Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - June
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…
Roman-Persian Relations: The Example of the Emperor Jovian (363-364) and the Syriac Julian Romance
Seminar
The Roman emperor Jovian (AD 363-364) only ruled for eight months and has not received much attention in scholarship. However, his reign is more than a footnote in history. After the short reign of Julian, who had attempted to return to the empire to pagan practices, Jovian returned to the policies…
In conversation: Rachel Franks on An Uncommon Hangman
Seminar
Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do the dirty work of the authorities. Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard used to be a household…
Ancilia, authenticity, and aura: the sacred shields of ancient Rome and the idea of the perfect copy
Seminar
Questions about the role of copies in how we study the ancient Roman world have been asked for hundreds of years. Stretching from the ancient Roman ‘copies’ of Greek works which continue to be labelled in relation to no longer extant ‘originals’, to histories of plaster casts and their value as…
Classics in Sri Lanka: Classical Reception of Three Modern Sri Lankan Anglophone Female Poets
Seminar
In my thesis, I explore how three modern Sri Lankan Anglophone female writers, Jean Arasanayagagam (1931-2009), Kamala Wijeratne (1939), and Kamani Jayasekara (1959) use classical themes and motifs in their poetry and demonstrate how they are influenced by the classical education tradition in Sri…
Sampling variability, reliability, validity and uncertainty for forensic text comparison: From likelihood ratio to Bayes factor
Seminar
In the likelihood ratio (LR) framework, the task of the forensic scientist is to provide an estimate of the weight of evidence to the court. When the evidential weight is quantified via a LR, an astute lawyer may ask whether the LR value would be similar if another set of samples were used from the…
Book Launch: Monuments, Memory, and Temporality in Roman Greece
Book launch
Seminar & Book Launch: Monuments, Memory, and Temporality in Roman Greece: A Celebration of the Work of Dr Estelle Strazdins Join us for a special event, to launch a new book by ANU Lecturer in Classics, Dr Estelle Strazdins, Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments,…