New Perspectives on Ancient Geography
Details of the Portuslimen seminar in Oxford:
New Perspectives on Ancient Geography
Friday 24th February, Brasenose College, Room VII
- 10.00-10.20: Simon Keay (Southampton/BSR), Geographical Challenges of the Portuslimen Project
- 10.20-11.00: Pascal Arnaud (Université Lumière Lyon 2), The so-called Stadiasmus Maris Magni: a puzzling text and its documentary value.
- 11.00-11.40: Patrick Counillon (University of Bordeaux), Analysis of Arrian’s Periplus of the Euxine, 19-25
11.40-12.00: Coffee
- 12.00-12.40: Katherine Clarke (St. Hilda’s College), Strabo’s Mediterranean: the perfect enterprise zone
- 12.40-13.00: Questions
13.00-14.00: Lunch
- 14.0-14.40: Nuria García Casacuberta (Southampton),
- Portus, statio, litus. Latin texts relating to forms of anchorage.
- 14.40-15.00: Questions
- 15.00-15.20: Discussion
- 15.20-15.40: Nicholas Purcell (Brasenose College), Final Reflections