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Dear colleagues,
Please find below the Semester 1 programme of Classics Research Seminars at Edinburgh. All seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5 pm in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, 2nd floor, Medical School, Teviot Place, unless otherwise stated. All are welcome to attend. For further information please contact Ursula Rothe (ursula.rothe AT ed.ac.uk).
Semester 1:
29th September
Prof. WILLIAM HARRIS (Columbia)
‘Approaches to Roman poverty’6th October
Prof. ØIVIND ANDERSEN (Oslo)
‘Herakles in the Odyssey’13th October
Prof. JAN BREMMER (Groningen)
‘Ancient necromancy – fact or fiction?’20th October
Dr. EMMA STAFFORD (Leeds)
‘Herculean tasks: writing about Herakles in the 21st century’3rd November
Dr. CALUM MACIVER (Edinburgh)
‘Rereading Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe’10th November
Prof. THOMAS HARRISON (Liverpool)
‘Herodotus on Persian royal ideology’17th November – 5.30 start!!!
Prof. DAMIEN NELIS (Geneva)
‘Vergilian futures in the Georgics’24th November
Dr. COLIN MACDONALD (Edinburgh)
‘Aspects of excavation and research in and around the Bronze Age Palace of Knossos’
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