[Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: Three remaining CAH Research Seminars for 2024

[Ben Brown]

Dear All,
A quick update: we have three remaining research seminars in our Classics and Ancient History series for semester 2, 2024, all of which will take place in the V. Gordon Childe Centre at 4pm. The last in our series (October 31) is a change in the original schedule. Due to a cancellation and a fortuitous visit by Prof. Ginette Vagenheim we are glad to present her paper in its place. The abstract is appended below.

The zoom link for all three is https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855

October 17th (Thursday, 4pm AEST/UTC+11)
Marco Paoletti (University of Sydney)
Bona Fides in Ancient and Modern Law

October 24th (Thursday, 4pm AEST/UTC+11)
Elizabeth Stockdale (University of Sydney)
Iphthime and Creusa: Two Images of Female Figures in the Odyssey and the Aeneid

October 31st (Thursday, 4pm AEST/UTC+11)
Ginette Vagenheim (Université de Rouen-Normandie)
Marcus Terentius Varro’s Aviary (On agriculture) through the eyes of the Humanists

Abstract
In their desire to live as the ancient Romans, the Humanists attempted to discover in their texts how the ancients lived and to imitate aspects of their daily lives. From this perspective, some erudite figures (like the members of Paolo Giovio’s family) with the help of antiquarians (like Pirro Ligorio) tried to reconstruct the architecture of the famous Aviary that the Roman Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 a.C.n.) described, as part of his Villa in Casinum, in his third book on Agriculture (III,15,7-10). Giulio Giovio’s comment on Varro’s description was originally accompanied by a drawing of the building that is lost. This seminar will analyse Giovio’s comment in the light of the unique renaissance drawing of the Aviary that survives--that of Pirro Ligorio. Such an analysis will give us valuable information that can help to resolve the longstanding academic debate on the form and function of Varro’s Aviary.

If you have any inquiries please reply to this email.
All best, Ben

DR BEN BROWN
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Honours Coordinator, School of Humanities (SoH)
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