CONF: Travels and Encounters: Journeys to the Known and Unknown in Greco Roman Antiquity

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The Royal Irish Academy National Committee for Greek and Latin Studies
presents a colloquium on

TRAVELS AND ENCOUNTERS: JOURNEYS TO THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN IN GRECO- ROMAN ANTIQUITY

19–20 November 2009
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2

THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER

6:00-7:15 Robin Lane Fox, New College, University of Oxford
“Travelling heroes in the age of Homer”

7:15-8:00 Reception

FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER

9:30-10:45 Dr Edward Herring, NUI Galway
“Who let the frogs out? Early Greek settlement in South Italy and the
notion of the colony”

10:45-11:15 Coffee

11:15-12:30 Dr Karen Ní Mheallaigh, University of Exeter
"Travels in hyperreality: to the moon and beyond in
Lucian’s True Histories"

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:15 Dr David Woods, University College Cork
“’False memory, pious fiction, and the late-antique
pilgrim to the Holy Land’”

3:15-3:45 Coffee

3:45-5:00 Dr Gordon Campbell, NUI Maynooth
“Caesar among the Gauls, Germans, and Britons: at the ends of the earth,
and beyond”

For further information please contact: Dr Edward Herring, College of
Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies, National University of Ireland,
Galway, University Road, Galway (edward.herring AT nuigalway.ie)