Repetition in Homeric epic--cognitive and linguistic perspectives’
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Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the next talk in our Seminar Series for Semester 2. After the talk in the Milgate Room, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments…
Discordant Harmonies: Ovid’s Musomachia (Fasti 5.1-110)
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Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the next talk in our Seminar Series for Semester 2. After the talk in the Milgate Room, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments…
‘Like a shield laid on the misty sea – an adventure among the similes of the Odyssey’
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Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the first talk in our Seminar Series for Semester 2. After the talk in the Milgate Room, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments…
Experience the Iliad: An Evening with William Zappa
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The ANU Classical Society presents William Zappa’s Iliad–the second instalment! >> Event Flyer (273KB) Early in 2015 the ANU Classical Society organized a very successful evening featuring the Australian actor, playwright and director, William Zappa, who introduced a large audience to his…
Latinity Among the Visigoths (and why it matters)
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ANU's Dr Chris Bishop will take us to the fascinating late 6 C CE when the Visigoth Chieftain Reccared wrote a letter to Pope Gregory the Great ... 'The letter, written in Latin by a Gothic-speaking warlord, offers a unique insight into a generation who abandoned their native tongue,…
On Vegemite and Greek Tragedy: Translating the Chorus
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Presented by the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Greek tragedy remains one of the most popular cultural productions of ancient Greece yet also one of the strangest. Moreover, the tragic chorus is both the strangest and the most important single element of tragedy. In this talk, Dr Perris…
Before the grimoire: Ritual authority & scribal practice in the Greek magical papyri
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Presented as part of the ANU Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The mystical power of the book as object derives from the value we assign to knowledge; certain books may have a talismanic function in that power is ascribed to the word in its physical form. As Caliban points out, the book,…