PHILOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS SEMINARS
The Linguistics Research Seminar as well as the Mycenaean Seminars will take place on Wednesdays between 16:30 and 18:00 in room 1.11.
Indo-European Seminar: The Greek Verb and beyond
10 October
Introductory session for the term’s reading seminar on A. Willi Origins of the Greek Verb (Cambridge 2017, available on Cambridge Core).
24 October
Marina Benedetti (Siena)
Double accusatives in Ancient Greek: διδάσκω between traditional and modern approaches.
7 November
Roland Pooth (Ghent)
PIE alignment change and the emergence of the thematic conjugation: Two sides of the same diachronic coin?
21 November
Klaas Bentein (Ghent)
The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration.
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Mycenaean Seminar
14 November
Dr Philippa Steele
Influences on the use of clay tablets: a view from LBA Cyprus.
28 November
Ester Salgarella
Drawing Lines: The Palaeography of Linear A/B.
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PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Meetings are at 16:30, tea and cakes from 16:00 unless indicated. Meetings will be held in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics.
25 October
Professor Richard Janko (Michigan)
A freethinker on the mysteries: Philology, philosophy and religion in the Derveni papyrus.
15 November - Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics
Professor Jaś Elsner (Oxford)
The invention of Late Antiquity: between politics and religion in the forms of Late Roman art.
29 November - Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College
Professor Victoria Rimell (Warwick)
The intimacy of wounding in Seneca's Consolatio ad Helviam.
