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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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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