Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach, who successfully completed his PhD. In ‘Birth, Death, and Rebirth in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and Paraphrase’ Ollie demonstrates the enormous rewards of reading against each other two texts which although by the same author have tended to be considered in isolation from each other. Nonnus of Panopolis dates to the 5th century…
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Philosophy and religion in ancient Greece and the Islamic world
Workshop: Monday 25 April 2022 Organisers: Olaf Almqvist (oha1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Alex Long (agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk) School III, University of St Andrews (45 here: wwwmap.pdf ) The School of Classics at St Andrews is holding a one-day workshop on the interface between philosophy and religion in the ancient Greek and Islamic worlds. Programme 9.30am Olaf Almqvist, St Andrews ‘God is…
Philosophy and religion in ancient Greece and the Islamic world
Workshop: Monday 25 April 2022 Organisers: Olaf Almqvist (oha1@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Alex Long (agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk) Call for abstracts The School of Classics at St Andrews will hold a one-day workshop on the interface between philosophy and religion in the ancient Greek and Islamic worlds. Confirmed speakers: Peter Adamson, LMU; Olaf Almqvist, St Andrews; Fedor Benevich, Edinburgh; Feriel…
Morality, Politics and Religion in Euripidean Tragedy
By: Jon Hesk Last summer (2014), I was invited to give a lecture on Euripides to the Institute of Ideas’ summer ‘Academy’ at Wyboston Lakes in Bedfordshire. The Institute recorded the lecture and discussion and it is now available on Soundcloud (see link below and also see the handout and powerpoint that went with it). In…
Morality, Politics and Religion in Euripidean Tragedy
Speaker: Jon Hesk In this lecture Jon Hesk argues that Euripides’ plays are not, as is sometimes thought, radical critiques of religious practice and belief. Rather, they stage the difficulty of moral, social and political decision-making in a world where external forces are ineluctable (and yet often hard to detect), stakes are high (and yet…
In Our Time: The Cult of Mithras
Greg Woolf took part in the Radio 4 programme, ‘In our Time’, where Melvyn Bragg and guests discussed the cult of Mithras, which flourished in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th centuries AD. Originally aired on 27 December 2012, the programme is available on the BBC’s ‘In Our Time’ website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pg5nt
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