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Centre for Classical Studies Research Seminar Series 2025
Most seminars will be 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
28 August 2025
Prof. Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly) Homer and Archaeology: Is the Quest Worth Pursuing?
(special event hosted by the ANU (Canberra) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, see attached for more details)
8pm, Apollo Room, Hellenic Club Woden
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) Compilatory Innovation and Its Impact: Commentary on Exodus in the Glossae Floriacenses
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
7 November 2025 - Workshop
Organised by Dr Meaghan McEvoy (ANU) Women, gender and queenship through the ages
Lectorial Room 1.21, RSSS Building
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Contact
- Dr Simona Martorana
Past Events
Hippolytus’ Meadows: Weaving together Aesthetics and Ascetics in Christian reuses of Euripides’ ‘chastity hymn’ (Eur. Hippolytus 61-87)”
Dr Dawn LaValle Norman (ACU)
In Euripides’ Hippolytus, the titular character enters on stage singing a hymn to Artemis with his hunting companions. He then proceeds to offer a…
Order and Disorder: Aspects of Homeric Hospitality
Fiona Sweet-Formiatti
Homeric hospitality is a total social phenomenon in which interactions with the ‘other’ are regulated to maintain social order and to confer mutual…
The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship in Latin Literature
Dr Tom Geue (ANU)
The Muse is part of the furniture of classical poetry. By the time of Virgil, we barely notice she is there, and her importance as a repository of…