KYKNOS: THE SWANSEA, LAMPETER, AND EXETER CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON THE NARRATIVE LITERATURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Below is given the KYKNOS programme for Easter term 2009. For more information about the various activities of the research centre, please visit our website (www.kyknos.org.uk) or contact Professor John Morgan (John.Morgan AT swansea.ac.uk) or Dr Magdalena Öhrman (m.ohrman AT lamp.ac.uk).

Research seminar series

Friday 8 May: Dr Regine May (University of Leeds), ‘An Ass from Oxyrhynchus: P.Oxy.LXX.4762 and Apuleius Metamorphoses. A New Fragment’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm

Thursday 14 May: Nora Goldschmidt (Magdalen College, Oxford University), ‘Virgil, Ennius, and the Site of Rome’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm

Friday 15 May, Jane McLarty (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University), ‘Sense and sensibility: class, gender and emotion in the Acts of Paul and Thekla’, Swansea University, Keir Hardie, Room 130, 6.00pm

Wednesday 27 May: Dr Johanna Akurjärvi (Lund University), ‘Narrating Athens: Genres in Pausanias’ Attika’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm (Regulars please note the Wednesday date!)

Thursday 4 June: Dr Koen de Temmerman (Ghent University), ‘Less than ideal paradigms in the ancient Greek novel’, University of Wales, Lampeter, Roderick Bowen Research Centre, 6.00pm

KYKNOS Reading Group

A fortnightly KYKNOS reading group is held at Swansea University. For more information please contact Professor John Morgan.

Conferences:

Workshop on ‘The narrative of Hymns’, University of Wales, Lampeter, 9-10 May. The organisers are still able to accept late bookings – but please be in touch as soon as possible. Further details here: http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/conferences/narative_in_hymns.html

Conference on ‘The Erotics of Narrative’, Gregynog, nr Newtown, Powys, 15–17 July

Trinity term programme

Tuesday lunchtimes (1 pm) weeks: 2 – 5
Oxford, Institute of Archaeology, Beaumont St.,
Lecture Room

*Week 2 (5 May) – Thomas Kiely (British Museum)

Re-excavating Kourion, Cyprus. The British Museum Cyprus Digitisation Project

*Week 3 (12 May) – Peter Haarer (Oxford)

Alphabets and Iron

Week 4 (19 May) – Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol)

No sex please, we’re Minoan

Week 5 (26 May) – Francois Leclere (British Museum)

The British Museum Project at Tell Dafana/Daphnae (Egypt, Eastern Delta)

Sponsored by the School of Archaeology and the Classics Faculty, Oxford.

This is a reminder that the Leeds International Classical Seminar for 2009 on the subject of ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’ will take place on Friday May 15th.

Those planning to attend should notify Penny Goodman (p.j.goodman AT leeds.ac.uk) BY FRIDAY MAY 8TH in order to secure lunch. The conference fee, which includes tea / coffee and a buffet lunch, is £15 (or £10 for students and unwaged), payable on the day.

A full programme of papers follows below.

Programme for LICS 2009, ‘Public images in Augustan Rome’:

10.30 – 11.30: Registration in the Department of Classics
(1st Floor, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds)

11.30 onwards: Papers in Seminar Rooms 3 and 4 of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI)
(29-31 Clarendon Place)

11.30 – 12.15: Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham)
Towards a new (space) syntax: Varro’s de Lingua Latina
12.15 – 13.00: Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
Horace and Augustan monuments

13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
(Room 119, Dept. of Classics, 1st Floor Parkinson Building)

14.00 – 14.45: Stratis Kyriakidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Rome and the fata Asiae, (Manilius, 1.512)
14.45 – 15.30: Andrew Zissos (University of California, Irvine)
Terra sub Augusto est: Augustan Rome and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee (in LHRI)

16.00 – 16.45: Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Augustus’ house on the Palatine
16.45 – 17.30: Alison Cooley (University of Warwick)
Contextualising Augustus’ Res Gestae

SEMINAR PROGRAM, EASTER TERM 2009
Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham

Tuesday 28 April; 5.30pm [Ritson room, NB replaces Anc. Phil. Reading
Group]
Mr Jonathan Broyles (Edinburgh)
Plato’s Apology and the uniqueness of Socrates

Wednesday 29 April, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Alexei Zadorozhnyy (Liverpool)
Platonic writtenness and orality in Plutarch’s Life of Dion

Wednesday 6 May [Ritson room]
Professor Walter Cavini (Bologna)
Knowledge or Science? Episteme in Plato’s Theaetetus and Aristotle’s
Posterior Analytics

Friday 8 May, 5.30pm [venue: University of Newcastle) [Classical
Association & Roman Society]
Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, London)
Telling stories about Roman law

Wednesday 13 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Annemarie Ambuehl (Groningen)
Talking (about) Heracles: Narrative strategies in Hellenistic ‘epyllion’

Wednesday 20 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Anna Clark (Christ Church, Oxford)
Thinking about gods in Pompeii

Friday 22 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Chloe Balla (University of Crete, Rethymno)
On the origins of social contract theory: Plato and the Sophists

Wednesday 27 May, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Jannis Mylonopoulos (Columbia University, New York)
Nothing to do with Odysseus? Terracotta figurines from Ithaca and the
reinvention of epic traditions

The Rome in Bloomsbury seminars return with a short spring series:
Recent Work on the Roman Military.

May 19th, 1pm (room B23, Birkbeck College, Malet Street)
Death in the Dark: Grim Secrets of the Sasanian siege of Roman Dura-Europos, Syria, c. AD 256
Dr Simon James School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester

June 2nd, 1pm (room 354, Birkbeck College, Malet Street)
Exploring Later Roman Caerleon
Dr Andy Gardner Institute of Archaeology, University College London

All welcome. For info contact Jen Baird j.baird AT bbk.ac.uk