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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
The Second Sophistic in the Egyptian Hinterland or How Can Papyri Contribute to Our Understanding of Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture
Dr Alexander Free (LMU Munich)
CCS Research Seminar 4We generally associate the cultural movement of the so-called Second Sophistic with names such as Lucian of Samosata, Favorinus…
Hidden Voices and Legacies: The Role of Silence in Ion
Dr Andrea Navarro Noguera (UNED, Madrid)
CCS Research Seminar 5This seminar investigates the complex dramaturgy of silence in Euripides’ Ion, a tragedy in which muteness becomes both a mode…
Ovid in Homer: Ovidian Re-imaginings of Troy in the Ilias Latina
Prof. Steven Green (National University of Singapore)
CCS Research Seminar 7presented in-person and online via ZoomThe Ilias Latina is a Latin version of Homer’s Iliad, in…
Past Events
The Political Bee: Apicultural Knowledge and Human Politics and in Ancient Greece
Julia Kindt, University of Sydney
My presentation revolves around a peculiar human habit that seems to have been popular in the ancient world but that is still with us today:…
A Hero for Our Times: The Emperor and Epic in Late Antiquity
Dr Catherine Ware (University College Cork)
There has always been overlap between epic and panegyric. The classical definition of epic, Vergil’s ‘kings and battles’ (Ecl. 6.3), just as…
Roman-Persian Relations: The Example of the Emperor Jovian (363-364) and the Syriac Julian Romance
Prof. Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen)
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…