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Wednesday, November 3, 5.00 p.m., The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles

Christophe Chandezon (University of Montpellier III), ) ‘Artemidorus’ dreambook : new readings for historians of the Graeco-
Roman world.’

Thursday, November 4, 2- 5.30 p.m., The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles

Colloquium on Greek Rural History

2.00 p.m. Nicholas Purcell (St John’s College), ””Farming” in Antiquity: the agent and the activity’

2.50 p.m. Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge) ‘Classical landscapes and rural histories’

4.00 p.m. Christophe Chandezon (University of Montpellier III), ‘Figures in a Classical Landscape. Do individuals offer a new way to
understand Greek agrarian history?

Wednesday, November 17, 5.00 p.m., The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles

Jeremy McInerney (University of Pennsylvania), ‘Herakleides Kritikos: Periegesis and the Origins of Middle Brow Aesthetics’

All interested persons very welcome!

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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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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“Some Unpublished Latin Writing Tablets from Vindolanda”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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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

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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