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Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon
Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)
Annual lecture of the St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity. Abstract There is nothing new about turning to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus...
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Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath
Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?
The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...
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Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?
Becca Grose (St Andrews)
Abstract In the letters of Augustine and other North African religious figures, we find multiple mentions of suspect letters --- letters missing...
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Friendship, Philosophy, Forgery: Greek letter collections 400 BC to AD 400
Andrew Morrison (Glasgow)
The letter collections of Greco-Roman antiquity dwarf in total size all of ancient drama or ancient epic put together, but have not received anything like as...
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Who is the host? Ancient hospitality in research and practice.
Elena Isayev (Exeter)
Abstract The paper will consider the intersections between ancient research on contexts of asylum, and contemporary concerns in relation to people seeking...
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Teaching Ancient War
Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?
The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...
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How Aristotle Saves Plato's Soul: Common and Proper Pathē in the Philebus and De Anima
Jason Carter (St Andrews)
This is a School of Classics Event. --------- Abstract In the Philebus, Socrates argues that an affection (πάθος) of a living being may be...
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Premodern Environmental History and Its Contemporary Relevance.
A workshop on the contemporary relevance of pre-modern environmental history with a focus on the potential policy implications of this research. Andy Dugmore...
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Contemporary trends in Late Antique and Medieval history
Speaker: Professor John Haldon (Princeton)
A second seminar for postgraduate students, on contemporary trends in Late Antique and Medieval history as well as lessons from Professor Haldon's career...
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St Theodore, Euchaita and Anatolia, c. 500-1000 CE. Landscape climate and the survival of an empire
John Haldon - Princeton
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
