We are delighted to announce our programme of research seminars for Autumn Term 2013.

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars will take place at 4pm in the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (HumSS G38). Everyone welcome.

9 October
Lindsay Powell (Austin, TX – Wokingham):
‘Celebrity, Comedy and Chickens: The Magnificent Life of Germanicus Caesar’
N.B., this event will take place in HumSS G25

16 October
Eleanor Dickey (Reading):
‘Why the Greeks did not leave spaces between words’

23 October
Koen Verboven (Ghent):
‘Economics and the Roman collegia’

30 October:
Walter Scheidel (Stanford):
‘Always follow the money: what public revenue and expenditure tell us about the nature of the Roman empire’
N.B., this event will take place in HumSS G25

6 November
Greg Woolf (St Andrews):
‘Rethinking Ancient Literacy. Words, numbers and social complexity in the Near East and the Mediterranean world’
N.B., this event will take place in HumSS G25

13 November
The Annual Percy N. Ure Lecture
Robert Parker (Oxford):
‘Artemis Polymastos and others: challenges and problems of iconography in Greco-Roman Anatolia’
N.B., this event will take place in HumSS G27

20 November
Alex Mullen (Oxford):
‘Latinitas Britannica’
N.B., this event will take place in HumSS G25

27 November
Marianne Bergeron (The British Museum, London):
‘Pots and People: Greek traders at Naukratis’

4 December
Sally Waite (Newcastle):
‘An Athenian Red-Figure Kalathos in the Shefton Collection’
N.B., this event will take place in HumSS G25