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Seminars on Memory and Mourning: Death in Ancient Rome

Wednesday, February 13 2008

The Open University, Arts Faculty, Crowther Building Room 062, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.

PROGRAMME

Carolyn Price (OU) ‘Robbed of life? Seneca on the injustice of premature death’

Virginia Campbell-Lewis (Reading) ‘As the Romans do: a comparative study of the tomb of Veia Barchilla and the tomb of Cecilia Metella’

Heather Manning (Manchester) ‘Epitaphs and egos: funerary monuments and social history in Republican Rome’

Clemence Schultze (Durham) ‘Putting death on the record: dying and commemoration in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’

Eleanor Brook (Cambridge) ‘Vita mortuorum: death and commemoration in Cicero's speeches’

 

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