Book Launch of McOndo Revisited by Dr. Thomas Nulley-Valdés
Book launch
Please join us to celebrate the publication of McOndo Revisited by Dr. Thomas Nulley-Valdés The controversial McOndo anthology, edited by Chileans Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, was envisaged as a forceful contestation of local and global perceptions of Latin American literature…
Order and Disorder: Aspects of Homeric Hospitality
Seminar
Homeric hospitality is a total social phenomenon in which interactions with the ‘other’ are regulated to maintain social order and to confer mutual benefits on guest and host alike. The theatre of social interactions in Homeric society is the oikos. The underpinning principles of paradigmatic…
Wellspring Series: Kaja-warnu-jangka / From the bush
Arts & entertainment
Kaja-warnu-jangka / ‘From the bush’Kaja-warnu-jangka / ‘From the bush’ brings stories from the remote Warlpiri communities of Australia’s Northern Territory to Canberra, offering insight into two Warlpiri elders’ life journeys, their continued resilience and their connection to Country.A…
The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship in Latin Literature
Seminar
The Muse is part of the furniture of classical poetry. By the time of Virgil, we barely notice she is there, and her importance as a repository of poetic tradition seems scaled back. But what difference does it make that Roman poetry tended to be composed with a 'real' muse in the room, an enslaved…
Film Screening of Agora (2009) followed by Q&A
Arts & entertainment
The Centre for Classical Studies would like to invite you to a free viewing of the acclaimed 2009 film Agora followed by a Q&A with our expert panel. Interested students, staff and community members all welcome. 5:15-7:30 Film Screening 7:30-8:30pm Q&A Speakers Dr…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - October
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength…
Plautus in space: comic discourse and the expansion of Rome
Seminar
It is well established that the defeat over Carthage in the 2nd Punic War marks a watershed moment for Roman and wider Mediterranean history. The centripetal force of Rome as the capital of a budding empire caused the remarkable creation of a literature in Latin by low-status non-Romans who…