Excavating Roman Voices (Being Human)

London Mithraeum Bloomberg 12 Walbrook, London

Gain 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 6UX

Laura 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 Kingdom

Since 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, Netherlands

With 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 […]

Charles Martindale, ‘Reception Revisited’

University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds Classics Research Seminars All seminars take place on Thursday at 5pm. in LAHRI Seminar Room 1 (3.01 Clothworkers South Building), University of Leeds, LS2 9JT All welcome! For further […]

Re-/Un-working Tragedy: Perspectives from the Global South

University of Cambridge

Join 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 Kingdom

The 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, […]