• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Fridays at 5 pm
• Organising department: Brasenose College

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Autocracy and Kingship: "Caesar, Augustus, Emperor, King: Understanding the Principate" AND "From Tyrant to King: Agathokles of Syracuse"
  Chris de Lisle, Pan Christoforou

Friday 6 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Autocracy in Literature: "The dual inspiration of Hesiod's ideal rulers" AND "Tacitus Principate"
  LaRae Ferguson, Bram Ten Berge

Friday 13 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religion and Autocracy: "Legitimating Papal Authority in Late Antiquity" AND "Kings in Rabbinic literature"
  David Barritt, Joshua Blackorsky

Friday 20 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Psychology of the Autocrat: "Alexander the Great King thus says"
  Giustina Monti

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Women as Autocrats: "The characterization of women as regents and/or autocrats during Egypt's Old Kingdom" AND "Agrippina"
  Julia Hamilton, Katharine Burnett

Friday 3 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Autocracy across cultural boundaries: "Kingship in ancient Cyprus" AND "Biblical and Mesopotamian Kingships"
  Beatrice Pestarino, Martin krijgsman

Friday 10 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Autocracy and State formation: "Did archaic Uruk have a king? Images accounting, and later literary tradition" AND "The rise of great men in the Balkans during 6th century"
  Kate kelley, Rob Main

Friday 17 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Available
  TBA