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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 |
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November 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 11th November |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Discoveries of Russian Expeditions in the North-Western Crimea |
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| 5th November |
Ancient World Seminar |
Literary After-Life: Stages in the reception of the Terence text |
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October 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 21st October |
Ancient World Seminar |
Discrimina ordinum: Roman theatres examined by the Australian survey team |
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| 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 |
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| 9th October |
Ancient World Seminar |
Upland Archaeology in Ireland |
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| 7th October |
Ancient World Seminar |
Greco-Syriac Poetic Interaction: Romanos' rhetoric and preaching |
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| 2nd October |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Silchester Town Life Project: Profiling an Iron Age and Roman town |
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September 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 23rd September |
Ancient World Seminar |
Shades of Eternity: The quest for fame in the Second Sophistic |
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| 9th September |
Ancient World Seminar |
South of Ossetia: Archaeology in the borderlands of Caucasus |
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| 2nd September |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Survival of the Gracchan Land Commission and the Dandis Power of the Triumvirs |
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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 |
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| 20th August |
Ancient World Seminar |
Figuring the Gods in Ancient Greece: The relations of anthropomorphism and ‘aniconism’ |
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| 12th August |
Ancient World Seminar |
Much Better Than Our Fathers: Diomedes and Tydeus in the Iliad |
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July 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 25th July |
Mini-conference |
School of Historical Studies Research Day |
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| 7th - 10th July |
Conference |
Private and Public Lies: The discourse of deceit in the ancient world |
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May 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 31st May - 4th June |
Conference |
Paphlagonia and Pontus in Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period |
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| 27th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Big Nowhere: A mistress of animals in the Throne Room in Knossos? |
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| 20th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
Fire Next Time: The plan of Zeus in Euripides’ Helen |
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| 13th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Case of the Missing Sense of Humour: The historian Livy |
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| 6th May |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Timaeus: Plato's prose hymn to the cosmos |
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April 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 29th April |
Ancient World Seminar |
‘Liposkenia’: Staging comic evasions |
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| 22nd April |
Ancient World Seminar |
Industry in Classical Athens: A microeconomic approach |
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| 15th April |
Ancient World Seminar |
‘Who Named Me?’: Identity and status in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus |
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| 8th April |
Ancient World Seminar |
The Pella Bronze Age Temple Precinct: A conspectus of recent work (1997-2007) |
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| 1st April |
Ancient World Seminar |
Opium for the Masses: Psychoactive consumption in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean |
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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 |
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| 11th March |
Ancient World Seminar |
Of English Gardens and Iranian Tells: Archaeological Geophysics in Action |
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January 2008
| Date |
Event |
Title |
Further information |
| 28th January - 21st February |
Seminar |
Free seminar: Beginners' Classical Syriac |
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