News and Events

News

• 31/01/2014 - Francesca Richards has been awarded a grant from the Classical Association for schools workshops and public events in June 2014.

• 12/12/2013 - Nora Goldschmidt's new book, Shaggy Crowns: Ennius’ Annales and Virgil’s Aeneid, has been published by OUP.

• 04/09/2013 - Sarah Burges Watson's article Muses of Lesbos or (Aeschylean) Muses of Pieria? Orpheus’ Head on a Fifth-century Hydria has been published in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 53 (2013) 441–460.

Events

• Public engagement event: Saturday 28th June 12-4pm Who Was Homer? - a free event featuring award-winning author Gillian Cross. For details see https://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/whowashomer/

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Archived

News

• 13/04/2013 - Barbara Graziosi presented the project Living Poets as part of the festival Classici Contro in the Teatro Olimpico and the Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza. For further information, photographs, and media coverage, see http://lettere2.unive.it/flgreca/CCRSt.htm

• 24/02/2013 - Nick White’s article “Training Tesseract for Ancient Greek OCR” has been published in Eutypon 28-29.

Events

• Verity Platt gave a paper on ‘The Greek Artist in the Roman Imagination’ at the Institute of Classical Studies, London on 5th March 2014.

• Barbara Graziosi presented a paper entitled ‘The Book of Songs and Homer Compared’ at Beijing University on 14-15 April 2014.

• Nora Goldschmidt and Barbara Graziosi presented a panel at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting on 4th January 2014, entitled ‘Tombs of the Poets: The Material Reception of Ancient Literature’

• Francesca Richards presented a paper entitled ‘The Spennymoor Odyssey’ at Corpus Christi, Oxford on 30th November 2013 as part of the Classics in Communities conference.

• Nora Goldschmidt gave a paper entitled ‘Epic Examples: Ennius and Virgil’ at the University of St Andrews on 12 October 2013

• Nora Goldschmidt presented a paper entitled ‘Reading the ‘Implied Author’ in Lucretius’ De rerum natura’ at the University of Edinburgh on 30 September - 1 October 2013.

• Nora Goldschmidt and Andrew Laird gave papers on representations of Virgil at the University of Cambridge on 5-7 September 2013

• Barbara Graziosi spoke about Homer in the European imagination at the University of Uppsala on 16 June 2013

• Barbara Graziosi delivered a lecture on Petrarch’s sense of time (and Walcott’s) at the Institute of Advanced Study, on 18 February 2013, 1 pm.