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Faculty of Classics

 

C: ANCIENT HISTORY

Easter Term 2025

Meetings will take place on Mondays at 5:15pm in room G.21, Faculty of Classics.

*The meeting on 7 May will take place 1-2.30 in room 1.04, Faculty of Classics.*

All Welcome.

 

CLAWS (the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies)

7 May (1-2.30, room 1.04)

Book Seminar: Mediterranean Archaeology 12 years after The Making of the Middle Sea

Cyprian Broodbank (Department of Archaeology & McDonald Institute, Cambridge) will lead a discussion to mark the recent publication of the second edition of his classic work on Mediterranean history and archaeology The Making of the Middle Sea, and in particular to explore the new preface, which will be made available in advance to registered attendees.

Advance registration essential: please email Josephine Quinn (jcq24@cam.ac.uk).

 

12 May
Book Talk: Ory Amitay (Haifa), Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History

 

19 May
Book Talk: Milinda Hoo (Utrecht), Eurasian localisms: A new approach to 'Hellenism in the East’

 

For further information on any of these events please contact CLAWS Director Josephine Quinn: jcq24@cam.ac.uk.

 

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