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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kathleen Riley, ‘Returning to Salamanca: a Telemachan Odyssey’

Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS)  Room G.21, Faculty of Classics Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge   In his very personal exploration of Homer’s Odyssey, Daniel Mendelsohn points out: ‘As much as it is a tale of husbands and wives, this story is just as much—perhaps even more—about fathers and sons.’ The poem, in fact, begins and […]