Compilatory Innovation and Its Impact: Commentary on Exodus in the Glossae Floriacenses
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 6This paper will explore the innovative and intriguing commentary on Exodus that is collected in one work from the vast and much neglected corpus of early medieval exegetical compilation, messy works that are for the most part anonymous or labelled pseudonymously and contain a…
Modernity and the Person in Women Writers of the Catholic Literary Revival
Seminar
Modernity and the Person in Women Writers of the Catholic Literary Revival (Confirmation of Candidature presentation)This doctoral project examines six works of narrative prose fiction written by women writers of the Catholic Literary Revival across the British Isles (1860-1960). These texts,…
Hidden Voices and Legacies: The Role of Silence in Ion
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 5This seminar investigates the complex dramaturgy of silence in Euripides’ Ion, a tragedy in which muteness becomes both a mode of violence and a tool of resistance. In contrast to the prevailing aural richness of Greek drama, silence in Ion destabilizes expectations and…
The Second Sophistic in the Egyptian Hinterland or How Can Papyri Contribute to Our Understanding of Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 4We generally associate the cultural movement of the so-called Second Sophistic with names such as Lucian of Samosata, Favorinus of Arelate or Philostratus. In his Lives of the Sophists, the latter draws a picture of wandering orators who travel through the Mediterranean world…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - September 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.This talk situates Gerald Murnane’s early fiction within the imaginative structures of terra nullius. While Murnane is typically read for his preoccupation with the correspondence of word and world, I argue that his landscapes are also…
What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attica
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 3Our understanding of the past is always predicated on previous interpretations of evidence. This talk presents two case studies that demonstrate the importance of evaluating where our interpretations come from. These are the 8th century BC so-called ‘Sacred house’ of the…