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 Dion
Wednesday 6 May [Ritson room]
Professor Walter Cavini (Bologna)
Knowledge or Science? Episteme in Plato’s Theaetetus and Aristotle’s
Posterior Analytics
Friday 8 May, 5.30pm [venue: University of Newcastle) [Classical
Association & Roman Society]
Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, London)
Telling stories about Roman law
Wednesday 13 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Annemarie Ambuehl (Groningen)
Talking (about) Heracles: Narrative strategies in Hellenistic ‘epyllion’
Wednesday 20 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Anna Clark (Christ Church, Oxford)
Thinking about gods in Pompeii
Friday 22 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Chloe Balla (University of Crete, Rethymno)
On the origins of social contract theory: Plato and the Sophists
Wednesday 27 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Jannis Mylonopoulos (Columbia University, New York)
Nothing to do with Odysseus? Terracotta figurines from Ithaca and the
reinvention of epic traditions
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