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 is designed to bring together early-career researchers in the field of classical reception studies, and will be held for the ninth consecutive year. It aims […]
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 ability to comment on present crises, and the global politics of adaptation. Summary Building on ideas explored in the Re- Interdisciplinary Network's CRASSH events, the conference […]
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, Sophocles and Accius, before being adapted by Ovid. These different versions raise questions about the reconstruction of the myth and representation of women, family violence, […]
Research Seminar, Dept of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol Senate House 5.22. Please send any queries to the Research Seminar Organiser, Dr. Paul Martin (paul.s.martin@bristol.ac.uk).
10.15-10.45 Registration and Coffee 10.45-11.00 Welcome from Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)Giovanna Di Martino and Sara Troiani present the APGRD and Laboratorio Dionysos Databases 11.00-12.00 Classicising the Spectacle – Chair: Oliver Taplin (Oxford)Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen) - A Classical ModernityGiovanna Di Martino (Oxford) – Aeschylus, Modernity and the New ‘Classical’ Ideal 12.00-13.00 Classics and the Spectacular I: Ettore […]