MANIAS: Modern Desires for Greek Pasts

British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

A panel discussion with Prof Liz Prettejohn (York), Prof Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Dr Katherine Harloe (Reading), Dr Andrew Shapland (British Museum), and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St. Andrews). Why does the Greek past fascinate us? Building on recent collective volumes published by the British School at Athens - Cretomania (2017) and Hellenomania (2018) - this panel […]

‘Classical Reception for Historians’, Nicholas Cole

Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom

Oxford-Princeton Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2018 All meetings at 4.00 pm in the Lecture Theatre, Ioannou School, 66 St Giles.

Maxine Lewis, ‘Censoring Juventius? The reception of Catullus’ homoerotic poems by Tiffany Atkinson, Nathaniel Moore and C. K. Stead’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

'Censoring Juventius? The reception of Catullus’ homoerotic poems by Tiffany Atkinson, Nathaniel Moore and C. K. Stead' Dr Maxine Lewis (University of Auckland) Since the seventeenth century, a steady stream of Anglophone writers has used Catullus’ poems as inspiration for their translations, poetic adaptations and novels. Many of the works have both emphasised the female […]