CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND Second Empire Paris’. Her lovely slides illustrated the contribution the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome played in opulent midnineteenth century Paris. The cultural reception of Classics received another outing, this time in Irish culture, with a super talk on ‘Galen and the Early Irish Gods’ (9 March 2018) by Dr Deborah Hayden (Maynooth University, Department of Early Irish). Deborah fascinated us all, reminding us of the importance of Irish language and learning in our common European heritage. Prof. Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin) was in Maynooth to launch a volume coedited by our Prof. David Scourfield and TCD’s Monica Gale. We were pleased to see Monica again at the launch. Texts and Violence in the Roman World is the result of their labours. Published by Cambridge University Press (2018), the editors and ten other distinguished contributors provide a fascinating account of the ways violence is constructed and represented in Latin literature in a series of chapters on Latin prose and poetry from Plautus to Prudentius. Congratulations to all. Maeve O’Brien
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK At UCC we have been fortunate to hear talks by visiting scholars. On 6 February the Director of the Sidonius Apollinaris project Dr Joop van Waarden (University of Amsterdam) spoke on ‘“You” and “I” in the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris: a case for pragmatic linguistics’. On 17 April we heard from Dr James CorkeWebster (KCL) on ‘Reassessing the persecution of the Christians: a bottom-up approach’. We are pleased to report that, after its great success last year, the second Schola Latina will take place from 6-12 June: a week of intensive spoken Latin run by Dr Jason Harris of the Neo-Latin Centre at UCC. For further information, please e-mail j.harris@ucc.ie. Catherine Ware 12
May 2018
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN The UCD Classical Museum hosted a number of exhibitions. Daily life in Ancient Rome, curated by Dr Joanna Day, is now open to visitors along with Assistant Curator Phoebe Nolan’s extension of our Ancient Egypt exhibition, which includes a bronze figurine, a ceramic scarab, and a section of mummy linen. ‘Fruit of the Loom: Five Loom Weights in the UCD Classical Museum’, an article by former Assistant Curator Kaylin Bednarz, was published in the journal Trowel. Kaylin also established and ran a highly successful Museum Seminar Series with eight speakers over the course of Semester 2. Its aim is to increase research within the museum and the UCD School of Classics with a series of presentations on topics that range from museum artefacts to cultural heritage. This year we were delighted to be joined by Professor John Richmond to present the Richmond Prize to James Hearn. The Richmond prize is awarded for the best all-round performance in second year modules in the School of Classics (in the subject areas of Greek, Latin, and Greek and Roman Civilisation). Denise Griffin won the Callaghan Scholarship for the highest performing student in Greek or Latin, and she also won first prize for Latin in the NUI Dr H H Stewart Literary Scholarship for 2017. The UCD Classical Society hosted a number of events throughout the year, including Halloween pumpkin carving, a Christmas symposium, and coffee mornings every Thursday. In April we welcomed our alumni, students, retired staff and other guests to the annual UCD Classical Society Inaugural Lecture. Professor Paul Cartledge delivered a lecture on ‘Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Sparta’ to an audience of one hundred and sixty-five attendees. In Semester 2 the School welcomed Dr Stephen O’Brien on a temporary contract as Museum Curator and Lecturer in Greek Archaeology. Dr Chris Farrell will start as Lecturer in Greek History and Culture in August 2018. Alexander Thein