Research Seminars in Ancient History and Classics

Seminars are held Thursdays 4-6 pm
Kevin Lee Room (Main Quadrangle H604).

31 July
Why Pietas? How and Why to Advertise the Avoidance of Despotism in 27 BC
Kathryn Welch (University of Sydney)

The Ugly Peasant and the NakedVirgins: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Imitation
Richard Hunter (Cambridge University)

21 August
The 'Egyptian Question' in 56 BC
Kit Morrell (University of Sydney)

Demonising Ares
Sally Morris (Macquarie University)

28 August
Velleius on Germanicus
Andy Stiles (University of Sydney)

Lesbia’s Cousin and Catullus 113
Tom Hillard (Macquarie University)

4 September
Socio-Political Groups in Sophoclean Drama: Odysseus and the Athenian ‘Middle Class’
Elodie Paillard (Université de Genève)

Mens Exercituum - The Pathology of Roman Soldiers in Conflict
Denis Saddington (University of the Witwatersrand)

18 September
Pliny the Younger: Asianist or Atticist?
Michelle Borg (University of Sydney)

Propertius? Concept of ‘Virtus’ in Books 2-4: Giving a ‘New’ Meaning to the ‘Old’ Discourse
Barbara Weinlich (Texas Tech University)

9 October
Tyrannus Augustus: The Politics of 22-3 BC
Andrew Pettinger (University of Sydney)

Rhetoric and Theatre in Plato
Dougal Blyth (University of Auckland)

16 October
Did Egypt lack interest in the Levant during the Amarna age: Evidence from the Amarna letters
Hanadah Tarawneh (Macquarie University)

Frederik Vervaet (University of Melbourne), TBA

23 October
The Curious Case of Tuccia and Tiber
Peta Greenfield (University of Sydney)

The Eppia Episode in Juvenal's Sixth Satire
Lindsay Watson (University of Sydney)

30 October
Polis Hellenis
Getzel Cohen (University of Cincinnati)

For further information on the program or to offer a research paper of 40 minutes in second semester please make contact with the Department’s convenors of the research seminar program,
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