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Revision as of 15:11, 28 November 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. You can read more about the project, or dive straight in to one of:

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.



A 17th Century depiction of Homer, by an unknown painter. Homer is shown holding a text with the names of cities that claimed him as a native, written in Latin. Read more.