A: LITERATURE
Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 17.15–18.45, in room G.21.
LENT TERM 2025
29 January
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
‘The invention of chaos’
5 February
Bill Allan (University College, Oxford)
‘Aristotle and the Emotions of Attic Oratory’
12 February
David Fearn (University of Warwick)
‘Thucydides and the Comparativist Gesture’
19 February
Lilah Grace Canevaro (University of Edinburgh)
‘Theocritus on the Edge: Boundaries and Margins in and beyond the Idylls’
26 February
Lorcan Greene (University of Cambridge)
‘Index verborum: pointing to Plato's Cratylus in Ovid's tale of Mercury and Battus (Met. 2.680-707)' and Clare Pryor (University of Cambridge), 'Prudentius and the sublime’
5 March
Christa Gray (University of Reading)
‘Hide and seek on the high seas: Commenting on chapter 25 of Jerome's Life of Hilarion’
12 March
Barnaby Taylor (Exeter College, Oxford)
'Cicero, Tusculans 2: Pain, Plato, Pacuvius'
19 March
Janja Soldo (University of Edinburgh)
‘The sapiens and the scorpion: Fronto's philosophical letters’