CONF: Durham Work-In-Progress Seminars (Michaelmas Term)

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WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINARS (Wednesdays 1-2 pm)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2010

Venue:
Durham University, Department of Classics & Ancient History, 38 North
Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU, Room no. 108 (first floor)

Week 2 (Wednesday 13 October 2010)
Professor Ingo Gildenhard (Durham University):
“Cicero’s De officiis. Roman Republican Ethics in a Platonizing Key”

Week 4 (Wednesday 27 October 2010)
Professor Edward Harris (Durham University):
“Were There Business Agents in Classical Greece? The Evidence of Some Lead
Letters”

Week 5 (Wednesday 3 November 2010)
Professor J. David Thomas (Durham University):
“Some Unpublished Latin Writing Tablets from Vindolanda”

Week 6 (Wednesday 10 November 2010)
Professor George Boys-Stones (Durham University):
“Did Plato Believe in God?”

Week 7 (Wednesday 17 November 2010)
Professor Barbara Graziosi (Durham University):
“Divine Inspiration and Narrative Technique in the Iliad”

Week 8 (Wednesday 24 November 2010)
Dr Matthew Peacock (Durham University):
“The Valerii Laevini. A Dynasty of Republican ‘Greek Experts’?”

Week 9 (Wednesday 1 December 2010)
Professor Paola Ceccarelli (Durham University):
Title TBC

Week 10 (Wednesday 8 December 2010)
Dr Johannes Haubold (Durham University):
“The Role of Babylon in Ctesias’ Persica”

Contact:
PD Dr. Thorsten Fögen: thorsten.foegen AT durham.ac.uk

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