Discipline of Classics

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Dept. of Classics
Classics DX 650 114
School of Humanities
The University of Adelaide
South Australia 5005

Email: Classics
Phone: +61 8 8303 5247
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 5241

Research

(click on Name for further details of research, or for email address)

Name Research Areas Current Research Projects
Dr H. Baltussen Senior Lecturer
  • Ancient philosophy (Presocratics to Plotinus)
  • Literacy and emergence of exegesis
  • History of ideas, especially consolation literature
  • Aristotelians and Neo-Platonists, 2nd – 6th century A.D.
  • Psychotherapy in Dealing with Grief in Antiquity (ARC Discovery Project 2007-2009)
Dr J. Clarke
Senior Lecturer
  • Catullus, Propertius, Horace, Prudentius
  • Stylistic use of colour in Greek and Latin poetry
  • Landscapes & physical environments in Latin elegiac poetry

Assoc/Prof Peter Davis (Emeritus)
Visiting Research Fellow

  • Greek and Roman literature
  • Latin poetry of the early empire
  • Seneca
  • Ovid
  • Roman Epic
Dr A. Geddes
Visiting Research Fellow
  • Social and Cultural History of Athens
  • Architecture of Ancient Turkey
 
Mr D. Hester
Visiting Research Fellow
  • Greek epic and drama
 
Dr V. Jennings
Visiting Research Fellow
  • Greek and Roman fable
  • Greek literature of the Roman empire
  • Ion of Chios
Dr A. Katsaros
Visiting Research Fellow
  • The Old Oligarch
  • Greek & Latin languages
  • Ion of Chios

Dr E. Moloney
Lecturer

  • Ancient Theatre
  • Political and cultural history of Macedonia
  • Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheke
  • Reception of Athenian tragedy
  • Euripides' Rhesus
Dr M. O’Hea
Head of Discipline
  • Near Eastern archaeology
  • Archaeology of the Roman economy
  • Late Roman to early mediaeval history in the West
  • The Zoara (Khirbet es-Sheikh ‘Isa) Project - A Dead Sea site
  • Glassware in transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Dr Silke Sitzler
  • Ealry Medieval History
  • Christianity in Late Antiquity
  • Fourth century Antioch
 

Seminars & Events

Second Constantinos Moraitis Annual Hellenic Lecture

Emeritus Professor Richard Green (University of Sydney)

"After the Theatre Closed: Life in Late Antique and Medieval Paphos (Cyprus)"

Wednesday 4 November 2009, 8:00pm (doors open at 7:30pm)

Venue: Hughes Lecture Theatre, Level 3, Hughes Building (enter from Hughes Plaza)