Newcastle Classics and Ancient HIstory Seminars - 14-21-28/10, 04-18-25/11, 02-07/12/2015, Newcastle

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 14-21-28/10, 04-18-25/11, 02-07/12/2015

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University (Newcastle, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: John Holton; Sally Waite

INFO: web - john.holton@newcastle.ac.uk - sally.waite@newcastle.ac.uk.

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis /free / gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

Wednesday 7th October: Felix K. Maier (Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg/Brsg):

'Dealing with contingency: Hellenistic traditions in Plutarch's historiography'

Wednesday 14th October: No seminar

Wednesday 21st October: Anthony Birley (Newcastle & Durham University):

'Selected Letters to Ronald Syme, 1927-1939'

Wednesday 28th October: Edith Foster (CWRU):

'The paradoxical battle narratives of Xenophon's Hellenica'

Wednesday 4th November: Lynn Fotheringham (University of Nottingham):

'Cicero's 19th and 20th century biographers'

Wednesday 18th November: Edward Harris (Durham University):

'Trials in Thucydides and Xenophon'

Wednesday 25th November: Scott Ashley (Newcastle University):

'Gens Perfida: The transformation of Roman ethnography from Caesar to Charlemagne'

Wednesday 2nd December: Philip Horky (Durham University):

'The spectrum of animal rationality in Plutarch'

Monday 7th December: Hector Williams (UBC):

'Goddesses, whores, vampyres and archaeologists: Excavating ancient Mytilene'