Classics News and Events

Emmy Stavropolou writes '(Un)dressing Eteocles: A performative approach to the Labdacids' Curse', a discussion of a central scene in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes.

28.02 - Research seminar: Oculus 01.02, 4pm

 ‘Queer tales of getting lost in Republican poetry’

2.03 -Public lecture and reception: Oculus 0.03, 6.15pm

 ‘Disorienting Empire: Poetry and Imperial

Expansion in Ancient Rome’

Prof. Dufallo is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s Transition to a Principate (Ohio State University Press, 2007) and The Captor’s Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (Oxford University Press, 2013) and has edited, with Peggy McCracken, Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Current projects, to be explored during the Warwick Fellowship, include a book - Founding Error: Wandering and Roman Expansion in Republican Latin Poetry - and an edited volume, Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws, forthcoming in the Classical Presences series at OUP (February, 2018). These twin volumes investigate the processes of disorientation or getting lost in Roman Republican texts, and consider how these processes express ambivalent attitudes toward Rome’s rapid imperial expansion in the 3rd-1st centuries BCE. 

James Currie discusses the coinage of the slave rebel Eunus, later king, in November's coin of the month.

Ancient meets modern in this conversation about the relevance and power of tokens in human society, part of the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean Project.

Dr Michael Scott, Associate Professor in the department, discusses links between his research and teaching, bringing his work to a wider audience through outreach activities and what's special about Warwick in this recent 'Two minutes with' video created by Warwick Internal Comms. Click here to watch.