Ancient Cosmologies Conference ,St Andrews Univ, 2nd-4th Nov

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Hello All,

This is rather late notice but I thought some of you might be interested in this Conference taking place this weekend. Entry is free and the Conference takes place at St Andrews University, in Fife, Scotland this Friday-Sunday. I am going to be attending on the Saturday myself. Places are free and you just need to email your intention to attend:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/ev ... smologies/

Here is the programme:

Ancient Cosmologies Programme

Friday 2 November

16:00 G?bor Betegh ?The cosmology of Archelaus of Athens?

Saturday 3 November

09:00-10:30 David Sedley ?Plato?s Cosmic Spheres and their antecedents?

Response: Dorothea Frede

10:30 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Andrew Gregory ?Chaos and Unlimited Attempts - Lucretius and Cicero?

Response: Alex Long

12:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Chiara Tommasi ?Out of this world: An Overview of Gnostic Cosmologies?

Response: Charlotte K?ckert

16:00 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Gretchen Reydams-Schils ?Maximus of Tyre on Divine Providence?

Response: James Wilberding

Sunday 4 November

09:00-10:30 Catherine Rowett ?Genesis, Soteriology and Anthropology in Second- and Third-Century Christianity?

Response: Karla Pollmann

10:30 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Concluding discussion
As thou conversest with the heavens, so instruct and inform thy minde according to the image of Divinity William Lilly