Past event
Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity Workshop followed by the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY
Morning Session
9.15 – 9.30 Introduction
9.30 – 10.15 Emma Bentley: Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy
10.15 – 11.00 Kresimir Vukovic: Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome: Resilience, Deforestation, Interpretations
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.15 Andrew Fox: The Death Grove at the Heart of Seneca's Thyestes
12.15 – 13.00 Leila Williamson: Strawberry-tree solastalgia: following the arbutus in Vergil, Rutilius, and Ennodius
13.00 – 14.00 Break
Afternoon Session
14.00 – 14.45 Emily Kneebone: Deforestation in imperial Greek epic
14.45 – 15.30 Matthew Westermayer: Intervention and Mixture: Grafted Trees and Baptismal Practice on Mt. Nebo
Annual Lecture
16.15 – 17.45 Edith Hall: Achilles in green: reading the Iliad in the 21st century (Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies)
Follow on drinks will be provided in room S03, in the School of Classics
This is a School of Classics Event.
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