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THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF H ISTORY, C LASSICS AND
ARCHAEOLOGY
Classi cs | David Hume Tower | George Square | Edinburgh EH8
9JXhttp://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm
Classics Research Seminar 2008/2009 Semester 1All seminars will
take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
and, unless otherwise stated, in the Faculty Room North DHTWeek
2 | 1 October
Professor G REGORY H UTCHINSON (Oxford)Politics and the Sublime
in Plinys Speech to Trajan
Week 3 | 8 October | Conference Room DHT
Professor EBERHARD SAUER (Edinburgh)A Late Antique Frontier
Defence System in Northern Iran
Week 4 | 15 October
Dr C AROLINE VOUT (Cambridge)Rome as City of Sev en Hills
Week 5 | 22 October | Conference Room DHT
Professor BRUCE GIBSON (Liverpool)Silius Italicus: a Consular
Historian?
Week 6: Reading Week/No Research Seminar
Week 7 | 5 November
Dr LUKE H OUGHTON (Glasgow)Virgils fourth Eclogue Historical
Soundings
Week 8 | 12 November
Dr MAREK WEOWSKI (Warsaw)Purposes of Ostracism: for a New Light
on Some Old Potsherds
Week 9 | 19 November
Professor A NGELOS C HANIOTIS (Oxford)The Ithyphallic Hymn for
Demetrios Poliorketes and Hellenistic
Religious Mentality
Week 10 | 26 November
Professor MALCOLM H EATH (Leeds)The Best Kind of Tragic Plot:
Aristotles Argument in Poetics 1314
Week 11 | 3 December
Dr G AVIN KELLY (Edinburgh)An Idiots Guide to Roman History: New
Thoughts on the Breviarium of Festus
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2/2
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF H ISTORY, C LASSICS AND
ARCHAEOLOGY
Classi cs | David Hume Tower | George Square | Edinburgh EH8
9JXhttp://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/index.htm
Classics Research Seminar 2008/2009 Semester 2All seminars will
take place on Wednesdays at 5 pm
in the Faculty Room North DHTWeek 2 | 21 January
Professor TIMOTHY BARNES (Toronto/Edinburgh)Christians in the
Severan Empire
Week 3 | 28 January
Professor KEITH RUTTER (Edinburgh)Coins and Cultures in Western
Sicily
Week 4 | 4 February
Professor MICHAEL REEVE (Cambridge)The Vita Plinii and other
Pliniana
Week 5 | 11 February
Professor G EOFFREY B. GREATREX (Ottawa)Patriarchs and Politics
in sixth-century Constantinople
Week 6: Reading Week/No Research Seminar
Week 7 | 25 February
Professor MICHAEL FULFORD (Reading)Going down! The Silchester
Insula IX Town Life Project 1997 2009
Week 8 | 4 March
Dr JANE LIGHTFOOT (Oxford)Dionysius the Periegete
Week 9 | 11 March
Professor G IOVAN BATTISTA DA LESSIO (KCL)A Greek Lyric Poet
from Samos to Ghazni
Week 10 | 18 March
Professor T IM C ORNELL (Manchester)title tba
Week 11 | 25 March
Professor JOSEPH ROISMAN (Colby College)Alexanders the Great
Veterans
