​Syllabus of Lectures for 2024-25 Lectures take place on Wednesdays at 5.10 pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place. A wine reception follows each talk. All Welcome.

Wednesday 25 September 2024           
Dr Edmund Stewart (University of Nottingham) Theoria: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy 

Wednesday 23 October 2024
Dr Consuelo Martino (University of Edinburgh) Simul filius, simul Caesar: Debating Leadership in the Age of Trajan 

Wednesday 27 November 2024           
Dr Antony Lee (National Museum of Scotland) Whose gods are they anyway? Romano-British religion and museum displays

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Wednesday 22 January 2025
Dr Fiona Hobden (Open University, Scotland)Growing Old in Ancient Greece: Care, Connections and Community Wednesday

26 February 2025
Dr Mariamne Briggs (University of Edinburgh)More motherly, less martial: The role of Atalanta in the Middle Irish translation of Statius’ Thebaid 

Wednesday 2 April 2025
Prof. Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford)Interpretation and the Original Roman Reader in Horace’s Odes