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Classics Research Seminar
SEMESTER 2, 2012-13
Unless stated otherwise below, events begin at 5.10 on
Wednesdays in the Meadows LectureTheatre, William Robertson Wing,
Teviot Place, and are followed by drinks in the McMillan Room.
All are welcome!Wednesday 16 JanuaryProfessor Peter Kruschwitz
(University of Reading) - 'Texts in Texts: Representations of
Literatureand Documents in Roman Inscriptions'
Wednesday 23 JanuaryProfessor David Langslow (University of
Manchester) - 'Archaic Latin Inscriptions in Greek and
LatinAuthors'
Thursday 24 January, 6pm in the Teviot Lecture Theatre
Joint Meeting w ith the Archaeology Research SeminarDr Ergn Lafl
(Dokuz Eyll University) - 'Recent Research on Roman
Paphlagonia'
Wednesday 30 January, 6pmMeeting of the Classical Association of
Scotland, Edinburgh and South East CentreDr Julia Hillner
(University of Sheffield) - 'Empresses and the City: Constantine's
Women and Rome'
Wednesday 6 February, 6pmJoint meeting with Edinburgh Iran
FestivalThe Persian Empire (1)Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University
of Edinburgh) - 'Beautiful to Behold is the King': The Body
andDress of the Achaemenid Monarch'
Wednesday 13 FebruaryThe Persian Empire (2)Dr David Lewis
(University of Edinburgh) - 'The Aegean Slave Trade in the Fifth to
Fourth CenturiesBCE: Achaemenid Anatolia as a Case Study'
Wednesday 20 FebruaryDr Richard Rutherford (Christ Church,
Oxford) - 'Sexuality and Decorum in Greek Tragedy'
Wednesday 27 FebruaryMeeting of the Classical Association of
Scotland
Dr Mirko Canevaro (University of Edinburgh) - 'The Development
of Legislative Procedures in AncientAthens: 350 Years of
nomothesia'
Wednesday 6 MarchProfessor Fred Naiden (University of N.
Carolina, Chapel Hill) - 'The Sword Did It'
Wednesday 13 MarchProfessor Jan Stenger (University of Glasgow)
- 'First-rate Greeks: Libanius and the Construction ofHellenic
Identity'
Wednesday 20 MarchPoets of the 50s BC (1)Dr David Butterfield
(Queens' College, Cambridge) - 'Lucretius' De Rerum Natura:
Incomplete,Interpolated or Intact?'
Wednesday 27 March
Poets of the 50s BC (2)
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Professor Monica Gale (Trinity College, Dublin) - 'Catullus
through the Looking Glass: Suffenus andMamurra'
Wednesday 3 April, 6pmMeeting of the Classical Association of
Scotland
Professor J.G.F. Powell (Royal Holloway, University of London) -
'How does Latin Word Order Really
Work?'
Wednesday 1 May, 6pmMeeting of the Classical Association of
Scotland Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel (Swansea University) - 'C.
Cornelius Gallus and his Trilingual Victory Stelafrom Philae'
