Department of Classics and Ancient History Seminar

Semester 2 2011

All meetings to be held in the Board Room, CCANESA (Level One of the Madsen Building)

• Monday 25th July (12-1.30pm)
  Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham) Monumentality and the Epic Gaze
• Thursday 4th August (4.30pm)
  Hans Goette (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin) Re-evaluating Kopienkritik and the interpretation of Roman Portraits? The Case of Caligula
• Thursday 11th August (4.30pm)
  Sara Monoson (Northwestern University) Socrates in Combat
• Thursday 25th August (4.30pm)
  Luca Asmonti (University of Queensland) Democratic culture and aristocratic spirit in ancient Athens
• Monday 5th September (12-1.30pm)
  Bob Cowan (University of Sydney) Fear and loathing in Lucretius: anti-allusion and latent tragedy in DRN 3
• SPECIAL SEMINAR
  Tuesday, 20th September (6.00pm)
  Arthur Eckstein (University of Maryland, College Park) Polybius, the 'Treaty of Philinus', and Roman Accusations Against Carthage
• Monday 10th October (12-1.30pm)
  Peter Wilson (University of Sydney) Tragedy in Ikarion: a new study of IG I³ 254
• Monday 17th October (12.1.30pm)
  Chris Malone (University of Sydney) TBA

For further information please contact Richard Miles (richard.miles@sydney.edu.au)