Yesterday's honours workshop on medieval and renaissance manuscripts of works by Classical authors (with a focus on Valerius Maximus) in the Grey Collection at the National Library of South Africa.
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⚫ mAnJE ! MaNJe (an epic)
🎟️ Book here: bxr.mobi/manje
Magnet Theatre’s mAnJE! MaNJe (an epic) is a striking and imaginative production that draws on the story of Daedalus to reflect on the human condition in the age of the machine, big data and climate catastrophe.
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On Tuesday, Jakub Filonik (Silesia) will be giving a research seminar. All welcome!
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Stephen Heyworth (Oxford) will give a talk next week titled ‘Making Sense of the Archaic Roman Calendar’. All welcome!
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There will be a Classics seminar on 26 February. John Hilton (UFS) will give a talk titled ‘Heliodorus of Emesa, Alchemist’. Do come along!
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Classics event next month: Alan Ross (Ohio State) will give a talk titled ‘In Praise of Constantius: Greek Rhetoric and Roman Power in Fourth-Century Constantinople’.
Date: Tuesday 11th November
Time: 17h00
Venue: P.D. Hahn Building, LT 1
All welcome!
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Looking forward to today’s talk!
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Next week: Kristian Kanstrup Christensen (Stellenbosch) will give a talk titled ‘The Later Roman Empire: Rulers and Rhetoricians’. Date: Wednesday 15th October 2025 Time: 17h00 Venue: Beattie 106 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception. ALL WELCOME!
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Next week: Kristian Kanstrup Christensen (Stellenbosch) will give a talk titled ‘The Later Roman Empire: Rulers and Rhetoricians’.
Date: Wednesday 15th October 2025
Time: 17h00
Venue: Beattie 106
The talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
ALL WELCOME!
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Next week: Clive Chandler (Cape Town)
Is Self-Esteem a ‘Thing’ for the Epicurean Philosophers?
Date: Wednesday 8th October
Time: 17h00
Venue: Beattie 115
The talk will be followed by a drinks reception upstairs.
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Excited for our PG workshop next week!
Tuesday 30 September 17h00 in B106
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Classics talk later this month: Helen Lenahan (KwaZulu-Natal) will give a talk titled ‘The Cyborg of the Muses: Towards a Posthumanist Reading of Hellenistic Poetry’.
Date/time: Tuesday 23rd September @ 17h00
Venue: Beattie 114
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: In 1949, the first inaugural lecture at UCT was given. H.C. Baldry, Professor of Classics, delivered a lecture on “The Classics in the Modern World”.
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Truly honoured to deliver Awards to graduates of Classics, School of Languages & Literatures, University of Cape Town! A wonderful beacon of Hellenistic studies, under the inspired stewardship of Professor Clive Chandler.
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Classics seminar next month:
Professor Roman Roth (Cape Town)
Cicero: The Statesman and the Municipia
Date/time: Thursday 4th September @ 17h00
Venue: Beattie 114
The talk will be followed by a drinks reception in the Lady Welensky Memorial Staff Common Room.
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A snapshot of the UCT Classics syllabus 100 years ago in 1925. Bradley's Arnold has enjoyed serious staying power...
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