Classical Receptions in the Nineteenth Century

Classics Department, University of Durham 38 North Bailey, Durham, United Kingdom

This workshop, organised in collaboration with the Durham Centre for Classical Reception and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, gathers together scholars from different disciplines to discuss aspects of classical reception in the long nineteenth century. The programme is not primarily designed to deepen research into one specific topic, but rather to reflect on the range […]

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 […]

Natalie Haynes, ‘Troy Story’

Queen's University Belfast University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

The Classical Association in Northern Ireland 02/018 Peter Froggatt Centre 02/018, QUB