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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Usyd_Classics_Events <usyd_classics_events-bounces@mailman.sydney.edu.au> on behalf of Ben Brown via Usyd_Classics_Events <usyd_classics_events@mailman.sydney.edu.au><br>
<b>Reply to: </b>Ben Brown <benjamin.brown@sydney.edu.au><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 3:20 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>Ben Brown via Usyd_Classics_Events <usyd_classics_events@mailman.sydney.edu.au><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"classicists@listserv.liv.ac.uk" <classicists@listserv.liv.ac.uk>, _ARTS SOH Academics <_ARTSSOHAcademics@mcs.usyd.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: Book Launch & Final Classics Research Seminar for 2025: Kit Morrell & Tyler Cascaes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We are delighted to invite you to the final presentation for 2025 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The event will be preceded at 12pm by a brief book launch
<span style="background:white">so please come early! See below for details.</span></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">November 3rd (Mon, 12.15pm UTC+11)</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#333333">Zoom link: </span><u><span style="color:#96607D"><a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="color:black">Kit Morrell and Tyla Cascaes (University of Queensland)</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><i><span style="color:black">The reception of Pompey's head</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">When Julius Caesar landed on the shores of Egypt in 48 BCE, he was presented with a gory gift: the severed head of his ally-turned-enemy Pompey. The moment became one of the defining images of the civil war,
but with shifting meaning: did Caesar receive the head with grief, with anger, or with crocodile tears? This paper will explore the reception of the reception from the earliest ancient sources to modern film and television and show how this short but poignant
scene has been used to encapsulate different characterisations of Caesar.</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kit Morrell is the Susan Blake Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the political and legal history of the late Roman republic, including the career
of Pompey the Great (with head attached).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tyla Cascaes is a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland. Her research explores the role of casting in the creation and repetition of Roman characters in popular cinema.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/WshKCMwGxOtkj6OpzuwfBC8bXzK?domain=global.oup.com">The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome,
</a></span></i></b><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/WshKCMwGxOtkj6OpzuwfBC8bXzK?domain=global.oup.com">edited by Eleanor Cowan, Kit Morrell, Andrew Pettinger, Michael Sevel, Oxford University Press 2025</a></span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/WshKCMwGxOtkj6OpzuwfBC8bXzK?domain=global.oup.com"><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from arbitrary exercises of power—and the study of ancient Rome. Its chapters apply insights and approaches
drawn from modern legal theory in order to understand the ways in which Romans thought about law and the place of law in their community, the extent to which Roman institutions and political norms protected citizens against the arbitrary exercise of power,
and how these ideas and practices changed with Rome’s transition from republic to empire. In the years during which we have been thinking and writing about these issues, our world has witnessed increasing attacks on the rule of law, including attacks arising
within liberal democracies and their institutions. It is a crucial time to be thinking about the rule of law. Deepening our historical understanding through close study of the rule of law in Rome is both timely and necessary.</span></i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">All best, Ben<i><br>
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