Edinburgh Classics

News from the Last Historians of Rome project!

From the new Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary It is a real honour—and more than a little daunting—to take over from Tim Whitmarsh as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. The first edition of the Dictionary appeared more than three ...

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Latin Literature in Late Antiquity, with Gavin Kelly - Medievalists.net A conversation with Gavin Kelly about the corpus of Latin literature from antiquity down to the present, where we discuss the reasons why most scholars focus on the period before 200 AD, why late…

'Latin Literature in Late Antiquity, with Gavin Kelly' - podcast discussing issues in Greek literature also. 🏺

I was interviewed on Anthony Kaldellis' podcast Byzantium and Friends on Latin literature, esp. in late antiquity, and the periods we cut it up into. There's a bit about Greek literature too: byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/135-latin-...

Last public talk of the semester tonight! 5.10pm on 27 November in the Meadows LT, Dr Antony Lee (National Museum of Scotland), addresses the CAS (Edinburgh and South East centre) on "Whose gods are they anyway? Romano-British religion and museum displays".

on Thursday 21 Nov., at 2.10 in pm Teaching Room 12 in Doorway 3, Old Medical School. Dr Jutta Stroszeck speaks on "Kerameikos: The Burial plot of the Lacedaimonian warriors (403 BCE)" [Charles Gordon Mackay seminat)

At 5.10pm today, Wednesday 20 November, in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Dr Jutta Stroszeck (DAI Athens) gives a Charles Gordon Mackay lecture: About the discovery of Paian’s Oracle in the Athenian Kerameikos. Do come... and also to the sequel tomorrow:

Double bill seminar this afternoon at 2.10pm in Chrystal McMillan Seminar room 5: Roberta Leotta on Embodied experiences and jealousy metaphors in Latin and Yolanda Panou on Representations of filicide on the tragic stage. All most welcome! Contact Janja Soldo for a Teams link.

Today, Wednesday 22 November, Catharine Edwards (@CatharineEdwa) from Birkbeck University will speak to the seminar on 'Breathing freely: mind, body and personal identity in Seneca’s philosophical writing' (Meadows LT, 5.10pm). Contact Janja Soldo if you want a Teams link.

Departmental Research seminar meets today, Wednesday 15 November. Martin Henig (Oxford) will speak on 'Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus, Rex Magnus Britanniae, a client king and his achievements in the first century AD'. 5.10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre; all welcome; for Teams link write to Janja Soldo.

Today's Classics research seminar (Wed. 8 November): at 5.10pm in Meadows Lecture Theatre, Ingvar Brandvik Mæhle (Bergen): 'Patronage, exploitation and honour in Archaic Athens'. In person only this time. He'll also give a seminar Thursday afternoon -- contact Mirko Canevaro for details.

Fancy a Friday-night treat? Douglas Cairns' brand new article on emotions in classical literature — a tour de force — is now free on the Oxford Classical Dictionary website. We're planning to follow up with a linked series on individual emotions.
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