Floodtide’s five star production of The Cure at Troy, Seamus Heaney’s
version of the Philoctetes, is back in the Autumn. The critically
acclaimed production, described by the Independent as 'a vibrant example
of how Greek preoccupations can still get under twentieth century skins'
is back for three weeks only at the Cockpit theatre, London, from 6th
September.
Advance booking is now open for individuals and groups.
More information about the production, including reviews and photographs,
can be seen at http://www.floodtide.org.uk/The%20Cure%20at%20Troy.htm.
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Chers amis,
Pour ceux parmi vous qui lisent le grec moderne (ou au moins le grec ...),
je signale le Colloque "Pensee pythagoricienne et raison scientifique"
organise par le Departement de mathematiques de l'Universite d'Egee et par
la municipalite de Pythagoreion a Samos du 2 au 4 septembre 2005.
Au site indique ci-dessous vous pouvez trouver le programme complet du
Colloque, ainsi que les resumes des communications.
http://www.math.aegean.gr/pythagoras/
Cordiales salutations,
Constantinos Macris.
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Visualising Epic
University of Nottingham, 6-8 September 2005
Places still available! See
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/research/visualising_epic/home.phtml
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Organisers: Helen Lovatt and Carrie Vout
An interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersection between
ancient epic and the visual in the broadest possible sense: reading epics
themselves as visual, exploring ancient visual representations of epic and
modern receptions of epic in film and the visual arts. We aim to bring
together classicists and art historians to think about how epic is
visualised and made visual. What are the problems and contradictions of
huge narrative texts as visual art?
Programme
Tuesday 6th September
Session 1: 2-3.30 Looking Back on Epic
Lizzie Speller (Author of Following Hadrian)
Troy before Gallipoli
Jo Paul (Bristol)
Filming the Olympians: Anxieties and Alterations
Session 2: 4-6 Visualising Trojan Myths
Jennifer Ledig Heuser (Harvard)
Painting History: The Construction of a Roman Myth-History from Trojan Epic
Anne Rogerson (Cambridge)
'O*imago': Seeing the Past and Future in Virgil's Aeneid
Sophia Papaioannou (Cyprus)
Visualising, Viewing and Reading Troy: Depicting the Trojan War in the
Aeneid
8.30-9.30: Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway)
Little Iliads: The Matter of Troy in Popular Media
Wednesday 7th September
Session 1: 9-10.30 Painting Epic
Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham)
Split-screen Aficionados: Hercules on top of Troy in the House of Loreius
Tiburtinus in Pompeii
Richard Wrigley and Nick Alfrey (Nottingham)
Epic displaced: Lethiere's 'Homer singing the Iliad outside the gates of
Athens' (1811) (Nottingham Castle Museum)
Session 2: 11-1.00 Post-Virgilian Visions
Martin Dinter (Cambridge)
Lucan's Epic Vision
Ruth Parkes (Oxford)
Dark Times: Problems of Sight in Statius' Thebaid
Emma Buckley (Cambridge)
Visualising Valerius
Session 3: 2.30-4 Gendered Readings of Epic
Helen Morales (Cambridge)
Homer as pornography?
Lynn Kozak (Nottingham)
Problems with Pretty Boys: Beauty and Heroic Masculinity in the Iliad
Session 4: 4.30-6 Epic on Film
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh)
Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Creates the Ancient World
Janett Morgan (Bristol)
An Epic Mistake? Visualising the Palaces of Homer
8.30-9.30: Tom Holland (Author of Rubicon)
No Historians in Paradise: Xerxes' Invasion as a Work of Art
Thursday 8th September
Session 1: 9-10.30 Monumentality
Ivana Petrovic (Giessen)
Literary Critic and Visual Art: Is Homer Monumental Sculpture?
Brent Hannah (Cornell)
Dactylic Marble: Virtual Architecture in Virgil and Silius
Session 2: 11-1 New Perspectives on Epic
Jack Mitchell (Stanford)
Aristarchus and the DVD: the Visual Nature of the Homeric (and Tolkeinian)
lemma
Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham)
Storyboarding the Aeneid
Michael Bywater (Author of Lost Worlds)
Gilgamesh, Pliny, Zork: Naïve & Sentimental Readings of Epic
Session 3: 2-3.30 The End of the Aeneid
Yasmin Syed (Berkeley)
Visual Elements in Epic Narrative: The end of the Aeneid and the temple of
Janus
Marsha McCoy (Yale)
War, Memory and Transformation in the Forum Augustum
Session 4: 4-5 Discussion
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The fourth meeting of the Cicero Awayday will be held on June 8th 2006 at
Glasgow University. Speakers will include Kathryn Tempest, Henriette van
der Blom, and Jaap Wisse.
Offers of papers, on any aspect of Cicero, together with a brief abstract,
should be sent to Catherine Steel by October 31st 2005, from whom further
details about the Awayday are available.
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Le Clay Mathematical Institute organise un
colloque a Oxford les 7 et 8 octobre sur les
Eléments d'Euclide et leur transmission. Des
precisions peuvent etre trouvees a
http://www.claymath.org/euclid
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Full details (programme and booking form) about the forthcoming conference
'Parallelism in Plutarch's Lives', September 1-3, 2005 at
University
College Cork, Ireland
are now available on the department website, www.ucc.ie/academic/classics/
For more information contact:
Dr Noreen Humble
Dept. of Classics
University College, Cork
Ireland
phone: +353-21-4902564
fax: +353-21-4903277
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS
5th POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT COURSE
THE HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY OF THE GREEK SANCTUARY
An eight week intensive, residential course:
Monday 16 JANUARY to Sunday 12 MARCH, 2006
Full details of the Course and the Application Form are available on
www.bsa.gla.ac.uk
Archive of list messages may be found at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/classicsgrads
Visit the same site to change your subscription settings.
Conference listings etc. can be found at:
http://www.classicsinfo.org
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