Semester I 2010/11
The seminars will be on Tuesdays at 5.30 in room K217 of the Newman Building at University College Dublin's Belfield Campus.
All interested parties are welcome. Seminars are followed by drinks, usually in the UCD Common Room, and then a meal with the speaker at a nearby restaurant.
For further information contact Dr Theresa Urbainczyk, School of Classics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (tel. + 353 1 716 8559).
Semester 1
| Plutarch’s Philosopher Kings |
| Dr William Desmond, NUI Maynooth |
| 5 October 2010 |
| 19 October 2010 |
Dr Donncha O’Rourke,
Religion, Politics, and Poetry: mimetic hymns by Callimachus and Roman
representations of Actian Apollo
9 November 2010
Dr Lucy Corcoran, UCD
From Disciple to Dissenter: Klytaimnestra's Change of Mind in
Euripides' Iphigeneia at
16 November 2010
Professor Babette Babich,
‘Love and Kisses to all the World’: Zarathustra/Empedocles, Nietzsche's Übermensch and Lucian's Hyperanthropos
Semester 2
25 January 2011
Dr Christina Haywood, UCD
Tomb-cult and social identity in the Greek polis. A case study from Kephalonia
1 March 2011
Dr Adam Marshall, TCD
Ecphrasis and Epic in Statius' Silvae
29 March 2011
Professor Anna Chahoud, TCD
Sermo and Style: Aspects of the language of Roman Satire
12 April 2011
Dr David Woods, UCC
Some Problems in the Reign of Caligula
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Hellenistic/Roman Stele; UCD Classical Museum