Conference Understanding Hagiography and its Textual Tradition: the Late Antique and the Early Medieval Period (6th-11th centuries) University of Lisbon, October 24-26, 2018 Between the sixth and the eleventh centuries, passions, lives of saints, translations of relics, miracles and other hagiographical genres underwent a remarkable process of transmission and Read more…
Roman Seminar by Sheila Dillon (Duke University) is to be held on Thursday 26 April 2018 at 7.00 pm. Title: «The Roman Imperial-period Portrait Statuary from the Library of Pantainos Complex in the Athenian Agora» The lecture will take place at the German Archaeological Institute (Pheidiou 1, lecture hall, 2nd floor).
AIEGL will award two Géza Alföldy stipends in 2018: a Research Grant (€ 1,500) to support early career scholars in conducting epigraphic research abroad, and a Publication Grant (up to € 1,500) to provide financial assistance with the publication of a monograph on an epigraphic subject. Géza Alföldy – Research Grant AIEGL is pleased to Read more…
All University of California Press Journals are given free access in April 2018 including: Classical Antiquity Editor: Leslie Kurke (University of California, Berkeley) Classical Antiquity explores interdisciplinary research and discussion of major issues throughout the field of classics, including Greek and Roman literature, history, archaeology, art, philosophy and philology—Bronze Age Read more…
Athens Greek Religion Seminar and Swedish Institute at Athens invite to the lecture: “Artemis Ephesia in the northwestern confines of Roman Macedonia: a case of competing Artemides” Speaker: Paschalis Paschidis, National Hellenic Research Foundation Date: April 17, 2018 15.00 Location: Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitsaion 9, 117 42 Athens
18th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA, JUNE 2018: ‘Misdirections and Misconceptions in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ CALL FOR PAPERS The 18thAnnual APGRD / Royal Holloway, University of London Joint Postgraduate Symposium on the Performance of Ancient Drama will take place on Monday 25 Read more…
The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens invites to the lecture: “Sexualities in the Roman provinces: creating identities through sexual representations in colonial settings” Speaker: Sanja Vucetic (PhD candidate University College London) Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 19:00 to 20:00 Location: Australian Institute Hostel, Promachou 2, Athens
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The FLAME Project (Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy) reconstructs the early medieval economy CE 325-725 in Western Afro-Eurasia. It supplies hard data about the early medieval economy, in the form of hundreds of thousands of coins, to contribute to the scholarly understanding of key historical questions in this Read more…
Museo delle Religioni “Raffaele Pettazzoni” Religions and Medicine From Antiquity to Contemporary Age June 5-6-7-8-9, 2018 Velletri (Rome) Call for Papers In the contemporary Western world, medicine constitutes a specific branch of knowledge, with its own characteristics and methods of cure and research, and it’s tendentially autonomous, not linked with Read more…