Madeline Miller in Conversation with Kate Mosse

The British Library 96 Euston Road, London

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 […]

CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL RECEPTION SEMINAR SERIES: Charles Stocking, ‘Kratos before democracy: force, politics, and signification in Derrida and Homer’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

In Iliad Book 2, Odysseus delivers a speech to the dēmos, which has been quoted extensively throughout antiquity and modernity as a distinctly anti-democratic claim for monarchic sovereignty. He exclaims, “Rule by many lords is not good. Let there be one lord, one king, to whom the son of crooked counseling Kronos has given the […]

Richard Whitaker, The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African Translation

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London

"Tell me, Muse, of that resourceful man who trekked / far and wide . . .” The Odyssey of Homer: A Southern African Translation Richard Whitaker reads from and discusses his new translation of the Odyssey Richard Whitaker studied Greek and Latin at the Universities of the Witwatersrand (B.A.), Oxford (M.A.), and St Andrews (PhD).  He is now Emeritus […]

‘For an empty tunic, for a Helen’

University College London London, United Kingdom

A film screening on the life of ancient and modern Helens, introduced by Dr Antony Makrinos with music composed by Belinda E.S.

Tales from the Odyssey, Daniel Morden

Badminton School Westbury Road, Bristol

Bristol Classical Association Daniel was recently awarded the Hay Festival Medal for his contribution to storytelling. Along with Hugh Lupton, Daniel has produced the fantastic ‘Classical Tales’ resources for the Cambridge Schools Classics Project. They have retold and recorded Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, for a modern audience. The recordings, available for free online with accompanying teachers’ notes are intended to support […]

Classical Displacement(s)

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London

An interdisciplinary colloquium that explores the involvement of Greco-Roman antiquity, appropriated by societies throughout history, in the displacement and marginalisation of minority identities. The event, generously supported by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, will also consider the response of those marginalised voices: how groups excluded from and through the Classics have used antiquity to […]

Svetlana Yefimenko, ‘Tolstoy’s Homer: Epic in Russian Literature’

University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom

University of Leeds Classics Research Seminar All papers will be in the Michael Sadler Building room 1.01 (search here for directions:  https://www.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap) and begin at 5 pm, except Classical Association meetings, for which talks begin at 5.30 (with tea from 5).

Homer Today

Senate House, University of London Malet Street, London

Interested in hearing about all the latest developments in research and interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey? Martha Kearney will chair a panel of experts as they discuss their most recent findings and the current trends in reading Homer. A  reception in the Hellenic and Roman Library will follow. Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol University) will explore […]

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 producers. Professor Edith Hall (KCL) will explore the similarities and radical divergences between several of these responses, to ask why a poem with roots in […]