The St Andrews Reception Research seminars are kicking off with the start of the new academic year. Below you will find the programme for the first semester. If you have any questions or want to attend one of the seminars, email Anna Coopey (ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk).
18th September 2025: Aaron Pocock (Glasgow):
“Points of Puncture – Donald Kagan on Spartan Foreign Policy in the Peloponnesian War”
25th September 2025: Stefano Parrinello (St Andrews):
*title TBC” [on the reception of poetry in ancient philosophy]
2nd October 2025: Roger Rees (St Andrews) and Lorena Phillips (St Andrews:
“‘Awkwardnesses and Ineptitudes’: Ted Hughes in Correspondence for Shakespeare’s Ovid”
“Hughes’ Legacy and the New Ovidean Wave”
9th October 2025: Robin Fodor (St Andrews):
“Dr Pentagram Meets Homer in Dublin”
16th October 2025: Sophia Jacome (Edinburgh):
“Othering the Mother: How Modern Adaptations of the Oresteia Build New Rifts in the House of Atreus”
30th October 2025: Erin Limmack (St Andrews):
-title TBC- [on reception in Scottish graveyards]
6th November 2025: Shannon McMillan (St Andrews):
-title TBC- [on the artistic reception of the ancient desert]
13th November 2025: Sebastian Marshall (St Andrews):
“Relief in the Round: Terracotta Classicism and the Homeric Friezes of Ickworth House”