Todd Lecture Series

This significant event is held once every two years and consists of a lecture delivered by a distinguished classical scholar with an international reputation. It is sponsored by the the Discipline of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Sydney in conjunction with the Classical Association of NSW. It commemorates the life and work of Professor Todd, one-time Professor of Latin, University of Sydney.

Past Lectures

Vol Title Author Year
Servius' Daughter Sulpicia: Life, Love and Literature in Ancient Rome.
Professor Alison Keith
2024
Controlling Political Competition: Lessons from Republican Rome?
Professor Nathan Rosenstein
2022
Pushing genre boundaries: expanded epigram in Horace and Propertius
Professor Stephen Harrison
2018
How Cosmopolitan was Imperial Rome?
Professor Greg Woolf
2017
Memory and Forgetting in the Age of Augustus
Professor Karl Galinsky
2014
Consensus and Community in Republican Rome
Professor Harriet Flower
2013
Symptoms and Sympathy in Latin Letters
Published by the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney 2011
Dr Miriam Griffin
2011
Apuleius’ Golden Ass from Antiquity to the Renaissance. A Survival Story
Prof. Em. Julia H. Gaisser
2008
The Romans Overseas
Professor Nicholas Purcell
2007
Catullus to Martial: the author’s body and the (im)materiality of the classical text
Professor Joseph Farrell
2004
Bonds of Danger
Professor Kathleen Coleman
2002
Ovid: a poet of transition?
Philip Hardie
2000
The Roman City-State under the Emperors 29 BC-AD 69
Professor Fergus Millar
1997
Poetry and Philosophy in first-century B.C. Rome: 
Lucretius and the Nature of the Universe
Professor H.D. Jocelyn
1995
Rewriting and Rereading the Fasti: Augustus, Ovid and Recent Classical Scholarship
Professor R.E. Fantham
1994
Method in Criticism
Professor K. Quinn
1981
What is happening to interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid?
Professor G.W. Williams
1976
Augustus the Patrician
Professor E.T. Salmon
1974
Lucius Sulla — The Deadly Rerformer
Professor E. Badian
1969
On Reading a Horatian Satire
Professor C.O. Brink
1965
The Character of the Romans in Their History and Their Literature
Sir Frank Adcock
1961
The Initiation of Aeneas
Sir John Sheppard
1955
A Roman Post-Mortem
Professor (later Sir) Ronald Syme
1950
The Emperor and his Clients
Harold Mattingly
1948
The Aristocratic Epoch in Latin Literature
Professor R.E. Smith
1947

Publication Details
Lectures 1-12 were published individually or in small groups then collected in the following editions:

Lectures 1–8:
Essays on Roman culture : the Todd memorial lectures (ed. A. J. Dunston)
Toronto : Sarasota, Fla. : S. Stevens, 1976.

Lectures 9–13:
sidere mens eadem mutato (ed. Frances Muecke)
Prudentia Supplementary Number 1998,
Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland