ANCIENT HISTORY SEMINARS
Truth, Authenticity, Fakery and Fiction in the Classical World.
Seminars start Mondays 17:15 and finish at 18:45 in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics.
8 October
Welcome and Introduction.
15 October
Rebecca van Hove (KCL)
Defining truth, divining authority: oracle quotations in the Athenian law courts.
22 October
David Friedman (Cambridge)
‘Poor reasoning’ in Josephus: Sloppiness or method?
29 October
Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)
Adultery, fraud and the truth of patria potestas.
5 November
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff)
Stretching out the Pepper: Drug Fraud in Antiquity.
12 November
Renan Baker (Cambridge)
TBC
19 November
William Guast (Bristol)
‘Unsuited to the present times and circumstances?’ How unrealistic was Greek declamation and why does it matter?
26November
Paul du Plessis (Edinburgh)
Law and progress—a critical reading of Digest 1.2.2.
