…. On all sides martial array. Soldiers, well armed with lances and darts, Shield and cuirass, plumed helmet and greaves Aristophanes, The Frogs 1016-1017 While wandering through the market Leon…Read More >
Reginald Percy Austin (1900-1943)
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) Reginald Percy Austin came to University College Reading from his hometown in Cornwall in 1920, following a very brief period of war service…Read More >
Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 18: The Bronze Artemis
“I am a maiden of bronze” (Homeric Epigram 3) Leon wanted to see how his statuette was getting on so he made his way past the temple of Hephaestus, patron…Read More >
Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 17. Kephisodotos
“Thy favourite goddess, Artemis” (Euripides, Hippolytus 1394) A few days after Leon had talked with Eumares the carver he found himself in the sculptor’s quarters. He took out his tablet…Read More >
Vivian (Whitfield) Wade-Gery (1897-1988)
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) Born in Dublin, Vivian Whitfield studied at Trinity College Dublin, winning a Gold Medal for excelling in Classics. She attended Somerville College, Oxford…Read More >
Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 16: Pots, Whole and Broken
… the artist painted The vase with scenes funereal. Aristophanes, The Ecclesiazusae 997 Leon had noticed the ox-carts loaded with pink clay, which rumbled through the streets to the potters’…Read More >
Caroline Amy Hutton (1861-1931)
By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum) Born in New Zealand, Caroline Amy Hutton attended Girton College, Cambridge and studied Classics in the early 1880s. Like her contemporary at Girton…Read More >