The Department of Classics at Reading is delighted to present an online seminar series to accompany the exhibition Troy: Beauty and Heroism, at the Ure Museum in Spring 2020. This series of presentations from Reading Classics’ own scholars, as well as some special guests, explore the interconnectedness of ideas about beauty and heroism in relation to the epic tradition and its reception, throughout antiquity. Interested individuals are welcome to join us online via Teams Wednesdays at 4pm, from 27 January to 25 March.<\/p>\n
27 January \u2013 Ian Rutherford (Reading) Beauty, Proportion and the Canon: What did the Greeks borrow from Egypt?<\/p>\n
3 February \u2013 Amy Smith (University of Reading) Beauty and Heroism in the Amazonomachy<\/p>\n
10 February \u2013 Claudina Romero Mayorga (University of Reading) Who’s the fairest of them all? The Judgement of Paris in Etruscan mirrors<\/p>\n
17 February \u2013 Barbara Goff (University of Reading) Helens: Speeches and silences<\/p>\n
24 February \u2013 Signe Barfoed (University of Oslo\/Reading) The white teeth of a boar of gleaming tusks: Boar-hunt and warrior ethos in Homer’s world<\/p>\n
3 March \u2013 Oliver Baldwin (University of Reading) Penelope: Inward and outward beauty<\/p>\n
10 March \u2013 James Lloyd (University of Reading) Alexander the Great and the music of Paris and Achilles<\/p>\n
17 March \u2013 Sonya Nevin (Panoply\/University of Roehampton) Beauty and Heroism in Panoply’s Our Mythical Childhood animations<\/p>\n
25 March \u2013 Sophia Papaioannou (University of Athens) The Charming Artistry of Competitive Performance in Nonnus’ *Dionysiaca* 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"