CONF: Expurgation and The Classics

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The Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity
Presents a Colloquium on Expurgation and The Classics
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Saturday 13th November 2010.

This one-day colloquium (c.10.00-6.15) looks at expurgation in classical scholarship and education and the strategies it has used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with Christian and other post-classical values.

Speakers : Ewen Bowie, Valentine Cunningham, Stephen Harrison, Tim Leary, James Morwood, Dan Orrells, Ian Ruffell, Christopher Stray, Gail Trimble. Cost £10.00 to include coffee, lunch and tea (please pay cash on the day); graduate students of Corpus, no charge. If you would like to attend, please register with Prof. Stephen Harrison at Corpus (stephen.harrison AT ccc.ox.ac.uk).

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