Past Events

Ekphrasis and Greek Literature: From the Second Century CE to the Byzantine Era

The Greek word ekphrasis, which is attested quite late and starts appearing frequently only from the third century CE, is explained by the Greek sophist Aelius Theon (c. 1st century CE) as a piece showing in detail and "bringing what is portrayed clearly before the sight".

This conference, which has been generously supported by the British Academy's Newton International Fellowships Scheme and the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, aims to bring together and build up a network of scholars with a prominent interest in Greek ekphrasis and visual culture from the 2nd c. CE to the Byzantine Era, in order to focus on and explore ekphrastic literary texts from this period in a range of ways.

The conference is open to anyone and attendance is free, but online registration (by 20 June 2018) is compulsory. All conference attendees are welcome to join the speakers for the conference dinner on the evening of the 5th of July, but this is at their own expense.

To register for the conference (and for the dinner as well), and for additional information about the conference, please go here.

For further information or any queries, please email the organiser, Arianna Gullo.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 26th April 2018

Our second research paper of the week will be given by Fiachra Mac Góráin (University College, London), who will speak on “The ancient reception of Euripides’ 'Bacchae'”.

All welcome!

For more on Fiachra's work:

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Michael Griffin on Plato's 'Republic'

On Wednesday 25th April 2018, 1:00 p.m. (CL007), Michael Griffin (British Columbia) will speak to us on Plato’s 'Republic' with a talk entitled 'The Republic’s Analysis of Images as Dissuasion from Politics'

All welcome!

Contact g.r.boys-stones@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Michael Griffin on 'Neoplatonism and Buddhism'

On Wednesday 25th April 2018, 4:00 p.m. (PG28), Michael Griffin (British Columbia) will speak to us on ‘Learning to be Good: Platonist and Buddhist Perspectives on the Education of Virtue'.

All welcome!

Contact g.r.boys-stones@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 24th April 2018

For our first research paper of Easter term, we welcome Constanze Güthenke (Oxford) who will speak to us on “Symphilology: individuality, sociability, communities of knowledge”.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Metaphysics and Epistemology in Plato’s Academy

On behalf of the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, we are delighted to announce a workshop to be held in Durham on 21st-22nd February 2018:

'Metaphysics and Epistemology in Plato’s Academy'

Organized by Carlo Cacciatori (Durham University), Giulia De Cesaris (Durham University) and Emilio Zucchetti (Newcastle University).

This workshop is made possible by support from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, and the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership. The workshop is free and open to the public, although registration is requested.

Through the generosity of Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, we are able to offer small bursaries to support postgraduates and early career scholars who would like to participate in the workshop. Applicants are required to send (to the organizers via the email addresses linked to below) a brief description (max. 150 words) of why they are interested in taking part in the workshop and how their research relates to the topic of the workshop.

The deadline for submitting applications for these bursaries is Friday 12 January 2018. On Sunday 14 January 2018 we will communicate the outcome of the applications.

To register for the workshop or to attend the dinner on Thursday night, please contact Carlo Cacciatori or Giulia De Cesaris no later than Friday 16 February 2018. More information about dinner will be available closer to the conference date.

Please, note that the workshop is meant to coincide with the visits of Lloyd Gerson (Toronto) and David Sedley (Cambridge) to the newly-launched Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy on, respectively, the 20th and 22nd of February. See here for more information.

Contact giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 1st February 2018

Our second research seminar paper of the term will be given by Professor Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow) who is going to speak to us on 'The collection of Latin moral maxims associated with Publilius'.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research seminar - 31st January 2018

Our first WiP paper of the term is a joint paper by Dr Andrea Capra (Durham) and Professor Barbara Graziosi (Durham) who will be speaking to us about 'Greek love, female education, and the making of Italy. A new edition, translation, and commentary of Luigi Settembrini The Neoplatonists and Dialogue on Women'.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 25th January 2018

Our first research seminar paper of the term will be given by Dr Carol Atack (Oxford) who is going to speak to us on 'Temporality and argument in Plato’s "Protagoras"'.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research seminar - 13th December 2017

Our final WiP paper of the term comes from Dr Phil Horky (Durham) who will be speaking on 'Xenophanes of Colophon on Truth and Predication'.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 13th December 2017

Our final research seminar paper of the term will be given by Dr Tosca Lynch (Oxford) who is going to speak to us on 'Tuning the Lyre, Tuning the Soul: harmonía and the kósmos of the soul between Plato’s Republic and Timaeus'.

All welcome!

N.B. this week's Departmental Research Seminar will take place on Wednesday instead of Thursday.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

CAMNE Relaunch and Study Day

Keynote speaker: Alexandra Villing (British Museum), Greeks in Egypt: The Naukratis Project Results and Themes

CAMNE members' work-in-progress presentations, including Johannes Haubold (Classics and Ancient History), Penny Wilson (Archaeology), Jane Heath (Theology).

For more information and the full programme, go here.

All welcome (members and non-members alike)! To register, please email catherine.draycott@durham.ac.uk or kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk

Contact kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 7th December 2017

This week's speaker at the Departmental Research Seminar is Daniel Kapust (Wisconsin - Madison) who will be speaking to us "On Roman Exceptionalism: Mission, Example, and Empire". All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

DCCR Work-in-Progress Seminar: Futures of Reception

This week's WiP, which is held under the auspices of DCCR (the Durham Centre for Classical Reception), is an informal scoping conversation on the 'Futures of Reception' and will be led by Dr Ed Richardson. The session will take place as usual in the Ritson Room (CL007) within the department from 1-2 p.m. and all are welcome to attend and to participate.

Contact edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 30th November 2017

This week's Departmental Research seminar speaker is Lauren Ginsberg from the University of Cincinnati who will speak on "Between History and Epic: Caesar and Lucan on Ilerda".

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 23rd November 2017

This week's departmental research paper will be given by Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham) who will be speaking on "Public Oratory in the Early Imperial Period”.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 22nd November 2017

This week's WiP paper will be given by Professor Jennifer Ingleheart, hotfoot from her recent appearance on BBCFOUR. She will be speaking to us on "The place of sex in Ovidian elegiacs: Ars amatoria 2.703 ff.".

N.B. The change of venue for WiP this week.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 16th November 2017

This week, in our fifth research seminar of term, Lucia Floridi from Milan will present on 'Early Hellenistic Epigrams: Themes and Subgenres'.

Please note that due to Lumiere, this talk will take place in PO004 in the Dept. of Politics (48 Old Elvet, DH1 3LZ).

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research seminar - 15th November 2017

It's time for our third WiP seminar of the term and we are very happy to announce that the speaker is Professor Serafina Cuomo (Durham) who will be speaking on 'Ancient Numeracy'.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th November 2017

It's our fouth departmental research seminar of the term and we are delighted to welcome Christer Bruun from Toronto who will be presenting on 'Identities and Roman Names, in particular at Ostia and Portus.'

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research seminar - 8th November 2017

This week, it's our second WiP Seminar of the term with a paper from François Renaud (Université de Moncton)on 'Philosophical Criticism and Legitimation of the Poetic Tradition: Plato and Homer '. All welcome.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 2nd November 2017

t's our third Research seminar of the term and this week's speaker is Georg Danek from Wien who will be presenting on 'Homeric Artistry in a Bosnian Oral Epic Poem'.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research seminar - 1st November 2017

Our first Work in Progress research seminar of the academic year will take place on Wednesday 1st November 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in the Ritson room (CL007) within the Department of Classics. Our speaker is Liz Irwin (Columbia) who will be presenting on 'Thucydides' Delian Digression (3.104)'.

All welcome!

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 26th October 2017

This week sees the second Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 26th October 2017.

Our speaker will be Dr David Hemsoll (Birmingham) who will speak on “Bramante and the Untidy Onset of the High Renaissance”.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 19th October 2017

This week sees the first Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term, and of the academic year, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 19th October 2017.

Our speaker will be Dr Aaron Kachuk (Cambridge) who will speak on “Virgil’s Trojan Horse and the Monstrous Birth of Latin Literature”.

Contact arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Graduate Master Class with John Magee

Graduate Master Class on Calcidius (and Numenius)

During his visit to Durham, Professor John Magee (Toronto), author of a new translation of Calcidius, will lead a Graduate Master Class on Calcidius. Prof. Magee will lead close study of Calcidius, On Plato’s Timaeus chs. 172-5, read against chs. 295-9 (= Numenius fr. 52 des Places). Do these two passages cohere? Is Numenius the source for both?

The texts will be made available in advance of the class. Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk to register interest in attending and to be sure of receiving them.

Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

John Magee to speak at launch of DCAMP

This coming week sees the official launch of DCAMP, the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.

To launch the centre, there will be a inaugural event which will include a talk by Professor John Magee (Toronto) on:

In Search of the First Medieval Aristotle: The Text of Boethius’ Elementary De interpretatione Commentary

John Magee is Professor and Vice Dean at the University of Toronto, and a former Director of the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy there.

The talk is free and open to all; it will be followed by a drinks reception to which everyone is invited.

If you wish to join Professor Magee for dinner after the reception, please contact George Boys-Stones by Monday 9th October.

Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greece and Beyond

The Department of Classics and Ancient History is pleased to announce a forthcoming international conference on 'Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greece and Beyond'. The conference will take place from July 7th-9th 2017, and more information can be found on the conference website.

Visual Culture of the Classical World at Durham

This day of research conversations brings together a range of scholars at Durham University who are engaged in research pertaining to visual culture of the ancient world, including visual cultures of ancient groups and classical reception studies. Spread through various departments, their work finds a meeting ground in Durham’s Centre for Classical Reception, and the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture.

Contact catherine.draycott@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Joint ResSem in Archaeology & Classics: Tuna Şare Ağtürk

The Departments of Archaeology and Ancient History and Classics will be hosting a joint research seminar on Wednesday 21st June 2017, at 4:00 p.m. in the Ritson Room (CL007), Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham.

Our speaker will be Dr Tuna Şare Ağtürk, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Art History and Director of Çukurbağ Archaeological Project (TÜBİTAK 115242) at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey, who will present on 'Painted Marble Reliefs from Tetrarchic Nicomedia'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Symposium on 'Philosophy in Cicero's Speeches'

The Department of Classics and Ancient History is delighted to announce that a Symposium on 'Philosophy in Cicero's Speeches' will take place on Saturday 13th May 2017 from 10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Contact nathan.b.gilbert@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 10th May 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the second Work in Progress seminar of Easter term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 10th May 2017. This week's speaker is the wonderful Dr Jennifer Ingleheart who will be presenting on"Translation, sexuality, and identity in Burton and Smithers' Catullus".

Open to all!

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 4th May 2017

This week sees the second Departmental Research Seminar of Easter term, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 4th May 2017.

Our speaker will be Professor Gianpiero Rosati (Pisa) who will speak on '"Pauca meo Stellae…” Genres and poetic models in Statius’ "Silva" 1.2'.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Careers talk from alumnus and Goldman Sachs Managing Director Stephen Withnell

The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University is committed to forging links with its alumni and to providing subject-specific careers support for its students. We are therefore delighted to welcome Stephen Withnell back to Durham to speak to our students.

Contact j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research seminar - 27th April 2017

This week sees the first Departmental Research Seminar of Easter term, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 27th April 2017.

Our speaker will be Gina White from Central European University (CEU) who will present on '"The Signs of the Astrologers": Looking at the Heavens in Cicero's Philosophy'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 26th April 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Work in Progress seminar of Easter term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 26th April 2017. This week's speaker is the v. splendid Dr George Gazis who will be presenting on 'Voices of the Dead: Bacchylides' Ode 5 and "Odyssey" 11'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

CAMNE Research Seminar: Jeremy Hutton

Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE) is pleased to announce that Professor Jeremy Hutton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will be speaking in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) on Monday, 24th of April at 4 p.m.

Jeremy Hutton is directing the Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project (https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/classicalstudies/wpaip/), which performs so-called reflectance transformation imaging on Palmyrene inscriptions and studies stylistic variations of the Palmyrenean script, onomastics and prosopography. He is also currently co-authoring a monograph on translation and bilingualism at Palmyra.

He will be presenting on 'Modern Technologies, Ancient Texts: New Directions in the Study of Palmyrene Epigraphy', and will talk to us about how recent advancements in photographic imaging techniques have enabled reconsideration of Palmyrene Aramaic epigraphy and wider, net-based distribution of its results. He will then go on to discuss specific examples of re-readings to be gleaned through the use of such techniques, new possibilities for presentation and distribution among academics and the wider public, and future directions to be taken in study of the ancient world.

All are welcome!

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference

We are excited to announce that the 27th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC), will be held at Durham University in Durham, England from 28 to 31 March, 2017. TRAC Durham, organized by the Departments of Archaeology and Classics, will be a multidisciplinary symposium of theoretical innovation in Roman scholarship. Located to the south of Hadrian's Wall in Durham City, conference goers will be surrounded by a nuanced and lively Roman landscape, which this conference aims to engage with and celebrate-2017 marks the 30-year anniversary of Hadrian's Wall as a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Contact trac.2017@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 16th March 2017

This week sees the final Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term, which will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 16th March 2017.

Our speaker will be Professor Judith Mossman from Nottingham who will present on 'Male Speech in Euripides' "Trojan Women"'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 15th March 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the final Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 15th March 2017. This week's speaker is the stupendous Dr Christopher Farrell who will be presenting on 'Xenophon on the political capacity of women'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th March 2017

This week is the penultimate Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 9th March 2017.

Our speaker will be Professor Dominic O'Meara from Fribourg who will present on 'Biographies of Pythagoras and Epicurus as Models of the Philosophical Life'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 8th March 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the penultimate Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 8th March 2017. This week's speaker is our very own Dr Robin Nadeau who will be presenting on 'Pliny on Hellenistic food literature'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 2nd March 2017

It is time for the seventh Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 2nd March 2017.

A very warm welcome indeed this week to Professor Alessandro Schiesaro (Manchester) who will present on 'Virgil, Empedocles, and the Storm'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 23rd February 2017

A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the sixth Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 23rd February 2017.

Our speaker will be Dr Simon Corcoran from Newcastle who will present on 'The lives of the Justinianic Code from Constantinople to Cambridge'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

DCCR Research Conversation - 22/02/17

The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is delighted to welcome Dr Nathan Gilbert, a COFUND Junior Research Fellow in the department, to speak at the second DCCR Research Conversation of Epiphany Term. Nathan will be presenting on 'No new pleasures under the sun: from Lucretius to Montaigne'.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 22nd February 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in CL007, Ritson Room, Dept. of Classics and Ancient History.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 16th February 2017

A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the fifth Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 16th February 2017.

Our speaker will be Dr Filippo Carla from Exeter who will present on 'A Cup of Hemlock or a jump in the Barathron? Forms of Execution in Classical Athens'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 15th February 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the third Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 15th February 2017. Our speaker is Dr Clemence Schultze who will be presenting on 'Dionysius of Halicarnassus: making muthoi into history'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 9th February 2017

A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the fourth Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 9th February 2017.

Our speaker will be Margherita Facella from Pisa who will present on 'The god Tourmasgades and new evidence on his cult'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 8th February 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the second Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 8th February 2017. Our speaker is Dr Rebecca Usherwood who will be presenting on 'Providentia deorum quies: defining an "emeritus emperor"'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 02/02/17

A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the third Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 2nd February 2017.

Our speaker will be Selena Wisnom from Oxford who will present on ‘Intertextuality in Babylonian Poetry'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

DCCR Research Conversation - 01/02/17

The Durham Centre for Classical Reception is delighted to welcome Professor Richard Hingley from the Archaeology department who will be introducing his new AHRC funded research project on 'Iron Age & Roman Heritages: Exploring ancient identities in modern Britain'.

The project involves research teams from Durham and UCL and it aims to understand how ideas and materials derived from the Iron Age and Roman past (c. 700 BC to AD 400) are drawn upon today in England, Scotland and Wales.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 1st February 2017 at 1:00 p.m. in CL007, Ritson Room, Dept. of Classics and Ancient History.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 26th January 2017

A warm welcome to colleagues and visitors to the second Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 26th January 2017.

Our speaker will be Professor Bert Smith from Oxford who will present on ‘The lives of statues in Late Antique Aphrodisias: new research, new finds’.

Open to all.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 25th January 2017

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Work in Progress seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 25th January 2017. Our speaker is Dr Jenny Hilder who will be presenting on 'Challenging Quintilian: change and innovation in the Institutio Oratoria'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 19th January 2017

We are absolutely delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Departmental Research Seminar of Epiphany term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 19th January 2017.

Our speaker is Professor Catherine Rowett from UEA who will present on ‘What happens on Agathon's couch in the "Symposium"’. Catherine is a highly eminent scholar and a very engaging speaker so you won't want to miss her!

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 15th December 2016

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 14th December 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the final Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 14th December 2016. Our speaker is Chiara Grigolin who will be presenting on ‘Pausanius of Antioch. A local historian in context’.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Scale in Ancient Astrology

9-10 December 2016

International workshop sponsored by the British Academy and the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham. Held under the auspices of the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.

Contact kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 8th December 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the eighth Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 8th December 2016.

Our speaker is Mr Richard Beniston (Durham) who will speak on ‘Seneca’s anti-Platonism in the "Natural Questions"’.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 7th December 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to fifth Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 7th December 2016. Our speaker is Dr Jennifer Ingleheart who will be presenting on 'Sex, Latin, and Scholarship: A.E. Housman’s "Praefanda"'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar -- 1st December 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the seventh Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 1st December 2016.

Our speaker is Charles Martindale (Bristol/York) who will speak on 'English Virgil? Surrey to Tennyson'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar -- 24th November 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the sixth Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 24th November 2016.

Our speaker is Sebastiano Molinelli (Durham) who will be presenting on ‘The Place of Dissoi Logoi in Ancient Mnemonics’.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

DCCR Research Conversation: Futures of Classical Reception

A panel discussion on the future of Classical Reception chaired by Professor Barbara Graziosi.

Contact edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 17th November 2016

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 16th October 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to our fourth research Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 16th November 2016. Our speaker is Dr Anthony Hooper who will be presenting on 'Aristophanes' Hiccups and Pausanias' Sophistry in Plato's Symposium'.

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 10th November 2016

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Research Seminar - 9th October 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to our third research Work in Progress seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL007) at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday 9th November 2016. Our speaker is Dr Ted Kaizer who will be presenting on "A new relief of the god Aphlad".

All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Ted Kaizer to speak on the cultural heritage of Palmyra

Contact p.j.gibson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 3rd November 2016

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Seminar -- 2nd November 2016

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

WiP Teach Seminar (01/11/16)

A forum for discussion of teaching and learning related practices within Classics.

Contact sarah.miles@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Beyond the BA' Event

A special session for all final year undergraduates to offer advice on applying for the MA with us and to highlight careers support available from the university in choosing where to go next.

Contact j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

DCCR Research Conversation: Alexander the Great

Professor Elizabeth Archibald and Dr Ed Richardson set out together in search of Alexander the Great!

Contact edmund.richardson@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 20th October 2016

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Dr Sarah Miles at the Durham Book Festival 2016

Contact j.t.wolfenden@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental Research Seminar - 13th October 2016

We are delighted to welcome colleagues and visitors to the first Departmental Research Seminar of Michaelmas term. This will take place in the Department of Classics and Ancient History (CL108) at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday 13th October 2016. Our speaker is Emma Buckley from St Andrews who will be presenting on "Beyond Translation: Christopher Marlowe and Lucan’s First Booke in Early Modern England". All are welcome to attend.

Contact rebecca.l.usherwood@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Daily Life in Ancient Lebanon (18th June - 25th September)

The people of ancient Lebanon played a fundamental role in shaping the history of the Mediterranean and yet, despite their importance in antiquity, they remain unknown to most people today. Based on the latest research, and including many artefacts which have never been displayed in the UK before, this student-led exhibition at the Oriental Museum provides an accessible introduction to the culture and society of Lebanon in the ancient world.

Contact mark.woolmer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Monuments Made of Words: Text and Architecture, from Antiquity to Modernity

From Horace’s odes to the sonnets of Shakespeare and beyond, the idea that the written word outlasts even the grandest of monuments has long been a literary topos. In the case of antiquity it rings particularly true. Despite their apparent vulnerability during centuries of transmission in manuscript form, classical accounts of architecture have almost always outlived their subjects; of brick and stone, often only words survive.

This conference seeks to explore the diverse content and legacy of ancient descriptions of architecture. Modern studies have tended to concentrate on specific accounts or periods. The present conference addresses a much broader selection of classical texts and the various ways they were perceived over a wider geographical compass and timeframe. It situates these accounts – such as Greek reports of architecture in the Near East and Latin poetry on the architectural wonders of Rome – within the intellectual and aesthetic discourse of their time but also, importantly, in the context of later ages, when they came to fire the imagination of new generations of architects, artists, writers and scholars.

With contributions drawn from an international group of scholars, ranging from classicists to architectural historians and specialists in other fields, the intention of this conference is to elicit a richer understanding of the contribution of these ‘literary monuments’ to thought and visual culture from antiquity onwards, as well as of the dialogues between these monuments over time.

All welcome - there is no fee for registration.

Contact peter.fane-saunders@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Keeping watch in Babylon: from evidence to text in the Astronomical Diaries

An International Conference sponsored by the British Academy, the Institute for Advanced Study Durham, the Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.

Contact kathryn.stevens@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Platonism

Exegesis and Hermeneutics in Platonism

Thursday 26 - Friday 27 May 2016

Ritson Room (CL007), Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EU

Organized by Phillip Horky, Giulia De Cesaris, and Matteo Milesi

This workshop will investigate how philosophers within the Platonist traditions (from the Early Academy to late antique Neoplatonism) approached exegesis and hermeneutical activity by reference to the writings and ideas of ‘philosophical’ authorities from the past (from Homer to Plato). Our working hypothesis is that philosophers within the Platonist traditions exploited the textual and theoretical authority of wisdom figures from the past for the purposes of self-fashioning and legitimation of their own philosophical identities. An historical analysis of Platonist hermeneutics may result in a better understanding of the possible dialectical and appropriative strategies for reception of authoritative texts employed by later philosophers. Hence, study of Platonist hermeneutics encourages us to reflect with greater precision on more universal notions of authority in the ancient world.

This workshop is made possible by support from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. The workshop is free and open to the public, although registration is requested.

Contact giulia.de-cesaris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Research Seminar: Reading the tone of (Roman) plebeian epigraphic self-expression

Prof. Nicholas Purcell (University of Oxford) will talk on 'Reading the tone of (Roman) plebeian epigraphic self-expression' in the Ritson Room on 12th May, 2016 at 4 p.m.

Research Seminar: A Sociological Approach to Ancient Greek Science.

Prof. Leonid Zhmud (Institute of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of the Sciences, St Petersburg and currently in residence as a Senior Fellow at the IAS) will talk on 'A Sociological Approach to Ancient Greek Science' in the Ritson Room on Monday, 9th May, from 5 p.m.

Contact p.s.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Research Seminar: Fragmentary texts as assemblages: the case of Ionian foundation myth

Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney (University of Leicester) will talk on 'Fragmentary texts as assemblages: the case of Ionian foundation myth' in the Ritson Room from 4 p.m. on Thursday, 5th May. All welcome.

Relations and Relativity in Ancient Philosophy

How did ancient philosophers think that one thing relates to another? Precisely how do views about relations impact on metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and political thought?

Contact mbduncombe@gmail.com for more information about this event.

Same Saint, Different Perspectives: Critical Distinctions among the “Lives” of Simeon the Stylite

Dr. Nathaniel Andrade will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Same Saint, Different Perspectives: Critical Distinctions among the “Lives” of Simeon the Stylite’ at 4.00pm on Thursday 17th March in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Clifford Robinson, 'Socratic Mourning and Melancholia'

The Ancient Philosophy Reading Group will be hosting Dr Clifford Robinson for a paper on "Socratic Mourning and Melancholia: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Platonic Dialogues." All welcome! Please let Prof. Boys-Stones know if you would like to dine with the speaker after the talk.

Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Empedocles’ daimôn: cosmic wandering and cosmological inquiry

Dr Shaul Tor will give a talk on 'Empedocles’ daimôn: cosmic wandering and cosmological inquiry' at 5 p.m. on Thursday 10th March in the Ritson Room (CL007). (Please note that this is a change from the previously advertised time.) All are welcome.

Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Oliver Stone to visit Durham

Oliver Stone will be 'in coversation with' Dr Ivana Petrovic, Dr Andrej Petrovic and Dr Ed Richardson about his film Alexander when he visits Durham next month. Booking is free, but essential: please go to the booking form here.

Paying attention to προσοχή: an inquiry into pagan and Christian philosophy

Dr. Marcello La Matina will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Paying attention to προσοχή: an inquiry into pagan and Christian philosophy' at 4.00pm on Thursday 3rd March in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Rethinking protohistories: texts, material culture and the methodologies of using evidence

Prof. Lin Foxhall will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Rethinking protohistories: texts, material culture and the methodologies of using evidence' at 4.00pm on Thursday 25th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Error as Evidence for the History of Art

Dr. Carrie Vout will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Error as Evidence for the History of Art' at 4.00pm on Thursday 18th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Dr. Mark Wilson Jones research paper

Dr. Mark Wilson Jones will deliver a public lecture at 4.00pm on Thursday 11th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Digital modelling of Rome: a new way of exploring the ancient city

Dr. Matthew Nicholls will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Digital modelling of Rome: a new way of exploring the ancient city' at 4.00pm on Thursday 4th February in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Old and new interpretations of the nature of early prouinciae in the Middle Roman Republic

Dr. Simon Day will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Old and new interpretations of the nature of early prouinciae in the Middle Roman Republic’ at 4.00pm on Thursday 28th January in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of a Princeps

Prof. Rhiannon Ash will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Tiberius in Space: Proxemics and the Portrayal of a Princeps' at 4.00pm on Thursday 21st January in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome.

Roman Noses: Smell and Smelling in Ancient Rome

Dr. Mark Bradley of the University of Nottingham will deliber a public lecture on Thursday 17th December at 3.00pm in the Ritson Room. All are welcome.

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Literary Late Latin and Language Change – on Language Change, Ideological Change and History

Prof. Gerd Haverling of Uppsala Universitet will deliver a public lecture on Thursday 10th December at 3.00pm in the Ritson Room. All are welcome. 

Rethinking the Spread of Citizenship in the Roman Empire

Dr. Myles Lavan of the University of St. Andrews will give a public lecture at 3.00pm on Thursday 3rd December in the Ritson Room. All are welcome.

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Outdated Incivilities? Hugh Trevor-Roper and Classical Studies

Dr. Simon Malloch of the University of Nottingham will deliver a public lecture at 3.00pm on Thursday 26th November in the Ritson Room (CL007).

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Questions of Evidence and Evidence from Questions in the Akkadian-speaking World

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Sparta Game

Prof. Josiah Ober of Stanford University will give a public lecture at 4pm on Tuesday 10th November at 4.00pm in PG28.

Cicero and the Ethics of Openness

Dr. Raphael Woolf of King's College London will give a public lecture this Thursday at 3pm in the Ritson Room (CL007). All are welcome. 

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'The Paradoxical Battle Narratives of Xenophon’s Hellenica'

Dr. Edith Foster of Case Western Reserve University will give a public lecture this Thursday entitled 'The Paradoxical Battle Narratives of Xenophon’s Hellenica'. All are welcome.

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Classical Tradition, Humanist Philology, and the Early Modern Lesbian Canon

This Thursday, 22nd October, at 3pm Dr. Marc Schachter of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham will give a public talk entitled ‘The Classical Tradition, Humanist Philology, and the Early Modern Lesbian Canon'. All are welcome.

Looking for Callimachus in Virgil and Propertius

For the first in our weekly departmental research seminar series, Dr. Donncha O'Rourke from the University of Edinburgh will give a public talk.

Contact james.corke-webster@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

International Conference: Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Platonism and Hellenistic Philosophy: A Milan-Durham joint seminar series

Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2015 Annual Meeting

The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University is pleased to host the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, the oldest active ancient philosophy society in the world (founded in 1953 to promote the study of ancient philosophy in the UK through annual meetings hosted at Universities in the North of the country). The meeting will be held at the Department of Classics and Ancient History and St Chad's College on 15-16 April 2015.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Conference: Anglophone Translations of the Classics and The History of Sexuality

Contact jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Research Seminar: 'Translation and Adaptation in Ancient Near Eastern Literature'

Department of Classics and Ancient History, Research Seminar: 'Translation and Adaptation in Ancient Near Eastern Literature'

Research Seminar: 'Philosophers' Pets: Porphyry's Partridge and Augustine's Dog'

Department of Classics and Ancient History, Research Seminar: 'Philosophers' Pets: Porphyry's Partridge and Augustine's Dog'

Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'In decent Latin': An Obscene Latin Dialogue

Department of Classics and Ancient History, Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'In decent Latin': An Obscene Latin Dialogue

Research Seminar: Dr Cristiana Franco

Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'Solutions from Character'

Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of Classics and Ancient History: 'Solutions from Character'

Research Seminar: 'Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? An Exploration of Greek Mythemes'

Work-in-Progress Seminar: 'Spatialized Oaths: Betrayal and Sanctuary in Alcaeus 129 V'

Creating the Emperor's Image

A two-day international workshop at Durham University.

Ancient Republics: An International Workshop (Part 1)

This is Part 1 of a multi-year, international workshop on Ancient Republics, to be held in Durham 14-15 November 2014 under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (CAMNE). The workshop is co-organized by Phillip Horky (Durham University), Monte Ransome Johnson (University of California-San Diego), and Grant Nelsestuen (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Part 1 is generously supported by a Global Engagement Facilitation Grant from the International Office at Durham University. Part 2, which will take place at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is supported by the A.W. Mellon Foundation at the Center for the Humanities.

Confirmed Participants at the Durham Workshop include: Valentina Arena (University College London); Carol Atack (Oxford University); Roger Brock (Leeds University); Benjamin Gray (University of Edinburgh); Phillip Horky (Durham University); Monte Johnson (University of California-San Diego); Grant Nelsestuen (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Peter Rhodes (Durham University); Christopher Rowe (Durham University); Sydnor Roy (Haverford College); Amy Russell (Durham University); and Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge University). For further information, please see the CAMNE events page.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

IAS debate: This House Believes That There Is Nothing New Under the Sun

Durham University’s Professor Barbara Graziosi and Dr Colin Macfarlane are joined by Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology and winner of the prestigious 2013 $1 million TED Prize, for his innovative School in the Cloud project, and author, broadcaster, classicist and former stand-up comedian Natalie Haynes to debate whether there is really such a thing as novelty.

Roman Britain with Peter Jones and John Henry Clay

Discussion with Peter Jones, author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and John Henry Clay, author of The Lion and the Lamb. Chaired by Barbara Graziosi.

Natalie Haynes: The Amber Fury

Writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes introduces her debut novel, The Amber Fury, inspired by the Greek Medea myth.

Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Text and Material Culture

An international conference to be held at Durham University, 12th - 14th September 2014

Shedding Light on the Galilee

An evening of presentations at Prior's Hall, Durham Cathedral. Theatre on Durham Cathedral's Galilee Chapel. Entry is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from the Gala Theatre.

Dr Daniela Amadei, Dr Laura Bertuccioli, Prof. John Crook, Prof. Andy Monkman, Iain Ruxton, and Dr Edmund Thomas.

Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Classics in Extremis

An international conference in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception. For more details, see the conference website: http://classicsinextremis.wordpress.com/.

Classicism and the East

An event in the Durham Centre for Classical Reception

Who was Homer? - a free, family-friendly event

He sang of gods and men, and of men and monsters, but who was the ancient poet Homer? Come and meet researchers from the Department of Classics and Ancient History and tell us who you think he really was!

Featuring mask-making, art activities, meet-the-researchers and competition prizes.

At 3pm, our very special guest, award-winning author Gillian Cross (The Demon Headmaster series, Wolf) will be reading from her book The Odyssey (reading suitable for ages 7+).

Contact f.m.richards@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Children's author Gillian Cross interviewed by Prof. Barbara Graziosi

How do you go about adaptating the Odyssey for children? Gillian Cross is a well-loved children's author, best known for her The Demon Headmaster series and winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal and 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award (two of the most prestigious prizes in children's literature). This event sees her discuss issues in the process writing of her recent adaptation of the Odyssey with Professor Barbara Graziosi.

This event is free, but space is limited. Please email f.m.richards@durham.ac.uk to reserve a place.

Decadence in Petronius

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar

Magical Amulets as Miniature Statues: The Evidence of the Greek Magical Papyri

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar

Translation and the homosexual canon: Lucian, Petronius, pseudo-Lucian in Thomas Cannon's 1749 'Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd'

A departmental work-in-progress seminar

The Sigh of Philhellenism

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

Constructing ancient sex: Greek vases, museum display, and the sensory dynamics of reception

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

Beyond the Pale: Classics in Ireland 1789-1845

A Durham Classics and Ancient History departmental research seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

The Near East between Seleucids, Parthians, and Romans

A workshop presented by the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East.

Conference: Petrarch and Classical Reception

A conference organized by the Durham Centre for Classical Reception.

Tragedy and Revolution: Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

Cicero and the Poets: A Prospectus

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Andreas Scholl or Florence Foster Jenkins? Orpheus' Singing in his Argonautika

A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

The Ancient Phonograph

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Disputed Memories: Plato's 'Symposium' on Socrates and Alcibiades

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Celebrating the Centaury: or How Ancient Wisdom was Forgotten

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

Popularising the tragic? Comedy and the Reception of Tragedy in 5th-4th c. BCE Athens

A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

Once Again, Can the Subaltern Speak?

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Seminar in the Classics in Extremis series

The Cult Statues of the Pantheon

A Departmental Work-in-Progress Seminar

Oleum uetus and noua fictilia: Regularity and Licence in the Placement of Latin Adjectives

A Durham Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar

‘Literary aspects of Greek Inscriptional Poems in Late Antiquity’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Gianfranco Agosti (Rome, La Sapienza)

‘Eagles, Serpents and the Centaur of Ixmiquilpan: Classical learning and native traditions in sixteenth-century Mexico’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Andrew Laird (Warwick). Part of the Classics in extremis series.

‘Fiction and Wunderkultur’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Karen Ni-Mheallaigh (Exeter)

‘The 'Condottieri' of Classical Greece: military leaders within, beyond, and against the polis’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Polly Low (Manchester)

‘Lucian on the Temple at Heliopolis’

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Ted Kaizer

Work-in-Progress seminar

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Don Lavigne

'Aspirations and Mantras in Classical Reception Research: Can there really be dialogue between ancient and modern?'

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Lorna Hardwick (Open University). Part of the Classics in extremis series.

‘Metafiction in Epistolary Narratives’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Owen Hodkinson (Leeds)

‘Language Attitudes in Jerome and Sidonius Apollinaris’

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by Tim Denecker (Leuven)

'Classical Descriptions of Buildings and the Renaissance Vision of Lost Antiquity'

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Peter Fane-Saunders

'Animal Sacrifice between Pagans and Christians: The Decree of Decius Revisited'

A Durham Classics and Ancient History research seminar given by James Rives (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

'Lucian's views on Language, Rhetoric, and Education'

A Work-in-Progress seminar given by Thorsten Foegen

Ancient Cosmos: Concord Among Worlds

 A CAMNE Conference at Durham University

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century

An international conference in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Full programme and details available here.

Public Lecture - Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Dr Jonathan Shay

For further information and to book a place, click here.

'Unpublished Epigrams from Thebes: Boeotian History Revisited in the Light of New Epigraphical Finds'

A departmental research seminar.

'All the World's a Stage: Contemplatio mundi in Early Roman Theater'

A departmental research seminar.

'Local Trends in Verse Inscriptions of Greece during the Imperial Period'

A departmental research seminar

'Democracy’s Impact on Warmaking in Ancient Athens and Today'

A departmental research seminar

Paradigm and Method in Ancient Historiography, Science, and Theology: A CAMNE Workshop

Fri. 3 May 2013, 4pm-8pm; Sat. 4 May 2013, 9am-2pm

Speakers: Thorsten Foegen (Durham), Lucas Herchenroeder (Durham), Phillip Horky (Durham), Chris Pelling (Oxford), Luke Pitcher (Oxford), Stefan Schorn (KU Leuven), Nicolas Wiater (St. Andrews) 

A CAMNE event. For further information, visit workofmemory.wordpress.com.

The Cosmology of Archelaus and the Origins of Social Institutions

A 'Cosmos in the Ancient World' research seminar.

'Ordering the universe in speech : Kosmos and diakosmos in Parmenides' poem'

A 'Cosmos in the Ancient World' research seminar

'New Evidence for a Reconstruction of Aristotle's Protrepticus'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Toward a Typology of Greek Sacred Regulations: A Legal Approach'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Series.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'The Cosmos and Chaos of Silenus'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Prolegomena to a new edition of the Greek lyric poets'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars Series.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Archaic Trade ἀν’ ἐσχατιάς• From Hesiod to Pabuç Burnu'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars Series.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'The Experience of Roman Sacrifice: Sensory Elements and their Ritual Uses’

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Three Portraits of Homer'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Seminars.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Dionysius and Horace. Composition in Augustan Rome'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Urban and rural developments in the post-classical Athenian polis: society, institutions and space'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminars Series.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Sublime Solace: Seneca's Lucretian Earthquakes in Naturales Quaestiones 6’

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminars Series.

'Cosmos and Musical Ethos in Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars series 'Cosmos in the Ancient World'.

Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Readerships, Entertainment, and Fictionality in Eusthatios' Homeric Commentaries'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress series.

Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Pythagoreanism and the Early Academy'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress series.

Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Athenaeus: the 'Walking Library'? On the Meaning of the Deipnosophistae'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress series.

Contact Phillip.Horky@Durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Re-invention in Terence's Eunuch'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Aristotle on Perceptual Content'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Socrates and the Speech of the Laws in the Crito'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminars 2012-13

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'The Life of a Strange Poet: Plato and the Biography of Socrates'

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars 2012-13

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Plato's Republic and its Audiences'

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars Series

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Materiality of Text - placement, perception, presence

International Conference

Organizers:

Dr Edmund Thomas

Dr Andrej Petrovic

Dr Ivana Petrovic

Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Byzantine authorship: theories and practices

An international conference to be held at Durham University, 23th-25th July 2012.

Bilateral Conference with Peking University

We will welcome scholars from the newly-formed Department of Western Classics at Peking University to Durham to inaugurate our partnership.

Conflict and Consensus in Early Hexameter Poetry

Conference hosted by

the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient  History

and the Institute of Advanced Study

Contact l.g.fraser@durham.ac.uk; paola.bassino@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Invitation to the Dance: Choral Poetics, Poiêsis, and Graphology

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'

Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Love as Visual Pathogen in Roman Erotic Poetry

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminar Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Sibyl(s) and Cave(s): New Thread for an Old Labyrinth

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminars

Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Materiality, Text, and Graffiti

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminars

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Berossos: Standing at the Crossroads of Greek and Mesopotamian Traditions

Research seminar presented in the Department of Classics and Ancient History

Contact j.h.haubold@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Battle between Good and Evil in the Huarte Mithraeum (Syria): Local Influences in Mithraic Iconography

CAMNE-sponsored Talk in the Department of Classics and Ancient Philosophy

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Epigraphy of Theoria: 500BC-200AD

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'

Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Demeter as an Ophthalmologist? Eye Votives and the Cult of Demeter and Kore

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'

Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Plato's Treatment of the Fallacy of Accident in the Euthydemus

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities

The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities

An international conference to be held at Durham University, 16th-18th April 2012, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.

Confirmed speakers include:  Ralph J. Hexter (University of California), Caroline Vout (Cambridge).

More information is available here: http://romosexuality.wordpress.com/

Classical beauty. Reflections on Ancient Aesthetics

An international conference sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, the Institute of Advanced Study Durham, and the Department of Classics and Ancient History.

Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Callimachus' Fifth Hymn: A Poetic Construction of Genealogies

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series

Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Ozymandias, Diodorus Siculus, and European Meditations on the History of Writing,ca. 1400-1800

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History CAG Seminar Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Is Memory of the Past? Aristotle on the Objects of Memory and Recollection

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Proof-reading Aristotle's Rhetoric

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Ancient Philosophy Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Barbarian Repertoire in Greek Culture

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Seminar in Greco-Roman Rhetoric and Poetics

Research Seminar on Greco-Roman Rhetoric and Poetics; with a presentation by Marcos Martinho dos Santos on 'On Dionysius' Terminology on the Genres of Style'

Contact p.j.heslin@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Pollution in Homicide Law: A New Approach

Work-in-Progress Talk

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Staging and Constructing the Divine in Menander

Work-in-Progress Talk

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Callimachus and the Hymns to Isis at Philae

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History 2011-12 Research Series 'The Materiality of Text'

Contact ivana.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Numenius versus Plutarch on What a Soul is

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Works-in-Progress Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

A New Palmyrene Altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cult of Poseidon-Elqonera at Palmyra

Work-in-Progress Seminar

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Poets, Writers and Artists in Corinth after the Peloponnesian War

Research seminar

Contact andrej.petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Marcus Aurelius: Philosophy and the Rest of Life

Part of the Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar Series

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Entangled and Disentangled Inscriptions: Writing and Material Culture in Central Greece and Crete

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History 2011-12 Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'

Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Galen on Void

Part of the Department of Classics Research Seminar Series

Contact Phillip.Horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On the Materiality of the Orphic Gold Tablets

Research Seminar

Contact Ivana.Petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Lectional signs in Greek Verse Inscriptions: a Few Remarks

Research Seminar

Contact Ivana.Petrovic@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Aristotle on Natural Character and its Implications for Moral Development

Research seminar

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Pandora's Wretched Pithos

Research Seminar

Contact Barbara.Graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Conference: The Many Faces of a Hellenistic King

CAMNE-sponsored conference.

Contact hellenistic.kingship@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Conference: Fra Giovanni Giocondo 1511-2011: Celebrating 500 years of the first illustrated edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture, the man, and his legacy

CSCT-sponsored event

Contact e.v.thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Towards a Non-Peripatetic History of Pythagoreanism

CAMNE Seminar.

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Was Aristotle a Virtue-Theorist?

Durham Philosophical Society Lecture.

Romosexuality: Roman Vice vs. Greek Virtue

Work-in-Progress Seminar.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Greek Gods and Literary Criticism

Work-in-Progress Seminar.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Setting the Stage: Monumental Epigraphy and Architectural Space in Roman Asia Minor

Research Seminar

Contact E.V.Thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

A Critique of the Prevailing Views of Greek Sacrifice

Research Seminar

Contact Edward.Harris@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Alexander and the Art of Deception: The Edges of Reception in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan

Work-in-Progress Talk.

Contact phillip.horky@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Ancient Fallacies - 21-23 September 2011

Ancient Carthage: Models of cultural contact

Conference on Carthage and the Punic-Phoenician world, sponsored by the Department of Classics & Ancient History, to be held at St John's College, 5th-6th August 2011.

Contact mark.woolmer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Configuring Communities: The Socio-Political Dimension of Ancient Epistolography

An international conference, jointly organised by the departments of Classics & Ancient History and Theology & Religion (Durham), 14-16 July 2011

Beyond Self-Sufficiency

'Booking lovers. Desire and design in Catullus'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'The bad orator in republican Rome. Between clumsy delivery and political danger'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Dear Sirs: Writing to collectives in the Greek epistolary tradition'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'Writing to Caesar'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On Libanius' letters

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'Letters of dedication in ancient technical texts'

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'Horace's last poetry book: The epistolary trilogy for Augustus, Florus and the Pisones'

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Research Seminar (Topic to be confirmed)

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Receptions of Carthage and the Phoenicians

The first workshop in the series ANCIENT CARTHAGE: MODELS OF CULTURAL CONTACT

Contact carthage-conference@hotmail.co.uk for more information about this event.

On St. Jerome's letters

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On letters in the Second Sophistic

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

On Lucilius' Satires

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Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Entangled and Disentangled Inscriptions: Writing and Material Culture in Central Greece and Crete

Part of the Department of Classics and Ancient History's Research Seminar Series 'The Materiality of Text'

Contact E.V.Thomas@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Role of Babylon in Ctesias' Persica

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letter-Writing

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work-in-progress Seminar

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Human Sacrifice and the Ultimate Demand of Power

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Public Face of Tyranny

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Valerii Laevini. A Dynasty of Republican 'Greek Experts'?

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Aristippus in the Socrates Epistles

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Divine inspiration and Narrative Technique in the Iliad

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Picturing Socrates' daimonion

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Did Plato Believe in God?

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Some Unpublished Latin Writing Tablets from Vindolanda

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Poetics through poetry. The poetic dialogue of Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Philosophical and non-philosophical communities in Seneca's Letters

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Were There Business Agents in Classical Greece? The Evidence of Some Lead Letters

Contact thorsten.foegen@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Read My Book: Letters and the City of God

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Sources for Nomothesia in Classical Athens. A new approach.

Contact thorsten.foegen@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Cicero's De officiis. Roman Republican Ethics in a Platonizing Key

Contact thorsten.foegen@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Greek memories: theory and practice

Memory, and its correlate, forgetting, are at the centre of a recent surge of studies focused on the construction of collective identities. In the wake of Halbwachs, and more recently Assman, much work has been devoted to the relationship between cultural memory, intentional history (the invention of tradition), and identity, in ancient Greece and elsewhere. While these elements are bound to interact in any society, the specific ways in which they are conceptualized and function may differ significantly. We propose to reorient the discussion by focusing on how the theories and the practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across the entire range of literary 'genres' (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises). In particular, we plan to explore two interrelated aspects: (i) explicit discursive reflections on memory, recollecting, and forgetting as divine and human experiences and (ii) the role of these reflections in shaping practices of thought, communication, and writing.

Contact luca.castagnoli@durham.ac.uk, paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Workshop: The Afterlives of Ancient Poets in Medieval and Renaissance Biography

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The World of Berossos

For details and booking form please visit the conference web page.

Contact v.m.arbia@dur.ac.uk, j.h.haubold@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Dante: The Author and His Image

An event jointly organized by the Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Musicon.

For further information, see the events section of the Centre for the Study of the Classical tradition here

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Near Eastern Slaves in Classical Attica and the Slave Trade with Persian Territories

Work-in-progress seminar

Sandwiches welcome

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work-in-Progress

Work-in-progress seminar, title to be confirmed

Sandwiches welcome

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Homeric questions: A late eighteenth-century priority dispute

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

In spite of Isis: wordplay in Apuleius' Metamorphoses XI

Work-in-progress seminar

Sandwiches welcome

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica (1479): a Renaissance humanist's contribution to dialectic and rhetoric

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Northern Asssociation for Ancient Philosophy 2010

The NAAP annual meeting this year takes the form of a two-day international conference to be held in Durham in honour of Christopher Rowe.

Contact g.r.boys-stones@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Water and Identity in the Ancient World: a workshop

The workshop, a joint venture of the Departments of Classics & Ancient History and of Archaeology sponsored by the IAS (Durham) and by the CAMNE, will focus on the ancient Mediterranean and the 'outer Atlantic', in a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective; the aim is to enhance our understanding of how water functions as a defining element of communal identity, from antiquity to the present.

Detailed programme here

Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk, richard.hingley@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

In search of a Hellenistic world: intellectual horizons in Greece and Babylonia

Work-in-progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Subtler Philosophers at Theaetetus 156a: their identity and doctrine

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Pining for the Fjords and the Last Spix's Macaw: Parrots, Personae and Immortality in Amores 2.6

Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Individuals, soul and memory in Plato's Philebus

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Herodian advancement: political interaction between Rome and the Jewish State between 44 and 42 BC

Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Euripides the Antiquarian

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Parallel lives: Ovidian poetic 'autobiography' in Tristia 2

Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Muses, Memory and Myth in the Decline of Callipolis: Plato Republic 545d-e

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Troia (nefas!): Troy as a negative locus in Lucretius and Catullus

Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Plotinus on Memory, Recollection and Discursive Thought

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'I do not want to be a person': Anne Carson, Sappho, and the Sublime

Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Name-Dropping in Bosnian Epics and the Genealogy of Agamemnon's Sceptre

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The debate over Classics in Eighteenth Century Education

Work-in-Progress seminar. Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

In search of an Empire of Memory

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Theoretical Rationale Behind Aristotle's Classification of the Linguistic Fallacies in the Sophistical Refutations

Work-in-Progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome.

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Memory in Demosthenes' Philippics

Work-in-Progress seminar. Sandwiches welcome.

Dialogic Memory

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact matthew.peacock@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Intelligence networks and the exchange of information in ancient Phoenicia

Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

In spite of Isis: word games in Apuleius 11

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Topical Identities

Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

ate in the Homeric poems

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Towards a new interpretation of Hellenstic historiography

Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Socrates Polutropos and the figure of Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium

Part of the Seminar Series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The grammar of the bard

Work-in-Progress seminar
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Remembering the Past in Achaemenid Iran: Reading Ctesias' Persica

Part of the Seminar Series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Women and memory in the Iliad and the Kossovo cyle

Work-in-Progress seminar
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The lure of the past in Plato's Menexenus

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

'As was my wish' - Darius and the crossing of the Bosporus

Work-in-Progress Seminar
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Some ancient thoughts on the hardware of memory

Part of the Seminar Series in Classics & Ancient History

Objects, relics and memory in classical antiquity

Work-in-Progress seminar

Classical Association (Durham)

A talk to be given at 4.15pm on Wednesday 28th October.

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Pyrrhonist's Attitude to the Modes of Agrippa

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Work-in-Progress

Work in progress seminar.
Sandwiches welcome

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Memory games - Odysseus and Penelope

Part of the seminar series in Classics & Ancient History

Contact barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Call for Papers: TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Exile After Ovid

Contact jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Conference announcement:The Olympian Gods: Local Representations, Universal Principles

The Olympian Gods: Local Representations, Universal Principles
5th - 7th July 2009, Department of Classics

This conference investigates how the local characteristics with which
the Greeks invested their gods related to the view that they operated as
universal principles within the cosmic economy. The speakers will be:
Fritz Graf, Barbara Graziosi, Liz Irwin, Sarah Iles Johnston, Julia
Kindt, Robin Osborne, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, Marianne Schiebe,
and Shaul Tor. Together they will consider a wide range of evidence, and
approach the issue from several interrelated perspectives:
philosophical, literary, iconographical, political, archaeological.

Congratulations: Prof. Rowe awarded an OBE

Congratulations to Christopher Rowe, Professor of Greek, who has
been awarded an OBE in the 2009 Birthday Honours List.

Viewing the Text, Reading the Image: a one-day workshop

Contact p.j.heslin@dur.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Departmental seminars, Epiphany term 2009

Religion, Society and Culture at Dura-Europos

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work-in-Progress seminars, Michaelmas term 2008

Departmental seminars, Michaelmas term 2008

Myths of Transformation

Workshop to be held on 25-27 September 2008
Sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition.

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

The Image of the Author

Contact ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Mapping the world: a workshop on geography and explorers

held under the auspices of the Centre for the study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk; j.h.hubold@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Barbara Graziosi on BBC Radio

'Greek and Latin Voices'

Alexander Jones (New York University): 'Many Transmissions: Mesopotamian Astronomy in Greek Science and Society'

Contact j.m.steele@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Dr Andrew Zissos (University of California, Irvine), 'Boreades and boar-hunters: tracing the Argonauts in Ovid's Metamorphoses'

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Dr Carry Vout (Christ's College, Cambridge), 'The art of damnatio memoriae'

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Professor Alison Sharrock: Ovid and epic

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Spring Colloquium of the British Epigraphy Society

Contact paola.ceccarelli@durham.ac.uk; ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work in Progress: Alessandra Zanobi, 'High and low: the influence of sub-literary genres on Latin literature'

Work in Progress Seminar.

All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.

Dr Lucia Prauscello (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), 'The cult of Demeter Chthonia (and its dithyrambic roots) at Hermione'

Departmental Seminar.

For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.

Nabataean Culture - an interdisciplinary workshop

Under the auspices of the Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Professor Christoph Ulf (Innsbruck): Rethinking Cultural Contact in the Ancient World

Contact j.h.haubold@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck), 'Near Eastern Perspectives on the Greeks'

Departmental Seminar (in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East).

For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.

Work in Progress: Eleanor OKell, 'Sophoclean teaching strategy and the “lie-detector test” in Trachiniae'

Work in Progress Seminar.

All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.

Dr Bernard Collette (Honorary Research Fellow, Durham), 'Moral identity in Chrysippus: On self, parts and daimon'

Departmental Seminar.

For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.

Work in Progress: Jennifer Ingleheart, 'On reading Ovid's Homer: Tristia 2.371-80'

Work in Progress Seminar.

All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.

Dr Peter Thonemann (Wadham College, Oxford), 'Finding Toriaion: the rediscovery of an ancient city in central Anatolia'

Departmental Seminar.

For further information, please contact Ted Kaizer at ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk.

Professor Tony Birley (Vindolanda & Durham), 'Religion at Vindolanda'

A Departmental Seminar.

All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).

Dr Margherita Facella (University of Pisa), 'Jupiter Dolichenus at home: news from the archaeological excavations at Dülük Baba Tepesi'

A Departmental Seminar.

All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).

Professor Erich Gruen (University of California at Berkeley), 'Tacitus and the Jews'

A Departmental Seminar - joint event with the Department of Theology.

All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).

Barbara Graziosi, 'Family dynamics in Iliad 6'

Work in Progress Seminar.

All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.

Professor Kai Brodersen (Mannheim University/St John's College, Oxford), 'aspici cognoscique dignissimum: viewing Pomponius Mela's text, reading his images'

A Departmental Seminar.

All meetings are held in the Ritson Room and begin at 5:30pm (unless stated otherwise).

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Clemence Schultze, 'The elder Pliny and the human past'

Work in Progress Seminar.

All seminars begin at 1pm, unless stated otherwise.

Perspectives on Ancient Classical Architecture today

Performing Tears in Roman Elegy

Wednesday 12 December at 5.30 pm
Performing Tears in Roman Elegy

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work-in-Progress seminar

Wednesday 5 December at 1.00pm
Professor Edward Harris

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Creating tradition in the study of Romanization

Wednesday 5 December at 5.30pm
Creating tradition in the study of Romanization

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

Work-in-Progress seminar

Wednesday 28 November at 1.00pm
Georgios Kampalios

Contact ted.kaizer@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

West and East in the Hellenistic World

Wednesday 28 November 2007 at 5.30pm
West and East in the Hellenistic World

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Metics and the Athenian Phialai-inscriptions

Monday 26 November at 5.30pm
Metics and the Athenian Phialai-inscriptions

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The Body and the Mask

Wednesday 14 November at 1.00pm
The Body and the Mask across cultures

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The declining census rate of the fifth class in republican Rome

Tuesday 13 November at 5.30 pm
The declining census rate of the fifth class in republican Rome: proletarianization or antiquarian fiction?

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Berossos

Wednesday 7 November at 1.00pm
The text of Berossos

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Sophoclean teaching strategy

Wednesday 24 October at 1.00pm
Sophoclean teaching strategy and the "lie-detector test" in Trachiniae

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Tactile gods

Friday 19 October 2007 at 1.00pm
Tactile gods: touching and being touched by cult statues in the Roman world

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The Eleusinian Mysteries

Wednesday 10 October at 5.30pm
The Eleusinian Mysteries: programme and experience

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Classics in Translation. A Workshop

Gesellschaft für griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, Symposion 2007

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The Image as Boundary - an international conference

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CITIES AND GODS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

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Fields of vision. Inaugural workshop for the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

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Augustan Poetry: epic, elegy and metapoetics. A Workshop

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Departmental Seminars Epiphany Term 2007

Greek tragedy: ancient receptions

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Media/Medea: the 2007 Classics Society play

written by Jessie Marshall, directed by Nick Nawrockyi

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Departmental Seminars Michaelmas term 2006

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Antigone

Antigone by Sophocles (a new translation by Edward M. Harris)

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Plato and Hesiod Conference

An international conference to explore Hesiod’s presence in the works of Plato.
25th – 27th July 2006.

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