Presented by Prof Patrick Finglass (University of Nottingham) as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series

All are welcome to attend this seminar. After the talk, informal discussion will continue over light refreshments in the Classics Museum.

This paper investigates the new papyrus of Sophocles Tereus published in June 2016. From Oxyrhynchus in Egypt and dated to the early second century AD, this papyrus sheds considerable light on Sophocles' drama, which portrayed the vengeance taken by the Athenian princess Procne and her sister Philomela on Procne’s husband, the Thracian Tereus, who had raped Philomela while bringing her to Thrace. The papyrus also allows us to draw new connections between Sophocles’ Tereus and other tragedies, such as Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Euripides’ Medea and Iphigenia in Tauris.

Prof Finglass began to learn Greek and Latin at King Edward's School, Birmingham. After graduating in Literae Humaniores (i.e. Classics) from St John's College, Oxford, in 2001, he took his doctorate at All Souls College, Oxford, where he remained a Fellow. In 2006, Prof Finglass was appointed to a Lectureship in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham, and in 2012 became Professor of Greek.

Inquiries: adrienne.white@anu.edu.aujohn.nash@anu.edu.au

Image: Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itys (1636–38). Rubens