What Makes a Monster Horrible? Exploring the Sensory Experience of Monstrosity in Myth through Disgusting and Aversive Language
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CCS Research Seminar 6Ancient Greek and Roman myths abound with vivid descriptions of giant, supernaturally powerful creatures with horrifying composite bodies and a taste for mortal destruction – monsters. Across Greek and Roman literature, monsters are most commonly portrayed as horrible…
The Scar, the Bow, and the Bed: Embodied Engagements in—and with—Key Moments of the Odyssey
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CCS Research Seminar 5The 4E approach to cognition—according to which our cognitive processes are thought to be embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive--allows classicists to investigate from an empirical standpoint the experientiality and the impact of narrative texts, as we follow…
Audiobook Fraud from the Analog Era to AI
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Presented in person and online via Zoom, login details below.This presentation examines the audiobook as a medium in which entrenched assumptions about vocal authenticity collide with the technological ease of deception. Focusing on various forms of life writing, it proposes the concept of the ‘…
Local Myth on the Panhellenic Stage: Political Monuments at Delphi
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CCS Research Seminar 3The 1st-century geographer Strabo once described the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi as being ‘theatre-like’ (θεατροειδής). While this was probably intended as a geographical descriptor, it is certainly the case that Delphi was a place of performance where cities could ‘…
Losing the Plot: A Deep Dive into Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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Presented in person and online via Zoom, login details below[…] Let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s bloodUp to the elbows and besmear our swords.Then walk we forth, even to the marketplace,And,…
Life in a Desert City: New Discoveries from Ancient Trimithis (Egypt’s Western Desert)
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CCS Research Seminar 2Amheida, the site of ancient Trimithis in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis, is renowned for its well-preserved Late Roman remains, offering a rare glimpse into urban life far from the imperial centers of the Roman world. Over more than two decades of archaeological work, the site has…
Memory, Architecture and Australian Fiction
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Presented in person and online via Zoom, login details below.This practice-led thesis draws upon the works of Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright to approach tricky questions about writing memory and place in contemporary Australia. The poetic theories of Bachelard and Glissant are used to understand…