Horace in English Since 1900

Universität Bonn Am Hof 1, Bonn, Germany

The Centre for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn is delighted to invite you to the first lecture of its annual CCT lecture series. This year our speaker is Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. The title of his talk is "Horace […]

Edith Hall, ‘The Age of Tyrants: Sappho via Gounod’s Opera’

Barnard's Inn Hall Holborn, London

The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of Greece, in the 7th to 6th centuries BC, addressed passionate love poems to women. This lecture uncovers what we […]

Natalie Haynes, ‘The Children of Jocasta’

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

The British School at Athens Lecture Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She writes for both the Guardian and the Independent. She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. In this talk, she will explore her recent novel 'The Children of Jocasta' […]

Jennifer Ingleheart, A Shropshire Lad in Ancient Rome: A. E. Housman and Ancient ‘Homosexuality’

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United Kingdom

Studies of A. E. Housman assume a strong divide between his life as a poet - whose verses suggest his homoerotic desire - and as a well-respected Professor of Latin. Professor Ingleheart explodes this myth by exploring in detail Housman's longest and most frank writing on homosexuality: his Praefanda, an article aimed at scholars, written […]