Classics Seminar - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas

The rise of the city in central Italy (10th-8th century BC )

Time and place: Sep. 29, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Gabriele Cifani (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)

Rhetorics of empire and res publica in Cicero's pro Flacco

Time and place: Sep. 15, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Brad Jordan (IFIKK, UiO)

Epigraphic centres of medieval Scandinavia (EpiCentres)

Time and place: June 16, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Alessandro Palumbo (UiO)

Dialects in Ancient Greek

Time and place: May 11, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

David Goldstein (UCLA)

New Perspectives on the Purpose of Stobaeus' Anthologion: From Compilatory Collection to Instrument of Ethical Validation

Time and place: Apr. 28, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Diletta Pompei (Rome, Tor Vergata)

Between Philosophical Rivalry and Historiographical Strategy. Galen Against the Atomists

Time and place: Apr. 14, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Ambra Serangeli (Tor Vergata, Rome)

Unconventional Couples in the Ancient World

Time and place: Mar. 10, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Silvio Bär (University of Oslo)

The Herculaneum Library and the LACUNA Project: New Insights into Philodemus’ On Gods, Book 1

Time and place: Mar. 3, 2026 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Marzia D’Angelo (University of Naples Federico II)

Artemis in Homer

Time and place: Nov. 25, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Margaretha Miles (MA-student at IFIKK)

I will be presenting passages about Artemis from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, which I will be analysing and discussing in my MA project to highlight her different roles.

Greece and the Greeks in the Cosmographia Aethici Istriotae (c. 720 CE)

Time and place: Nov. 18, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Antti Lampinen (Univ. of Turku)

The Antinoopolis Charioteers Papyrus: A Proposed Identification

Time and place: Nov. 4, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Brent Nongbri (MF Vitenskapelig høyskole)

Liminality and Ritual: The Role of Women's Polluting Power in Classical Greek Religious Practices

Time and place: Oct. 28, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Giulia Frigerio (Univ. of Kent)

Varieties of the poetic function: the relevance of Jakobson's theory to the study of Archaic Greek verse

Time and place: Oct. 14, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Boris Maslov (IFIKK)

Performance culture in archaic Rome

Time and place: Sep. 23, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Guy Bradley (Univ. of Cardiff)

Large-scale, computational approaches to Ancient Greek linguistics within the GLAUx project

Time and place: Sep. 2, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Alek Keersmaekers

Presentation of MA project: Artemis, who was she?

Time and place: May 6, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Margaretha Miles (IFIKK)

The myth of Danae and Perseus between narrative and ritual, the local and the global

Time and place: Apr. 29, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Jan Bremmer

The Classics and Irish Identity: The Hiberno-Latin Construction of Early Modern Irish Identity.

Time and place: Apr. 22, 2025 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, GM 452

Erlend Østrem Myklebust

Rediscovering ancient women

Time and place: Apr. 4, 2025 2:15 PM–4:00 PM, GM 652

Aspasia, Socrates’ lover and teacher, and Clodia, Catullus’s lover and Muse

Armand D'Angour (Univ. of Oxford)

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