Hibernian Hellenists

Hibernian Hellenists List of Previous Speakers

Date

Author & Title

SPRING
2013

H. VERSNEL (Leiden University), ‘Coping with the Gods. Implications and Complications of Ancient Greek Theology’.
A. SNODGRASS (Clare College, Cambridge), ‘Myth and Reality in Greek Agriculture.’
S. HARRISON (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), ‘The Classical Radio Plays of Louis MacNeice’.
A. KELLY (Balliol College, Oxford), ‘Stesikhoros’ Homer’.

SPRING 2012

D. KENNEDY (Bristol), ' The Political Epistemology of Infinity: some thoughts on the politics of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura.' 
R. WYLES (Oxford: Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama), 'Mme Dacier's comic contribution.' 
W. DESMOND (NUI Maynooth), 'Plato and the Mythology of reason.'
H. DODGE (Trinity College Dublin), 'Symbols of Power and Colours of Victory: Egyptian Stones for the City of Rome.'

SPRING 2011

F. MACINTOSH, (Director, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Oxford), ‘From Sculpture to Vase-Painting: Models for Modern performance of Greek Tragedy.'
S. WEST (Oxford) 'Every Picture tells a Story: Reflections on Herodotus 4. 88.'
M. WEST (Oxford) ‘Odysseus re-routed.'
A. CLEMENTS (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Duality, Mixture, Deception: Philosophizing Theatre in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae.'

SPRING 2010

A. d'ANGOUR (Jesus College, Oxford), 'The Varieties of Innovation: What's New in Ancient Greece.'
K. NI-MHEALLAIGH (University of Exeter), 'Reading Novels with Lucian.'
A. CHAHOUD (Trinity College Dublin), 'Colloquial Latin in Literary Texts.'
C. HAYWOOD (University College Dublin), 'Power from the Grave: The Veneration of Mycenaean Tombs in Hellenistic Kephalonia and Western Greece.' 

SPRING 2009

M. SILK (King's College London), 'The Greek Dramatic Genres: Theoretical Perspectives.’
H. VAN WEES (University College London), ‘Perfect oligarchs? Birth, merit and wealth in Homer.' 
C. McCALLUM-BARRY (University College Cork), ‘Early Modern Versions of Greek Tragedy.'
D. O’ROURKE (NUI Maynooth), ‘Our First Virgil Reader: Propertius Book 4.'

SPRING 2008

S. OAKLEY (University of Cambridge), 'Renaissance Discoveries of Latin Texts'. 
R. NAUTA (University of Groningen), 'Statius in the Silvae.' 
M. LLOYD (University College Dublin), 'The Mutability of Fortune in Euripides.' 
G. CAMPBELL (NUI Maynooth), 'Lucretius: Myth, Magic, and Prophecy.' 
SPRING 2007

N. TALLIS (British Museum), ‘Aspects of continuity and change in Achaemenid Art.’
C. MARTINDALE (University of Bristol), ‘Dryden’s Ovid and Aesthetic Tradition.’
M. CUYPERS (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Formularity, Intertextuality, and Meaning. The Limits of Interpretation in Quintus’ Posthomerica.’
E. HERRING (NUI Galway), ‘In Whose Image? Approaching the Depiction of Native People in Apulian Vase-Painting.’

SPRING 2006

K. DOULAMIS (University College Cork), ‘Writing for the masses: style and literary ambition in the “pre-sophistic” Greek novels.’
I. J. F. DE JONG (University of Amsterdam), ‘The Euripidean prologue as narratological riddle.’

AUTUMN 2005

D. BRAUND (University of Exeter), 'Slaves and skinners in Herodotus: contexts for Scythian gold.'
T. URBAINCZYK (University College Dublin), 'Rebels or Sambos? Slaves in Classical Greece.'

SPRING 2005

A. SOMMERSTEIN (University of Nottingham), 'What is an oath?'
D. WOODS (University College Cork), 'Caligula, Pompey and Alexander the Great'.

AUTUMN 2004

E. STAFFORD (University of Leeds), 'Herakles, Asklepios and the problem of the hero-god'.
M. GALE (Trinity College Dublin), 'Putting on the yoke of necessity: myth, intertextuality and moral agency in Catullus 68'.

SPRING 2004

G. SHIPLEY (University of Leicester), 'Between Macedonia and Rome: landscapes and social change in Hellenistic Greece'.
M. BRADY (University College Dublin), 'All Getans are Liars: Ovid's exile poetry and the wanderings of Odysseus'.

AUTUMN 2003

G. L. HUXLEY (Oxford and Dublin), 'Poetry and Politics in Early Sparta'.
A. J. SPAWFORTH (University of Newcastle), 'The Greek Temple Revisited'. 
P. LIDDEL (Trinity College Dublin), 'Greek History at the Crossroads: Bishop Thirwall's History of Greece.'
T. P. WISEMAN (University of Exeter), 'Roman Hellenism'. 

SPRING 2003 R. GIBSON (University of Manchester), 'The Politics of excess in Ovid, Ars Amatoria3.'
K. McGROARTY (NUI Maynooth), 'The influence of Xenophon's writings on Alexander the Great?'
AUTUMN 2002

P. ROBERTS (British Museum), 'Blood and Sand: the Roman Arena.'
N. HUMBLE (University College Cork), 'Mythologising the Battle of Mantineia.'

SPRING 2002

M. VICKERS (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), 'Images on Textiles: The Weave of Athenian Art and Society.'
D. SCOURFIELD (NUI Maynooth), 'Chastity on Trial: History and Fiction in Jerome Letter 1.'

AUTUMN 2001

PURCELL, ‘Crete: what kind of island?’ 
GARLAND, 'Up-staging Greek Tragedy: The Use and Abuse? of Genre.'

SPRNG 2001 

LARMOUR, 'The Reader in extremis: The Sirens and Labyrinths of Lucian's True History.'
CURRAN, ‘The failure of Roman Judaea’.

AUTUMN 2000

WILLIAMS, Eutopia or Outopia? Some thoughts on Greek and More.
CAIRNS, The meaning of the Veil in Ancient Greek Culture.

SPRING 2000

TAPLIN, Mapping the Life of Oedipus.
McGING, On the Fringes? Culture and history in the kingdom of Pontus.

AUTUMN 1999

GRIFFIN, Sophocles and the democratic polis.
KAPPARIS, Lysias fragment 10:   An abortion trial in classical Athens.

SPRING 1999

McLAUGHLIN, Epinician transfer: the Danaids in Augustan Rome.
JANKO, The Derveni papyrus and the religion of Socrates.

AUTUMN 1998

MOLES, The Cynic model in relation to New Testament studies.
WOODS, Zosimus, Ammianus and Julian's Letter to the Romans.

SPRING 1998

TARRANT, Shadows of Justice: Unreal Images in Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
MOSSMAN, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? The Failure of Rhetoric in Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes.

AUTUMN 1997

PULBROOK, The Lyde of Antimachus.
CLARK, Words, dew and flowers: a bundle of early Greek metaphors.

SPRING 1997

WILLIAMS, Daphne in Botanic Avenue.
MURRAY, Plato's Muses.

AUTUMN 1996

CRUDDEN, N®pioi anyrvpoi: the human element in the Homeric Hymns.

PARKER, Parthenoi in Attic Cult.

SPRING 1996

WILKINS, Old Comedy and Ancient History.
JACKSON, Apollonius of Rhodes: The Theseus/Ariadne Desertion.

AUTUMN 1995

WHITEHEAD, O NEOS DASMOS: 'Tribute' in Classical Athens.
USSHER, The Rhesus of Euripides.

SPRING 1995

COLEMAN, Martial's Spectacular Panegyric of Domitian.
DIGGLE, Sophocles' Ichneutae.

AUTUMN 1994

DILLON, A Platonist's Ars Amatoria.
SIDWELL, Misunderstanding Aristophanes and His Rivals.

SPRING 1994

FISHER, Liquor Louts and the law in classical Athens.
HARDER, Callimachus' Aetia as didactic poetry?

AUTUMN 1993

HUXLEY, Byzantine responses to early Islam.
WHITEHEAD, Cardinal virtues: the language of public approbation in democratic Athens.

SPRING 1993

HALL, Women as Works of Art.
JAMISON, Draupadi on the Walls of Troy.

AUTUMN 1992

McKAY, The Dakleh Oasis and Isocrates.
HAAN, `Heaven's Purest Light': Paradise Lost 3 and Vida.

SPRING 1992

FINAN, Some Hiberno-Latin Poetry.
ERSKINE, Roman Power, Greek Reaction.

AUTUMN 1991

URBAINCZYK, Outsiders in Church History.
SMITH (Andrew), Iamblichus and the Philosophy of Religion.

SPRING 1991

ARNOTT, Walter Headlam's Failure.
WILLIAMS, Unacceptable Sacrifices.

AUTUMN 1990

LONGLEY, Departures: The Odyssey as a source for modern lyric.
ALDEN, An Intelligent Cyclops.

SPRING 1990

HUXLEY, Chazaria and Adjacent Territories in Byzantine Texts.
LLOYD, Characterisation in Euripides.

AUTUMN 1989

COLLINGE, The Theft of the Delphic Tripod.
SCOTT, Latin Writing in Ireland in the Late Middle Ages.

SPRING 1989

MULLETT, Writing in Early Medieval Byzantium.
DILLON, Plutarch and Platonist Orthodoxy.

AUTUMN 1988

WATSON, Aristotle and Plato's GORGIAS. 
McGING, Three Unpublished Dublin Papyri.

SPRING 1988

MITCHELL, Social Mobility in the Roman Republic.
ARKINS, Yeats and Platonism.

AUTUMN 1987

HAAN, Written Encomiums: John Milton's Poetry in its Italian Context.
WILLIAMS, Cercidas of Megalopolis.

SPRING 1987

GAYNOR, Isocrates and the defence of rhetoric. 
O'BRIEN, The Day of Laughter in the METAMORPHOSES of Apuleius.

AUTUMN 1986

RICHARDSON (N.J), Hapax Legomena in Iliad 22. 
McGANN, Text and Intertext:   Reading a renaissance Latin poem.

SPRING 1986

BOWIE, `Wasps': Ritual stereotype and comic reversal. 
McGING, The governorship of Pontius Pilate.

AUTUMN 1985

CUNNINGHAM, Invective against emperors in early Byzantine texts: continuity or change? 
SIDWELL, The trial scene in Aeschylus' Eumenides.

SPRING 1985

LLOYD, Homer on Poetry.
MELLOR, The local character of Roman imperial religion: Greek East to Latin West.

AUTUMN 1984

WILSON (CRABBE), "Unaccustomed as I am to secular rhetoric"  ... Some literary aspects of Eustratios' Life of Eutychios.
PULBROOK, The Aitia of Callimachus.


SPRING 1984

LOMAS, The frontiers of Hellenisation: the Elymians and the Greek polis. 
USSHER, Aspects of Greek Epistolography.

AUTUMN 1983

PINSENT, The Odyssized Iliad.
EVANS, Indefinite Reference and the Problem of Substance in Aristotle Metaphysics Z.

SPRING 1983

SMITH (Martin), Epicureanism in a Stoa: The Philosophical Inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda. 
SMITH (Andrew), Porphyry.

AUTUMN 1982

McGING, The propaganda of Mithradates Eupator. 
DAVIS, Constantine - constantly munificent?

SPRING 1982

LUCE, The Thera Ship-fresco and the Minoan Thalassocracy. 
CARTLEDGE, Why didn't the Greeks' Slaves Revolt? A comparative view.

AUTUMN 1981

WILLIAMS, Greek Proverbs, Ancient and Demotic. 
TALBERT, Greeks and the Senate of Imperial Rome.

SPRING 1981

SCHULTZE, A Polis on the Tiber: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Rome. 
LONG, The Afterlife in early Greek Thought: Pindar and Empedocles.

AUTUMN 1980

DILLON, What happened to Plato's Garden? 
HUXLEY, The Scholarship of Georgios Synkellos.

SPRING 1980

ALDEN, Mycenaean Burial Customs. 
HOPKINS, Brother-Sister Marriage in Graeco-Roman Egypt.

AUTUMN 1979

HINDS, Sophocles. Structure and Infrastructure. 

USSHER, The Greek Mime.

SPRING 1979

WATSON, Phantasia in Greek Philosophy. 
SHEPARD, Byzantine Foreign Policy.

AUTUMN 1978

FORREST, Theory and Practice in Ancient Historians and Politicians (with special reference to Polybius VI).
MOLES, A Contradiction in Aristotle's Poetics.

SPRING 1978

WILSON, The Continuity of Hellenism in Roman Sicily.
McKNIGHT, Prediction in Plato's Middle Dialogues.

AUTUMN 1977

WILLIAMS, Storytelling in Classical Antiquity. 
PULBROOK, The Fusion of Epic and Drama in Apollonius' Argonautica.

SPRING 1977

HALL, What the Greeks contributed to Islamic Civilisation.
HUXLEY, Iconoclasts and Hagiographers (717-787).

AUTUMN 1976

O'NOLAN, Doublets in the Odyssey. 
CRONIN, Greek Weather Lore.

SPRING 1976

MOLES, The Career and Conversion of Dio Chrysostom.
BROCK, Greek into Syriac and Syriac into Greek.

AUTUMN 1975

SALMON, Political Hoplites? 
CARTLEDGE, "Marx Without Tears": The Ancient Greek Class Struggle Revisited.

SPRING 1975

MULLETT, Theophylact of Ochrid and Greek Letter-writing. 
HOWARD-JOHNSTON, Byzantine Society and Institutions in the Dark Age.

AUTUMN 1974

O'DALY, Plato's Protagoras. 
HUXLEY, Pindar's Vision of the Past.

SPRING 1974

CALDER, The Politics of the Late Aeschylus. 
STANFORD, Irish Historians of Classical Antiquity.

AUTUMN 1973

COLDSTREAM, Hero Cults in the Age of Homer.
MADDEN, The Life and Poetry of Macedonius Consul.

SPRING 1973

MEANY, Palladas the Pessimist.
SANDARS, The Role of Natural Topography in Near Eastern and Greek Creation Myths.

AUTUMN 1972

CLEARY, A Characteristic Aristotelian Dialogue: The Eudemos.
ASTIN,Cato and the Greeks.

SPRING 1972

MAIER, Recent Discoveries at Old-Paphos. 
HERRIN, The Process of Hellenization in the Early Middle Ages.

AUTUMN 1971

STANFORD, Poetical Truth and Scientific Truth amongst the Greeks. 
TALBERT, Sources for the Timoleontic Narratives of Plutarch, Nepos and Diodoros.

SPRING 1971

CADOGAN, Was there a Minoan Landed Gentry? 
HUXLEY, The Cretan Constitution in Aristotle's Politics.

AUTUMN 1970

O'NOLAN, Aspects of Homeric Oral Technique. 
SALMON, The Cypselid Building Programme in the Corinthia.

SPRING 1970

PHILLIPS, Architecture and Town Planning in Greek Literature.
JORDAN, The Evidence of Dialect and Tradition for early Migration in the Peloponnese.

AUTUMN 1969

GOODING, The Septuagint and Alexandrian-Jewish Propagandist Historians and Chronographers. 
BARRON, The Athenian Theseus Epic.

SPRING 1969

LUCE, The Eruption of Thera.
USSHER, The Cyclops of Euripides.

AUTUMN 1968

DOVER, The Language of Aristophanes.
GRAINGER, Xanthos of Lydia.

SPRING 1968

HUXLEY, Choerilus of Samos.
ERRINGTON, Ptolemy's History of Alexander.

AUTUMN 1967

PARKE, Klaros.
RICHARDSON (L.J.D), Trivium and Triodos.

SPRING 1967

BOARDMAN, Excavations at Tocra. 
RODGERS, Some Thoughts on Dike.

AUTUMN 1966

FORREST, The Eusebian Thalassocracy List.
LUCE, Plato's Cratylus.

SPRING 1966

MEIGGS, Public Monuments and Public Policies.
COLDSTREAM, Phoenicians in the Aegean?

AUTUMN 1965

JEFFERY, Ancient Traditions on Early Greek Writing.
HINDS, The Prophecy of Helenus in Sophocles' Philoctetes.

SPRING 1965

USSHER, The Ecclesiazusae of Aristophanes.
BARRON, Kos and its Coins in the Pentekontaetia.

AUTUMN 1964

HUXLEY, Ion of Chios.
WATSON, The Stoic Theory of Knowledge.

SPRING 1964

STANFORD, The Sound of Greek. 
TIERNEY, Problems in Ancient Map-Making.

AUTUMN 1963

PARKE, The Oracle of Zeus at Dodona.
PHILLIPS, Tuberculosis in Antiquity.