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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 53, 64);">We are delighted to invite you to the final presentation of Semester 2, 2026 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series.</span></p>
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</b>26th October 2026 (Monday, 12.15pm UTC+11) </span></p>
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<b>Chair</b> Tamara Neal</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 53, 64);"><b>Dr. Elizabeth Stockdale </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">Shepherds in Homeric Epic: An examination of
</span><span style="font-family: HellenicaCU, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">ποιμήν</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">,
its cognates, and the significance of gender.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px; text-transform: none;">Shepherds in Homeric epic have been examined in relation to imagery (Freeman 2015), as a comparative concept
between Greek and Sumerian texts, (Griffin 1992), and as a shepherd of people in Greek and Mesopotamian texts (Haubold 2015). This paper aims to focus on the use and meanings of the word<b> ποιμήν</b>, and its cognates, as found in the Homeric narratives.
It will argue that there are two main distinctive meanings of the word: the first being a shepherd (which includes the concept of being a herdsman, and also specifically a goatherd), and the second being a shepherd of the people. When<b> ποιμήν
</b>means ‘shepherd of the people,’ it is applied to leaders and chiefs such as Agamemnon and Menelaos. Predominantly it is a word that is applied to male figures in both the<i> Iliad</i> and the
<i>Odyssey.</i> However, there is one instance where the word is applied to female figures, and they are divine: the goddesses who are ‘shepherds’ of the cattle of Helios in the
<i>Odyssey</i>. This is a unique usage in Homeric epic and therefore will be examined as a third different meaning in the Homeric corpus.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">Freeman, Jennifer Awes. "The Good Shepherd and the enthroned ruler: a reconsideration of imperial iconography in the early Church."
<i>The Art of Empire: Christian Art in Its Imperial Context</i> 2015: 159-196.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">Griffin, Jasper. "Theocritus, the
<i>Iliad</i>, and the East." <i>The American Journal of Philology</i> 113.2 1992:189-211.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">Haubold, Johannes. "Shepherds of the People." In
<i>Greek and Mesopotamian Perspectives: Rollinger, R.–Dongen, E. van (Hg.), Mesopotamia in the Ancient World. Impact, Continuities, Parallels
</i>(<i>Melammu Symposia 7</i>) 74.1059. 2015:245-254.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 17.120001px;">Elizabeth Stockdale is an Honorary Associate of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Recently
she was a Visiting Researcher at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her first book,
<i>Female Agency and Virtue in the Odyssey</i>, published by Routledge in 2026, has been nominated for the Runciman Award with the Anglo-Hellenic League, UK. She is currently working on a book concerning Helen in Post Classical Greek literature and Latin literature.</span></p>
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We look forward to welcoming you at this seminar. </div>
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