‘The Classical Now’
Bush House Arcade London, United Kingdom2 March - 28 April Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm Free entrance ‘The Classical Now’ is an exhibition at King’s College London that explores antiquity in the modern and contemporary artistic imagination. The […]
Madeline Miller in Conversation with Kate Mosse
The British Library 96 Euston Road, LondonThe UK launch of Madeline Miller's new novel Circe On a rare visit from the US, Madeline Miller, author of the 2012 Orange Prize-winning best-selling novel The Song of Achilles, […]
Audio / Visual Romans
British School at Rome via Antonio Gramsci 61, Rome, ItalyAudio / Visual Romans seeks to explore the complex relationship between sound and image in films about ancient Romans: musical accompaniment as the aural encoding of history; film dialogue as the […]
The Ancient Worlds of Greece and Rome in the cinema
Cross Street Chapel Manchester, United KingdomThe worlds of Greece and Rome have been central to western education and culture since the Renaissance. It is therefore not surprising that antiquity has provided subject matter for the […]
Greek Matters
University of York York, United KingdomThis one-day workshop will consider the intersection of Hellenism and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). Expanding upon recent interest in the influence of Greek antiquity on early […]
CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL RECEPTION SEMINAR SERIES: Charles Stocking, ‘Kratos before democracy: force, politics, and signification in Derrida and Homer’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomIn Iliad Book 2, Odysseus delivers a speech to the dēmos, which has been quoted extensively throughout antiquity and modernity as a distinctly anti-democratic claim for monarchic sovereignty. He exclaims, […]
Lyric Beyond Lyric: ‘submerged’ traditions, generic interactions, and later receptions
King's College London London, United KingdomAs early as the Hellenistic period, the study of ancient Greek lyric poetry was identified most predominantly with the study of the nine, major canonical lyric poets and their texts. […]
Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProfessor Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Whitman College, USA) Abstract: The use of vers libre was one of the hallmarks of Imagist poetry; one of the six principles […]
Reconstructing & Adapting Fragmentary Ancient Greek Tragedy: Methodologies & Challenges for Classicists and Theatre Practitioners
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonExperts from Classics, English and Drama as well as playwrights and theatremakers will discuss their own take on the lost plays, producing an engaging and informative workshop addressed at colleagues, […]
The Literary Self: from Antiquity to the Digital Age
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomA postgraduate conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh on 4-5 June 2018. Keynote: Professor Simon James, Durham University Other confirmed speakers: Dr Roger Rees, University of St Andrews Throughout […]