C: ANCIENT HISTORY
Lent Term 2025
Meetings will take place on Mondays at 5:15pm in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics.
All Welcome.
27 January
Dr David Pickel (Warsaw)
‘Malaria Landscapes in Roman Italy: The View from Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria)’.
17 February
Dr Matthias Simperl (Augsburg)
'Criticism of the Pope in the Roman Liber Pontificalis: Possible Backgrounds'
24 February
Dr Mathijs Clement (Cambridge)
‘Asceticism and the space of paideia in Gregory of Nazianzus’.
3 March
Prof. Andy Merrills (Leicester)
‘Making History of Epic (and epic of history): Corippus and imperial power in sixth-century Africa’.
10 March
Christiane-Marie Cantwell (Cambridge)
‘The belief economy: the application of social economics to religious practice in Roman Gaul’.
17 March
Prof. Olivier Hekster (Nijmegen)
‘The global Roman Senate’