THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HELLENIC STUDIES

Panel Of Lecturers 2004-2005

This Panel is circulated to local branches of the Classical Association and other interested groups to help them devise their programmes.

We are also very keen to support lectures on Hellenic themes for schools and school conferences, and those panel members who have devised lectures particularly suitable for school audiences or who have said they are willing to speak to schools are also shown here.

Key: [S] = lecture with slides
  [SCHOOL] = a lecture title aimed at a schools’ audience or a speaker who has indicated willingness to speak to schools
  Bold lecture titles denote a new panel member or some new or amended titles for 2004-2005 session.

Dr Maureen Alden  
Department of Classics

The Beguilement of Zeus (in all the better shops) [S] [SCHOOL]

(Faculty of Humanities) The Rediscovery of Ancient Dress [S] [SCHOOL]
Queen's University The Meidias Painter under the Bed [S] [SCHOOL]
Belfast BT7 1NN  

m.alden@qub.ac.uk

 

Dr K.W. Arafat  
Dept of Classics  Antiquities in Oundle School [S]
King's College London   
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS (Topics on Pausanias [S], Greek Pottery [S], Art & Literature [S] and Archaic Isthmia [S] by arrangement)
karim.arafat@kcl.ac.uk

Emeritus Prof. W.G. Arnott  
School of Classics 

Ancient Sites in Syria and Jordan [S]

University of Leeds             Birds in Ancient Greece [S]
Leeds  The new fragments of Menander's Epitrepontes
LS2 9JT Schliemann, Troy, Mycenae and Moscow [S]
   

Professor Roderick Beaton  
Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek  The Greek Novel and its influence AD 1 - 2001
King's College, London    Zorba and other Greeks: Nikos Kazantzakis and the Greek Tradition
Strand, London,WC2R 2LS  
rod.beaton@kcl.ac.uk  

Dr R.W. Brock  
School of Classics   Wine in ancient Greece
University of Leeds   The Ship of  State
Leeds, LS2 9JT   How to be a citizen in ancient Greece [SCHOOL]
r.w.brock@leeds.ac.uk  (Topics in Greek history and historiography by arrangement)

Mr Peter Brown

 
Trinity College (Topics on Greek Comedy, especially Menander, by arrangement) [SCHOOL]

Oxford

 
OX1 3BH  
peter.brown@tri.ox.ac.uk  

Dr Felix Budelmann

 
Dept of Classical Studies (Topics on Greek Lyric and Greek Tragedy by arrangement) [SCHOOL]
Open University  
Walton Hall  
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA  

l.j.llewellyn-jones@open.ac.uk

 

Dr Lucilla Burn  
Fitzwilliam Museum Looking at Greek Vases [S]
Cambridge "Parisiennes of Antiquity"? Tanagras and other Hellenistic Terracottas [S]
CB2 1RB  Sir William Hamilton, the Meidias Painter and the Greekness of Greek Vases [S]
lmb50@cam.ac.uk  

Dr Andrew Burnett  
Dept of Coins and Medals The development of portraiture on Greek coinage from Darius to Augustus
British Museum Coinage and propaganda under Augustus [S]
London What were coins for? [S]
WC1B 3DG Roman coinage and Greek culture in the third century B.C. [S]

aburnett@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

 

Professor  Paul Cartledge  
Clare College The Agon(y) of the Ancient Olympics
Cambridge The Athenian Democracy and Aristophanes
CB2 1TL The absurd world of Aristophanes' Frogs (e.g.)
pac1001@cus.cam.ac.uk The Greek City at War in the 5th (or others) Century BCE
  To Die For? Spartans on the Silver Screen

Mr Michael Comber

 
Classics Centre (Topics on Antigone, Oedipus, Bacchae, Herodotus, Thucydides, Callimachus by arrangement) [SCHOOL]
67 St Giles
Oxford  

OX1 3LU

 
michael.comber@@classics.oxford.ac.uk  

Mr John Davie  
St Paul's School Translating Euripides
Lonsdale Road Shakespeare and the Classics
London Tragedy and the Greeks
SW13 9JT Homer as a Poet of War
j.n.davie@talk21.com Greek Art- a personal view [S]
  Plato on Natural Justice
  Poetry and Politics in Augustan Rome
  (Schools Topics on Shakespeare, Tragedy, Homer and Plato) [SCHOOL]

Dr Susan Deacy  
Dept of Classics and Ancient History Deities of War in ancient Greece [S]
University of Manchester From Athena to Xena: Warrior Women in Myth and Fantasy [S]
Oxford Road Rape in Greek Myth
Manchester The "Black Athena" controversy and the origins of Greek Religion
M13 9PL A traitor to her sex? Athena through the ages
susan.deacy@man.ac.uk  

Professor Ken Dowden All titles given with Powerpoint if possible
Inst of Archaeology & Antiquity Homer's Iliad: The story you are not told
University of Birmingham Recipe: How to write an Odyssey
Birmingham Last Photos of Troy (an exploration of Aeneid 2)
B15 2TT Uses of Greek Myth
k.dowden@bham.ac.uk (other titles by arrangement, eg in the area of religion/paganism)

Professor Nick Fisher  
School of History and Archaeology A "Moral Crisis" in the 340s BC? Why did Aeschines win his case against Timarchos?
University of Wales Homosexuality, Law and Society in Classical Athens
PO Box 909 Sex, dice and fighting cocks: contexts of games in classical Athens
Cardiff CF1 3XU Who went to the Gym or the Party?  Leisure, exclusion and social mobility in Classical Athens
FisherN@CARDIFF.AC.UK  

Miss J.L. Fitton  
Dept of Greek and Roman Antiquities Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos at Knossos [S]
British Museum Schliemann's discoveries at Troy and Mycenae [S]
London Town and Country in Minoan Crete [S]
WC1B 3DG The Cyclades in the early Bronze Age [S]

jfitton@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

 

Professor Robert Fowler  
Dept of Classics and Ancient History Tales from Herodotus
University of Bristol The Apology of Socrates
11 Woodland Road The Athenian Acropolis
Bristol  BS8 1TB  

robert.fowler@bristol.ac.uk

 

Professor Lin Foxhall  
School of Archaeological Studies Fruitful pleasures: ornamental plants in Ancient Greece [S]
University of Leicester Natural sex: the gendering of plants and animals in ancient Greece [S]
Leicester When men were men: masculinity, power and identity in ancient Greece [S]
LE1 7RH Farming in ancient Greece [S]
lf4@le.ac.uk  

Professor C.J. Gill  
Dept of Classics and Ancient History Reading Plato's Dialogues One by One
University of Exeter Anger in Virgil's Aeneid and Hellenistic Philosophy
Exeter The Self as Structure in Hellenistic Thought
EX4 4QH Therapy and Community in Hellenistic and Roman Thought
C.J.Gill@exeter.ac.uk  

Dr D.W.J. Gill  
Dept of Classics and Ancient History All in a sigma: revising Athenian art and architecture in the late 5thC BC [S]
University of Wales, Swansea The material and intellectual consequences of collecting Greek pottery [S]
Singleton Park Winifred Lamb: archaeologist and museum curator [S]
Swansea, SA2 8PP Euesperides: a Greek city in Cyrenaica [S]
D.W.J.Gill@Swansea.ac.uk Sarpedon, drink and death: Greek pottery in context [S]

                     

Dr Barbara Goff  
Dept of Classics (Topics on Greek literature [especially Greek tragedy and its later reception], women in Antiquity, literary theory by request)
University of Reading
Reading  RG6 6AA  
b.e.goff@reading.ac.uk  

Dr Simon Goldhill  
King's College (Topics on Greek literature  by request)
Cambridge  
CB2 1ST  
SDG101@Hermes.CAM.AC.UK  

Dr Barbara Graziosi

 
Dept of Classics and Ancient History (Topics on Greek Literature, especially Homer, by arrangement) [SCHOOL]
University of Durham  

38 North Bailey

 

Durham DH1 3EU

 

barbara.graziosi@durham.ac.uk

 

Professor Jasper Griffin

 
Balliol College (Topics on Homer and Attic Tragedy by arrangement) [SCHOOL]

Oxford

 

OX1 3BJ

 

jasper.griffin@balliol.oxford.ac.uk

 

Professor Tom Harrison

 
Dept of Classics & Ancient History The character of Greek religion
University of Liverpool How the Greeks believed in oracles
12 Abercromby Square Greeks and Barbarians (Women, Languages, Religion)
Liverpool Thucydides (topics by arrangement)
L69 3BX (from Sept 2004 Herodotus (topics by arrangement)
t.e.h.harrison@liverpool.ac.uk (Topics in Greek history and historiography by arrangement)

Professor Malcolm Heath  
School of Classics Aristophanes and the language of politics
University of Leeds Hesiod: The First Comic Poet
Leeds Advocates and Clients in Roman Egypt
LS2 9JT Plato, Homer and Old Macdonald's Farm
m.f.heath@leeds.ac.uk (Topics by arrangement: tragedy, Aristophanes, Greek views of poetry, rhetoric)
  (A-Level talks on Comedy, Tragedy, Homer) [SCHOOL]

Professor R.L. Hunter  
Trinity College Sisters and lovers: the Ptolemies and their poets
Cambridge The blessings of blindness: Greek ideas of poets and poetry
CB2 1TQ What is Epic Poetry?
rlh10@cus.cam.ac.uk What is Pastoral Poetry?
  (Other topics in Greek and Latin literature as requested)

Dr Stephen Instone

 
Department of Greek and Latin Greek Athletics[SCHOOL]
University College Gods in the Iliad[SCHOOL]
Gower Street Topics in Greek Myth[SCHOOL]
London WC1E 6BT Writing Greek Verse[SCHOOL]
s.instone@ucl.ac.uk  

Mr J. Ellis Jones Olympia and the Olympic Games [S]
c/o Dept of English City Planning in Greece [S]
University of Wales, Bangor Greek houses, ancient and modern [S]
Bangor Some antiquities of Siphnos [S]
Gwynedd, LL57 2DG The silver mines of Laurion [S]
  Greek arms and armour [S]
  Theatres and Amphitheatres [S]
  Olympia and the Olympic Games [S]

Professor Helen King

 
Dept of Classics The doctor at the deathbed: perspectives from the ancient world
University of Reading Did Roman medicine exist?
Reading RG6 1AA The patient's story: reconstructing ancient medicine from the patient's point of view
h.king@reading.ac.uk

(Schools Topics on medicine/ancient Greek women) [SCHOOL]

Dr Jason Koenig

 
School of Classics Greek Athletics in the Roman Empire
University of St Andrews The Ancient and Modern Novel

St Andrews

 
Fife KY16 9AL (Other talks on related subjects by arrangement)[SCHOOL]

jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Dr Matthew Leigh

 

St Anne’s College

(Schools Topics on Homer, Sophocles, Menander) [SCHOOL]
Oxford

OX2 6HS

 

matthew.leigh@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk

Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Athens ’ Lady Boys? Performing Women in Greek Tragedy [S]
Dept of Classics and Ancient History Aphrodite's Tortoise: Women and Veiling in the Ancient Greek World [S]
University of Exeter Harem: The Court of Women in Ancient Persia [S]
Exeter The Language of Dress in Ancient Art [S]
EX4 4QH A Woman's View: Female Self Perception and Attic Art [S]
l.j.llewellyn-jones@exeter.ac.uk Celluloid Cleopatras: or did the Greeks ever get to Egypt? [S]
  Designs on the Past: Hollywood's recreation of the Ancient World [S]
  (other topics on women, gender and reception by arrangement)

Dr Nick Lowe  
Dept.  of Classics What makes a Greek Tragedy (needs data projector)
Royal Holloway, Univ of London The Shapes of Epic (needs data projector)
Egham Hill, Egham The End of the Odyssey
Surrey  TW20 0EX Why the Greeks didn't invent the bicycle [S]
n.lowe@rhul.ac.uk Tragedy and Cinema: Parallel Lives
  Classical Information Technology
  Greek Tragedy: The Missing 98% (needs data projector)
  Aristophanic Spacecraft
  Stagecraft in Medea (data projector optional)
  Write your own Greek Tragedy (data projector optional)
  (other topics on Homer, comedy, tragedy, etc by arrangement)

Dr Jenny March  
Ward House War, Homer and Wilfrid Owen
Walkhampton Greek Myths: Images and Inspirations [S]
Devon The Trojan War in Literature and Art [S]
PL20 6JY Women in Homer
  Dangerous Women in Greek Literature
tel: 01822 853418 Women and War in Ancient Greece
fax: 01822 853841  The Art of Tragic Recognition
jrmarch@classicfm.net The Pleasures of Greek Tragedy
  Looking at Greek Tragedy (specific plays by request)
 

(other topics on Homer, Greek tragedy and Greek mythology by arrangement) [SCHOOL]

Dr Paul Millett The Ancient Greeks and their Money
Downing College Punch Magazine and the Classics
Cambridge

What went on in the Athenian Agora

CB2 1DQ  Ancient Athens - the Classic Slum?
pcm1000@cam.ac.uk

Winston Churchill and the Classics

 

(other topics in Greek History by arrangement)

Professor Elizabeth Moignard  
Department of Classics Drinks Fit for Heroes [S]
University of Glasgow Why El Greco? [S]
Glasgow Ancient Greek Storytelling [S]
G12 8QQ  Greek Vases: a Guided Tour [S]
E.Moignard@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk The Classical in Neo-Classical Architecture [S]
  (Other topics in Greek Art by arrangement)

Dr Alfonso Moreno

 
Magdalen College The Athenian Economy [SCHOOL]
Oxford Athenian Politics[SCHOOL]
OX1 4AU

Athenian Diplomatic and Cultural Relations with the Bosporan Kingdom in Crimea

Alfonso.Moreno@classics.oxford.ac.uk  

Dr Catherine Morgan  
Dept. of Classics 776 BC - AD 2004: the rediscovery of the Olympic Games
King's College London The origins of the Isthmian festival
Strand, London Oracles and divination in the ancient world
WC2R 2LS  (other titles on Greek religion and archaeology by arrangement)
c.morgan@kcl.ac.uk  

Dr J.R. Morgan  
Dept of Classics & Ancient History Ancient fiction: general topics or particular authors by request
University of Wales   The Philogelos: the Ancient Greek book of jokes
Swansea , SA2 8PP   
John.Morgan@Swansea.ac.uk  

Dr Gideon Nisbet  
School of Classics Greek comics? A fragment of an ancient illustrated book
University of Leeds Things the ancients read for fun
LeedsLS2 9JT (Other topics in ekphrasis, illustrated book in antiquity, satrirical epigrams, the ancient novel by arrangement)
g.nisbet@leeds.ac.uk (from Sept 2004)

Dr Graham Oliver  
69 rue Louis Blanc Inscriptions and the Ancient Greeks
Paris 75010  
France   (Topics in Greek history and archaeology by arrangement)
gjoliver@liv.ac.uk  

Professor Robin Osborne  
Faculty of Classics   (Topics in Greek History, Art and Archaeology by arrangement)
Sidgwick Avenue  
Cambridge CB3 9DA  
ro225@cam.ac.uk  

Professor R.C.T. Parker  
New College An introduction to Greek religion
Oxford (also: topics in Greek religion - suggestions welcome)
OX1 3BN  

robert.parker@new.ox.ac.uk

 

Dr Elizabeth Pender  
School of Classics Words move: the action of language in Plato
University of Leeds Inner and outer states: Plato on soul and society
Leeds  LS2 9JT  

e.e.pender@leeds.ac.uk

 

Dr Anton Powell     
University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History Athens' Pretty Face: ancient controversy about the Parthenon
15 Rosehill Terrace  Sparta: boarding school of evil genius
Swansea Aeneas dethroned? Sextus Pompey as the real hero of the Aeneid
SA1 6JN Princesses, politicians and lovers: Women in Sparta's revolutions
powellanton@btopenworld.com Greek Women in Battle
 

(These lectures available in a version suitable for schools)[SCHOOL]

Dr A.J.N.W. Prag  
The Manchester Museum  Reconstructing ancient faces [S] - exact title by arrangement [SCHOOL]
University of Manchester "True" portraiture: the evidence from forensic reconstruction [S] [SCHOOL]
Manchester Odysseus, Polyphemus and the symposium: looking at Greek vases [S] [SCHOOL]
M13 9PL The Mediterranean in Manchester: The Story of a New Museum Gallery [S] [SCHOOL]
john.prag@man.ac.uk  

Professor P.J. Rhodes  
Dept of Classics   (Topics in Greek History by arrangement)
University of Durham    
38, North Bailey, Durham  
DH1 3EU   

Dr Lyn Rodley  
1 Meyrick Crescent The Classical Tradition in Byzantine Art [S]
Colchester Decline, fall and recovery: monumental sculpture in the Byzantine empire [S]
CO2 7QX Cave churches and monasteries of Byzantine Cappadocia [S]
lrodley@atlas.co.uk (other Byzantine art & architecture topics available by arrangement can be for SCHOOLS))

Mrs Charlotte Roueché  
Dept of Classics Ephesus and Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity [S]
King's College London  Inscriptions and their monuments [S]
Strand, London   Entertainments in the Ancient City [S]
WC2R 2LS Pagans and Christians at Alexandria and Aphrodisias: student life in the
charlotte.roueche@kcl.ac.uk Looking for Byzantium: an Introduction [S]             5th century A.D. [S]
  (other topics on Late Antiquity / Byzantium by arrangement)

Dr Jane Rowlandson  
Dept of Classics Gender and cultural identity in Roman Egypt [S]
King's College London  Death in the Nile: Drowning and Divinity in Roman Egypt [S]
Strand, London  (Other topics on Ptolemaic or Roman Egypt by arrangement)
WC2R 2LS  
jane.rowlandson@kcl.ac.uk  

 

Dr R.B. Rutherford  
Christ Church The Rhetoric of Greek Tragedy
Oxford Recognition and Revelation in the Odyssey
OX1 1DP The Agonies of Dido
richard.rutherford@christ-church.oxford.ac.uk  The Styles of Greek Tragedy
  The Verbal and the Visual in Greek Tragedy
  (other subjects relating to Greek epic, tragedy or other authors on request)

Dr T.T.B. Ryder  
47 Cressingham Road An ancient armada: disaster in Sicily 413 B.C.
Reading Phocion and the shipwrecked state of Athens
Berks   The early development of Greek Sicily [S]
RG2  7RU Pericles and the radical democracy
  Greeks and Romans round the Bay of Naples [S]
Tel: 0118 987 4264 The effectiveness of Demosthenes' oratory
  Deadly Rivalry or Honour among Thieves? Big Power Relationships in fifth century B.C. Greece
  Ancient Sicily [SCHOOL]

Dr J.B. Salmon  
Dept of Classics  Monuments and Masons: jobs on the Parthenon [S]
University of Nottingham "There Lawfulness Dwells": Corinth and her Tyrants [S]
University Park, Nottingham Generous Necessity: Public Provision in Hellenistic Cities
NG7 2RD (Other topics in Corinthian history and archaeology
by arrangement)
john.salmon@nottingham.ac.uk

Dr Clemence Schultze

 
Dept of Classics Myths made new: Classical figures from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond [S]
University of Durham  
38 North Bailey (Topics by arrangement)

Durham DH1 3EU

 
c.e.schultze@durham.ac.uk

Professor R.A.S. Seaford  
Dept. of Classics The Unity of Opposites: History, Cosmology, Tragedy
University of Exeter How did Philosophy Begin?
Exeter Dionysus and Use Value
EX4 4QH  Tragic Tryanny
R.A.S.Seaford@exeter.ac.uk (Other topics are available upon request)

Professor R.W. Sharples  
Department of Greek and Latin Corroding the evidence and handling the sources : method in the study of ancient philosophy
University College What happened to Aristotle's school?
Gower Street, London Ancient Philosophy and English Romantic Poetry
WC1E 6BT  Science and Culture in the Ancient World [SCHOOL]
r.sharples@ucl.ac.uk Ancient Philosophy and English Romantic Poetry [SCHOOL]
 

The Gorgias: Plato's literary masterpiece?

Dr Amy Smith  
Dept of Classics (Topics on Ancient Art available upon request)
University of Reading   
Reading  
RG6 2AA   
a.c.smith@reading.ac.uk  

Professor B.B. Shefton  
Dept. of Classics The Imagery of Zeus among the Ancient Greeks [S]
University of Newcastle Gold and Ostentatious Luxury among the Greeks [S]
Newcastle upon Tyne The Macedonian Royal Graves at Vergina, their metalwork and related material [S]
NE1 7RU The Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii [S]
brianshefton@lineone.net The English Country House and the Antique: on Collecting and the Grand Tour [S]

Professor A.H. Sommerstein  
Dept of Classics Aeschylus and woman's place: Clytaemnestra and the Danaids
University of Nottingham  Aristophanes' Frogs: tragedy, politics and virility
University Park, Nottingham  Old Comedy in performance: Thesmophoriazousai
NG7 2RD "They all knew how it was going to end": tragedy, myth and the spectator
alan.sommerstein@nottingham.ac.uk (can be specially focussed on a particular author or play)
  The heroic (and other) women of Aristophanes
  (Other topics may be available on request)

Dr Emma J. Stafford  
Dept of Classics The Image of Aeneas: Virgil and the Visual Tradition [S]
University of Leeds  Vice or Virtue? Herakles and the art of allegory? [S]
Leeds  Imagining the Gods: sculpture and religious belief in ancient Greece [S]
LS2 9JT   Sleep the God [S]
e.j.stafford@leeds.ac.uk (Other topics may be available on request)

Professor Oliver Taplin  
Magdalen College What kind of Audience did Homer compose for?
Oxford (could include a recitation)
OX1 4AU Athenian Tragedy and South Italian vase painting [S]
oliver.taplin@magd.ox.ac.uk ....   in the theatre (please specify a play or play)  [S]
  Why, when and how did Tragedy spread out from Athens?

Mr C.C.W. Taylor  
Corpus Christi College (Topics on Ancient Philosophy - particularly Pre-Socratics, Socrates Plato, Aristotle, Ethics - available upon request- some suitable for schools) [SCHOOL]
OX1 4JF

christopher.taylor@philosophy.oxford.ac.uk

 

  

Dr Dorothy J. Thompson  
Girton College  Obelisks and Fountains: Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt
Cambridge Crocodiles and kings: Hellenistic Egypt recycled [S]
CB3 0JG (Topics on Hellenistic Egypt by request)
djt17@cam.ac.uk  

Dr Stephen Todd  
Dpt of Classics and Ancient History Why Thucydides invented the Peloponnesian War
University of Manchester Democracy Modern and Ancient
Oxford Road Herodotus on Being Greek
Manchester   M13 9PL  Justice of Mob-Rule: the lawcourts of ancient Athens
s.c.todd@man.ac.uk  

Professor Michael Vickers  
Department of Antiquities  That Greece might one day still be rich: restoring the wealth of antiquity [S]
Ashmolean Museum Politics in Aristophanes' Frogs
Oxford Images on Textiles: The Weave of Athenian Art and Society [S]
OX1 2PH The Oxford-Batumi excavations at Pichvnari, Georgia [S]
Michael.Vickers@jesus.ox.ac.uk Alcibiades on Stage: Thesmophoriazusae

Dr J.M. Wilkins  
Department of Classics     Galen and the Greek Doctors on a healthy diet
University of Exeter  Theatre dinners: food and eating in Greek comedy
Exeter, EX4 4QH  
j.m.wilkins@exeter.ac.uk  

Mr Richard Woff These titles are specifically suited to school audiences:-
Education Department   Dead Greeks: Greek Funerary Imagery [S]
British Museum    Picturing the Odyssey [S]
London Greek Drinking Parties [S]
WC1B 3DG    What can we learn about Greek everyday life from Greek Pots? [S]
rwoff@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Place and Space: Understanding Greek Architecture [S]
  Storytelling on Greek Pots [S]
  Gorgons [S]
  Greek Sculpted Friezes [S]

Professor M.R. Wright  
Dept. of Classics     The Presocratic Origins of European Science
University of Wales  Cosmology Myths and Models
Lampeter   Stoic Philanthropy at Rome
Ceredigion SA48 7ED   
m.r.wright@lampeter.ac.uk