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Institute of Classical Studies
The national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in Classics and related disciplines throughout the UK and abroad.
Institute of Classical Studies
The national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in Classics and related disciplines throughout the UK and abroad.
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Michael Scott, whose BBC documentary series 'Invisible Cities' delved beneath Naples, Rome and Athens - amongst other cities - talks about his experiences at Herculaneum and examines what else may yet be uncovered.
In 79CE, the seaside town of Hercu...
Professor Rita Volpe, Roma Tre University
On January 14 1506 the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognized at once as the same work of art which Pliny the Elder consid...
Speaker: Anthony Corbeill, University of Virginia
In 56 BCE Cicero, orator and statesman, was enjoying his first Roman spring since returning from exile. April brought terrestrial rumblings north of Rome. The senate chose to investigate, enlisting E...
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ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom
Dr Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida
(Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella)
Sixty years of continuous a...
Why do we need Monsters?
Today we worry about chimaeras - organisms created by combining genes from more than one species - and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets, just as nineteenth-century novelists placed them in the...
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Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter
Professor Edith Hall
(King's College London)
J P Barron Memorial Lecture
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Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter
Professor Edith Hall
(King's College London)
J P Barron Memorial Lecture
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Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence
Professor Joseph Maran
(University of Heidelberg)
Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture
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Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine
Paolo Carafa
(La Sapienza, Rome)
Since 1985 we have been investigating the northern slopes of the Palatine, aiming to recover its physical lay-out, and...
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Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past
Professor Greg Woolf
(Director of the Institute of Classical Studies)
Professor Greg Woolf's research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the ve...
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The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta
Dr Stella Chrysoulaki
The rescue excavations at Faliron are carried out by the Ephorate of West Attica, Piraeus and the Islands since 2012 at the area, where the Stavros Ni...
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ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture
What ever happened to the barbarian?
Thomas Harrison
(University of St Andrews)
John Penrose Barron Memorial Lecture
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Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century
Professor Gregory Crane
(Tufts; Leipzig)
ST Lee Fellow in round table discussion with Dr Imre Galambos (Cambridge), Professor Eleanor Robson...
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A.D.Trendall Lecture
Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia
Thomas Carpenter
(Ohio)
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A.D.Trendall Lecture
Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia
Thomas Carpenter
(Ohio)
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T.B.L Webster Lecture
Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy
Eric Csapo
(Sydney)
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Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory
Isabella Colpo
(Universit degli Studi di Padova)
London Roman Art seminar
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Women Writing the Classics
Rome-London Lecture
Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo
Vincent Jolivet
Rediscovered at the end of the XXth century, and systematically excavated since 2...
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Women Writing the Classics Seminar
Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose
Elizabeth Cook
Salley Vickers
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Women Writing the Classics
Classics in Contemporary Drama
Chair: Nick Lowe (RHUL)
Phyllis Brighouse (Liverpool)
By Jove theatre company