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Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS): ‘Aztec Latinists: Classical learning and native legacies in post-conquest Mexico’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomProf. Andrew Laird (John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Humanities, Brown University, USA) Soon after the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin, classical rhetoric and Aristotelian philosophy to youths from the native Nahua or Aztec nobility. In his talk, Andrew Laird will explain the nature and purpose of that […]
Ancient Greek Drama in Latin 1506-1590. Readership, Translation, and Circulation
King's College London London, United KingdomIn scholarly discussions of the strange and elusive presence of Greek drama, and tragedy especially, in and around sixteenth-century European drama, the availability of Latin translations of the ancient Greek plays has become an oft-invoked phenomenon. This conference focuses on the ways in which Greek drama ‘lived’ in Latin, leading up to and coinciding with […]
Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop: Baroque Latinity
The Warburg Institute Woburn Square, LondonThe Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a postgraduate and early career event in London on 6th February 2020. The focus of the day will be Baroque Latinity, the theme of a recently established AHRC-funded research project. Specialists in the field will present papers on different aspects of sixteenth and seventeenth century Baroque Neo-Latin. Speakers […]
Lucy Jackson, ‘An advocate for tyranny: two receptions of Sophocles’ Antigone in sixteenth- century Europe’
University of Bristol Bristol, United KingdomUniversity of Bristol research seminar All are welcome at our seminars, which take place every second Tuesday during term from 3.30 until 5, followed by drinks and then dinner, to which everyone is warmly invited. Please send any queries to the Research seminar organizer, Dr. Paul Martin (paul.s.martin@bristol.ac.uk).