Organised by the Maison Francaise d'Oxford and the Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles

2. 00 p.m. Introduction

2. 05 p.m Iwo Slobodzianek (Toulouse), ‘The me in Sumer and the timai in Greece: a comparative survey of divine powers and their transmission'

2. 40 p.m. Theodora Jim (Oxford), ‘Personal piety in Greece: first-offerings and tithes'

3. 15 p.m. Pause

3. 25 p.m. Anthony Andurand ( Toulouse), ‘Anthropology and Altertumswissenschaft : Wilamowitz's Glaube der Hellenen, or the Greeks without comparison'

4. 00 p.m. Joshua Billings (Oxford), ‘The birth of historicism out of the spirit of tragedy'

4. 35 p.m. Tea

5. 00 p.m. Keynote lecture:

‘Cultic Networks between Phoenicia and Greece in Hellenistic Times'

Corinne Bonnet, Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail

A Professor of Greek History at the Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail, Corinne Bonnet is specialised in the religions of the Mediterranean world. She has recently co-directed "Les religions orientales dans le monde grec et romain. Cent ans après Cumont" (Bruxelles-Rome, 2009).

6.30 p.m. Drinks and a buffet

Chair: Robert Parker (New College)