Early Closures Week Beginning 19th December

Please be aware that in the week leading to Christmas there are the following changes to library closing times.

Tuesday 20th December: the library is closing at 5pm for a private function

Friday 23rd December: the library will close at 5:30pm

There are no late evenings this week, as term has ended, so on all other days (excluding the above) the library will close at 6pm.

We will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the library team!

Library system downtime on 16th August

Please note that on Tuesday 16th August the library’s circulation system and online catalogue will be unavailable due to system upgrades. This is for the installation of a new Library Management System and Catalogue.

This means that books will have to be issued manually. Any books returned will be kept aside and checked in the following morning.

While the catalogue is offline, you can search using COPAC or Search25.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this will cause and thank you for your patience.

(This will also affect Senate House Library and other SAS libraries.)

See notice on Senate House Library website for more details

Happy International Cat Day!

Greek: αἴλουρος; αἰέλουρος;

Latin: f(a)eles; f(a)elis, cat(t)us (late)

 

Cats in antiquity were likely to be feral, attracted to the large mouse and rat populations which thrived on grain stores, and later, cities. In Egypt, the cat was domesticated by 2000 BC, and the domestic cat did not evolve from the European wildcat, but from the Egyptian and Libyan wildcat. Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians loved their cats and often embalmed them (2.66f.). Cats travelled to other countries from Egypt, often as ship's cats, and by Roman times domesticated cats were common.

 

Source:

Kitchell (2014), Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z, pages 24-25.

X 152G KIT http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3321558~S7

 

Mosaic from Pompeii showing cat with bird, ducks and fish (Image 1830 from Imago database)

 

See also: 



Donalson (1999), The domestic cat in Roman civilization
152G DON http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2640782~S7

Engels (1999), Classical cats: the rise and fall of the sacred cat
152G ENG http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2625041~S7

Kalof (ed.) (2007), A cultural history of animals in antiquity
152G KAL http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3118857~S7

And for a bit of fun:

Seuss (2000), Cattus petasatus : The cat in the hat in Latin 
qui libellus est a Doctore Seuss, primo anglice compositus, at nunc (quod vix credas) in sermonem latinum a Guenevera Tunberg et Terentio Tunberg conversus!
206C SEU http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2696947~S7

Female authors in antiquity

You may have seen this post going around earlier this week, detailing an impressive list of female authors from antiquity:

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/08/01/an-impressive-list-of-female-authors-from-antiquity/

If, like a certain library trainee, you are intrigued by this and would like to find out more about classical women authors, here are some suggestions on where to start:

Greene (ed.) (2015), Women poets in ancient Greece and Rome
Class mark: 99A.1 GRE http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2970719~S7

Plant (ed.), (2004), Women writers of ancient Greece and Rome: an anthology
Class mark: 96.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2762892~S7

 

Balmer (1996), Classical women poets
Class mark: 96.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2430842~S7

Snyder (1989), The woman and the lyre: women writers in classical Greece and Rome
Class mark: 99A.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2468798~S7

Lefkowitz; Fant (2016), Women's life in Greece and Rome : a source book in translation (Fourth Edition) - especially Chapter 1 "Women's Voices - Female Poets"
Class mark: 152J.1 LEF http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3358357~S7

Latin:

Churchill; Brown; Jeffrey (eds.) (2002), Women writing Latin: from Roman antiquity to early modern Europe (3 vols.)
Class mark: 99G CHU  http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2771297~S7

Stevenson (2005), Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century
Class mark: 99J STE http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3119922~S7

Greek:

De Martino (2006), Poetesse greche
Class mark: 97.1 http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2946720~S7

Rayor (1991), Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece
Class mark: 97.38 RAY http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2111174~S7

Philosophy:

Waithe (ed.) (1987), A history of women philosophers: Vol. 1. Ancient women philosophers, 600 B.C.-500 A.D.
Class mark: 123E WAI http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2489001~S7

Pomeroy (2013), Pythagorean women: their history and writings
Class mark: 123J POM http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b3291485~S7

 

Letters:

Bagnall; Cribiore (2006), Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
Class mark: 101H BAG http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2956012~S7

Beatrix Potter's archaeological paintings

Beatrix Potter was born in London 150 years ago today. Did you know that before she became the celebrated children's author and illustrator, she developed her skills as an artist by making studies of archaeological finds?

 

Her watercolours include Roman and post-Roman finds from the Bucklersbury excavations of 1872-3 (adjacent to Mansion House, City of London), and from Pickle Herring Street in Southwark. The drawings are impressive in their detail and accuracy, as well as beauty, and it is clear to see how these studies helped the young Beatrix Potter develop into the skilled illustrator of Peter Rabbit and so many other beloved characters.

A comparative study of nails, 1895 (Jay; Hall, inside cover image)

 

Roman archaeological finds, including rings, needles, spoons, a chain and a comb, 1895 (Barnard p.63)

Roman leather shoe, 1895 (Barnard p.65)

 



Jay, E; Hall, J, The tale of London past : Beatrix Potter's archaeological paintings, from the Armitt Collection, Ambleside (London, 1990)
http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2642384~S7
Barnard, B, 'Before Peter Rabbit' The Independent magazine (27.10.1990) 112 pp.62-65
http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/record=b2493164~S7

See also:
http://armitt.com/armitt_website/beatrix-potter/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/beatrix-potter-collections/

Logging in to your library account

If you are having trouble logging in to your account to renew your library books, it may be because you are using an old link to the catalogue page.

Please update any bookmarks you have saved to the catalogue page to the correct address:

http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/search~S7

The link to the log in page is:

http://catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/patroninfo

 

Change to payments for the library

All payments to the Joint Library (e.g. for postal loans and scanning requests) should now be made out to:

The Hellenic and Roman Library

(not Roman Society - Joint Library, as previously).
Thank you!

ICS events & library opening hours - summer 2016

Summer Opening Hours:
Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 6.00pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 4.30pm
N.B. The library is not open on Saturdays in August

Library Summer Closure:
The Library will be closed for 2 weeks from Monday 22nd August, and re-open on Monday 5th September.

Friday 17th June
16:30 Digital Classicist Seminar
From the ground to the cloud: digital edition of freshly excavated cuneiform tablets on Oracc
Eleanor Robson (University College London)
Room 234 - Senate House

Digital Classicist seminars will be screencast on YouTube. You can also follow and discuss the seminars on Twitter using the hashtag #DigiClass.
Abstracts available here.

Monday 20th June
16:30 ICS Seminar - Rescheduled Ancient History Seminar
Religion and Identity in the Black Sea Region: Jewish Communities of the Bosporan Kingdom
Irina Levinskaya (St. Petersburg)
The Senate Room - Senate House

Saturday 25th June
Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Philosophy (AMPAPhil)
Keynote speakers: Prof. Anne Sheppard (RHUL) and Prof. John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin)
Rooms 349, 243, 246 - Senate House

July
Digital Classicist seminars continue:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016.html


Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd September
ICS Conference
Law and Writing Habit in the Ancient World
G22/26 - Senate House

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

Library system downtime on 8th June

Please note that on Wednesday 8^th June the library’s circulation system and online catalogue will be unavailable due to system upgrades. 

This means that books will have to be issued manually. Any books returned will be kept aside and checked in the following morning.

While the catalogue is offline, you can search using COPAC.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this will cause and thank you for your patience.

(This will also affect Senate House Library and other SAS libraries.)

See more details on Senate House Library website

 

 

ICS & other events 6th-11th June 2016

Tuesday 7th - Wednesday 8th June
ICS Conference: Gendering Roman Imperialism
Keynote Speakers: Emily Hemelrijk (Amsterdam) and Alison Keith (Toronto)
Commentators: Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge) and Jonathan Prag (Oxford)
Room 349 - Senate House

Tuesday 7th June
18:00 ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens
Historians Against Rome
Professor Timothy Whitmarsh (Cambridge)
G22/26 - Senate House

Please note that on Wednesday 8th June the library circulation system and online catalogue will be unavailable: see details

Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th June
Conference at KCL
The Art of Hegel's 'Aesthetics': Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History
Registration

Thursday 9th June
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
The encounter between Chandragupta and Seleucus: British and Indian interpretations during the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries
Sushma Jansari (UCL)
Room 349 - Senate House

Friday 10th June
16:30 Digital Classicist Seminar
Of People, Places and References: Extracting information from Classics publications
Room 234 - Senate House
Matteo Romanello (Lausanne and DAI)
18:00 Launch event for Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber
2nd floor foyer.

Saturday 11th June
Hellenic Society Lecture & AGM
14:00 Lecture
'Master of those who know: a Celebration of Aristotle's 2400th birthday'
Edith Hall
16:00 Hellenic Society AGM
G22/26 - Senate House
AGM notice

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

Digital Classicist Seminar Series and Book Launch

Fridays at 16:30
Senate House - Room 243

June 3 Gregory Crane (Leipzig and Tufts)
Philological Education and Citizenship in the 21st Century

June 10 Matteo Romanello (Lausanne and DAI)
Of People, Places and References: Extracting information from Classics publications

18:00 Launch event for Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber
2nd floor foyer.

June 17 Eleanor Robson (University College London)
From the ground to the cloud: digital edition of freshly excavated cuneiform tablets on Oracc

June 24 Stuart Dunn (King’s College London)
Reading text with GIS: Different digital lenses for Ancient World Geography

July 1 Valeria Vitale (King’s College London)
The use and abuse of 3D visualisation in the study of the Ancient World

July 8 Chiara Palladino (Leipzig and Bari)
Annotating geospatial patterns in ancient texts: problems and strategies

July 15 No seminar

July 22 Stelios Chronopoulos (Freiburg)
New Life into Old Courses? Using Digital Tools in Reading and Prose Composition Classes

July 29 Silke Vanbeselaere (KU Leuven)
Exploring ancient sources with data visualisation

Abstracts available here.

Seminars will be screencast on YouTube. You can also follow and discuss the seminars on Twitter using the hashtag #DigiClass.

ICS events 23rd-28th May 2016

Monday 23rd May
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Wild beasts in context: the great mosaic from the Vicus Augustanus at Castelporziano
Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Room 243 - Senate House

Tuesday 24th May
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Iconology of an Animal Combat: On the Lion Attacking a Horse in the Musei Capitolini
Claire Lyons (Getty Villa)
Room 349 - Senate House

Wednesday 25th May
13:00 ICS Director's Seminar
Ethnography and Empire: The Tower of Babel narrative in Philo 'De Confusione Linguarum', Origen 'Contra Celsum' and Julian 'Contra Galilaeos'
John Hilton (KwaZulu-Natal)
Room 246 - Senate House

18:00 Hellenic Society Summer Lecture
'Dionysus and India: Lucian to Gandhara'
Phiroze Vasunia (UCL)
Room 349 - Senate House

Thursday 26th May
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
China and the Hellenistic world in the 3rd century BC - an archaeological assessment
Lukas Nickel (SOAS)
Room 349 - Senate House

Friday 27th May
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
An interdisciplinary experiment: Pindar and Parmenides: poetics of competition and ontological enquiry
Chiara Ciampa (KCL)
Room 246 - Senate House

Please note that the Library will be closed this Bank Holiday weekend:
Saturday 28th May & Monday 30th May


If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

Hedgehog or Porcupine?

The library staff were quite taken with the creature on this title page, thinking it was a hedgehog, only to find that apparently it is a porcupine.

This is the emblem of the Fabretti family, whose motto, "philois charisasthai echthron amynasthai", means roughly be nice to your friends, guard yourself against your enemies!

 

Title page of Inscriptionvm antiquarvm quae in aedibvs paternis asservantvr explicatio et additamentvm (1699), by Raffaele Fabretti.

http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/record=b2505430~S7

http://opac.braidense.it/bid/SBLE001336

UPDATE:
Thank you to our Twitter friends for the mediaeval hedgehog facts!

. @joliheroics Carrying grapes on quills was mediaeval belief about hedgehogs. Ironically, not recommended for pet hedgehogs today. 2/2

— Michael Hendry (@Curculiunculus) May 13, 2016

,@joliheroics hedgehog - no porcupines in Europe and spines all wrong. Ancients believed they stole apples and grapes by rolling on them.

— Benenden Classics (@BenSchClassics) May 13, 2016

@joliheroics definitely a hedgehog! pic.twitter.com/KaK1saPF56

— Helen Forte (@minimus_latin) May 13, 2016

ICS events 16th-21st May 2016

Monday 16th May
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
"Where are you going and where have you come from?" Beginnings and endings in Plato
Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews)
Room 243 - Senate House

Tuesday 17th May
17:30 ICS Workshop
Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century.
Prof. Gregory Crane (Tufts; Leipzig), ST Lee Fellow in round table discussion with Dr Imre Galambos (Cambridge), Professor Eleanor Robson (UCL), Dr Sarah Savant (Aga Khan University), Dr Michael Willis (British Museum)

This discussion explores the question of what Classics can realistically mean in a century where China, India (with its six official Classical languages), and the various nations of the Arabic and Persian-speaking world play an active role in shaping global cultures.
Room 349 - Senate House

Wednesday 18th May
13:00 ICS Director's Seminar
The philosopher’s 'mania': Socrates, Plato and alteration of consciousness
Yulia Ustinova (Ben Gurion)
Room 246 - Senate House

15:30 ICS Mycenean Series
Digging up the past: the Minoan site of Apesokari in the Mesara
Georgia Flouda (Herakleion)
Woburn Suite, G22/26 - Senate House

Thursday 19th May
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Pottery, tax and the Chreophylax: reconsidering Hellenism at Seleucid Uruk
Cameron Petrie (Cambridge)
Room 349 - Senate House

Friday 20th May
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Entering the new Hellenistic world: Sparta in the third century B.C.
Andrea Scarpato (Leicester)
Room 246 - Senate House

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS events 9-14th May 2016

Monday 9th May
17:30 ICS Roman Art Seminar
Roman bronze statuettes at the Ashmolean Museum: ancient and modern receptions
Nick West (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Room 243 - Senate House

Tuesday 10th May
17:00 A.D. Trendall Lecture
Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia
Thomas Carpenter (Ohio)
G22/26 - Senate House

Wednesday 11th May
13:00 ICS Director's Seminar
Exempla of adulatio in Seneca's 'de ira'
Martina Russo (La Sapienza, Rome)
Room 246 - Senate House

Thursday 12th May
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Hellenism in Parthian Mesopotamia
Lucinda Dirven (Amsterdam)
G22/26 - Senate House

Friday 13th May
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Gesture and movement in Roman cursing rituals
Stuart McKie (Open University)
Room 246 - Senate House

Saturday 14th May
11:30 Virgil Society
Programme:
11.30 Reading the poet: Aeneid II
Virgil Society members led by John Hazel
14:00 AGM
15:00 'Vitae' and 'Mortes': Virgil's Biography and the Parity of Life and Words
Ahuvia Kahane
G22/26 - Senate House

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

2016 Library Survey

 

 

Please help us improve our services by taking a few minutes to complete our 2016 survey and letting us know your views about the ICS / Joint Library.

 

The survey is available online at

 

www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ICS-JL-SURVEY

 

or in printed form from the library desk.

 

The closing date for responses is midnight on Saturday 14th May 2016.

 

Thank you!

Bank Holiday reminder & ICS events 2nd-7th May 2016

Monday 2nd May
BANK HOLIDAY - LIBRARY CLOSED TODAY

Wednesday 4th May
13:00 ICS Director's Seminar
A digital Edition of FGrHist 104 [Aristodemus]
Pietro Luzzo (Heidelberg)
Room 246 - Senate House

17:00 T.B.L. Webster Lecture
Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy
Eric Csapo (Sydney)
G22/26 - Senate House

Thursday 5th May
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Greek culture and political power in the Hellenistic East
Laurianne Martinez Sève (Lille)
Room 349 - Senate House

Friday 6th May
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Middle Comedy: Not only mythology and food. The political and contemporary dimension
Virginia Mastellari (Freiburg)
Room 246 - Senate House

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS events 18th - 30th April 2016

22 -23 April
ICS and RHUL Conference
From Thucydides to Twitter: Towards a History of the Soundbite
Senate House - Room 349
more information here

Monday 25 April
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
'Revixit ars': art's rebirth and archaising practices in Greco-Roman antiquity, late imperial China and early modern Europe
Jeremy Tanner (University College London)
Senate House - Room 243

Tuesday 26 April
Evening opening at the Library starts today
(Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until 8pm)
17:00 Classical Archaeology Seminar
Tombs and Vases in Etruria: The Drawings of Architects in the Nineteenth Century
Laurent Haumesser (Louvre)
Senate House - Room 349

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

Wondering where the painting and mosaic books have gone?

Books on Painting and Mosaics (classmarks 133A through to 133E.9) have been moved from the Archaeology Room to the Computer Room (Room 344). The David Smith Mosaic Archive Collection, a reference only collection with a separate classification scheme, has also been moved into this room. All of your painting and mosaic needs in one place!



The Tract volumes which were in the Computer Room have been moved to the area adjacent to the Papyrology / Epigraphy Room and the New Books area. This arrangement brings the Tract Boxes and Tract Volumes closer together.

Books on Computing / Classics (classmark 98A.1) remain in the Computer Room but have been moved to a different set of shelves.

The Cotton Foundation collection of books, a reference only collection have also been moved to the Computer Room.

ICS event on 31st May: Greek Homosexuality

 Greek Homosexuality:

An event to mark the publication of a new edition of Kenneth Dover's book

Tuesday 31st May 2016
18:00 - 20:00
(Doors open 17:45)
Senate House - Woburn Suite, G22/26

To mark the reissuing by Bloomsbury Academic of the 1989 edition of Kenneth Dover’s Greek Homosexuality (with two new forewords), there will be a panel discussion of the book and its influence chaired by Paul Cartledge (Cambridge), with panel members Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews), Mark Masterson (University of Wellington), James Robson (Open University) and Caroline Vout (Cambridge). All are welcome.


For additional information please contact valerie.james@sas.ac.uk.

http://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/public-events/2016/greek-homosexuality-event-mark-publication-new-edition-kenneth-d

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS events 30th March-16th April 2016

Wednesday 30th March
9:30 Library opens
Please note that evening opening will not start until Tuesday 26th April (when term starts).
Out of term opening hours:
Monday - Friday: 9.30am - 6.00pm
Saturday: 10.00am - 4.30pm

Thursday 31st March
16:30  ICS Ancient History Seminar  EVENT CANCELLED
Religion and Identity in the Black Sea Region: Jewish Communities of the Bosporan Kingdom
Irina Levinskaya (St. Petersburg)
Senate House - Room 349

11th-15th April: 5 day Epidoc workshop
A 5-day training workshop on digital editing of epigraphic and papyrological texts (registration required)
Senate House - Room 234

Monday 11th April
9:30-17:00 Women in Classics: Past, Present and Future
The Launch Of The Women’s Classical Committee
Senate House - Room 349
More information and registration here


If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS and other events 21st-23rd March 2016

Monday 21st March
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar EVENT CANCELLED
Milgram and the disobedient hero
Ineke Sluiter (Leiden)
Senate House - Room 349

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory
Isabella Colpo (Universit degli Studi di Padova)
Senate House - Room 243

Tuesday 22nd March
17:00 Classical Archaeology Seminar
Illustrating Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century: Historicism and Visuality
Daniel Orrells (KCL)
Senate House - Room 349

Wednesday 23rd March
20:00 Library closes for Easter.
We will re-open on Wednesday 30th March.
Evening opening will recommence on Tuesday 26th April (when term starts).

Wishing everyone a good break!


If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS and other events 14-19th March 2016

Monday 14th March
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Between the Dionysia and the Dialogues: Plato's use of comedy
David Preston (Royal Holloway)
Senate House - Room 243

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Between democracy and autocracy: patterns in the spread of theatre through Classical Greece
Eric Csapo (Sydney)
Senate House - Room 349

Tuesday 15th March
18:00 ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens Lecture
Hellenic Studies in Tudor England: presenting an online interactive edition of an unpublished Greek encomium on Henry VIII.
Chair: Elizabeth Jeffreys
Charalambos Dendrinos, Philip Taylor, Christoper Wright
Senate House - Room G22/26

Wednesday 16th March
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Kakovatos in Tryphilia (Peloponnese): rise and fall of an early Mycenaean site
Brigitta Eder (Vienna)
Senate House - Room G22/26 

18:00 2016 Rumble Lecture in Classical Art
Queering Classical Art
Whitney Davis (Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art at the University of California at Berkeley and Visiting Professor of History of Art at the University of York)
King's College London - Great Hall, King's Building, Strand

Thursday 17th March
16:30  ICS Ancient History Seminar
Herakles and the challenges of colonial environments in the Black Sea
David Braund (Exeter)
Senate House - Room 349

Friday 18th March
14:30  ICS Early Career Seminar
‘Well-played, Fluttershy…’: Defeating Discord and Dragons in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Ellie Mackin
Senate House - Room 243

16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
The myth of Heracles in Diodorus' Bibliotheke: Variety of sources and traditions
Victoria Rotar (Trinity St David)
Senate House - Room 246

If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

Easter closure 2016

The Library will close on Wednesday 23rd March at 8.00pm and will re-open on Wednesday 30th March at 9.30am.

Easter is early this year, so when the library re-opens on 30th March there are 3 weeks before evening opening re-starts (to coincide with term-time). The first day of evening opening will be on Tuesday 26th April.

ICS and other events this week 7-12th March 2016

Monday 7th March
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Cultural Politics of Plautine Topography
Sophia Papaioannou
Senate House - Room 349

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Looking like Caesar. A case-study of assimilation in late Republican portraiture
Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Senate House - Room 243

Tuesday 8th March
17:00 Classical Archaeology Seminar
Photographs in the Antiquities Trade
Vinnie Nørskov (Aarhus)
Senate House - Room 349

17:30 Roman Society Lecture
Dura Europos
Introduced and Chaired by Professor Simon James
Professor Pierre Leriche: The new image of Europos-Dura on the Euphrates in the light of 25 seasons of archaeological research
Dr Jen Baird: Yale's Dura Archive: new excavation histories
Senate House - Chancellor's Hall

Wednesday 9th March
17:00 Rome-London Lecture
Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo
Vincent Jolivet (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Senate House - Room G22/26

Thursday 10th March
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
“Location, Location, Location”? Some thoughts on the Religious Topography of Dura-Europos
Ted Kaizer, Durham University
28 Russell Square, 2.02

16:00-20:00 SAS Open Day
Senate House
Free registration here

16:30  ICS Ancient History Seminar
Colonising Bosphorus: the Creation of the Bosphoran Kingdom in the Archaic Period
Catherine Morgan (Oxford)
Senate House - Room G22/26

Friday 11th March
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Revisiting pollution for homicide at Athens: A rhetorical perspective
Christine Plastow (UCL)
Senate House - Room 243


If the ICS Events page is unavailable, please see the SAS Events brochure (pdf) or here for ICS events listings.

ICS Events this week: 29th Feb-6th March 2016

Monday 29 February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
‘Callimachus and the Pleasure of Knowledge (Aetia, fr. 43.12-17)’
Daniele Iozzia (Catania)
Senate House - Room 243

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Graduate presentations
Senate House - Room 349

Tuesday 1 March
17:30 Accordia Lecture
Supplying Rome between the 4th and 6th centuries AD: results of recent excavations at the Portus Romae
Simon Keay (Southampton/British School at Rome)
Senate House - Room G22/26

Thursday 3 March
The Afterlife of Apuleius (2 day conference 3rd-4th March)
Organised by the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies the two-day conference will investigate the legacy of Apuleius’ literary and rhetorical works, focusing on the Ancient and Early Modern period. Lectures will be delivered by internationally renowned specialists in the fields of Classics, Renaissance studies and Comparative Literature, and a specific workshop will be devoted to discussions about Apuleianism in Renaissance rhetoric.

16:30  ICS Ancient History Seminar
More than Money: Commemoration and Visual Communication in the Black Sea Coinage
Vladimir Stolba (Aarhus)
Senate House - Room 349

Friday 4 March
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
A comparative reassessment of the Arab conquests of the 7th century: Ethnogenesis and the enemy within
James Moreton Wakeley (Oxford)
Senate House - Room 246

Saturday 5 March
14:30 ICS Virgil Society Lecture
Virgil and Neptune: Defying Homer?
Anton Powell
Senate House - Room G22/26

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ICS and other events this week: 22nd-27th February 2016

Monday 22 February
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Eudocia's Martyrdom of St Cyprian between Pagan Vision and Christian Voice
Pavlos Avlamis (KCL)
Senate House - Room 349 

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
The 'Horti' of ancient Rome: New research
Chrystina Häuber (Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität München)
Senate House - Room 243

Thursday 25 February
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
Zena Kamash, Royal Holloway
Photographic Memories: Learning about Roman Syria through Photographs
28 Russell Square, 2.02

19:15 Hellenic Society Spring Lecture 
‘PADDY LEIGH FERMOR AND FRIENDS: explorations in his archive’
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith
The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS

Friday 26 February
Current Archaeology Live! (26th-27th Feb)
Tickets available here

14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
Strangers in the Night: Indo-European Perspectives on Iliad 10 and the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides
Almut Fries
Senate House - Room 243

16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Comedy of the absurd or absurd philosophy?
Claudio Garcia Ehrenfeld (KCL)
Senate House - Room 246

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ICS Events this week: 15th-20th February 2016

15th-17th February
10:00 - 18:45 10th London Ancient Science Conference
See conference programme here
Senate House - Room G37

Monday 15th February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Lucretius' Reception of Plato's Metaphors for the Body and Soul
Matthew Johncock (Wellington College)
Senate House - Room 243 

Wednesday 17th February
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Digital Nestor: Aegean scripts in the 21st century
Dimitri Nakassis (Toronto)
Senate House - Room G22/26 

Friday 19th February
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Denouncement, slander, imperial harangue and the decline of oratory in Roman Empire: Power, rhetoric and oratory in the work of Tacitus
Juan Carlos Barrasús (Madrid)
Senate House - Room 243 

Saturday 20th February
10:00 - 17:30 ICS Workshop
Cognitive approaches to classical literature
(booking is now closed for this event)
Senate House - Room G35

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ICS and other Events this week: 8th-13th Feburary 2016

Monday 8 February
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Most Democratic play of All Time? Revisiting Aristophanes' Knights
Edith Hall (KCL)

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Ephebic iconography in Late Roman Art. The case of Endymion and Jonah
Nicoletta Bonansea (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome)

Tuesday 9 February
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Pots, Past, Present, and Future: Translating the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Lucy Shipley (Southampton)

Thursday 11 February
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
(28 Russell Square, 2.02)
The Floating Rocks of Tyre: Local Identity and Civic Coins
Olivia Webster (Nottingham)

16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
The Foundation of Olbia Pontica. New Evidence on the Greek Colonisation of the North-Western Black Sea Littoral
Alla Buyskikh (Kiev)

Friday 12 February
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Exploring phasma: A cultural and semiotic analysis of one aspect of the uncanny in ancient Greece
Flaminia Beneventano della Corte (Siena)

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Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar Series

ICS Events this week: 1st-6th February 2016

Monday 1 February
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Temporality and Genre in Early Greek Literature
Barbara Sattler (St Andrews)

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Economic Strategies of Plautus
Matthew Fox (Glasgow)

Wednesday 3 February 
17:30 Roman Society- M.V. Taylor Lecture
Scaevola, politics and ideology on the eve of the Social War: sixty years after Badian
Professor Jean-Louis Ferrary
Woburn Suite, Senate House

Thursday 4 February
16:00 ICS Ancient History Seminar
From the City's Second Foundation to the Creation of the West-Pontic Koinon: the Gerousia of Istros Revisited
Valentin Bottez (Bucharest)
NB 16:00 start time, rather than usual 16:30 

Friday 5 February
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
The late success of early Hellenism: some observations based on the pottery from Priene
Lars Heinze

16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
"They dig up from the bowels of the earth hoards buried in time of war" (Sil. Ital., Punica II.606-607): Storage pits in NE Iberia, from hilltop oppida to the Roman domination (ca. 225 BC to AD 50)
Mateo González-Vázquez (Barcelona)

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Roman Society and SPHS lectures available to watch online

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ICS and other events this week: 25-30th January 2016

Monday 25 January
17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
Oratorical Fragments and the History of Roman Republican oratory
Catherine Steel (Glasgow)

17:30 Roman Art Seminar
Roman votive plaques and the Ashwell Treasure
Ralph Jackson (BM)

Tuesday 26 January
18:00 ICS and Friends of the British School at Athens
FBSA Lecture: Colonel Leake and Independent Greece
Prof. Malcolm Wagstaff
The chair will be taken by Prof. Peter Warren

Thursday 28 January
13:00 Rome in Bloomsbury Seminar
Endangered Archaeology: The Past, Present and Future of the Middle East
Emma Cunliffe, Oxford

16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
External Relations of the Pontic Greek Cities in the Hellenistic and Roman Times
Victor Cojacaru (Iaşi)

Friday 29 January
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Roman perspectives on poverty in later life
Sam Fernes (Manchester)

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ICS Events this week: 18th-23rd January 2016

Monday 18 January
16:30 ICS Ancient Philosophy Seminar
Neoplatonists on Platonic Drama: the pedagogical function of mimēsis and enargia
R.M. van den Berg (Leiden)

17:00 ICS Ancient Literature Seminar
The Politics of Athenian Tragedy
Richard Seaford (Exeter)

Tuesday 19 January
17:30 Accordia Lecture
Hungry humans eating thirsty elephants: human proboscidean interactions in the Italian Lower Palaeolithic
Giovanni Boschian (University of Pisa)

Wednesday 20 January
15:30 ICS Mycenaean Series
Making p(a)laces, marking differences. Exploring the 'prepalatial' origins of the Minoan palaces
Peter Tomkins (Sheffield and Leuven)

Thursday 21 January
16:30 ICS Ancient History Seminar
Herodotus and Archaeology of the Northern Black Sea: Scythian Kings and the Symbolism of the Ancient Iranian Kingship
Askold Ivantchik (Moscow/Bordeaux)

Friday 22 January
16:30 ICS Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
The language of sacrifice: Old Comedy's evidence on Greek prayers
Elena Chepel (Reading)

Saturday 23 January
14:30 ICS Virgil Society Lecture
The Shaping of the Virgilian Canon: Joseph Scaliger and the 'Appendix Vergiliana'
Sheldon Brammall

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ICS Events this week: 11th-16th January 2016

Monday 11 January
17:30 Roman Art Seminar
'Those singularly beautiful curves': The story of Celtic art
Julia Farley (BM)

Tuesday 12 January
17:00 ICS Classical Archaeology Seminar
Archaeological Illustration: Digital vs. Analogue
Stuart Laidlaw (UCL)

Friday 15 January
14:30 ICS Early Career Seminar
The Unity of Aristotle's Notion of Political Friendship
Myrthe Bartels

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