Analysis
- Overview
- Schedule
- Practicalities
- Chart
- Stories
The fresh new in our very successful selection of symposia, this residential event will talk about the history and you will people out-of ancient Greece. In the a program that aims one another to share with and you may captivate, finest historians deliver discussions to the particularly themes since democracy, citizenship, warfare, technical, myth, religion, artwork, gender and you can offense. They promise to introduce new information and you will the fresh thought, incorporating along with, depth, sense and detail to the knowledge of Greek civilisation.
The superb Castle Hotel, Taunton, is all of our machine. Prominent for 
the provider, conveniences and you may cool catering, this has been possessed and focus on by Chapman family to possess over 60 decades. The latest symposium happens in the music Area.
The audio system are: Teacher Paul Cartledge, Professor Tony Freeth, Teacher Edith Hall, Teacher Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Professor Tony Spawforth, Professor Emma Stafford, Professor James Robson and you will Dr Alexandra Villing.
Sound system
Teacher Paul Cartledge. A.G. Leventis Older Research Other out-of Clare College, Cambridge, and Emeritus A good.Grams. Leventis Professor out of Greek Society regarding Faculty of Classics, School out-of Cambridge. He’s a keen Honorary Citizen regarding (modern) Sparta and keeps the fresh new Gold Get across of Acquisition away from Honor given by Chairman of the Hellenic Republic.
Professor Tony Freeth. Honorary Teacher throughout the Dept away from Physical Technologies, College or university College London area. A creator member of the Antikythera System Scientific study, from inside the 2000, the guy advised and you can organised the latest medical testing into Device. The outcomes revolutionised Antikythera lookup.
Professor Edith Hall. Teacher about Agencies away from Classics and you may Old Records at Durham University. An expert from inside the ancient greek language literary works, this woman is and additionally a world-well-known scholar from ethnicity, group and you may gender inside ancient source, out of old movies, and of the latest instrumentality out-of ancient records when you look at the globe people since this new Renaissance.
Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Retains brand new Couch within the Ancient Background during the Cardiff School. They are most popular to have their work with the newest sphere out-of Ancient Record and Persian Education. He could be co-editor away from Greek Notions of the past on Archaic and Classical Eras together with Hellenistic Judge; co-composer of The new Greeks within War and author of Models to your going back: Exactly how Movie industry Created the Ancient Business one of almost every other courses.
Teacher James Robson. Professor out of Ancient Training within Open University, where their knowledge encompasses Greek and you will Latin vocabulary and literary works and you will public history of Ancient Athens, with a particular focus on funny, myth, humour and you will intercourse. His books are Aristophanes: An introduction and you will Gender and you may Sexuality into the Ancient Athens.
Teacher Tony Spawforth. Emeritus Teacher from Ancient Background during the Newcastle School. Good historian and you will broadcaster providing services in inside Greek and you will Roman antiquity and you may into the rulers’ courts. When you look at the 2018, the guy published The story out-of Greece and you may Rome. Almost every other courses through the Done Greek Temples and Greece: A keen Oxford Archaeological Book.
Professor Emma Stafford. Professor off Greek Culture at University of Leeds. She is composer of several works on Greek misconception, faith and iconography, and you may planner of the Hercules Project: a hero for everyone Years (herculesproject.leeds.air cooling.uk), and you may co-editor of your own project’s four volumes on article-Traditional receptions from Herakles.
Dr Alexandra Villing. Curator of one’s Greek collections from the United kingdom Museum’s Agency away from Greece and you can Rome, in which she recently co-curated the newest expo ‘Troy: Myth and you can Reality’. The lady look focuses on new communication between Greece and you will neighbouring cultures in the 1st century BC, on what this lady has penned widely. She’s got in earlier times excavated for the western Poultry and you will already sends an effective significant look and you may fieldwork venture towards Egyptian-Greek change port out of Naukratis on the Nile Delta.
Conversations
Sparta: Just how Unusual? Professor Paul Cartledge There are regarding a lot of ancient greek ‘cities’ at which Sparta is certainly probably the most powerful and you will influential. But how additional – otherwise in fact unusual – was just about it extremely?