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Spring-
January
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 13th, 19.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Martin Brady
Text: Vergil, Eclogue VII
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 18th, 18.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Alexandra Madela
Text: Anon.: Contest of Homer and Hesiod (extract)
February
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 10th, 19.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Gearoid O Broin
Text: Petronius Satyricon 34. 6-
IIHSA Online Lecture
Date: 5pm (Irish Time), 7pm (Greek Time)
Speaker: Dr Ellen Finn (LeverhulmePostdoctoral Study Abroad Fellow)
Title: 'Loosing Liminality: Turner's theory of transition in the funerary archaeology of Prepalatial Crete'
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 15th, 18.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Guy Walker
Text: Longus Daphnis and Chloe, Book 1, 1.1-
March
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 10th, 19.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Andrew Smith
Text: Virgil Aeneid XII, 925-
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 15th, 18.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Andrew Smith
Text: Cleanthes Hymn to Zeus 1-
Date: Tuesday, 23th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Roslyn Fuller (Managing Director, Solonian Democracy Institute) (Zoom Session)
Title: 'People Power: Classical Athens and 21st Century Populism'
April
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 12th, 18.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Kerry Phelan
Text: TBA
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 14th, 19.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Joan Wright
Text: Virgil Aeneid VIII, Shield of Aeneas, 675-
Date: Tuesday, 27th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Usherwood, Trinity College Dublin
Title: 'How to retire (if you're a Roman emperor)' (Zoom Session)
May
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 12th, 19.30 (Zoom Session)
Leader: Catherine Ware
Text: TBA
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 18th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Elaine Pereira Farrell, UCD Humanities Institute
Title: 'Classical Traditions in Medieval Handbooks on Female Healthcare' (Zoom Session)
Autumn-
Autumn 2020 Online Museum Seminar Series
Seminars will take place via Zoom on dates outlined from 1pm to 2pm
Contact kaylin.bednarz@ucd.ie for further details and access codes
Date: Thursday, 24th September
Speaker: Dr Martin Brady, Head of School, UCD School of Classics
Title: The Contemplation of Ruin
Date: Thursday, 15th October
Speaker: Michael Ann Bevivino, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Title: 'Spoiled incurably for Want of a Six-
Date: Thursday, 19th November
Speaker: Dr Jonathan Coulston, School of Classics, St Andrews
Title: Visualising War on Trajan's Column
Date: Thursday, 10th December
Speaker: Dr Joanne Ball, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
Title: From Memory to Material: Sites, Artefacts, and Heritage Management in Roman Battlefield Archaeology
Spring-
January
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 22nd, 19.30
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Adrian Gramps
Text: Propertius, Elegies, Bk I, 19/Bk 2, 13 (both parts)
Annual Branch Dinner
Date: Fri 31st at 7pm
Venue: Chez Max, 1 Palace Street, Dublin 2
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 27th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Paddy Salmon
Text: Herodotus, Acts of the Apostels, 27, 1-
February
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 5th, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Gearoid O Broin
Text: Apuleius, Metamorphosses (Cupido et Psyche), 6.10.1 -
CAI Presidential
Date: Friday 7th, 19:30 -
Venue: NTI, John Henry Newman Building, UCD
President: Professor Brian McGing, Trinity College Dublin.
Title: Why bother with Ancient Greece and Rome in the 21st century?
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 24th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Paul Corcoran
Text: Psalm 23 and John 10: 1-
March
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 4th, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Text: Virgil, Aenid, VIII, 306-
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 9th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Text: Thucydides II. 40, (excerpt from Pericles' funeral speech)
Date: Tuesday, 24th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Roslyn Fuller (Managing Director, Solonian Democracy Institute)
Title: 'People Power: Classical Athens and 21st Century Populism'
April
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 1st, 19:30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Joan Wright
Text: Virgil, Aenid, VIII, 675-
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 20th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Alexandra Madela
Text: Hesiod, Theogony, 820-
Date: Tuesday, 21st, 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Usherwood, Trinity College Dublin
Title: 'How to retire (if you're a Roman emperor)'
MAY
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 6th, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Dr Alexander Thein
Text: Select Inscriptions (including an epitaph for a dog)
Date: Tuesday, 19th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Elaine Pereira Farrell, Trinity College Dublin
Title: 'Classical Traditions in Medieval Handbooks on Female Healthcare'
Autumn-
Unless otherwise indicated all meetings take place in K217, UCD Newman Building, 7.30 p.m.
September
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 16th
Venue: TCD
Leader: Bridget Martin
Text: Sophocles, Ajax, lines 485-
October
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 14th
Venue: TCD
Leader: Alastair Daly
Text: Horodas, Mimiamb 2
Date: Tuesday, 15th
Lecture 7.30pm
Speaker: Meredith Cutrer (UCD History and Archives)
Title: 'Late Antique Egypt and the formation of early Irish monasticism'
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 16th
Venue: UCD
Leader: Geraldine FitzGerald
Text: Catullus, Poem 64 (excerpts)
November
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 4th
Venue: TCD
Leader: Sean McCrum
Text: Theodore Prodromos, selection of poems; Anonymous, excerpts from Bridge of Arta and Ship of Death
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 6th
Venue: UCD
Leader: Alan Tuffery
Text: Horace, Carmina, Liber 1, X1, XX111, XXXV11, XXXV111
Branch Lecture and AGM
Date: Tuesday, 12th
AGM at 6.30pm
Lecture 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Giacomo Savani (UCD Classics)
Title: 'An Elusive Legacy: The Rediscovery of the Roman Baths in Eighteenth-
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 27th
Venue: UCD
Leader: Giacomo Savani
Text: 'Vitruvius, De Architectura (excerpts)
Date: CANCELLED until February 7th 2020
December
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 2nd
Venue: TCD
Leader: Guy Walker
Text: Empress Eudocia, Homeric Centos, (excerpts)
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 10th
Speaker: Dr Adrian Gramps (Trinity College Dublin)
Title: ‘Love, Death and Time in Bion's Lament for Adonis’
Spring-
January
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 9th, 19.30
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Viola Starnone
Text: Virgil, Aeneid, Bk I, Lines 314-
Annual Branch Dinner
Date: Sat. 25th at 7pm
Venue: Benito's Restaurant, 46-
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 28th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Paul Corcoran
Text: Herodotus, Histories, 1.30-
February
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 6th, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Gearoid O Broin
Text: Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, I xxiii, V xiv
Date: Tuesday, 12th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Salome Paul, Sorbonne & UCD School of English, Drama and Film
Title: 'Greek Tragedy and 20th-
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 25th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Dr. Martine Cuypers
Text: Sappho, selected poems
March
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 6th, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Text: Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, I, 66-
Date: Tuesday, 19th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Steve McCarthy, Maynooth Classics
Title: 'The Ancient Atomist Cookbook: How to Bake a Happy Universe (Add Atoms, Stir Vigorously)'
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 25th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Text: Plotinus,I, 6 (On Beauty), 8
April
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 3rd, 19:30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Joan Wright
Text: Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 616-
Date: Tuesday, 9th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Viola Starnone, UCD Classics
Title: 'What Aeneas sees: Dido's first appearance through the ages'
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 15th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Dr. Cosetta Cadau
Text: Plato, Phaedrus, 189d-
MAY
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 1st, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Dr Alexander Thein
Text: Inscriptions, selection
Unless otherwise indicated all meetings take place in K217, UCD Newman Building, 7.30 p.m.
September
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 17th
Venue: TCD
Leader: Daniel O'Connor
Text: Plato, Phaedo 116a-
October
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 3rd
Venue: UCD
Leader: Geraldine FitzGerald
Text: Juvenal, Satire 3 (excerpts)
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 15th
Venue: TCD
Leader: Alexandra Madela
Text: Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 310-
November
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 5th
Venue: TCD
Leader: Guy Walker
Text: Lucian, Verae Historiae, Book 1, 5-
Branch Lecture and AGM
Date: Tuesday, 6th
AGM at 6.30pm
Lecture 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Christopher Farrell (UCD Classics)
Title: 'Cyrus the Great: Ancient Texts and Objects in Modern Contexts'
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 7th
Venue: UCD
Leader: Alan Tuffery
Text: 'Pliny Minor, Epistula Liber V, Cap. vi, 14-
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 20th, 7.30pm
Speaker: Olaf Almqvist (Trinity Classics)
Title: 'Cosmos and Chaos in Hesiod's Theogony'
CAI Presidential Address
Date: Friday, 30th
Venue: Please note location for meeting UCD, Lecture Theatre NT1, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Tom Seaver (Limerick), CAI President 2018
Title: 'A Century of Classics in Ireland (1908-
Respondent: t.b.a.
Followed by Reception in UCD Common Room
December
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 3rd
Venue: TCD
Leader: Bridget Martin
Text: Aeschylus' Eumenides 94-
Date: Tuesday, 4th
Speaker: Giulio di Basilio (UCD Philosophy)
Title: ‘Socrates on Euthychia, or Whether We Need Luck in Life’
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 5th
Venue: UCD
Leader: Liam Bairéad
Text: 'Plautus, Mostellaria (The Haunted House) (excerpts)'
Spring-
January
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 10th
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Geraldine FitzGerald
Text: Virgil, Georgics, Bk IV, Lines 464-
Annual Branch Dinner
Date: Sat. 27th
Venue: Roly Saul's Restaurant, Mill House, Dundrum Town Centre.
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 29th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Paddy Sammon
Text: Plutarch, Life of Marcus Antonius, Chap 85.1 – Chap. 86.5 (Death of Cleopatra)
February
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 19th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Text: Sphocles, Oedipus Coloneus, lines 551-
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 21st, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Gearoid O Broin
Text: Tibullus 1, 2
March
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 21st, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Text: TBA
Ancient Greek Reading Circle
Date: Monday 26th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Dr. Martine Cuypers
Text: Homer, Iliad book 6, lines 405-
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday 27th at 7.30pm
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Speaker: Margaret Desmond, Trinity College Dublin
Title: "Rome: the ancient city as a fire regime"
April
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday 10th at 7.30pm
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Speaker: Dr Samantha Martin-
Title: "The Ethics of Giving and Receiving: Market Life in early 20th Century Dublin"
Date: Monday 16th, 18.30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Seán McCrum
Text: Digenis Akritis, excerpts from Book VII
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 18th, 19:30 -
Venue: Dept. of Classics TCD
Leader: Joan Wright
Text:
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday 24th at 7.30pm
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Speaker: Dr Catherine Ware, University College Cork
Title: "Spectacular Justice: the arena in late antique literature"
MAY
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday 16th, 19:30 -
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, UCD
Leader Dr Cosetta Cadau
Text: E
Annual Outing
Date: Saturday 19th May 2018
This year we will be going to Wexford: visiting Loftus House on Hook Head (the most haunted house in Ireland) -
Autumn-
Unless otherwise indicated all meetings take place in K217, UCD Newman Building, 7.30 p.m.
October
Dublin Classics Seminar
Date: Friday, 6th at 3.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Eckert (University of Oldenburg)
Title: 'The 'Lousy Disease' in Antiquity -
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 11th
Leader: Dr. Alexandra Eckert
Text: Valerius Maximus: De crudelitate (Facta et Dicta Memoribilia, liber IX, 2)
November
Branch Lecture and AGM
Date: Wednesday, 8th
AGM at 6.30pm
Lecture 7.30pm
Speaker: Elva Johnston, Assoc. Prof. (UCD School of History)
Title: 'Edge of Empire? Ireland and the Roman Frontiers'
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 15th
Leader: Alan Tuffery
Text: 'Ovid's Amores, liber 1'
Date: Friday, 24th
Venue: Please note location for meeting UCD, Lecture Theatre NT1, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Carmel McCallum-
Title: 'Women in Classics: some landmark achievements from the Renaissance to the twentieth century'
Respondent: Dr Martine Cuypers
Followed by Reception in UCD Common Room
December
Ancient Greek Reading Group
Date: Monday, 4th
Leader: Gerry Murtagh
Text: Theocritus, Idyll VI
Branch Lecture
Date: Wednesday, 6th
Speaker: Mr Damhlaic magShamhrain (Sligo)
Title: ‘C Valerius Catullus -
Latin Reading Group
Date: wednesday, 13th
Leader: Liam Bairéad
Text: Terence, Adelphoe (The Brothers), Act I, Scene II
Unless otherwise indicated all meetings take place in K217, UCD Newman Building, 7.30 p.m.
Date: Friday, 20th
Event: Dublin Branch Dinner
Roly Saul Restaurant, Dundrum, Dublin 14
February
Date: Wednesday, 8th
Leader: Gearoid O Broin (Latin Reading Group)
Texts: 2 Passages from Lucretius' De Rerum Natura: DRN 1.921-
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 21st
Speaker: Lucia Mariani (Universita del Piemonte Orientale)
Title: ‘Hermione from Greek literature to Rossini’
March
Date: Wednesday, 8th
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith (Latin Reading Group)
Text: Readings from Virgil, Seneca & Augustine
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 28th
Speaker: Dr. Jacopo Tabolli (Trinity)
Title: 'Death becomes her: Archaeological (In)Visibility of Women's Power in pre-
April
Date: Wednesday, 5th
Leader: Dr. Joan Wright (Latin Reading Group)
Text: t.b.c. theme from Ovid
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 25th
Speaker: Dr. Kelly Phelan (Maynooth)
Title: ‘Stopping the clock: some problems in Demosthenes' Against Euboulides (Dem. 57)’
May
Date: Wednesday, 3rd
Leader: Geraldine Fitzgerald (Latin Reading Group)
Text: t.b.d.
Branch Outing
Date: Saturday, 13th
Leader: Brian O'Connell
Title: High Cosses at Ahenny, Augustinian Priory at Callan, Kilkea House, home of Sir Ernest Shackleton
Date: Tuesday, 30th
Latin Reading Group -
Autumn-
Unless otherwise indicated all meetings take place in K217, UCD Newman Building, 7.30 p.m.
October
Latin Reading Group
Date: Wednesday, 19th
Leader: Alan Tuffery
Text: Ovid's Heroides VII
November
AGM at 7pm
Branch Lecture 7.30pm
Date: Tuesday, 1st
Speaker: Prof. Andrew Smith (UCD School of Classics)
Title: 'Ancient Thrace and the Borders of Civilisation'
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 15th
Speaker: Amanda Kelly (UCD School of Archaeology)
Title: ‘Extra-
Date: Wednesday, 16th
Leader: Dr. Cosetta Cadau
Text: Virgil's Ecloga VI
CAI Presidential Address
Date: Friday, 25th
Venue: Please note location for meeting UCD, Lecture Theatre NT1, 7 p.m.
Speaker: The Hon. Ms. Justice Caroline Costello, CAI President 2016
Title: Ancient Shipwrecks and New Insights
Respondent: Andrew Smith (UCD School of Classics)
Followed by Reception in UCD Common Room
December
Branch Lecture
Date: Tuesday, 6th
Speaker: Michael Ann Bevivino (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy)
Title: ‘Apollo in 3D? From plaster casts to digital models’
Latin Reading Group
Date: Thursday, 8th
Leader: Liam Bairéad
Text: Cicero’s De Re Publica III, 33, De Legibus I, 42 and from Carmina Burana, CB 196, Quando in taberna sumus
Followed by yuletide wine and mince pies and Christmas carols in Latin
Spring-
Unless otherwise indicated all meetings take place in K217, UCD Newman Building, 7.30 p.m.
January
Date: Thursday, 14th
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith (Latin Reading Group)
Texts: ‘Spring Odes of Horace’
Date: Friday, 22nd
Event: New Year Branch Dinner
Venue: Benito's, Main Street, Dalkey at 7.30 for 8.00 p.m.
February
EGM and Branch Lecture
Date: Friday, 12th 7.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. respectively
Speaker: Dr. Maeve O'Brien (NUI Maynooth)
Title: ‘Amazons of the Parthenon’
Date: Thursday, 19th
Leader: Dr. Joan Wright (Latin Reading Group)
Texts: 'Somnium Scipioni, excerpts from Cicero's De Republica'
March
Branch Lecture
Date: Friday, 11th
Speaker: Dr. Benedict Lowe
Title: 'Fish Sauce and Pompeii'
Date: Tuesday, 22nd
Leader: Dr. Louise Maguire (Latin Reading Group)
Text: 'Virgil, excerpts from Aeneid'
April
Branch Lecture
Date: Thursday, 14th
Speaker: Dr. Alexandra Guglielmi (Archaeology Department, UCD)
Title: ‘Roman Ireland’
Date: Thursday, 28th
Leader: Liam Bairead (Latin Reading Group)
Text: 'Play-
May
CAI Biennial Trip: Bulgaria
Dates: 1-
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Branch Lecture
Date: Thursday, 19th
Speaker: Mr Roger Hudson
Title: ‘Classics in Fiction’
Date: Saturday, 28th (date to be confirmed)
Tour Leader: Brian O’Connell
Event: Dublin Branch Outing: Day Trip to Coolatin, Co. Wicklow
Autumn-
October
Date: Thursday, 22nd
Leader: Alan Tuffery (Latin Reading Group)
Text: Cicero's De Senectute (On Old Age)
November
Date: Friday, 6th
Venue:
CAI Annual Presidential Address
Speaker: Prof. John Madden (NUI Galway)
Title: ‘The Jewel in the Crown: The Royal Library of Alexandria’
Followed by Reception in UCD Common Room
Date: Thursday, 12th
Latin Reading Group
Text: Playreading from Miles Gloriosus (Act II, lines 272-
December
Date: Thursday, 3rd
Followed by Keynote Lecture
Speaker: Sarah Wilson (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy)
Title: ‘Palmyra and Syrian Religion in Rome’
Date: Thursday, 10th
Latin Reading Group
Text: Topic t.b.a.
Spring-
January
Date: Tuesday, 27th
Leader: Margaret Desmond (Latin Reading Group)
Texts: ‘Nero and the Great Fire of Rome A.D 64 from the perspective of Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius’
Date: Saturday, 31st
Event: New Year Branch Dinner
Venue: Beaufield Mews, Stillorgan at 7.30 for 8.00 p.m.
February
Branch Lecture
Date: Thursday, 12th
Speaker: Daniele Miano (UCD School of Classics)
Title: ‘Nationalism and Myth in the 19th century: the case of the Italian Atlantis’
Date: Tuesday, 17th
Leader: Joan Wright (Latin Reading Group)
Texts: 'The Venerable Bede's account of King Edwin of Northumbria's conversion to Christianity'
March
Date: Monday, 2nd at 7pm
Event: Eithne Ryan Memorial Lecture in Classics * CANCELLED -
Venue: Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin
Title: 'Source of the fabulous werewolf': How to find a monster in Pliny's encyclopedia
Speaker: Dr Aude Doody
Date: Thursday, 19th
Leader: Louise Maguire (Latin Reading Group)
Text: ‘Livy's account of the Rape of the Sabine Women’
Date: Monday, 23rd at 7.30pm
Event: The Eithne Ryan Memorial Lecture in Classics * Rescheduled *
Venue: Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin
Title: 'Source of the fabulous werewolf': How to find a monster in Pliny's encyclopedia
Speaker: Dr Aude Doody
Public Lecture
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Date: Thursday, 26th at 5.30 p.m.
Venue: Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
Speaker: Prof. Andrew Wallace-
Title: ‘Rome and Immigrants’ (title t.b.c)
April
Date: Thursday, 9th (Rescheduled from Thursday 26th March)
Speaker: Gordon Campbell (Ancient Classics, NUI Maynooth)
Title: ‘Humans and Animals in Ancient Thought: Are we Different?’
Date: Thursday, 23rd
Leader: Alexander Thein (Latin Reading Group)
Text: 'Tacitus on Civil War and the Capitoline Fire of A.D. 69'
Branch Lecture
Date: Thursday, 30th
Speaker: Andrew Smith (UCD School of Classics)
Title: ‘The birth of enquiry: the first Greek philosophers’
May
Date: Saturday, 16th
Tour Leader: Brian O’Connell
Event: Dublin branch outing: Day Trip to Co. Meath including Trim Castle
Autumn-
Date: Tuesday, 16th
Venue: Please note change of location for meeting United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam St, Dublin2
Dublin Branch Annual General Meeting, 7pm
Keynote Lecture and Reception: 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr Eric Haywood (UCD School of Languages and Literatures)
Title: ‘Viewing Ireland through Rome-
October
Date: Friday, 3rd
Venue: Please note change of location for meeting Belvedere College, Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1
Presidential Address and Reception: 8pm
Speaker: Peter Fallon (CAI President 2014)
Title: ‘Inscribing Ages: On the Arts of Translation’
November
Date: Thursday, 13th
Venue: Room K217, School of Classics, Newman Building, UCD
Speaker: Dr Eoghan Moloney (Ancient Classics, NUI Maynooth)
Title: ‘Heroes and History: Homer, Heracles and Alexander the Great’
December
Date: Thursday, 4th
Speaker: Dr Rob Sands (UCD School of Archaeology)
Title: ‘The Wooden Small Finds from Vindolanda’
Spring-
February
Date: Thursday, 13th
Speaker: Jessica Doyle (UCD/IRC)
Title: ‘Hunting Centaurs in Early Greek Art’
Date: Thursday, 20th
Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith
Event: Latin Reading
Texts: Excerpts from Tusculun Disputations, Academica and the Nature of the Gods
Date: Monday 24th
Speaker: Dr Joanna Day (Lecturer & Curator UCD Classical Museum)
Event: The Eithne Ryan Memorial Lecture in Classics
Title: "'Pluck, Wash and Dress the Flamingo and Put in Pan" Exploring Roman Dining'
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Alexandra College, Dublin 6.
For information call 01 4977571.
Date: Thursday, 27th
Speaker: Dr. Joanna Day (Lecturer & Curator UCD Classical Museum)
Event: Guided museum tour and artefact workshop, Rooms K215/6
March
Date: Thursday, 27th
Speaker: Victor Connerty (UCD)
Title: ‘The Murder of Julius Caesar’
April
Date: Thursday, 3rd
Leader: Brian Farley
Title: Latin reading -
May
Date: Thursday, 1st
Leader: Gearoid O Broin
Title: Latin reading -
Texts:
Lucretius 1.1-
Lucretius 1.28-
Lucretius 1.80-
Date: 1st-
Tour Leader: Prof. Andrew Smith (UCD)
Event: CAI trip to the Peloponnese (already booked out)
Date: Saturday, 24th
Tour Leader: Mr Brian O’Connell
Event: Dublin branch outing: East Coast tour, including Wicklow Gaol & Kilruddery House etc. Details and booking forms will be posted to members in spring.
June
Date: Tueday, 3rd at 7.15pm
Leader: Liam Bairead
Title: Latin reading
Venue: Library Bar, Central Hotel, Excheque Street, Dublin 2.
N.B. Any changes to the schedule will be relayed via both Facebook (Classical Association of Ireland) and the CAI website.
Autumn-
September
Date: Thursday, 26th September
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: United Arts Club, Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2
Annual General Meeting
Time: 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Martin Brady (School of Classics UCD & current Chairman of CAI)
Title: To be confirmed
October
Date: Thursday, 24th October
Time: 7.30pm
Speaker: Ms. Lynda Mulvin (School of Art History & Cultural Policy UCD)
Title: To be confirmed
November
Date: Thursday, 7th November
Time: 7.30pm
Speaker: Dr. Selga Medenieks (TCD)
Title: ‘Anatolian Religious Sites’
Date: Tuesday, 12th November
Time: 8pm
Leader: Mr. Liam Bairead
Latin Reading: Clodia/Lesbia in the work of Catullus and Cicero
December
Date: Thursday, 5th December
Time: 7.30pm
Speaker: Mr. Patrick J Ryan (Limerick Branch) ‘
Title: ‘Bowls and Bread-
Unless otherwise specified, meetings take place in room K217, School of Classics, Newman Building (aka Arts Block), University College Dublin (UCD).
Lectures are followed by questions and some informal discussion over a glass of wine.
All visitors and new members are welcome!
In a break with tradition, this tour took place slightly later than heretofore to coincide with the start of the airline summer schedules. So on May 1st we assembled at Dublin Airport for the Aer Lingus flight direct to Athens. Members from Dublin, Cork, Sligo and Limerick Branches made a group total of 31. Our tour leader, for the 17th time, was Professor Andrew Smith of UCD, ably assisted by Dr. Joan Wright, Sotiris, our bus driver and a local guide. My first CAI tour was to Greece in 1981 and this time we revisited many of the same sites, evoking memories of good times and the people who shared them with us. We remembered the botanical knowledge of Ann Buchanan and Tanya Blythe who identified the Mediterranean flora for us – we missed ye this time, ladies.
We stayed overnight in Athens and next day headed north to the Isthmus of Corinth. The Corinth Canal was constructed here in the time of Nero, using the slave labour of thousands of Jewish prisoners after the Judean revolt. Today the road bridge over the canal is a very busy one, as is the shipping route below, in the canal itself. We went on to visit the Environment Museum of Stymphalia, overlooking the lake that gives it its name. Modern technology is used at its best in this museum setting and the views over the lake and its bird life were special. On day 3 we walked uphill and through the Lion Gate to the citadel of Mycenae. Its position controlled access to the interior and there was a clear view over the Palace of Agamemnon to the sea. The so called Treasury of Atreus is the largest and best preserved of the tholos tombs.
Pylos was the second most important centre in the Mycenean world after Mycenae itself. It was unfortified. The Palace of Nestor was destroyed by fire but some fragments of the wall paintings are in the Museum at Chora. The sanctuary at Olympia flourished from 10th century BC until the emperor Theodosius closed all the ancient sanctuaries. Epidavros was a centre of healing using water from local springs in the sanctuary of Asclepius. We also visited Messene, Sparta and Monemvasia. The Museum of the Olive and Greek olive oil aims to preserve the technology of times past and acknowledge the importance of the olive in Greek life.
The well prepared among us brought along the book by travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermorentitled Mani. The peninsula of that name is the middle one in the southern Peloponnese. We drove zig zag style through its forested mountains of pine and olive groves. Many Athenian families escape to their holiday homes here in summer when temperatures soar in the capital. The visit to the Vlychada caves was memorable. The rise in sea level after the ice age flooded them, so a half hour tour in a canoe-
Back in Athens, we had time to walk up to the Acropolis. The Parthenon Temple of Athena looked majestic with its Pentelic marble gleaming in the May sunlight. The new Museum of the Acropolis was visited too.
To conclude, it is only fitting that we pay tribute to the late Alan Benson of Sadlier Travel who died suddenly and unexpectedly in January. He organised our tours over the years and his colleagues did so this time. Thanks to everyone who helped make this tour the success it was. The tour was enjoyable and unlike visitors in ancient times, we didn’t encounter the bedbugs of Argos or the thistles of Tiryns !
Christine Shine, Cork Branch.