Durham Seminars
SEMINAR PROGRAM 2006-07Department of Classics, University of Durham
MICHAELMAS TERM
Friday 20 October, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge University)
Are Plato’s philosopher kings/queens absolute rulers?
Wednesday 25 October, 5.30pm [Seminar room]
Professor Maria Liston (University of Waterloo, Canada)
To burn or not to burn: early Iron Age burials in Athens
• Note that Professor Liston will also give a talk, on Thursday 26 at
4.15pm, in the Department of Archaeology, Birley Room [Well burials: human
remains from the ‘baby well’ in the Agora excavations in Athens]
Wednesday 1 November, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Henk Versnel (University of Leiden)
Split personalities: on the desperate over-contextuality of Greek gods
Wednesday 8 November, 6pm [Seminar room] - Classical Association
Dr Bob Cowan (Balliol College, Oxford)
You cannot be serious! Parody and other irreverences in the Classical
world
Friday 17 November, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Claire Jamset (Australian National University, Canberra)
Marching against the ancestors: the significance of the imagines in
Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile
Friday 24 November, at 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Professor Ted (J.E.) Lendon (University of Virginia)
Title: TBC
Wednesday 29 November, 5.30pm [Seminar room]
Dr Anna Leone (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Durham)
Changing townscapes in Late Antique North Africa
Wednesday 6 December, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr David Thomas (University of Durham)
The wicked stepmother: an unpublished papyrus from Oxyrhynchus
Wednesday 13 December, 5.30pm [Ritson room]
Dr Peter Kruschwitz (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften)
Language matters: the case of the SC de Pisone patre
All welcome!
[Classicists]