News and Events
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range of resources for the study of the ancient world
Research Activities
PhD student Hamutal Minkowich interviews Madeline Miller on The Song of Achilles
Lectures and Conferences 2012-13
Seminar: Keeling Graduate Masterclass (9 October 2012, 4-6pm)
Lecture: Keeling Lecture 2012 (10 October, 6-8pm): Prof. Richard Sorabji
PLEB Comedy Think-Tank! Thursday 11 October 2012
Lecture, 13 November: ‘Jumping to conclusions. Bull-leaping in Minoan Crete’ Dr. Andrew Shapland (British Museum)
Lecture, 16 November 5pm: Dr Maude Vanhaelen (Warwick), 'Renaissance scholars and their demons: on Ficino and Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis' (Society for Neo-Latin Studies annual lecture)
Housman Masterclass: Eric Csapo (Tuesday 19 February, 2.30pm)
Housman lecture 2013: Eric Csapo (20 February 2013 at 6pm)
Conference: Paths of Song: Interactions between Greek Lyric and Tragedy (11-13 April 2013)
Conference: Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts (16-18 April 2013)
Cinema 2013: screening of silent films in Bloomsbury Theatre (3 May 2013)
Lecture, 8 May 6pm: Dr Peter Meineck (NYU), 'The Theatre that Moved the Soul: Understanding the Power of Ancient Greek Drama through Modern Cognitive Science'
Panel discussion: Myth and Mythology (UCL Festival of Arts): 16 May, 1:00pm
London Summer School in Classics: 9-18 July 2013
Conference: The Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond (12-13 August 2013)
Conference: The Platonic Letters: Readings and Receptions (2-4 September 2013)
Conference: Greek Literary Epigram: From the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Era (11-13 September 2013)
Lectures and Conferences 2013-14
Conference: Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (24-26 June 2014)
Conference: Reading the Archaic Lyric Fragments (2-4 July 2014)
Conference: Audacibus adnue coeptis. New approaches to Virgil’s Georgics (early July 2014)
Lectures and Conferences 2011-12
Keeling Colloquium 7-9 November 2011
A Theatre of Justice: aspects of Graeco-Roman oratory and rhetorics 19-20 April 2012
Cicero Awayday - 30th May 2012
Olympics: Sport and competition in Greece and Rome - 14-15 June 2012
Iambus and Elegy - 11-13 July 2012
Educating the Future Generation: teaching, learning, and antiquity 13-14 September 2012
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