (Liverpool)
History as myth: the memorialising function of Herodotus’ Histories
Wednesday 11 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Lloyd Gerson (Toronto)
Is Plato’s Theaetetus an Aporetic or an Euporetic dialogue?
Wednesday 18 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Nigel Kennell (Athens)
The aftermath of the ephebate? The neoi in the Hellenistic Greek city
The lectures by Ulrich Eigler, Maurizio Bettini, Malcolm Heath, and Martin Ruehl are part of the series ‘Being Human – Classical Perspectives’, which is co-sponsored by the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition (http://www.dur.ac.uk/classical.tradition/) and the Durham Institute of Advanced Study (http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/). Please contact Ingo Gildenhard (ingo.gildenhard AT dur.ac.uk) for more information on those lectures.
For further information on the seminar programme, please contact Ted Kaizer (ted.kaizer AT durham.ac.uk).
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