#classical receptions

[drtonykeen]

Screening Britannia: Roman Britain in Film & Television - full course

Learn about how the Roman province of Britannia has been depicted in cinema and television drama over the past century, with Tony Keen.

I have delayed the start of my MANCENT course on Roman Britain on film for two weeks, due to health reasons. It will now run 18 September - 27 November. Tickets still available. All sessions recorded, so you don't have to attend live if it's inconvenient.

[peachy-lutin]

I never thought that my classics degree would involve watching and analysing epic rap battles of history. Yet here we are.

[drtonykeen]

Coming in July - an online course on cinema and the ancient world, led by me.

[drtonykeen]

A National Gallery tour

[This is a post I originally put on my OU blog on 25 August 2010. I'm reposting it here so non-OU students and colleagues of mine can see it...

New post on Memorabilia Antonina, but really an old post.

[enluminen]

A characteristic traditionally displayed by tragic heroes, to give an example, is Hubris - excessive pride in the face of the gods. This, in the classical world of myriad jealous and interfering deities whose interests often conflict with one another's, can be seen as an admirable, if ill-advised, quality. Pride in a Christian context, however, is the cause behind the original sin, and to display it in the face of God is to commit outrageous blasphemy. The contradictions inherent in the idea of a Christian tragedy are indicative of a greater cultural tension between the established religious order, centred upon faith, and the newly flourishing humanism, largely defined by its revisiting of classical art and philosophy, centred upon knowledge.

Andrew Duxfield, "Resolve me of all ambiguities": Doctor Faustus and the Failure to Unify

[antonispetrides]

Our heroic debate with the Eumenides: a synopsis of the conference

On December 21–22, 2014, the Eumenides Project, under the auspices of the Open University of Cyprus and with the generous support of the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, organised an international conference on the reception of ancient Greek tragedy in Modern Greek theatre and literature (details on the programme of the conference can be found here). The conference, which was practically the…

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