Daniel Orrells, ‘Printing Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century’
University of Lisbon Cidade Universitária, Lisbon, PortugalLisbon Classics Seminars Room B1 School of Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon
Mark Padilla, ‘‘Reading Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” through John Buchan and Homer’s Odyssey’
University of Edinburgh Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, United KingdomUniversity of Edinburgh Research Seminar in Classics/Classical Association of Scotland Meadows Lecture Theatre (Old Medical School, Doorway 4).
Iconising the Classical: Pompeii in Silent Cinema
University of CambridgeProfessor 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, […]
EN LOS MÁRGENES DEL MITO: Hibridaciones de la mitología clásica en la cultura de masas contemporánea
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, SpainUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Departamento de Filología Clásica
Excavating Roman Voices (Being Human)
London Mithraeum Bloomberg 12 Walbrook, LondonGain a new insight into Roman London at this evening of poetry inspired by the hidden voices present within the Bloomberg writing tablets, some of the earliest written documents found […]
Anne Carson’s ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ at Spike Island Studio
Spike Island Studio 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UXLaura Jansen (Classics) and Rebecca Kosick (Bristol Poetry Institute) will be leading a discussion of Anne Carson’s oeuvre with poet Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry. The event emerges in […]
21st Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad
British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomSince 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 […]
AMPRAW: Authority and Legitimacy
Radboud University 6525 XZ Nijmegen, NetherlandsWith great pleasure we announce our Call for Papers for this year’s Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW). AMPRAW is an annual conference that […]
Re-/Un-working Tragedy: Perspectives from the Global South
University of CambridgeJoin Jennifer Wallace, Simon Goldhill, Katie Fleming, Rosa Andujar, Renaud Gagne, Barabra Goff, Tina Chanter, Astrid van Weyenberg and many others from a variety of disciplines to discuss tragedy, its […]
Rape, Revenge and Transformation: Tereus Through the Ages
University of Roehampton , United KingdomThe story of Tereus preoccupied major authors in classical antiquity. References to it date back to the Homeric poems and the myth was addressed by renowned dramatists, such as Aeschylus, […]