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University of Sydney Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Program

Semester One, 2013

All papers are held in the Conference Room of CCANESA (Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia), which is located on the first floor of the Madsen Building.

The Madsen Building (F09) is on Eastern Ave (at the City Road end), in the University’s Camperdown Campus

Papers are followed by light refreshments, and all are welcome. For any further information, please contact Anne Rogerson

  • Thursday 14 March, 4.30 pm
    Sulari Gentill in conversation with Alastair Blanshard
    Notes from the battlefield: Classics and popular fiction
  • Thursday 21 March, 4.30 pm
    Geraldine Herbert-Brown (University of Sydney)
    arguor obsceni doctor adulterii (Tr. 2.212). Would a poet ever lie? Ovid and the Ars Amatoria
  • Monday 25 March, 12.00 noon
    Emma Park (University of Warwick)
    Plato’s philosophical literature: images of beauty in the Phaedrus
  • EASTER BREAK
  • Thursday 11 April, 4.30 pm
    Peter Keegan (Macquarie University)
    Previewing Graffiti in Antiquity: Scratching the Surface of the First Survey of Ancient Graffiti in English
  • Thursday 18 April, 4.30 pm
    Ioannis Ziogas (Australian National University)
    Singing for Octavia: Vergil’s Life and Marcellus’ death
  • Wednesday 24 April, 4.30 pm
    David Hill (University of Sydney)
    The Archaeological study of the Ancient Greek City of Troizen: A new opportunity for Australian archaeology
  • Monday 29 April, 12.00 noon
    Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney)
    The too-many voices of Vegio’s Supplement
  • Monday 6 May, 12.00 noon
    Daniel Irwin (University of Sydney)
    Livy and the Translation of Polybius
  • Thursday 16 May, 4.30 pm
    David Mattingly (University of Leicester)
    title t.b.a.
  • Monday 20 May, 12.00 noon
    Victoria Jennings (University of Adelaide)
    A troublesome bird: divination in popular literary texts
  • Monday 27 May, 12.00 noon
    Liam Ahern (University of Sydney)
    pareste te iste te panta: the authority of autopsy in early Greek poetic discourse
  • Thursday 6 June, 4.30 pm
    Sarah Lawrence (University of New England)
    How to be good: the virtues of the non-elite

Lectures are free and all are welcome!

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