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Faculty of Classics

 

The lectures and seminar are open to all members of the University and others who are interested.

2013: Poetry across Languages

Professor Stephen Hinds
University of Washington, Seattle.

Friday 8 November
Paratextualizing the classical tradition

Monday 11 November
Parallel lives

Wednesday 13 November
Seminar: Petrarch’s epistles to ancient authors (Fam. 24)

 

2012: Art as Institution in Early Greece and China

Dr Jeremy Tanner
Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Monday 30 April
Portraits, politics and comparisons

Wednesday 2 May
Narrative and naturalism

Thursday 3 May
Seminar: Style and the development of art theory

 

2011: The Power of Prehistory: An Aftermath of a Bronze Age Kingdom in Historical Greece

Professor Jack Davis
University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Monday 2 May

The Two Sides of Aigaleon: Towards a Social and Political History of Bronze Age Messenia in the Bronze Age

Wednesday 4 May

The Other Side of Taygetos: A Non-Spartan Perspective on the Post-Palatial History of Messenia

Thursday 5 May
Seminar: Reconstructing Iconographies of Power at the Palace of Nestor
 

 

2010: Three Studies in Apodemiology

Nicholas Purcell
St John's College, Oxford

Monday 3 May
Whose Outsiders?

Tuesday 4 May
Whose Soldiers?

Wednesday 5 May
Seminar: Whose Games?

Latest news

Professor Caroline Vout's Olympic Exhibition in the News

18 April 2024

This summer Professor Caroline Vout is co-curating an Olympic Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body' which looks back on the pivotal moment, 100 years ago, when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a...

Mary Beard to give The Sir Robert Rede’s Lecture 2024

18 April 2024

This year Professor Dame Mary Beard is due to give The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture on Friday 3 May 2024. She will speak on the topic 'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?' If you would like to attend the event, you are most welcome but booking is essential: register for...

Election of two new Professors in the Faculty of Classics

27 March 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History and Professor Serafina Cuomo to the A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture . Jo will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient...

Craven Seminar 2024

26 March 2024

The programme for the Craven Seminar 2024, ‘Interface Interpretation: exegesis as encounter in Greco-Roman literature’ , is now available online . This will be an in-person event. Please click here to register.