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Madeline Miller in Conversation with Kate Mosse
Madeline Miller in Conversation with Kate Mosse
The 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, celebrates the UK publication of her new novel Circe, the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. See her in conversation […]
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Audio / Visual Romans
Audio / 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 mechanism by which the past speaks in the present.Afternoon Roundtable Discussion 15.30 - 17.00 and Evening Film Screening 18.00 - 20.00FREE. ALL WELCOME. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.You are […]
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The Ancient Worlds of Greece and Rome in the cinema
The Ancient Worlds of Greece and Rome in the cinema
The 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 cinema since the movies began. Some of the most memorable movies that Hollywood has produced are Greek and Roman epics (Ben-Hur, Jason and the Argonauts, […]
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Greek Matters
This 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 modernity, this workshop sets out to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that explores the reception of texts alongside other encounters with the past: the circulation of […]
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Lyric Beyond Lyric: ‘submerged’ traditions, generic interactions, and later receptions
As 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. This process saw the redefinition of lyric as genre and the crystallisation of a lyric canon. The postclassical condition of lyric also influenced its Latin […]
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Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’
Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’
Professor 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 of Imagism printed in the Preface to the 1915 anthology Some Imagist Poets (edited by Amy Lowell) said, ‘We believe that the individuality of a poet may […]
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