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
Entering the Classical World through Silent Cinema
Pericles at Play: a Literary Classical Receptions Journal
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
Omnia vincit amor? An interview with Matteo Rovere, director of Il Primo Re
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
Tolkien and the Classics
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
How far is too far? Testing the Boundaries of Classical Reception
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
Classics and Global Humanities: launching the Classical Association of Ghana
by Professor Barbara Goff, University of Reading Nigeria and Ghana have long and distinguished classical traditions. Although Latin and Greek were taught to West Africans as part of colonialism, the … Read More
Audio / Visual Romans
— Report by Maria Wyke (UCL) Cinema from its beginnings offered a radically new way of experiencing ancient Rome. Film brought ancient Rome to life, and gave it colour, movement … Read More
From a cow in walking boots to Queen Victoria: A Greek mythology tour of Brighton
by Amanda Potter My Greek mythology Tour of Brighton, which took place on two Saturday mornings in May 2018, was inspired by a twentieth century painting and a medieval cottage. … Read More
Classical Reception at the Classical Association Conference 2018
by Ben Greet Classical reception studies were well represented at this year’s Classical Association Conference, which was superbly organised and hosted by The University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and … Read More
The Landscape Garden: Britain’s Greatest Eighteenth-century Export?
A report on a meeting held at the British School at Rome, Tuesday, 6th March 2018 by John E. Harrison Last year I had the pleasure of attending the Hortus Inclusus … Read More