Research Seminars in Ancient History and Classics

Semester 2 2010

Thursday, 4pm-5:30pm
Conference Room CCNESA
Level One of the Madsen Building
Seminar co-ordinators:
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• 5 August
  Rachel Yuen-Collingridge (Macquarie):
  Noch einmal über der Geburt einer Tragödie: Wilamowitz, Nietzsche and a text without footnotes
• 12 August
  Peta Greenfield (Sydney).
  The Final Competition for auctoritas? Octavian and Antony in 32 BCE
• 2 September
  Todd Gillen (Macquarie)
  Narrative, Rhetoric, and the Historical Inscriptions of Ramses III at Medinet Habu
• 16 September
  Dr. Robert Cowan (Sydney),
  Hopefully Surviving: despair and the limits of devotio in Virgil and elsewhere
• 14 October
  Elodie Paillard (Geneva-Sydney)
  The Notion of Eugeneia in Sophocles' Plays
• 21 October
  Dr Pat Watson (Sydney)
  Jealousy, Infernal Pest': Handel's Operatic Hercules
• 28 October
  Prof. Vincent Gabrielsen (Copenhagen)
  Piracy and the Slave Trade in the Greek World

For further information on the program or to offer a research paper of 40 minutes in second semester please make contact with the Department’s convenor of the research seminar program