All Meetings are on Tuesday, unless otherwise stated
October 26, 2011 (Wednesday) 7.30pm, St. Luke's Cathedral Joint Meeting with the Classical Association Dr Kirsten Bedigan University of Glasgow Religion and Medicine during the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC During the fifth
century there was a significant rise in the cult of the healing god Asclepius
and that of his family, with the development of sanctuaries dedicated to the
deities at Epidaurus, Athens and elsewhere in the Greek world. The
Hippocratic text The Sacred Disease could be said, at first glance, to condemn
the practice of spiritual healing as a poor alternative to trained physicians.
Yet while the evidence from Epidaurus
is limited, the picture appears to be rather different with close relationships
between the gods and the physician present at many sites. However, this balance shifts during the
fourth century, marking a clear change in attitudes. November 22, 2011 7.30pm, St. Luke's Cathedral Prof. Elizabeth Moignard University of Glasgow Glasgow's Greek Vases Glasgow
has three major collections of ancient Greek vases, which illustrate both
collection history and a broad variety of ancient values and social usage. This
talk will focus on both approaches to looking at some very interesting pieces. 7.30pm, St Luke's Cathedral
Dr Ian Ruffell
University of Glasgow
Greek Comic Bodies: Real and Unreal
This paper examines the nature and implications of the grotesque padded and masked body that was ubiquitous in the fifth century BC ("Old Comedy"), which has been the object of critical attention in the last decade. The grotesque norm of Old Comedy stood in opposition to the bodies of tragedy and satyr play, and developed towards the far less distorted bodies of New Comedy at the end of the fourth century. Comparisons will comic bodies in other comic traditions. There will be lots of illustrations." January 4, 2012 Konaki Greek Taverna Vasilopitta Evening We will follow the Greek
custom of celebrating the New Year with the Vasilopitta (= St Basil's
cake). The cake contains a coin, and the
person who gets it will have good fortune throughout the rest of the year! February 7, 2012 7.30pm, St. Luke's Cathedral Scottish Evening Mr. John Lowry University of Edinburgh The Polis and Portico: Greek Revival Architecture and Scottish Education Mr. John
Lowry is senior lecturer in the ESALA
at Edinburgh University. He is the author of 'From Caesarea to Athens: Greek Revival Edinburgh and the Question of Scottish Identity within the
Unionist State', Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians, 60 (2001), 136-57. John is
currently involved in a major project on Greek revival architecture in Scotland. March , 2012 7.30pm, St. Luke's Cathedral
John Karkalas Lecture Dr. Dionysios Stathakopoulos King's College London Quid Pro Quo: Charity, Rememberance and the Quest for Salvation in the Late Byzantine Period Late Byzantine attitudes
towards charity, wealth and medicine, which shows how this period saw a
transformation of the afterlife and management practices (it has some quite
topical points about current attitudes towards charity and wealth). April , 2012 7.30pm, St. Luke's Cathedral
Mr. Nikolaos Anagnostou Sgurr Energy Engineering in the Ancient World: The Tunnel of Eupalinos Mr. Nikolaos Anagnostou, who has given us excellent talks over the last two
years, will speak to us this year on the tunnel of Eupalinos
Nik is an electrical and computer engineer, and is currently working for
SgurrEnergy Ltd, a renewable engineering consultancy based in Glasgow. |
2011-2012 Syllabus |