Sebastian Matzner, ‘Forgetting Plato: Classical Alternatives to Theorizing Male-Male Desire in Fin de Siècle Germany’

Durham University Durham, United Kingdom

You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural LGBT History Month Annual Public Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University: Thursday, Feb. 7th, at 4pm in PG21, Palace Green, Pemberton Building, Durham DH13RL. A drinks reception will follow in the Ritson Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 […]

Queer loss, queer Classics: A.E.Housman’s ‘lost country’

Wills Memorial Building Queens Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jennifer Ingleheart talks about how A E Housman's losses and unrequited love as a queer man were reflected in his poetry. Queer people have often experienced losses, such as missing the opportunity for marriage and children, the pain of unrequited love, and the potential loss of reputation and liberty. A. E. Housman (1859-1936) writes movingly […]

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Iconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema

University of Cambridge

Professor Maria Wyke (UCL) 'How Cinema Takes Elite Engagements with Pompeii and Democraticises Them as Image/Word/Music for Mass Consumption' Professor  Paul Cartledge (Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge) A leading figure in the emergence of Classical Reception Studies since the 1990s, Wyke is perhaps best known for her pioneering work on ancient […]

21st Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

Since the turn of the 21st century there has been an unprecedented wave of creative responses to the Iliad, by prizewinning novelists and poets as well as cinema and TV producers. Professor Edith Hall (KCL) will explore the similarities and radical divergences between several of these responses, to ask why a poem with roots in […]