ante diem xviii kalendas februarias
Month: January 2010
Happy reBirthday to Us!
Not that it really matters, but today marks the one year anniversary of us moving from our old site to WordPress … and in that time, we had 998 posts (counting this one). Maybe this year I’ll find the time to transfer everything else over ….
This Day in Ancient History: pridie idus januarias
Citanda: Demeter and Kore Return to Aidone
… recently returned from the University of Virginia, after they were discovered to have been illegally acquired. Our previous coverage (in reverse order): UVa Returns … Aidone Returns Redux … Getty Aphrodite
- Demetra e Kore tornano a casa. (Tra gli Scaffali)
CONF: University of Wales Lampeter and KYKNOS Research Seminars Lent term
Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the folks mentioned in the quoted text, not to rogueclassicism!):
Classics Department and KYKNOS research seminars Lent Term 2010.
KYKNOS seminars (marked as such below) begin at 6pm; all others at 5.15pm. All seminars take place in the Roderic Bowen Seminar Room. All welcome. For further information o.hodkinson AT lamp.ac.uk
21/01 Dr Jennifer Ingleheart, Durham ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here: the reception of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid’s Exile Poetry’
28/01 Dr Angus Bowie, The Queen’s College, Oxford ‘The Odyssey looks at the Iliad’ KYKNOS
04/02 Dr Pauline Hanesworth, Lampeter ‘The Eleusinian Heracles: myth and ritual … again’
11/02 Dr Serafina Cuomo, Birkbeck College London ‘Accounts in inscriptions: who counted in classical Athens?’
18/02 No seminar
25/02 Greta Hawes, Bristol ‘Pausanias and the idea of Crete’ KYKNOS
04/03 Dr Luca Larpi, Manchester TBC (Late Antiquity topic)
11/03 Dr Christer Henriksen, Uppsala TBC (on Epigraphical Poetry)
18/03 TBC
25/03 Dr Steven Green, Leeds ‘Astrological Discretion in Augustan Literature’
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