AAIA Classical Archaeology Seminar | Excavating Classical Sydney

Department of Archaeology, with The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Excavating Classical Sydney Helen Nicholson (Independent Researcher) By the end of the 18th century neoclassicism was all the rage in the UK and Europe, fuelled by the discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum and the rise of the Grand Tour for the elite. This is reflected …

CCANESA / Classics and Ancient History seminar: Elisabeth Slingsby

Elisabeth Slingsby | Cambridge University A Contest of Kings: Julio-Claudian Representations of Late Republican Civil War Classics and Ancient History/CCANESA Online Seminar   This paper examines the parallels between those who fought in the Roman civil war of 49-45BC and non-Roman sole rulers, which pervade Julio-Claudian literature. Such analogies were not unique to this period. …

Classics and Ancient History seminar: Constitutional innovation during the Second Punic War

Frederik Vervaet | Melbourne Constitutional innovation during the Second Punic War (218-201 BCE): some unintended consequences Abstract | TBA ……… The Department of Classics and Ancient History hosts a lively departmental research seminar series. Everyone is welcome to attend. Where On Zoom If you haven’t already registered to receive the Zoom meeting details for our events, …

Classics and Ancient History seminar: ‘Saving the Mind’: Toward a New Etymology of Σωφροσύνη

Brian Bigio | Stanford ‘Saving the Mind’: Toward a New Etymology of Σωφροσύνη Abstract | TBA ……… The Department of Classics and Ancient History hosts a lively departmental research seminar series. Everyone is welcome to attend. Where On Zoom If you haven’t already registered to receive the Zoom meeting details for our events, please click here …

Classics and Ancient History seminar: Imagining the demagogue: Aspasia and Lysikles the ‘Sheep Seller’

Ben Brown | Sydney Imagining the demagogue: Aspasia and Lysikles the ‘Sheep Seller’ Abstract | TBA ……… The Department of Classics and Ancient History hosts a lively departmental research seminar series. Everyone is welcome to attend. Where On Zoom If you haven’t already registered to receive the Zoom meeting details for our events, please click here …

Classics and Ancient History seminar: Optimates and Ideology: A Review

Katherine Welch | Sydney Optimates and Ideology: A Review After 30 years as a member of staff, Kathryn Welch will retire from the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney on 15 March 2021. She will not be slowing down her research and writing in retirement but hopes that she will …

Critical Antiquities Workshop: Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism between History and Philosophy

Brooke Holmes | Princeton University Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism between History and Philosophy In this talk, I examine the role of ancient Greek medicine and philosophy in Georges Canguilhem’s analysis of vitalism at the intersection of history and philosophy in his essay “Aspects of Vitalism” (1946) in light of larger questions about the historicity …