Andromeda
Nottingham Playhouse Wellington Circus, Nottingham, United KingdomA hero saves a princess from a monster. Two girls meet on a starry night. Andromeda is a queer reimagining of Euripides’ Andromeda, constellating fragments from Greek myth with a contemporary queer love story. What happens when we get stuck between a rock and a hard place? Part of the Amplify Festival.
Elizabeth Vandiver & Stephen Harrison, ‘Going digital with World War 1 poetry: Wilfred Owen and Charles Hamilton Sorley’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
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).
Josephine Balmer, Fiona Cox, & Elena Theodorakopoulos, ‘Farewells, Debts and Ale: poetic inspiration from non-literary texts’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
Alena Sarkissian (Czech Academy of Sciences) ‘Theatre as a Space of Spiritual Contemplation: Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945)’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomIconising 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, Cambridge) A leading figure in the emergence of Classical Reception Studies since the 1990s, Wyke is perhaps best known for her pioneering work on ancient […]
Ioanna Karamanou, ‘The Reception of Prometheus in “Prometheus: The Play of a Day” by Nikephoros Vrettakos’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
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
Henry Stead, ‘Comrade Catullus: the translation practice of Jack Lindsay’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.