Queer Tragic Masks: LGBT History and Ancient Drama

Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire

Join Oliver Baldwin, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, for a public lecture on how performances of ancient tragedies have been used to tell LGBT+ stories. Since the 1969...Read More >

Locus Ludi: Anyone can play!

Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology Department Of Classics, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire

The Ure Museum and Classics Department are delighted to announce the launch of its latest major exhibition — Locus Ludi: Anyone can play!—on display at the Ure Museum from 6 September until 30 November, 2023....Read More >

Sensation or Science? Monsters Ancient and Modern

Reading Museum Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire

Join Professors Emma Aston and Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading to explore how Classical myths worked their way into the monster science and monster stories of the modern...Read More >

Under the Bed and Among the Dead: Monsters in Ancient Egypt

Reading Museum Blagrave Street, Reading, Berkshire

Learn from Dr Jordan Miller from the University of Cambridge about the fearsome qualities of some famous (and lesser-known) supernatural beings from ancient Egypt, the situations in which ancient Egyptians...Read More >

Percy Ure Lecture 2024

Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire

Speaker: Professor Irene Lemos (Oxford), author of ground-breaking work on the Early Iron Age in Greece, the so-called 'Euboian koine', and the crucial site of Lefkandi on Euboia. More details...Read More >