CONF: Reading Seminars (Autumn 2010)

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SEMINARS, AUTUMN TERM 2010

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
UNIVERSITY OF READING

VENUE: THE URE MUSEUM OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY (http://www.reading.ac.uk/Ure/index.php) Time: 4pm

Oct 13
Felix Budelmann (Magdalen College, Oxford), “On the Poetics of Alcman 1”

Oct.20
Stephen Colvin (UCL), “Social Dialects of Attic”

Oct 27
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff), “‘Fashions’ and ‘Branding’ in Greek and Roman Pharmacology”

Nov 3
Patrice Rankine (Purdue), “Race and the Reception of the Orpheus Myth in Brazil”

Nov 10
Alan Cromartie (Reading), “Aristotle, Men, and Laws”

Nov 16
Jeremy McInerney (Philadelphia), “A Tale of Two Sanctuaries: Delphi, Kalapodi and the Growth of Phokis”

Nov 17 Peter Pormann (Warwick), “Classical Studies and Twentieth-century Koran Exegesis: The Construction of Modernity”.

Nov 24
Jas Elsner (Corpus Christi College, Oxford),
“Sacrifice in Late Roman Art”

Dec 1
Michael Simpson (Goldsmiths), “Labour and the Classics: Plato and Crossman in Dialogue”

Dec 8 Colloquium: “Characterising Ciphers or Deciphering Characteres? Voces Magicae in the Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri”

Dec 15
Eleanor Robson (Cambridge), “Assyrian and Babylonian Libraries”

All are welcome. Papers are followed by refreshments and in most cases dinner with the speaker. For directions to the University of Reading, please see: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.asp

For online programme, see http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/class-events.aspx

The Return of Histos!

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The Classics Departments at Florida State University (US) and Newcastle
University (UK) announce the revival of Histos, the ancient historiography
Internet journal run from Durham University (UK) between 1996 and 2000.

Our brief remains the same: rapid publication of high-quality articles and
notes on all aspects of ancient historiography and biography (including the
Gospels and later Christian material) and of in-depth reviews of recent
publications in the field. It is not our intention to publish material which
is per se historical, unless it illuminates the qualities of ancient
historians or biographers (this will be a matter of balance and judgment).
All submissions will be anonymously refereed by experts. We aim for a turn-
around time of a maximum of three months. We will publish in English,
French, German and Italian.

New contributions will be posted at the website as soon as they have been
accepted and will then be collated into volumes. In order to maintain
continuity, we will resume publication at volume 5 for the year 2011. The
earlier material (volumes 1–4), currently located at the Durham website,
will be moved to the new site, and will be re-published in PDF form.

Histos will be available both online, in a full open-access version (in PDF
form), and in a printed version. All the papers accepted for publication
will appear in both formats. Readers’ responses are welcomed. Online
versions will be open to named readers’ comments and may themselves generate
further articles and notes.

Information about our web site will be available shortly. In the meantime,
enquiries may be made to the Editors (jmarinco AT fsu.edu;
j.l.moles AT ncl.ac.uk).

Submissions may already be made to histos@ncl.ac.uk. For conventions to be
observed in submissions, please see the end of this message.

Joint Editors: John Marincola and John Moles

Editorial Board (in addition to the Editors, Secretary to the Board and
Reviews Editor):
Jean-Louis Ferrary, École pratique des hautes études, Paris
Dominique Lenfant, Université de Strasbourg
Trevor Luke, Florida State University
Roberto Nicolai, Università di Roma, ‘La Sapienza’
Christopher Pelling, Christ Church, Oxford
Todd Penner, Austin College, Texas
Guido Schepens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
James Sickinger, Florida State University
Rowland Smith, University of Newcastle
Uwe Walter, Universität Bielefeld
Jakob Wisse, University of Newcastle
A. J. Woodman, University of Virginia

Secretary to the Board: Federico Santangelo, University of Newcastle
Reviews Editor: Clemence Schultze, University of Durham

Guidelines for submissions to Histos

Word limit
For the on-line version, there is, in theory, no word limit, although the
Editors retain the right to prune articles that are especially verbose. For
the printed version, articles should not exceed 16,000 words. The necessary
abridgements for the latter will be agreed upon by the contributor(s) and
the editors, while a longer version may still be published online.

Greek
If the article contains Greek, please use a Unicode font; the font itself is
immaterial, provided that it is Unicode.

Citations
1. Greek authors should be cited as in LSJ, Latin authors as in OLD or L&S.
2. Arabic numerals should be used in the references to primary sources:
Paus. 9.29.4.
3. References to secondary literature should follow the Harvard system, and
be in the following form: Syme (1939) 123; Fraenkel (1957) 146-8.
4. The bibliography should be listed at the end of the article. Use italics
for book and journal titles:
Parke, H. W. (1986) ‘The Temple of Apollo at Didyma’, JHS 106: 121-31.
Syme, R. (1939) The Roman Revolution (Oxford)
Wiseman, T. P. (1993) ‘Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity’, in C.
Gill and T. P. Wiseman, edd., Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World (Exeter
and Austin, Tex.) 122-46

Submissions
Articles should be submitted in Word format to histos AT ncl.ac.uk; if the
article contains Greek, please also submit a PDF. The text itself should be
anonymous.
Papers following different editorial conventions may be submitted
for consideration, with the understanding that appropriate formatting will
be carried out by the author(s) if the article is accepted.

You can check out the ‘previously defunct’ Histos page here

CONF: Integrity and Corruption in Antiquity (UNISA)

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Below the programme for this year’s colloquium. Further information and
registration form at
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=23613.

XIth  UNISA CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM: INTEGRITY & CORRUPTION IN ANTIQUITY
21 – 23 October 2010, Kopanong Hall, Theo van Wijk Building 10-24,
Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria

PROGRAMME
Wednesday, October 20th
18:00 – 19:30   Reception, Brooklyn Guest Houses, 128 Murray Street,
Brooklyn

Thursday, October 21st
8:30 – 9:30     Clifford Ando [Chicago] Keynote address ‘Two
Revolutions in Government’
9:30 – 10:20    Denis Saddington [Wits], ‘Under the Centurion’s Boot:
Corruption and Coercion of Civilians by the Roman Army’
11:00 – 11:40   Maria Vamvouri Ruffy [Lausanne], ‘Physical and Social
Corruption in Plutarch’
11:40 – 12:30   Mark Kirby-Hirst [Unisa], ‘Living with Integrity:
Philostratus struggles against Imperial Corruption in the Vitae Sophistarum’
12:30 – 13:00   Szerdi Nagy [UKZN, Pietermaritzburg], ‘The Integrity of
Medea in Apollonius of Rhode’s Argonautica’
14:00 – 14:50   Martin Devecka [Yale], ‘Ambitione Corrupta: Sallust and
the Anthropology of Corruption’
14:50 – 15:40   William Rees [Oxford], ‘Absolute Power Corrupts
Absolutely? Cassius Dio and the Fall of the Republic’
15:40 – 16:10   Ilona Zager [Unisa], ‘Upsetting the Balance: Corrupt
Land Distribution Practices in the Late Roman Republic and the Attempted
Reforms of the Gracchi Brothers’
17 :30 – 18:30  Reception: Philadelphia Restaurant, TvW Building 3rd
level, Unisa

Friday, October 22nd
09:00 – 09:50   Gianluca Casa [Pisa], ‘Integrity in Choices’
09:50 – 10:40   Andrew Domanski [Wits], ‘Pleonexia in Plato’s Republic’
11:10 – 11:40   Daniel Malamis [Rhodes],‘Crimes of the Agora:
Corruption in Homer and Hesiod’
11:40 – 12:30   Johan Steenkamp [UNW], ‘Propertius 2.31: What the Poet
says He Saw’
13:30 – 14:20   Richard Evans [Cardiff], ‘Wishing for a Totalitarian
Regime: an ancient Sicilian Paradox regarding Integrity and Corruption’
14:20 – 15:10   Shushma Malik [Bristol], ‘Ultimate Corruption Manifest:
Nero as the Antichrist in Late Antiquity’
15:10 – 16:00   Obert Mlambo [Harare], ‘Force and fraud in politics in
the Roman Republic: A case for comparison with contemporary Zimbabwe?’
19:00 – 22:00   Conference Dinner: La Cantina, 259 Soutpansberg Road,
Rietondale

Saturday, October 23rd
8:30 – 9:20     Emily Greenwood [Yale], ‘Corruptible Logos: the
Politics of Speech and Silence in Greek Historiography’
9:20 – 10:10    Donato Loscalzo [Perugia], ‘Doro Fig-Sandaled (Cratin.
Fr. 70 Kassel-Austin and Aristoph. Eq. 529)’
10:40 – 11:30   Hannah J Swithinbank [St Andrews], ‘The Corruption of
the Constitution? Pompeius’ Eastern Commands and the changing Res Publica’
11:30 – 12:10   Florian Schaffenrath [Innsbruck], ‘Corruption and
Integrity in Cicero’s Philippics’
12:10 – 13:00   Round-table Discussion and Conference Conclusion

14:00 – 15:00   CASA Northern Branch meeting

Sunday, October 24rd
05:00 – 16:00   Excursion: Pilanesberg Game Reserve, North West Province

JOB: Digital Papyrologist @ NYU

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New York University’s Division of the Libraries seeks a
Programmer/Analyst to work on the “Papyrological Navigator”
(http://papyri.info) and associated systems. Papyri.info is a
web-based research portal that provides scholars worldwide with the
ability to search, browse and collaboratively edit texts,
transcriptions, images and metadata relating to ancient texts on
papyri, pottery fragments and other material. The incumbent will work
closely with the Project Coordinator and with scholars involved in the
project at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Duke
University, the University of Kentucky and the University of
Heidelberg, as well as with NYU Digital Library Technology staff.

The incumbent’s initial responsibilities will include: close
collaboration with project team members to enhance and extend a robust
production environment at NYU for the ongoing ingest and processing of
new and updated text transcriptions, metadata and digital images;
performing both analysis and programming of any required changes or
enhancements to current PN applications.

Candidates should have the following skills:
* Bachelor’s degree in computer or information science and 3 years
of relevant experience or equivalent combination
* Must include experience developing web applications using Java
* Demonstrated knowledge of Java, Javascript, Tomcat, Saxon,
Lucene, Apache, SQL, XML, XSLT
* Experience with metadata standards (e.g. TEI, EpiDoc)
* Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
* Preferred: Experience with Apache Solr, RDF triple stores
(e.g. Mulgara), Clojure
* Preferred: Experience designing, building, and deploying
distributed systems
* Preferred: Experience working with non-Roman Unicode-based
textual data (esp. Greek)
* Excellent communication and analytical skills

Applicants should submit resume and cover letter, which reflects how
applicant’s education and experience match the job requirements.

NYU offers a competitive salary and superior benefit package, which
includes tuition benefits for self and eligible family members,
generous vacation, medical, dental, and retirement plans. For more
information about working at NYU visit our website at: www.nyucareers.com.

To apply:

To apply for this position online, visit
http://www.nyucareers.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52507

NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

CONF: Digitizing Imperial Rome

“Digitizing Imperial Rome: A computerized Approach to the
Architectural History of the Roman Imperial Forum”

Professor Emeritus James Packer, Northwestern University.
King’s Anatomy Theatre Lecture Hall, King’s College London, The
Strand, London. UK
29th of October 2010, commencing at 6 PM.
There will be a reception afterwards at the adjacent Old Anatomy Museum.

ABSTRACT
Although each year millions of people visit the Roman Forum – the
center of Rome’s former remarkable empire – they find only one or two
partially preserved structures and piles of architectural fragments.
Most of the ancient buildings, apart from the few converted into
churches, collapsed after centuries of neglect, leaving their remains
to be quarried by later generations. The details of the individual
buildings are still not widely understood, and the Forum has never
been studied as a unified architectural composition. Moreover, owing
to new archaeological studies and advances in computer technology in
the last fifteen years, it is now possible both to reconstruct the
Forum’s monuments accurately and, with these new reconstructions, to
comprehend the design and meaning of the whole site. These
considerations led my colleague, Professor and Architect Gilbert
Gorski, and me to undertake our new, digitally based study of the
Forum.

Our work clarifies the design of the buildings around the Forum’s
central core. It collects, for the first time in English; the most
important material related each of the major monuments and shows
visually their structure, size and original appearance. Over a period
of nearly forty years (29 B.C. – A.D. 10), Augustus rebuilt the site,
and thereafter, in material, size structure and decoration, its
buildings related clearly to one another. Together they impressively
represented the power and prestige both of Augustus own regime and
that of the Mediterranean Empire it governed.

With some missteps (the short-lived colossal equestrian state of
Domitian, the unfortunately situated, enormous, gaudy Arch of
Severus), later emperors carefully maintained Augustus’ design and
structures, even as they rebuilt many of the monuments after
disastrous fires. The late third century A.D. additions of Diocletian
maintained this tradition but added a fashionable, new architectural
framework that expressed that emperor’s optimistic hopes for the
future of his recently reassembled Empire. Only the end of Rome as an
imperial capital doomed the site to neglect, ruin, transformation and,
from the 18th century on, to the investigations of modern excavators.