50th Anniversary, 2019
Public Lectures
Past Trendall Lectures
‘The force of tradition in early Greek poetry and painting’
Associate Professor Anne Mackay, University of Auckland NZ and President of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
30 January 2018, Brisbane
‘More celebrated than actually known’: Sir John Soane’s Greek vases
Professor Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, USA
18 May 2015, Melbourne
Professor Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, USA
18 May 2015, Melbourne
What makes a Roman Goddess? Ovid, the Empress, and female apotheosis in Rome
Emeritus Professor Carole Newlands, University of Colorado, USA
28 January 2015, Adelaide
Emeritus Professor Carole Newlands, University of Colorado, USA
28 January 2015, Adelaide
The gleam through the arch: Homer’s world revisited
Emeritus Professor Trevor Bryce FAHA
9 October 2014, Brisbane
Emeritus Professor Trevor Bryce FAHA
9 October 2014, Brisbane
Homer and Plato
Professor Richard Hunter FAHA
22 February 2012, Sydney
Professor Richard Hunter FAHA
22 February 2012, Sydney
Consoling yourself and others: Ancient and modern perspectives on managing grief
Professor Han Baltussen FAHA
19 October 2011, Adelaide
Professor Han Baltussen FAHA
19 October 2011, Adelaide
Anecdote apophthegm and the ‘real’ Alexander
Professor Brian Bosworth FAHA
13 October 2009, Newcastle
Professor Brian Bosworth FAHA
13 October 2009, Newcastle
The audience on stage: Rhetoric, emotion, and judgement in Sophoclean theatre
Mr Simon D. Goldhill
21 September 2008, Melbourne
Mr Simon D. Goldhill
21 September 2008, Melbourne
Pylades, pantomime and the preservation of tragedy
Emeritus Professor John Jory
2003
Emeritus Professor John Jory
2003
Sophocles: The first thousand years
Professor Emerita Patricia Easterling
2002
Professor Emerita Patricia Easterling
2002
Excavating and interpreting the Governor’s Palace, Acropolis, Jebel Khalid
Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO FAHA
2001
Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO FAHA
2001
Comic cuts: Snippets of action on the Greek comic stage
Professor Richard Green
2000
Professor Richard Green
2000
The baroque style in Magna Graecia: Some Important representatives of Apulian vase-painting in the 4th Century BC
Professor Alexander Cambitoglou FAHA
1999
Professor Alexander Cambitoglou FAHA
1999
The gadfly of Greek history (The infuriatingly opaque nature of inscriptions as sources for Greek history)
Professor Michael J. Osborne
5 August 1997, Melbourne
Professor Michael J. Osborne
5 August 1997, Melbourne