Languages and Literature Sub-Faculty Seminar: Ancient Scholarship and Literary Texts
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Languages and Literature Sub-Faculty Seminar: Ancient Scholarship and Literary Texts

Week 1 (17th January): Tim Rood (St. Hugh's) 'Thucydides and Homeric Scholarship'

Week 2 (24th January): Tom Phillips (CCC) 'Intertextuality and Ancient Pindaric Scholarship'

Week 3 (31st January): Richard Hunter (Trinity, Cambridge) 'Plutarch's Works and Days, and Hesiod's'

Week 4 (7th February): David Butterfield (Queens', Cambridge) 'Lucretius' DRN: the subject of scholarly enquiry in antiquity?'

Week 5 (14th February): Helen Kaufmann (Oxford) 'Hide and seek: the construction of meaning in Roman late antiquity'

Week 6 (21st February): Oliver Thomas (St. John's, Cambridge) 'Problemata and Commentary'

Week 7 (28th February): Giuseppe Pezzini (LMH) 'tela volantia: Caesar's De Analogia and the Latin linguistic debate in the late Republic'

Week 8 (7th March): Jane Lightfoot (New College) 'Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome: the case of Dionysius' Periegesis of the Known World'


Data last updated 23 January 2013 , 02:07 PM.