Thinking Greek Historicities to understand Greek Historiography

Thinking Greek Historicities to understand Greek Historiography

Date: Tuesday 24 Feb 2009 (All day)

Place: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (St Giles) Lecture Theatre

Topic: Classics

Jean-Pierre Vernant Lecture Series

2.45 - 4.45pm (tbc)

Papers by postgraduates from Oxford and France

Aurélie Wach

‘Back to Troy: some aspects of the use of the Homeric intertext in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women.

Charlotte Murgier

'The Tragic Subject'

Katie Low,

'The Mirror of Tacitus: reflections of Rome in the Germania and the Histories'.

Aneurin Ellis-Evans,

'Territorial chronology: competing to commemorate the Persian Wars.'

5.00 pm 

'Thinking Historicities to understand Greek Historiography'.

Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, CNRS/Lille 3

Prof. Darbo-Peschanski is known for her two stimulating books on Herodotus and Greek and RomanHistoria. She also works on Time, Justice, Empeiria, Citation.

Chair: Rosalind Thomas

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