by Tom Willis and the Pericles at Play team and contributors Trench 1: Pericles at Play has been active for a year now, digitally printing and disseminating prose, poetry, and translations … Read More
John Davidson lives in Wellington, having retired as Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington in 2010. He has published extensively on ancient Greek literature and mythology and was … Read More
This month we’re featuring pieces about Classical Reception in New Zealand! First, Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson from the University of Oxford discusses the book, Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in … Read More
© Clare Youngman: From the collaborative project, ‘Antipodean Antiquities’ – Watt Space Gallery, 2016. It’s terrifically exciting to have been invited to take part in the Australasian ‘takeover’ of the … Read More
by Helen King (Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Open University) Classical reception still tends to ignore the technical literatures of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Maybe there’s a sense … Read More
by Maria Wyke (Professor of Latin, University College London) Recently I came across a silent short in the archives of the US Library of Congress that displays the eruption of … Read More
by Tom Willis and Joshua Barley Pericles at Play is a new, online, open access, magazine-style journal specialising in publishing and promoting contemporary literature that has a relation to classical reception, the … Read More
by Giacomo Savani (University of Leeds) g.savani@leeds.ac.uk When I first came across Matteo Rovere’s Il Primo Re (‘The First King’) last December, I tweeted the poster of the film with … Read More
by Hamish Williams During the recent Christmas break I treated myself to a rereading of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series (“a strictly academic procedure”, I informed my wife, as Bulgakov’s … Read More
by Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University) Locating Classical Receptions on Screen: Masks, Echoes, Shadows, ed. R. Apostol and A. Bakogianni, in the New Antiquity series, Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 198 pp. It is an … Read More