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Revision as of 11:41, 18 October 2012

The aim of this project is to develop a new approach to classical poetry, based on how listeners and readers imagined the Greek and Roman poets.


News and Events

News & Events

  • Paola Bassino will be presenting a paper entitled The Tradition of the Contest between Homer and Hesiod on 11th September 2015 at the international conference Contests of Speech and Song, St Anne’s College, Oxford.
  • An exhibition entitled Face-to-Face Encounters with Ancient Authors: Portraits in Libraries is opening on 29th January 2015 at the History of the Book Gallery and Cosin's Library at Durham Palace Green Library.
  • Erika Taretto will be presenting a paper entitled Sites of Memory and Ancient Reception of Poets: Archilochos on Paros at the 146th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, January 8-11, 2015, New Orleans, LA.
  • Nora Goldschmidt will be presenting a paper entitled Authoring Virgil on 6th December 2014 at the Virgil Society, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
  • Nicholas Freer will be presenting a paper entitled Epicureanism and Vergil's Carthage Episode (Aeneid 1 and 4) on 19th November 2014, 11.30am, at the Classics and Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar, Palace Green 20, Durham University.
  • Barbara Graziosi will be presenting a paper entitled Homeros Kosmopolites: Homer, Citizen of the World on 15th November 2014 at the conference Odysseus Visiting the Capitals of Europe at the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana.
  • There will be a free event Who Was Homer? featuring award-winning author Gillian Cross on 28th June 2014, 12-4pm, in the Pemberton Building, Palace Green, Durham.
  • Francesca Richards has been awarded a grant from the Classical Association for schools workshops and public events in June 2014.