Classics Research Seminar (And Other Classical Seminar Events) School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

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Classics Research Seminar (and other classical seminar events)

School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh



Exam Season, 2012-13

Unless stated otherwise below, events begin at 5.10 pm on Wednesdays in the Meadows Lecture
Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place, and are followed by drinks in the McMillan Room.
All are welcome!

Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Charles Gordon Mackay Public Lecture I
Dr David M. Pritchard (Queensland): 'Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens'

Friday 26 April, 2013
Charles Gordon Mackay Public Lecture II
Dr David M. Pritchard (Queensland): 'Athletics in Satyric Drama'
to be followed by the launch of Dr Pritchard's Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Cambridge
University Press, 2012) in the McMillan Room from 6.30 pm.

Wednesday 1 May, 6 pm
Meeting of the Classical Association of Scotland Edinburgh and South East Centre (preceded by the AGM)
Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel (Swansea): 'C. Cornelius Gallus and his Trilingual Victory Stela at Philae'

Wednesday 15 May, please note the times!
Spring Workshop on Sophocles

3.30 pm: Professor Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh): 'From Solon to Sophocles: Aspects of Intertextuality
in Antigone' (Room to be confirmed.)
5.10 pm (Meadows Lecture Theatre): Professor Patrick Finglass (Nottingham): 'Jebb's Sophocles'

Wednesday 22 May
Research Seminar
Professor Alastair Small (Edinburgh): 'San Giovanni di Ruoti: the latest Roman villa in the West?'

Monday 3 June, 6 pm
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School

Public Lecture World Slavery from Antiquity to the Present (a series sponsored by the School of History,
Classics, and Archaeology)
Professor Walter Scheidel (Stanford): 'Slavery and Forced Labour in Ancient China and the Ancient
Mediterranean'

Tuesday 4 June, please note the times!
Spring Workshop on Latin Panegyric and Hagiography

3.30 pm: Dr Christa Gray (Edinburgh): 'Monastic Models in Jerome's Lives of Saints'
5.10 pm, Dr Catherine Ware (Liverpool/Maynooth): 'The Emperor Constantine and his Virtues'

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact:
Dr Gavin Kelly (gavin.kelly@ed.ac.uk) or Dr Ulrike Roth (u.roth@ed.ac.uk).

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