Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Details of Meetings 

Meetings begin at 4.30 p.m. , with tea at 4.00 p.m. , in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics unless otherwise stated.

Enquiries about the Society should be directed to 'The Cambridge Philological Society, c/o The Faculty of Classics'

Michaelmas Term 2011

20 October

Dr Lyndsay Coo: 'Family ties in Sophoclean tragedy' 

10 November

Dr Myles Lavan: 'The voice of Roman power: imperial letters and edicts'

1 December

Dr Nicholas Zair: 'Different alphabet, different dialect?  Orthographic and phonological variation in Oscan'

Lent Term 2012

19 January

Dr Jenny Bryan: 'Plato's Menexenus and the big society'

9 February

Professor Bert Smith: 'The lost statues of Aphrodisias: two case-studies'

8 March

Dr Katherine Harloe: 'Winckelmann's love letters' 

Easter Term 2012

3 May

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Professor Chris Pelling: 'Historical and scientific explanation: Herodotus and the Hippocratics'                   

17 May  (AGM)

Barbara White Room, Newnham College

Professor Tony Woodman: 'Some early Roman historians'