UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURES, 2008-9, SEMESTER 2

With the exception of the very first meeting, all research seminars are on Thursdays at 5 pm in the Samuel Alexander Building, Room S. 1. 7.
CA lectures are on Wednesdays at 5.30 in Room A. 7 of the same building.
All are welcome at all meetings, also at drinks after the discussion and at the meal with the speaker later on.

Wed. 28 January, 5 pm, exceptionally in Room A. 116
Giuseppe Ucciardello (Messina)
New Fragments of Attic orators in a Vatican manuscript (Georgios Phrankopoulos’ lexicon)

CA Wed. 4 February, 5.30 pm, A. 7 [Joint meeting with the Hellenic Society]
Patrick Finglass (Nottingham)
Sophocles at Leiden

Thurs. 5 February
Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)
Causation in post-Augustan epic

Thurs. 12 February
Simon Corcoran (UCL)
The Code of Justinian: a sixth-century life

Thurs. 19 February
Fiona Hobden (Liverpool)
Enter the divine? Religious experience and sympotic performance

Thurs. 26 February
Laurent Pernot (Strasbourg)
Aelius Aristides and Greek books in the second century AD

Thurs. 5 March
Judy Barringer (Edinburgh)
The Olympic Altis in 476

Thurs. 12 March
Roger Brock (Leeds)
Greek political imagery in the fifth century BC

CA Wed. 18 March, 5.30 pm, A. 7 [Joint meeting with the Roman Society]
Tony Wilmott (English Heritage)
The Amphitheatre in Roman Britain

Thurs. 19 March
Ashley Clements (TCDublin)
Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae: a comedy of mortal error?

Thurs. 26 March
Loveday Alexander (Sheffield/Manchester)
Canon and exegesis in the medical schools of antiquity

EASTER

Thurs. 23 April
Jill Harries (St Andrews)
Inventing the lawyer in early imperial Rome

Thurs. 30 April
Alison Sharrock (Manchester)
Ovid and the epic cycle

Thurs. 7 May
Roslynne Bell (Manchester)
Augustus and the temple of Magna Mater (or: How can I ignore the god next door?)

CA Wed. 13 May, 5.30 pm, A. 7
April Pudsey (Edinburgh)
Family and household in Græco-Roman Egypt

Thurs. 14 May
Amy Coker (Manchester)
Aspects of grammatical gender in Greek

Thurs. 21 May
Philippe Mudry (Lausanne)
Umbricius’ astonishing choice in Juvenal, Satires 3

Thurs. 28 May
Hugh Bowden (KCL)
Eunuch priests in the Roman cult of Magna Mater

Thurs. 4 June
Ruth Morello (Manchester)
The letters of Pliny the Younger

David.Langslow AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the research seminar;
Tim.Parkin AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the CA meetings, including requests to dine with the speaker

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).

Call for Papers for a panel at the next Annual Meeting of the American
Philological Association

The HEXAMETERS of HOMER and VERGIL
Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature.
Organized by Andrew S. Becker, Virginia Tech.

The contemporary poet Kenneth Koch has said that poetry is language Œin
which the sound of words is raised to an importance equal to that of their
meaning, and also equal to the importance of grammar and syntax.¹  Poets and
scholars have been telling us such things for many years.  Recent
innovations in technology can enhance our ability to note and describe
aural, rhythmical, and metrical phenomena: for example, James Dee
Repertorium Homericae Poesis Hexametricum.  Other recent studies focus on
the literary significance of rhythm and meter in local contexts: for
example, Mark Edwards, Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and
Latin Poetry.  Still others serve as protreptic anthologies of verse
performed rather than read silently: for example, Clive Brooks Reading Latin
Poetry Aloud: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse, and several
web sites, including that of the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and
Latin Literature (SORGLL).

We welcome abstracts that treat the sounds of the Homeric and/or the
Vergilian hexameter, including but not limited to the relationship between
sound, rhythm, meter, and sense.  Although sound need not be rhetorical to
be worth noting, those moments when it is‹those passages in which sound and
sense seem mutually supportive and interdependent‹are often the most
striking and notable.

Equally welcome are abstracts that deal with, inter alia, the linguistics of
poetic sound, rhythm, and meter; the ancient Greek and/or Roman reception
and perception of such phenomena; adaptations of or responses to the sound
of Homeric and/or Vergilian hexameters; the historical development of
scholarship on the sounds of Homer and Vergil.  And equally welcome are
papers that treat only Homer or only Vergil, as well as papers that take a
comparative perspective.  Presenters should be prepared to support their
views with oral demonstration.

Abstracts should be sent as e-mail attachments by FEBRUARY 15, 2009
to Andrew S. Becker at:
andrew.becker AT vt.edu

Abstracts must be only one page in length, and contain no indication of
authorship. In accordance with APA regulations, all abstracts for papers
will be read anonymously by three outside readers. Please follow the
instructions for the format of individual abstracts that will appear in the
APA Program Guide.