Manchester Classical Association

Programmes

Current programme

Unless otherwise specified, meetings take place in room A7, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester (campus maps). Lectures are followed by questions, informal discussion over a glass of wine, then dinner at a local restaurant with the speaker.

Date: Wednesday 21st October 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr James Thorne (University of Swansea)
Title: Ramparts, res publicae and Ritter: the evidence for states in Caesar's Gaul

Date: Wednesday 25th November 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Roberta Mazza (University of Manchester)
Title: A rosy lotus for Antinoos: Hadrian, Egypt and Roman religions

Date: Wednesday 16th December 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr Simon Trépanier (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Empeducles, section d of the Strasburg papyrus: Death or salvation?
Joint meeting with the Hellenic Society

Date: Friday 22nd January 2010
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Room S2.9
Annual General Meeting, followed by party.

Date: Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Room A113
Speaker: Professor Tim Parkin (University of Manchester)
Title: Recovering the wonder: John Turtle Wood (and his wife) in Ephesus, 1863-1874

Date: Wednesday 10th February 2010
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Roscoe Building, University of Manchester
VI Form Half-day School for Latin AS/A2-level texts

Date: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Time: 1:30pm
Venue: Manchester Grammar School
Latin and Greek Reading Competition

Date: Wednesday 17th March 2010
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr Roslynne Bell
Title: Moving in with the gods: new insights into the Augustan Palatine

Date: Wednesday 12th May 2010
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Powell (Royal Holloway)
Title: Horace and the Iraq War
Joint meeting with the Roman Society

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