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Centre for Classical Studies Research Seminar Series 2025
All seminars are held in the AD Hope building Conference Room (Rm 1.28) at 3.15pm but please see individual event listings for more details, and in case of any changes.
Semester 2, 2025
30 July 2025
Dr Louise Pryke (University of Sydney)Wet and Wild: Justice and Ecology in Ancient Flood Narratives?
13 August 2025
Dr Dan Zhao (ANU) The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
29 August 2025
Prof. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly)What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attic
17 September 2025
Dr Alexander Free (LMU Munich) The Second Sophistic in the Egyptian Hinterland or How Can Papyri Contribute to Our Understanding of Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture
24 September 2025
Dr Andrea Navarro Noguera (UNED, Madrid) Hidden Voices and Legacies: The Role of Silence in Ion
8 October 2025
Dr Sarah Corrigan (University of Melbourne) TBC
22 October 2025
Prof. Steven Green (National University of Singapore) Ovid in Homer: Ovidian Re-imaginings of Troy in the Ilias Latina
In person and online via zoom
Contact
- Dr Simona Martorana
Upcoming Events
Wet and Wild: Justice and Ecology in Ancient Flood Narratives?
Dr Louise Pryke (University of Sydney)
CCS Research Seminar 1 The destruction of most of humanity in ancient Flood narratives has understandably led to dominantly anthropocentric…
The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
Dr Dan Zhao (ANU)
CCS Research Seminar 2During his principate, Augustus promulgated several perplexing laws that seemingly regulated and restricted manumission: Lex…
What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attica
Prof. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly)
CCS Research Seminar 3Our understanding of the past is always predicated on previous interpretations of evidence. This talk presents two case studies…
Past Events
Dates-as-data for inscriptions: using summed probability analysis with Latin epigraphic databases to investigate population changes in the Roman Empire
Professor Shawn Ross, Macquarie University
Since the 1980s, archaeologists have used Summed Probability Analysis (SPA) of radiocarbon dates to reconstruct demographic trends. This ‘dates as…
Evaluating workplace relationships in the Homeric Iliad: bringing together digital approaches and social and cognitive theory
Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Minchin, ANU
In this paper I bring together a cluster of verbal behaviours in the Homeric Iliad, a recent psychological study of four interrelated modes of…
Alex Grigor (ANU) - ‘Achilles in Rome: Exploring 1st century CE Roman Representations of the Hero’
Alex Grigor, The Australian National University
In the century following the publication of Virgil’s Aeneid, there ensued a proliferation of literary and artistic works centred around the Trojan…