Dr L. Bendall ; Wednesday 11-1 ; Institute of Archaeology, Seminar Room
This series offers a basic introduction to the Aegean Bronze Age scripts, with particular focus on Linear B and what it can tell us about Mycenaean society. The course is intended for undergraduates taking Homeric Archaeology, Bronze Age & Early Iron Age Aegean and Minoan Crete, graduate students taking Scripts as an examined option (and any other grads who would like to sit in), and anyone generally interested in the scripts. Knowledge of Greek is not required and there is no need to sign up - just come along.
Undergraduates (and graduates)
The undergraduate part of the course runs in Weeks 1-4. Graduates should also attend this section, where we will set out the basics of what you need to know to study Linear B. Topics are as follows:
1. Introduction (overview of the scripts; decipherment of Linear B; basics)
2. Running a polity and running a palace: administration and political geography
3. The Mycenaean economy
4. Religion and banqueting
Graduates
The course will continue for graduate students in Weeks 5-8. We will identify as a group topics we wish to explore further, and students doing the Scripts option will be expected to make presentations. Topics treated in previous years include:
- Mycenaean land tenure
- Linear B ideograms
- the Pylos furniture tablets
- Mycenaean sealing systems
- Mycenaean weaponry and chariots
At some point there will be a handling session at the Ashmolean Museum, which has the largest collection of Minoan artefacts (including Linear B tablets from Knossos), outside Crete. Date and time tba.
Mr E. Proudfoot, Ms N. Sheldrick, Miss T. Chezum; Friday 3 Wks 2-5, 7-8 Friday 11 Wk 6 ; Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room
Week 1: No Lecture
Week 2: Stephen Smith (Royal Holloway) "Sacred by Design? Double-Rounded Moulding on Roman Altars and Podia"
Week 3: Niccolò Mugnai (Leicester) "At the edge of the Roman world: architecture and decoration at Sala (Chellah, Rabat - Morocco)"
Week 4: Amanda Sharp (Oxford) TBA
Week 5: David Scahill (Bath) TBA
Week 6: Ben Russell (KCL) "Sub-elite marble use and re-use at Pompeii and Herculaneum: the evidence from the bars" (**Please note different time and place**)
Week 7: Dirk Booms (British Museum) TBA
Week 8: Stefano Camporeale (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) " 'Opus Africanum': problems of origin, diffusion and uses in the western Mediterranean"
Dr C.T. Kuhn ; Tuesday 5 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 1 (15 January): Alan Bowman: 'The State and the Economy in the High Empire'
Week 2 (22 January): Olivier Hekster: 'Adoptive Ancestry? Imperial Representations under the Antonines'
Week 3 (29 January): Christopher Howgego and Volker Heuchert: 'Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period'
Week 4 (5 February): Martin Goodman: 'Jews in the Antonine Age'
Week 5 (12 February): Tim Whitmarsh: 'Periegesis and the Art of Cultural Memory in the Antonine Empire'
Week 6 (19 February): Bert Smith: 'The Greek East under Rome: Some Monuments'
Week 7 (26 February): Barbara Levick: 'How did the Antonines become a Dynasty?'
[Week 8: Vernant Memorial Lecture]
Prof. N. Purcell and others; Tuesday 2 Wks 2, 4, 6 Tuesday 3 Wk 7 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 2 (22nd January)
Dr Jas' Elsner, Images
Week 4 (5th February)
Professor Rosalind Thomas, Literacy
Week 6 (19th February)
Dr Georgy Kantor, Law
Week 7 (26th February) **3 pm**
Dr Amin Benaissa, Papyrology
Dr P Niewöhner ; Tuesday 9-11 ; Institute of Archaeology
Dr I.T. Toth ; Tuesday 2-3:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr C. Humfress; Wednesday 5 Wks 3-8 ; Examination Schools
Week 3 (30 January): 'Imperial Texts and Roman Legal History'
Week 4 (6 February): '"In the shadow of indigenous ordering." Law and social hierarchies in the provinces'
Week 5 (13 February): '"Legalism from below"? Institutional order and Christian communities'
Week 6 (20 February): 'Local reasoning in Late Roman disputes. Beyond the "law-in-practice" paradigm'
Week 7 (27 February): 'Cultures of law in Justinianic Constantinople'
Week 8 (6 March): 'Past law and empire. Late Antique reflections on "post-colonial" legal studies'
View the
poster
for this series.
Prof. R.R.R. Smith, Dr M. Stamatopoulou ; Monday 5 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 1 (14 January): Messene: Its Classical, Hellenistic and Roman faces
Petros Themelis (Athens)
Week 2 (21 January): Aï Khanoum: The spatial organization of a Greek city in ancient Afghanistan
Laurianne Sève-Martinez (Lille)
Week 3 (28 January): Pella: capital of Alexander the Great. Its commercial and administrative centre
Ioannis Akamatis (Thessaloniki)
Week 4 (4 February): Delos: The urban fabric of late Hellenistic Delos and the integration of economic activities in the domestic sphere
Mantha Zarmakoupi (Washington DC)
Week 5 (11 February): Karasis: A fortified residence in Cilicia
Adolf Hoffmann (Istanbul)
Week 6 (18 February): Balboura: a Pisidian foundation in the highlands of 'North Lycian' Kabalia
Jim Coulton (Athens)
Week 7 (25 February): Alexandria: How Egyptian was Alexandria? Recent finds and discussions
Marianne Bergmann (Berlin)
Week 8 (4 March): Aphrodisias: Three Bouleuteria
Chris Hallett (Berkeley)
Organisers: R.R.R. Smith & Maria Stamatopoulou
Dr A. Benaissa ; Wednesday 11-1 Wks 1, 3, 5, 7 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr C. V. Crowther, Prof. R.C.T. Parker, Dr J.R.W. Prag ; Monday 1 Wks 2-6, 8 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 4 (Monday 4 February): Abigail Graham, 'Face Value: Assessing the role of Space and Decoration in Monumental Inscriptions' (provisional title)
Week 5 (Monday 11 February): Philomen Probert, 'Some relative clauses in archaic Greek inscriptions'
Week 8 (Monday 4 March): Ersin Hussein, 'Being Roman in Cyprus: the monuments of Italian businessmen' (provisional title)
Miss A C H Gartrell, Mr T Russell ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Prof. R.C.T. Parker ; Monday 2:15-3:45 Wks 1, 3, 5 Monday 5 Wk 7 ; Ioannou Centre
Ms V Riedemann Mr N. West, Ms A. Kasseri; Thursday 1 Wks 2, 4, 6, 8 ; Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room
Dr M. Mango, Dr P Niewöhner ; Thursday 11-12:30 Wks 2-8 ; St John's College, New Seminar Room
Week 2 (24 January): PD Dr David Knipp (Freiburg)
Some mosaic compositions at the Chora and the peristyle floor in the Great Palace of the Byzantine emperors
Week 3 (31 January): Dr Nikolaos Karydis (Kent)
The Church of St Mary at Ephesos revisited: architectural transformations from Late Antiquity to the Byzantine period
Week 4 (7 February): Dr Pamela Armstrong (Wolfson)
Byzantine ceramics and ceramic production: current knowledge and a way forward
Week 5 (14 February): Dr Linda Hulin (Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology)
Farming the margins in eastern Libya: the relation between settled and mobile populations
Week 6 (21 February): Dr Jacques Mercier (Paris)
The rediscovery of the Garima Gospels
Week 7 (28 February): Dr Marlia Mango (St John’s)
Responding to Byzantine environments: then and now
Week 8 (7 March): Alex Johnson (Oxford)
Geophysical prospecting, a Byzantine perspective.
Convenors: Dr Marlia Mango (St. John's) and Dr Philipp Niewöhner (Brasenose)
Prof. M Lauxtermann, Dr M. Whittow ; Wednesday 5 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 1 (16th January): David Gwynn (Royal Holloway)
"'If you enquire whether the bath is ready, the answer is that the Son was made out of nothing': Doctrinal Controversies and the Late Antique Historian."
Week 2 (23rd January): David Knipp (University of Freiburg)
"S. Maria Antiqua (Rome). The Pre-existing building and its last secular phase."
Week 3 (30th January): Aglae Pizzone (University of Durham)
"Readerships and readerly pleasure in Eustathios' Homeric Commentaries."
Week 4 (6th February): Ida Toth (Wolfson)
"The Making of the Byzantine Book of the Philosopher Syntipas."
Week 5 (13th February): Victor Walser (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich)
"Servants of God, Heretics, and Musicians. New Inscriptions from Germia in Central Anatolia."
Week 6 (20th February): Catherine Jolivet-Levy (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
"Byzantine Monumental painting and its audience: Cappadocian case-studies."
Week 7 (27th February): Daniel Reynolds (University of Birmingham)
"Christian iconoclasm in Umayyad Palestine: social and economic perspectives."
Week 8 (6th March): Philipp Niewöhner (Brasenose)
"The Porphyry Tetrarchs at Venice, the Last Obelisk of Antiquity, and the first Monument of Theodosius I at Constantinople."
Dr N.B. McLynn ; Wednesday 9:30-11 ; Corpus Christi College
Miss A.-S. Diener, Miss E. Karouzou, Miss A. Kasseri; Tuesday 1 Wks 2, 4, 6, 8 ; Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room
Prof. N. Purcell ; Monday 2-3:30 Wks 2, 4, 6, 8 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr N.B. McLynn , Dr C. Leyser; Thursday 5 ; Corpus Christi College
Ms R Hesse, Ms E Rowan, Prof. A.I. Wilson ; Wednesday 1 ; Institute of Archaeology, Lecture Room
Week 1 (16 January): Rachel Hesse (University of Oxford): 'Understanding Roman Sacrificial Practice: The Faunal Remains from the Temple at Omrit, Israel'
Week 2 (23 January): Dr Ergün Lafli (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey): 'Recent Research on Roman Paphlagonia (North-Central Turkey)'
Week 3 (30 January): Professor Andrew Wilson (University of Oxford): 'Nymphs in a palm grove: water and leisure in the South Agora at Aphrodisias'
Week 4 (6 February): Dr Alessandro Launaro (University of Cambridge): 'Seeing the unseen: The case of Interamna Lirenas and its territory (Southern Lazio, Italy)'
Week 5 (13 February): Dr Hilary Cool (Barbican Associates): 'Insula VI.1 Pompeii and the Augustan Consumer Boom'
Week 6 (20 February): Carmela Franco (University of Oxford): 'Roman Sicilian amphorae in the Western Mediterranean (I-VI AD): an economic analysis in the light of new data'
Week 7 (27 February): Dr Dimitrios Christodoulou (11th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Chalcis, Greece): 'Deifying Diocletian and Galerius: Salonica - Split - Gamzigrad - Šarkamen'
Week 8 (6 March): Professor Jean-Pierre Brun (Collège de France, Paris): 'Perfume making at Delos'
Dr D. Obbink ; Tuesday 1 ; Christ Church
Prof. D.O.M. Charles, Prof. T.H. Irwin ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Radcliffe Humanities, Ryle Room
Prof. M Lauxtermann ; Friday 12 ; Ioannou Centre
Prof. M Lauxtermann ; Friday 10-11:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr P Avlamis, Dr S. Hitch ; Wednesday 5-6:30 ; Corpus Christi College
Week 1 (16 January): Johanna Hanink (Brown) and Anna Uhlig (Cambridge)
'σκότος γάρ ἐστιν Αἰσχύλου τεθνηκότος: The Posthumous Life and Works of Aeschylus'
Week 2 (23 January): Robert Fowler (Bristol)
'Mythography and other sub-literary genres'
Week 3 (30 January): Andrew Ford (Princeton)
'Turning the Cannon on Homer: the catalogue of ships in Euripides' IA'
Week 4 (6 February): Emily Pillinger (KCL)
'Litterae and tabulae rasae in Latin poetry'
Week 5 (13 February): Dirk Obbink (Oxford)
'Sappho and the Epic Canon'
Week 6 (20 February): Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL)
'From Thersites to Trimalchio: Canon, Genre, and Historical Time'
Week 7 (27 February): Larry Kim (Trinity College, USA)
'Dionysius of Halicarnassus, classicism and Asianism'
Week 8 (6 March): William Fitzgerald (KCL)
'How to be minor'
Prof. C. B. R. Pelling, Dr S. Scullion ; Monday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Miss A. Buglass, Mr T. Mackenzie; Friday 4:15-5:30 ; Ioannou Centre
All graduate students are warmly invited to present an aspect of their current research or a piece they are working on to their peers. The setting is relatively informal with no senior faculty members and is complete with tea and biscuits. The presentations are followed by discussion and questions. All very welcome.
Mr T Phillips, Mr B Taylor ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
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'
Prof. S. J. Harrison, Dr S. J. Heyworth ; Tuesday 5-6:30 Wks 1-6 ; Wadham College
Mr T. Moore, Mr D. Kranzelbinder; Wednesday 7-9 Wks 2, 4, 6, 8 ; Ioannou Centre
This term the PRG will be reading the Phaidon.
Week 2: 57a-72d
Week 4: 72e-84b
Week 6: 84c-102a
Week 8: 102b-118a (end)
For the full PRG termcard please email Daniel Kranzelbinder or Thomas Moore.
Prof. S. J. Harrison, Prof. C. B. R. Pelling ; Friday 2:15-4 ; Corpus Christi College
Dr P. J. Barber, Dr W. de Melo, Dr P. Probert ; Tuesday 2:15-4 Wks 2-3, 5-8 ; Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Room 207
The Comparative Philology Graduate Seminar this term focuses on Faliscan. The ager Faliscus was not far to the north of Rome, and the language spoken there is of particular interest because it is the closest relative of Latin. The seminar will locate Faliscan within the wider Italic context and discuss its phonology and morphology.
Week 2: History of the Faliscans; the Faliscan alphabet
Week 3: Phonology part 1: Voiced aspirates in Faliscan and Italic
Week 4: NO SEMINAR
Week 5: Phonology part 2
Week 6: Nominal morphology
Week 7: Verbal morphology
Week 8: Onomastics; Faliscan as a dialect of Latin?
In week 4, participants might like to attend the following talk instead:
Dr Jacob Dahl, Recent advances in the study of early writing from Iran
Tuesday 5th February (4th week), Oriental Institute, 2:30 pm, lecture room 1
Prof. M.D. Goodman ; Tuesday 2:30-4 ; Oriental Institute
Week 1 (15 January): Tessa Rajak (Somerville) and Martin Goodman, 'The reception of Josephus to 1750'
Week 2 (22 January): QUMRAN FORUM : Joan Taylor (King's College London), 'The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea' (chaired by Geza Vermes (Director of the Qumran Forum))
Week 3 (29 January): James Kugel (Bar-Ilan University and Harvard University), 'The book of Jubilees and ancient biblical interpretation'
Week 4 (5 February): Michael Avioz (Bar-Ilan University), 'Josephus' interpretation of the Book of Samuel'
Week 5 (12 February): Jang S. Ryu (University), 'Philo's discourses of knowledge between Alexandria and Rome'
Week 6 (19 February): Laliv Clenman (Leo Baeck College and King's College London) , 'The Palestinian Talmud and Pinchas the Zealot'
Week 7 (26 February): Arye Edrei (Tel-Aviv University), 'A split diaspora?'
Week 8 (5 March): George Carras (Washington and Lee University), 'Torah observance in diaspora Judaism: Josephus, Philo and Pseudo-Phocylides'
Dr A. D. Kelly, Dr J.R.W. Prag ; Friday 5:30 Wks 2, 4, 6 ; Balliol College, Lecture Room 23
Week 2 (Friday 25 January): Dr Antonio Naco del Hoyo (Barcelona): 'Intelligence and politics in Mithridates VI's time'
Week 4 (Friday 8 February): Prof Adam Ziolkowski (Warsaw): 'The gates of Pre-Servian Rome and the territorial expansion of the Archaic City'
Week 6 (Friday 22 February): Dr Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham): 'Epigraphies of Slavery'
All are welcome, and wine and soft drinks will be served. Those wishing to dine with the speaker afterwards should contact the secretary (adrian.kelly@balliol.ox.ac.uk) by 5.00 pm Thursday the evening before the paper.
Dr P. Goulimari; Tuesday 2 Wks 2, 4, 7 ; Examination Schools
Tuesday 22 January (Week 2), 2 p.m.:
Vergine Gulbenkian, storyteller and folklorist, will be telling and singing her "State of Matter: Tales about Burning", fuelled by a 16th-century love epic.
Tuesday 5 February (Week 4), 2 p.m.:
Dr Anita Kurimay (European University Institute, Florence)
Rethinking the Margins: Hungarian Sexuality in Interwar Europe
Tuesday 26 February (Week 7), 2 p.m.:
Dr April Gallwey (University of Warwick)
Single Motherhood in England post-1945
Dr M. Whitby ; Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11 ; Examination Schools, except Wed Week 7 (27/02/2012): Merton College
Ms J. Kerkhecker ; Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11 ; Examination Schools
Dr M. Whitby ; Wednesday 2-3:30 ; Ioannou Centre
This term we will read Herodotus, book 1, chs. 1-94 in the Oxford Classical Text edited by C. Hude (vol. 1). I propose to divide up the text as follows:
Week 1: chs. 1-13
Week 2: chs. 14-28
Week 3: chs. 29-38
Week 4: chs. 39-55
Week 5: chs. 56-65
Week 6: chs. 66-74
Week 7: chs. 75-84
Week 8: chs. 85-94
Each week we will read as much as possible of each section, starting at the earliest chapter. Please prepare by reading as much as possible in Greek and (if necessary) the remainder in English.
Ms J. Kerkhecker ; Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12 ; Examination Schools
Dr I.T. Toth ; Wednesday 2 Friday 1 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr I.T. Toth ; Wednesday 1 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr I.T. Toth ; Thursday 2 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr I.T. Toth ; Monday 2 ; Ioannou Centre
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