The School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester, is delighted to announce the 22nd Dorothy & Alan Buchan Memorial Lecture in Ancient History (formerly the Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lecture in Ancient History) on Thursday 3 November 2022 at 5 p.m. (UK time) in the Ken Edwards Building, Lecture Theatre 2.
The event will begin with a presentation by Professor Alastair Buchan, FMedSci (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), reflecting on the contributions of his parents, Alan and Dorothy Buchan, to life in Leicester and the North-East of England.
The lecture will then be delivered by Professor Hugh Bowden (King’s College London) on: Dreamers, Lovers and Poets: Stories of Religious Experts in Ancient Greece
Professor Bowden writes: In this lecture I will discuss what we know about individual ‘religious experts’—seers and initiators who often travelled the Greek world offering their services to individuals and cities. These people, when they are talked about at all, tend to be depicted as cheats and charlatans. I will suggest that in fact they played an important part in the religious life of Classical Greece.
The lecture will also be broadcast on Teams; for the link to join, please contact Dr Jan Haywood: jlth1@le.ac.uk
All are welcome.