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December 2008

Date Event Title Further information
9th December Ancient World Seminar Villas and Christianity in Late Antiquity: New observations on an old problem Read more

November 2008

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11th November Ancient World Seminar The Discoveries of Russian Expeditions in the North-Western Crimea Read more
5th November Ancient World Seminar Literary After-Life: Stages in the reception of the Terence text Read more

October 2008

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21st October Ancient World Seminar Discrimina ordinum: Roman theatres examined by the Australian survey team Read more
14th October Ancient World Seminar City of the Chorasmii? Recent investigations into the art and architecture of the late Iron Age site of Kazakly-yatkan, Uzbekistan Read more
9th October Ancient World Seminar Upland Archaeology in Ireland Read more
7th October Ancient World Seminar Greco-Syriac Poetic Interaction: Romanos' rhetoric and preaching Read more
2nd October Ancient World Seminar The Silchester Town Life Project: Profiling an Iron Age and Roman town Read more

September 2008

Date Event Title Further information
23rd September Ancient World Seminar Shades of Eternity: The quest for fame in the Second Sophistic Read more
9th September Ancient World Seminar South of Ossetia: Archaeology in the borderlands of Caucasus Read more
2nd September Ancient World Seminar The Survival of the Gracchan Land Commission and the Dandis Power of the Triumvirs Read more

August 2008

Date Event Title Further information
26th August Ancient World Seminar The Bullet and the Brush: Fighting to preserve the archaeological sites in ancient Mesopotamia Read more
20th August Ancient World Seminar Figuring the Gods in Ancient Greece: The relations of anthropomorphism and ‘aniconism’ Read more
12th August Ancient World Seminar Much Better Than Our Fathers: Diomedes and Tydeus in the Iliad Read more

July 2008

Date Event Title Further information
25th July Mini-conference School of Historical Studies Research Day Read more
7th - 10th July Conference Private and Public Lies: The discourse of deceit in the ancient world Read more

May 2008

Date Event Title Further information
31st May - 4th June Conference Paphlagonia and Pontus in Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period Read more
27th May Ancient World Seminar The Big Nowhere: A mistress of animals in the Throne Room in Knossos? Read more
20th May Ancient World Seminar Fire Next Time: The plan of Zeus in Euripides’ Helen Read more
13th May Ancient World Seminar The Case of the Missing Sense of Humour: The historian Livy Read more
6th May Ancient World Seminar The Timaeus: Plato's prose hymn to the cosmos Read more

April 2008

Date Event Title Further information
29th April Ancient World Seminar ‘Liposkenia’: Staging comic evasions Read more
22nd April Ancient World Seminar Industry in Classical Athens: A microeconomic approach Read more
15th April Ancient World Seminar ‘Who Named Me?’: Identity and status in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Read more
8th April Ancient World Seminar The Pella Bronze Age Temple Precinct: A conspectus of recent work (1997-2007) Read more
1st April Ancient World Seminar Opium for the Masses: Psychoactive consumption in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean Read more

March 2008

Date Event Title Further information
18th March Ancient World Seminar Keeping House: Our developing understanding of Early and Middle Bronze households in Cyprus Read more
11th March Ancient World Seminar Of English Gardens and Iranian Tells: Archaeological Geophysics in Action Read more

January 2008

Date Event Title Further information
28th January - 21st February Seminar Free seminar: Beginners' Classical Syriac Read more
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