Byron the Latinist
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomA one-day conference organised by Karen Caines, with support from Trinity College Oxford, to address a still under-explored area. The conference will address the broader context and examine Byron’s engagement with individual Latin authors and works. 9.30am: Registration and coffee 10am: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Welcome and Chair of Session 1 10.05am: Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford), Introduction […]
Horace in English Since 1900
Universität Bonn Am Hof 1, Bonn, GermanyThe 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 […]
Hermeneutics of Symbol, Myth and “Modernity of antiquity” in Italian Literature and the Arts from the Renaissance up to the Present Day
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, ItalyThe hermeneutics of the “modernity of antiquity” is a still pioneering branch of research in Italian literature and art studies. Its aim is to discover the hidden meaning of works of literature and arts where other approaches failed or proved unsatisfactory. Its distinguishing trait consists in using, along with all the results of historical, critical […]
The Return of Ulysses (Monteverdi)
Roundhouse Chalk Farm Road, London, United Kingdom10-21 January 2018 The Return of Ulysses (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) is one of only three surviving operas by the Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi. As with The Coronation of Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea) it dates from the later period of Monteverdi’s career, and was first performed in Venice in 1640. The opera is a masterpiece: […]
Queens of Syria screening
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomA group of Syrian women, now refugees exiled in Jordan, created an extraordinary modern retelling of Euripides’ The Trojan Women. On stage the women courageously explore parallels between the ancient Greek tragedy and the catastrophe of today’s civil war. Their first-hand experience of a country in turmoil mirrors the Trojan women they portray, displaced and enslaved […]
Britannia release date
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Edith Hall, ‘The Age of Tyrants: Sappho via Gounod’s Opera’
Barnard's Inn Hall Holborn, LondonThe 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 KingdomThe 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' […]
Peter Symes, ‘Making television films with Tony Harrison: Metamorpheus’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomA screening followed by discussion between the director, Peter Symes, and Oliver Taplin.
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece
British Museum Great Russell Street, London, United Kingdom26 April – 29 July 2018 In 1881 the French sculptor Auguste Rodin visited London for the first time. On a trip to the British Museum, he saw the Parthenon sculptures and was instantly captivated by the beauty of these ancient Greek masterpieces. Like many archaeological ruins, the Parthenon sculptures had been broken and weathered […]