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'The 18th-century English Landscape Garden'. - Dr Laura Mayer, Independent scholar and author. 'Roman influences on Georgian Stourhead'. - Prof John Harrison, Ph.D., Open University. 'Gardens at La Trappe: neo-classical display in the London suburbs'. - Dr Clare Hornsby FSA, Independent art & cultural historian. 'Painting and Planting: art, aesthetics and landscaping in Georgian England'… Continue reading The Landscape Garden: Britain’s Greatest Eighteenth-century Export? |
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The 2018 Rumble Lecture, delivered by Mary Beard, will explore some of the ways modern artists have re-imagined ancient Roman emperors: it will uncover some ‘missing persons’, and reveal some unexpected misidentifications. The lecture marks the fifth anniversary of the Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund here at King’s, and forms part of the cultural programme accompanying… Continue reading Mistaken Identities: Roman Emperors in Modern Art |
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1 event,Reception is conceived not as a subdivision of Classics but as a mode of historicised inquiry and constant self-critique intrinsic in Classical Studies. In this respect, the reader assumes the role of the decoder who examines reception of the ancient world from the 8th century BC onwards: from Antiquity to Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the… Continue reading 2nd Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception |
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1 event,The Old Lie, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (Horace, Odes, III): more than two thousand years later, the line was resumed by Wilfred Owen as a polemical and bitter seal for one of his poems, written between 1917 and 1918, a sharp accusation against the atrocities of war, which is often mystified by… Continue reading The old lie: I Classici e la Grande Guerra/Classics and the Great War |
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2 events,The Anachronism and Antiquity team is delighted to announce ‘Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship’, a conference to be held at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, on March 23-24, 2018. Speakers and their titles are: Carol Atack, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, ‘Plato’s Queer Time: Dialogic Moments in the Life and Death… Continue reading Anachronism and Antiquity: Configuring Temporalities in Ancient Literature and Scholarship
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On Friday 23rd March, in Magdalen College Chapel, students and faculty will read their translations of the Metamorphoses. In doing so they will join their voices to hundreds more across the world, participants in a worldwide celebration of Ovid’s poetry. They will be accompanied by Michael Levy on a kithara - an ancient lyre traditionally used for performances… Continue reading OVID METAMORPHOSES 10: Public Reading with Kithara Accompaniment |
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