Month: January 2009

CONF: Legacy of Alexander the Great

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THE LEGACY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Third Workshop on Hellenistic History, Culture and Society
The Impact of Hellenism

Friday, 13 February 2009, Humanities Graduate School, School of Archaeology,
Classics & Egyptology, 12 Abercromby Square, Liverpool

This workshop, hosted by the
School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology
The University of Liverpool
12-14 Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7WZ
is funded by the AHRC collaborative research training framework and
addresses all Postgraduate students interested in Hellenistic history,
archaeology and culture. For PGR students from British universities, Travel
expenses to and from Liverpool can be reimbursed within reasonable limits.

Program

09.00-09.15
Introduction

09.15-10.30
John Davies (Liverpool): Hellenistic Economy, Title tbc

10.30-11.00
Coffee

11.00-12.30
Hartmut Leppin (Frankfurt/M.): Leading a Hellene’s Life in a Christian Empire

12.30-14.00
Lunch Break

14.00-15.30
Margherita Facella (Pisa): Continuity of a cult-centre: the case of Duluk
Baba Tepesi

15.30-16.00
Tea

16.00-17.40
Michael Eisenberg (Haifa): Hellenistic fortifications, Title tbc

For further information please contact Dr Michael Sommer:
michael.sommer AT liv.ac.uk

CONF: Phaedrus Colloquium

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Colloquium on Plato’s Phaedrus, April 16th-18th 2009
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

The Phaedrus is one of Plato’s most explicitly ‘literary’ dialogues, both
in the sense that it is crafted in a particularly ingenious fashion and in
so far as it explicitly discusses the worth of literature, especially as a
medium for philosophy. Of course, the Phaedrus also has much to say about
the key Platonic issues of moral psychology, metaphysics, love and
rhetoric. The aim of this colloquium is to encourage collaborative
discussion of both the literary and philosophical significance of the
dialogue. To this end, our programme combines formal papers with sessions
of collaborative close reading of selected passages.

Participants include: Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh), John Henderson
(Cambridge), Matthew Hiscock (Cambridge), Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Alex
Long (St Andrews), Jessica Moss (Oxford), Liz Pender (Leeds), Christopher
Rowe (Durham), Dominic Scott (Virginia), Frisbee Sheffield (Cambridge),
Robert Wardy (Cambridge) and Harvey Yunis (Rice).

For more details please contact Jenny Bryan (jb304 AT cam.ac.uk) or Helen Van
Noorden (hav21 AT cam.ac.uk).

Iron Age Hoard

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This one received quite a bit of press attention … a metal detectorist has come across a hoard of some 824 gold staters, dating from 40 B.C. to 15 A.D. (and so, of course, popularly connected to “Boudicca’s predecessors”) in a field near Wickham Market. It’s apparently the largest hoard found in the UK since 1849.

Jude Plouviez (Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service) dixit:

“It’s a good, exciting find. It gives us a lot of new information about the late Iron Age, and particularly East Anglia in the late Iron Age.

“The discovery is important because it highlights the probable political, economic and religious importance of an area.

“It certainly suggests there was a significant settlement nearby.  As far as we understand, it was occupied by wealthy tribes or subtribes.

“We haven’t seen anything as big as this, the last find of Iceni coins was about 90 coins. The discovery tells us about the later iron age in Suffolk, there was a lot of wealth around and perhaps the hoard was in a disputed area.”

She added:

“We don’t know how much they will be worth but it will be less than they were at the time,” said Ms Plouviez.

“After the treasure trove inquest, they will be offered to museums at their current value.”