Straying from Myth

Marian Maguire

28 January 2020, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

An edited version of the lecture will appear on our website in due course.

At the Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Class, Ideology and Personality-driven Politics at Rome in the Second Century BC
Associate Professor J. Lea Beness and Associate Professor Tom Hillard, Macquarie University
4 February 2019, Armidale NSW 

An edited version of the lecture will appear in a future edition of our flagship journal Humanities Australia.

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

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

The gleam through the arch: Homer’s world revisited
Emeritus Professor Trevor Bryce FAHA
9 October 2014, Brisbane

Individuality and innovation in Greek sculpture
Professor Andrew Stewart
18 January 2013, Sydney

Homer and Plato
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

Anecdote apophthegm and the ‘real’ Alexander
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

Beyond the stereotypes
Professor Majella Franzmann FAHA
29 November 2007, Sydney

How women (re)act in Roman love poetry
Professor Barbara K. Gold
31 January 2006, Hobart

It’s in the post
Professor Pauline Allen FAHA
20 September 2005, Brisbane

From Greece to Rome via southern Italy
Dr Andrew Burnett
16 March 2004, Sydney

Pylades, pantomime and the preservation of tragedy
Emeritus Professor John Jory
2003

Sophocles: The first thousand years
Professor Emerita Patricia Easterling
2002

Excavating and interpreting the Governor’s Palace, Acropolis, Jebel Khalid
Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO FAHA
2001

Comic cuts: Snippets of action on the Greek comic stage
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

Wealthy Corinth
Dr Elizabeth Pemberton
24 November 1998, London

The gadfly of Greek history (The infuriatingly opaque nature of inscriptions as sources for Greek history)
Professor Michael J. Osborne
5 August 1997, Melbourne