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February 2007

Date Event Title Further information
28th February Ancient World seminar Celebrity and Identity in Lucian
Estelle Strazdins, University of Melbourne		 N/A

March 2007

Date Event Title Further information
7th March Ancient World seminar The Question of the Size of the Sun: An example of doxography at work
David Runia, University of Melbourne		 N/A
13th March Ancient World seminar War, Democracy, and Classical Athens
David Pritchard, University of Sydney		 N/A
14th March Ancient World seminar Excavations at Çayonu: A Neolithic site in South-Eastern Turkey
Mehmet Özdogan, Istanbul University		 N/A
21st March Ancient World seminar History on the Walls: The Kazakl’i-yatkan wall paintings and traditions of mural art in ancient Chorasmia
Fiona Kidd, University of Sydney		 N/A
29th March Ancient World seminar Pilgrimage and Trade in Late Antiquity: Some evidence from Egypt and Asia Minor
Will Anderson, University of Melbourne		 N/A

April 2007

Date Event Title Further information
4th April Ancient World seminar Sleeping with the Emperor: Sex, power, and promotion in Suetonius’ Caesares
K.O. Chong-Gossard, University of Melbourne		 N/A
13th April Ancient World seminar Dangerous Benefactions
Emily Kearns, St Hilda’s College, Oxford		 N/A
18th April Ancient World seminar A Footprint in the Wilderness: Archaeological landscapes of central Transcaucasia
Jessie Birkett-Rees, University of Melbourne		 N/A
24th April Ancient World seminar Death and the Demigod
Aleks Michalewicz, University of Melbourne		 N/A

May 2007

Date Event Title Further information
2nd May Ancient World seminar Civilizations as Triumphal Trinkets: Representing conquered civilizations in the republican triumph
Sarah Midford, University of Melbourne		 N/A
3rd May Public lecture Lead Pipes and Lavatories in Pompeii Read more
9th May Ancient World seminar Peter the Iberian: The legacy of a Georgian bishop in fifth-century Palestine
Kathleen Hay, University of Melbourne		 N/A
10th May Ancient World seminar Constructing Alexander's Image for the Inhabitants of the Persian Empire; some thoughts on Alexander in Babylon
Ken Sheedy, Macquarie University		 N/A
16th May Ancient World seminar The Making of Rome in Ovid, Fasti 1
Parshia Lee-Stecum, University of Melbourne		 N/A
22nd May Public lecture The Contribution of the Greek Language to the Western (European) Civilization
Professor Yiorgos Babiniotis
Past Rector of the University of Athens
Current President of the Greek Foundation for Culture		 N/A
23rd May Ancient World seminar From Corinth to Cenchreae: One small step for an ass...
John Penwill, LaTrobe University		 N/A
31st May Public lecture Scythians: from nomads to sedentary Read more

July 2007

Date Event Title Further information
26th July Public lecture Gallipoli: Archaeology in Battle
'How soldiers at Gallipoli discovered the legacy of war in ancient artefacts'		 Read more

August 2007

Date Event Title Further information
1st August Ancient World seminar From Fantasy to Reality in Epic Conclusions: a comparison of Iliad 22 and Aeneid 12
Peter Mountford, University of Melbourne		 N/A
7th August Public lecture From the Colosseum to the Baths of Diocletian:
What Concrete Can Tell Us About Social Change in Imperial Rome
Dr. Lynne Lancaster, Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University, USA		 N/A
8th August Ancient World seminar Reading the Colosseum with an Archaeologist’s Eye
Assoc Prof Lynne Lancaster, Ohio University, USA		 N/A
8th August Book launch Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates Volume II: The Terracotta Figurines
by Heather Jackson		 Read more
8th August Ancient World seminar Minoan Palace Planning and its Origins
Prof Emeritus Donald Preziosi, UCLA, USA		 N/A
9th August Public lecture Art, Religion, and Amnesia: Macgeorge Fellow Public Lecture Read more
15th August Ancient World seminar What's in a Word: The lexicalisation of the self in Ancient Greece
Edward Jeremiah, University of Melbourne		 N/A
22nd August Ancient World seminar 'Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings': Exploring interconnections in Aegean and Levantine architecture
Dr Louise Hitchcock, University of Melbourne		 N/A
28th August Ancient World seminar The Structure of the Vita Marci Antonini in the Historia Augusta
Geoff Adams, Monash University		 N/A

September 2007

Date Event Title Further information
5th September Public lecture The Kouros of the Sacred Gate:
New finds of archaic marble sculptures in the Kerameikos at Athens
(The Annual AAIA Visiting Professor's Lecture)		 Read more
5th September Ancient World seminar Erotes on the Euphrates: Redecorating the walls of an Hellenistic house
Dr Heather Jackson, University of Melbourne		 N/A
7th September Ancient World seminar The Most Recent Excavations at Miletus/Millawanda and the History of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age
Prof Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, German School in Athens		 N/A
13th September Ancient World seminar The Secret History: The official position of Caesar Octavianus at the time of the Restitutio Rei Publicae (31-27 BCE)
Dr Frederik Vervaet, University of Melbourne		 N/A
14th September Ancient World seminar Metallurgical Analysis and Ancient Coins
Haim Gitler, Israel Museum		 N/A
27th September Public lecture Sleeping with the (Roman) Emperor:
Sex, power, and promotion in Suetonius’ 'Lives of the Caesars'		 Read more

October 2007

Date Event Title Further information
3rd October Ancient World seminar Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and Flavian Politics
Helen Slaney, University of Melbourne		 N/A
10th October Ancient World seminar Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and Flavian Politics
Michelle Negus Cleary, University of Sydney		 N/A
17th October Ancient World seminar Sadness Figured Out: The language of pathos in Virgil's Aeneid
Lindsay Zoch, University of Melbourne		 N/A
24th October Ancient World seminar The Mycenaean ra-wa-ke-ta: Military commander or Minister for Multicultural Affairs?
Dr Stephie Nikoloudis, University of Melbourne		 N/A
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