Posts tagged with ‘classics’
Fate, luck and fortune: popular narratives of environmental risk
The Department of Classics (University of Nottingham) and the Department of History (University of Liverpool) present ‘Fate, luck and fortune: narratives of environmental risk’. How do we talk about the risks of our environment? Who do we blame when things go wrong? Last in a series of three workshops.
Tags: classics, climate change, Department of classics, environment, Georgina Endfield, history, research, sustainability, University of Liverpool
Fate, luck and fortune: political narratives of environmental risk
The Department of Classics (University of Nottingham) and the Department of History (University of Liverpool) present ‘Fate, luck and fortune: narratives of environmental risk’. How do we talk about the risks of our environment? Who do we blame when things go wrong?
Tags: classics, climate change, Department of classics, environment, Georgina Endfield, history, research, sustainability, University of Liverpool
Fate, luck and fortune: historical narratives of environmental risk
The Department of Classics (University of Nottingham) and the Department of History (University of Liverpool) present ‘Fate, luck and fortune: narratives of environmental risk’. How do we talk about the risks of our environment? Who do we blame when things go wrong?
Tags: classics, climate change, Department of classics, environment, Georgina Endfield, history, research, sustainability, University of Liverpool
Epic journeys
Professor Helen Lovatt, Department of Classics, gives this inaugural lecture discussing how ancient epic uses the idea of the journey, and how these journeys were used in later cultures.
Tags: classics, Department of classics, epic, Greek, Helen Lovatt, inaugural lecture, mythology, poetry, public lecture, roman
The Enigma of Late Hellenistic and Roman Crete: Unanswered Questions
The first Colloquium on Roman Crete Conference will focus on the theme, “The Enigma of Late Hellenistic and Roman Crete: Unanswered Questions”.
Tags: archaeology, classics, conference, history, roman, roman archaeology
Girl with all the Gifts = Pandora? Greek mythology in Mike Carey’s Melanie-stories
Dr Lynn Fotheringham, Department of Classics and part of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, gives this talk exploring the link between the Pandora figure in Greek mythology and upcoming film The Girl with all the Gifts, based on the novel by MR Carey.
Tags: CADRE, Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, classics, culture, Department of classics, Drama, film, Lynn Fotheringham, popular culture, public lecture, theatre
Caroline Lawrence and the power of sadness – or, Virgil for reluctant readers
This lecture from Dr Helen Lovatt focuses on This lecture focuses on Lawrence’s adventurous choices in adapting the Aeneid for young readers. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series.
Tags: children, classics, Department of classics, family, Greek, Helen Lovatt, lieterature, mythology, poetry, pop culture, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series
“This is Sparta!”: representing Ancient Greece in films and comics
Lynn Fotheringham and Stephen Hodkinson, Department of Classics, present the lecture ‘This is Sparta! Representing Ancient Greece in films and comics’. Part of the Popular Culture Lecture Series. Art by Tomer Hanuka.
Tags: classics, Department of classics, film, literature, Lynn Fotheringham, Popular Culture Lecture Series, Stephen Hodkinson