Ancient Astronomy comes to Liverpool in 2008

Jun 8, 2007 Alun Life, The Past No Comments Alexandra Smith, Ancient Astronomy, Classical Association, Classics

The Three Graces. Photo (cc) Mad­die Digital.

One of the things I’m work­ing on has moved a step closer to fruition. I say I’m work­ing on, Alex­an­dra Smith at Cardiff is doing most of the work at the moment. Any­way, there’ll be a ses­sion on Clas­sics, Astro­nomy and Inter­dis­cip­lin­ar­ity at the Clas­sical Asso­ci­ation 2008 Meet­ing in Liv­er­pool. There’ll be four papers:

• Astro­nomy and Ancient Greek Cult: New Per­spect­ives to Greek Reli­gious Archi­tec­ture and Cult Prac­tices. Dr. Efro­syni Bout­si­kas (Leicester)
• Astro­nomy, Stoicism and Polit­ics in Aratus’ Phaenom­ena. Stamat­ina Mas­torakou (Imperial)
• Impossible to Ignore? Some Uncom­fort­able Implic­a­tions of the Anti­kythera Mech­an­ism. Prof. Mike Edmunds (Cardiff Uni­ver­sity and The Anti­kythera Mech­an­ism Research Project)
• Eclipses as a Tool of Chro­no­logy. Alex­an­dra Smith (Cardiff)

I’m not giv­ing a talk as ses­sions are lim­ited to four spaces. I already know what I would say and think I’d bene­fit more from listen­ing to someone else speak. How­ever I am lis­ted as com­père ses­sion chair. We don’t have a firm date yet, though I’m told it’s more likely to be on the week­end rather than the Friday.

I’ll put up more inform­a­tion when it goes live on the Liv­er­pool site. I’ve no desire to annoy them as they’re doing a fant­astic job. Some of the requests I put in were unusual. The dates for your diary are the 27^th to the 30^th of March.