Research Seminar Series
2008/2009
Thursday 16 October
Prof. Chris Collard, Oxford
‘Fragments of Satyric Drama’
Thursday 23 October
Dr Costas Panayotakis, Glasgow
‘The titles of plays attributed to the mimographer Decimus Laberius’
Thursday 30 October
Fiachra Mac Góráin, Corpus Christi / Magdalen Colleges, Oxford
‘The influence of Euripides on Virgil: the dismemberment of Pentheus’
Thursday 6 November
Dr Mark Bradley, Nottingham
‘Crime and Punishment on the Capitoline Hill’
Thursday 20 November
Dr Tim Whitmarsh, Corpus Christi College Oxford
'Beyond the second sophistic: Hellenism, nationalism and the Greek novel’
Thursday 27 November
Dr Stephen Lambert, Cardiff
‘Aristocracy and the Attic Gene: a mythological perspective’
Thursday 4 December
Dr Barbara Kowalzig, RHUL
'Fishing for Fish Sacrifice: Local Economies and Religious Identity in the Greek Mediterranean'
Thursday 11 December
Dr Ian Ruffell, Glasgow
"I am Serious - and Don't Call Me Shirley": a Comic Look at Tragic Politics
Thursday 15 January
Dr Lynn Kozak, Nottingham
‘The Constraints of Desire: the Persistence of Pederasty in Platonic Models of Love’
Thursday 22 January
Prof. Roy Gibson, Manchester
‘Problems with Pliny the Younger’
Thursday 29 January
Dr Elton Barker, Christ Church College Oxford
‘Homer’s Thebes’
Thursday 5 February
Dr Fiona Hobden, Liverpool
‘History meets fiction in Dr. Who, The Fires of Pompeii’
Thursday 12 February
Dr James Thorne, Swansea
‘The state(s) of Gaul at Caesar’s arrival’
Thursday 26 February
Dr Roger Brock, Leeds
'Political imagery in archaic Greece'
Thursday 5 March
Evert van Emde Boas, Corpus Christi college, Oxford
'Clusters of hapax legomena in the Iliad'
Thursday 12 March
Dr Altay Coskun, Trier/Exeter
‘New Work on Hellenistic and Roman Galatia’
Thursday 19 March
Melanie Marshall, Brasenose college, Oxford
‘Bella plus quam civilia: Tacitus' Histories and aemulatio of Lucan's narrative passages.’
Thursday 23 April
Dr Tina Chronopoulos, KCL
‘A reading of an Horatian Ode with a 12th-cent. medieval Latin commentary in hand’
Thursday 30 April
Dr Angelo Giavatto, Cologne
‘How to Write to Yourself: Structure and Argumentation in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius’
Thursday 7 May
Dr Lindsay Allen, KCL
‘At home in Persepolis’
Thursday 14 May
Nora Goldschmidt, Magdalen College Oxford
‘Virgil, Ennius, and the Site of Rome’
Wednesday 27 May
Dr Johanna Akkujarvi, Lund
"Narrating Athens. Genres in Pausanias' Attika."
Thursday 4 June
Dr Koen de Temmerman
'Less than ideal paradigms in the ancient Greek novel'
