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  1. Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?

    Unauthenticated letters in late Roman North African disputes: forgeries or negotiation strategies?

    Becca Grose (St Andrews)

    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...

  2. Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    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...

  3. "Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome

    "Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome

    Jack Lennon (Leicester)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper will consider the use of animal comparisons, especially those involving animals that were judged to...

  4. Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    Alison Sharrock (Manchester)

    Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies Abstract Although climate change seems to have speeded up in the last few years, it still...

  5. 'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    Katherine McDonald (Durham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper turns a critical eye on the naming of enslaved people in ancient Italy, using Latin, Etruscan and...

  6. 'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...

    'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...

    Line Girdvainyte (Edinburgh)

    'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece revisited. Abstract This paper focuses on a...

  7. Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene

    Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene

    Caroline Barron (Durham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract The outbreaks of violence amongst the Jewish communities of ancient Alexandria, Cyrene, Cyprus and Mesopotamia...

  8. Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks

    Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks

    Thea Sommerscheid (Nottingham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstracts Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are transforming the study of ancient languages, enabling tasks...