Professor Christopher Howgego : Alexandria, Queen of the Mediterranean and the Coinage of Roman Egypt
Lecture
Alexandria was one of the great centres of trade and culture in the Roman world, and yet it was once believed that the coinage produced there for Egypt was derivative and even unintelligent. The lecture draws on extensive work on the Antonine period (AD 138–192) in connection with the Roman…
Homer and the Epic Tradition (Homer Seminar IX)
Conference
Homer and the Epic Tradition(Homer Seminar IX)Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 December 2017, ANUThis ninth iteration of the Homer Seminar, to be held at The Australian National University, Canberra, is intended to give Australasian scholars--especially (but not only) postgraduates and early-career…
From Elegy to Epic: The Propertian Character of Lucan’s Pompey and Vergil’s Dido
Seminar
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The archaic Greek elegy is, as Saïd and Trédé remind us, a poetry of war and politics which Solon and Theognis in the sixth century invested with distinct moral character. Here, I propose to re-examine Vergil’s…
Winckelmann and the appreciation of Greek vases
Other
Presented by Prof Amy Smith as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series When the Prussian scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann—widely acclaimed as the founder of the academic studies of Classical Archaeology, Art History and much else—ventured to Rome in 1755, few knew or cared…
Reading Greek Vases: The case of Leto with Apollo and Artemis in Attic vase‐painting of the fifth century BC
Other
Presented by Dr Lavinia Foukara as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series Representations of Apollo, Leto and Artemis engaged in the performance of a libation in Attic vase paintings of the fifth century B.C. is the subject of the present paper. Previous studies focused mainly on…
Fake news and Aigospotamoi
Other
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The final battle of the Peloponnesian War was at Aigospotamoi on the coast of the Hellespont in 405 BC, where the Spartan Lysandros managed to destroy the last remaining Athenian fleet. Nobody can doubt the decisive nature of…
Structure and Persuasion in Suetonius’ Caesars
Other
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series At the sentence level Suetonius often appears to be neutral, but I argue here that the persuasive force of Suetonius’ text in the arrangement of his material creates a portrait that is absolutely not neutral. As David Wardle put…