Edith Hall, ‘The Age of Tyrants: Sappho via Gounod’s Opera’

Barnard's Inn Hall Holborn, London

The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of Greece, in the 7th to 6th centuries BC, addressed passionate love poems to women. This lecture uncovers what we […]

‘On Translating Sappho’, Josephine Balmer

University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Research Seminar, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. Arts 201 on the Edgbaston Campus.  Everyone is welcome!

Sex, Sexuality and Classical Reception

University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom

This event brings together early career researchers studying how the history of sex and sexuality intersects with the reception of the ancient world in the 19th and 20th centuries. The event is organised in conjunction with the Exeter Centre for Medical History, Exeter Classical Receptions Network, the national Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN), and the Rethinking Sexology project. […]