The Science and Empire Reading Group
The Science and Empire Reading Group meets every fortnight during semester, and brings together Classicists, Historians, Philosophers and Scientists. The participants rotate in making small, informal presentations on select ancient scientific, technical and encyclopedic texts. The emphasis is on close reading and group discussion.
Session 2007-2008
Winter Semester 2007
The group read from Plato’s Timaeus
Text: Plato, Timaeus (Translations: Plato, Vol.
IX (Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles), transl. R.
G. Bury. Loeb Classical Library, 1929: repr.1999; or Plato, Timaeus,
transl. D. Zeyl, Hackett 2000)
Time: Wednesdays (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12), 5-6:30 pm
Location: School of Classics, Swallowgate, Room S11.
Winter Semester 2007: Full Details (pdf)
Spring semester 2008
The group read from Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History.
Texts
- Weeks 1-6:
- Seneca, Naturales Quaestiones Book II.
- Seneca in Ten Volumes, vol. VII: Naturales Quaestiones I (Books I-III), transl. T. H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library, 1971.
- A new translation of the relevant passages by Harry Hine will also be available.
- Weeks 7-12:
- Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis Book VII.
- Pliny, Natural History, vol. II (Books III-VII), transl. H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library, 1942.
- Translation and commentary: M. Beagon, The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal. ‘Natural History’ Book 7. Oxford, 2005.
Time: Tuesdays, 1-2 pm
Location: School of Classics, Swallowgate, Room S11.
Spring Semester 2007: Full Details (pdf)
Enquiries
For more information, please contact:
- Katerina Oikonomopoulou (ao40@st-andrews.ac.uk)
- Daniel Mintz (dm433@st-andrews.ac.uk)
- Alex Long (agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk)