Late Antique and Byzantine Historiography

A one day colloquium at Cardiff University

Hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture

Date: 21 January 2009, 10.00am-5pm

Place: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Room 2.03

Provisional Programme:

10.00am: Mark Humphries (Swansea), Visa vel lecta? Ammianus Marcellinus and the monuments of Rome

10.45: Andy Fear (Manchester), A new chosen people? Orosius and the epic of Rome

11.30: Coffee break

12:     Josef Lössl (Cardiff), Prophecy in historiography

Lunch break

2pm:    Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter), Procopius of Caesarea on past and present

2.45:   Conor Whately (Warwick), Textual unity in Procopius’ Wars

3.30:   Tea break

4pm:    Frank Trombley (Cardiff), Michael Attaleiates: professional experience and history writing

For further information please contact:

Dr Shaun Tougher, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Humanities Building, Colum Drive,
Cardiff CF10 3XU, tel: 029-20876228, Email: TougherSF AT cardiff.ac.uk

If you wish to attend please confirm by e-mail to:
TougherSF AT cardiff.ac.uk

Special Lunchtime Seminar, Hilary Term 2009:

Recent Archaeology in Turkey

First floor seminar room, Ioannou Classics Centre, 66 St. Giles’, Oxford

Week 4 (Feb. 10) – Bert Smith (Oxford), Recent Work at Aphrodisias in Caria

Week 7 (March 3), Reyhan Körpe (Çanakkale University/Martin Harrison Fellow, Oxford), Recent Work in the Troad

Week 8 (March 10), Kutalmiş Görkay (Ankara University/Wolfson College, Oxford), Research at Zeugma

Edinburgh Classics Research Seminars – Semester 2

All seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5pm and, unless otherwise
stated, in Faculty Room North, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh

Week 2 | 21 January
Professor TIMOTHY BARNES (Toronto/Edinburgh)
‘Christians in the Severan Empire’

Week 3 | 28 January
Professor KEITH RUTTER (Edinburgh)
‘Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily’

Week 4 | 4 February
Professor MICHAEL REEVE (Cambridge)
‘The Vita Plinii and other Pliniana’

Week 5 | 11 February
Professor GEOFFREY B. GREATREX (Ottawa)
‘Patriarchs and Politics in sixth-century Constantinople’

Week 6: Reading Week/No Research Seminar

Week 7 | 25 February
Professor MICHAEL FULFORD (Reading)
‘Going down! The Silchester Insula IX Town Life Project 1997–2009’

Week 8 | 4 March
Dr JANE LIGHTFOOT (Oxford)
‘Dionysius the Periegete’

Week 9 | 11 March
Professor GIOVAN BATTISTA D’ALESSIO (KCL)
‘A Greek Lyric Poet from Samos to Ghazni’

Week 10 | 18 March
Professor TIM CORNELL (Manchester)
‘Rome’s First Historian: a Reconsideration’

Week 11 | 25 March
Professor JOSEPH ROISMAN (Colby College)
‘Alexander’s the Great Veterans’

15 April | Conference Room
Professor RICHARD HUNTER (Cambridge)
‘The Gods of Callimachus’

13 May | Conference Room
Professor FRANCIS CAIRNS (Florida State University)
‘Elegiac Geography’

20 May | Conference Room
Professor ERICH GRUEN (Berkeley)
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For further details please contact Ursula Rothe (ursula.rothe At ed.ac.uk).

UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER: CLASSICS & ANCIENT HISTORY DEPT RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION LECTURES, 2008-9, SEMESTER 2

With the exception of the very first meeting, all research seminars are on Thursdays at 5 pm in the Samuel Alexander Building, Room S. 1. 7.
CA lectures are on Wednesdays at 5.30 in Room A. 7 of the same building.
All are welcome at all meetings, also at drinks after the discussion and at the meal with the speaker later on.

Wed. 28 January, 5 pm, exceptionally in Room A. 116
Giuseppe Ucciardello (Messina)
New Fragments of Attic orators in a Vatican manuscript (Georgios Phrankopoulos’ lexicon)

CA Wed. 4 February, 5.30 pm, A. 7 [Joint meeting with the Hellenic Society]
Patrick Finglass (Nottingham)
Sophocles at Leiden

Thurs. 5 February
Bruce Gibson (Liverpool)
Causation in post-Augustan epic

Thurs. 12 February
Simon Corcoran (UCL)
The Code of Justinian: a sixth-century life

Thurs. 19 February
Fiona Hobden (Liverpool)
Enter the divine? Religious experience and sympotic performance

Thurs. 26 February
Laurent Pernot (Strasbourg)
Aelius Aristides and Greek books in the second century AD

Thurs. 5 March
Judy Barringer (Edinburgh)
The Olympic Altis in 476

Thurs. 12 March
Roger Brock (Leeds)
Greek political imagery in the fifth century BC

CA Wed. 18 March, 5.30 pm, A. 7 [Joint meeting with the Roman Society]
Tony Wilmott (English Heritage)
The Amphitheatre in Roman Britain

Thurs. 19 March
Ashley Clements (TCDublin)
Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae: a comedy of mortal error?

Thurs. 26 March
Loveday Alexander (Sheffield/Manchester)
Canon and exegesis in the medical schools of antiquity

EASTER

Thurs. 23 April
Jill Harries (St Andrews)
Inventing the lawyer in early imperial Rome

Thurs. 30 April
Alison Sharrock (Manchester)
Ovid and the epic cycle

Thurs. 7 May
Roslynne Bell (Manchester)
Augustus and the temple of Magna Mater (or: How can I ignore the god next door?)

CA Wed. 13 May, 5.30 pm, A. 7
April Pudsey (Edinburgh)
Family and household in Græco-Roman Egypt

Thurs. 14 May
Amy Coker (Manchester)
Aspects of grammatical gender in Greek

Thurs. 21 May
Philippe Mudry (Lausanne)
Umbricius’ astonishing choice in Juvenal, Satires 3

Thurs. 28 May
Hugh Bowden (KCL)
Eunuch priests in the Roman cult of Magna Mater

Thurs. 4 June
Ruth Morello (Manchester)
The letters of Pliny the Younger

David.Langslow AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the research seminar;
Tim.Parkin AT manchester.ac.uk for inquiries about the CA meetings, including requests to dine with the speaker

SEMINAR PROGRAM, EPIPHANY TERM 2009

Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham

Wednesday 21 January, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Daniela Colomo (Oxford)
The Leipzig Callimachus: scholia to Iambus XII on a new papyrus fragment

Wednesday 28 January, 5.30pm [PG20]
Professor Ulrich Eigler (University of Zürich)
The death of a villain

Wednesday 4 February, 5.30pm [Seminar room] [Classical Association]
Dr Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham)
Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII

Wednesday 11 February, 5.30pm [PG20]
Professor Maurizio Bettini (Siena)
Figuratively speaking: Greek and Roman metaphors for being human

Wednesday 18 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Malcolm Heath (Leeds)
Human uniqueness and human diversity in Aristotle

Wednesday 25 February, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Martin Ruehl (Cambridge)
Greeks, beasts, supermen: Nietzsche’s anti-humanist philhellenism

Wednesday 4 March, 5.30pm [Seminar room] [Classical Association]
Professor Tom Harrison (Liverpool)
History as myth: the memorialising function of Herodotus’ Histories

Wednesday 11 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Lloyd Gerson (Toronto)
Is Plato’s Theaetetus an Aporetic or an Euporetic dialogue?

Wednesday 18 March, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Nigel Kennell (Athens)
The aftermath of the ephebate? The neoi in the Hellenistic Greek city

The lectures by Ulrich Eigler, Maurizio Bettini, Malcolm Heath, and Martin Ruehl are part of the series ‘Being Human – Classical Perspectives’, which is co-sponsored by the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition (http://www.dur.ac.uk/classical.tradition/) and the Durham Institute of Advanced Study (http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/). Please contact Ingo Gildenhard (ingo.gildenhard AT dur.ac.uk) for more information on those lectures.

For further information on the seminar programme, please contact Ted Kaizer (ted.kaizer AT durham.ac.uk).