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Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 19: Arms and Armour

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24th January 20201st February 2020

…. 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 >

Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 19: Arms and Armour

Reginald Percy Austin (1900-1943)

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24th January 202020th March 2020

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

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17th January 20201st February 2020

“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 18: The Bronze Artemis

Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 17. Kephisodotos

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10th January 20201st February 2020

“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 >

Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 17. Kephisodotos

Vivian (Whitfield) Wade-Gery (1897-1988)

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6th January 20204th October 2020

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

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5th January 20201st February 2020

… 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 >

Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 16: Pots, Whole and Broken

Caroline Amy Hutton (1861-1931)

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3rd January 20206th May 2021

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 >

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