Maison Française d'Oxford
and the Faculty of Classics
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arepleased to announce:
Tuesday 22 February
IoannouCentre for Classical and Byzantine Studies Lecture Theatre (66, St Giles)
Journée Vernant
2.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Papersby postgraduates
2.15 pm: Luigi Prada (Oxford)
"Pray Egyptian, read Greek: the diffusion ofGreek versions of Egyptian religious texts in Roman Egypt"
2.45 pm: Anne-Rose Hosek (Paris)
"Venus, Goddess of Heliopolis: A ColonialConstruction?"
3.30 pm: Aurian delli Pizzi (Oxford) "'Nobody shall bury another corpse in my tomb': Grave-robbing, Sacrilege and Impiety in Epitaphs from Asia Minor"
4.00pm: Francesco Massa (Paris)
"Dionysus in Early Christian Writings: Between Madnessand Forbidden Desires"
5.00 pm KEYNOTE LECTURE
"The 'Possible' Body of the Gods: From Imitation to Ritual
Confection of their Nature"
Nicole Belayche
(EPHE, Paris)
A Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (FifthSection, Religious Studies) and a member of the Centre AnHIMA (“Histoire etanthropologie des mondes antiques”) in Paris, Nicole Belayche is a leadingscholar on the history of religion in the Roman world. She is the acclaimedauthor of Iudaea-Palaestina. ThePagan Cults in Roman Palestine, Second to Fourth Century (2001). Her articleon “Hypsistos. A way of exalting theGods in Graeco-Roman Polytheism” is to be published very shortly in The Religious History of the Roman Empire.Pagans, Jews and Christians, edited by John A. North and Simon R.F. Price.Nicole Belayche is also a coordinator of the European research team “FIGVRA. La représentation du divin dans lesmondes grec et romain”.
Conveners: Robert Parker, New College and Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO
- ALL WELCOME -