Victoria Classics in Melbourne
Vic Classics was once again a major presence at the annual meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, which met in Melbourne from the 2nd through the 5th of February 2016. Seven members of staff and one of our postgraduates delivered papers that ranged from Greek prehistory to classical reception in contemporary New Zealand and covered topics as diverse as material culture, ancient religion, the Athenian constitution, Greek and Latin literature, and film studies. In alphabetical order, these papers were:
- Diana Burton: Time and Timelessness in Greek Afterlifes
- John Davidson: Challenging Orthodoxy: Sophocles’ Ajax 646ff.
- James Kierstead: Ath. Pol. 42.1-2, Wasps 578, and Athenian Citizenship Procedures
- Mark Masterson: ‘Bloom for Me’: The Letters of Nikephoros Ouranos and the Greek Anthology
- Simon Perris, Orpheus and Maui in Robert Sullivan’s Captain Cook in the Underworld
- Arthur Pomeroy, Franco Rossi and Social Renewal
- Emily Simons, Majestic Monsters: Griffins in the Late Bronze Age Agean
- Jeff Tatum, Why is Valerius Flaccus a Quindecimvir?
- The 2017 meeting of ASCS will be hosted by Victoria University and will take place in Wellington.