The Use and Abuse of the Classical Tradition - 22/01/2016, Warwick (England)

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The Use and Abuse of the Classical Tradition

Friday 22nd January 1-6pm

Bobby Xinyue, Department of Classics & Ancient History: Augustus, Ovid’s Fasti, and the French monarchy in the mid-seventeenth century Vicky Jewell, PhD student, Department of Classics & Ancient History: Representations of the Acropolis in the art of the 1830s Clare Siviter, PhD student, Department of French Studies: The (re)birth of ‘la tragédie classique’ John McKeane, Department of French Studies, The University of Reading: Defining democratic tragedy in post-war Europe Alison Cooley, Department of Classics and Ancient History: Latin inscriptions in the Ashmolean - the story beyond the Arundel Collection John Gilmore, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies: “In manu portat citharam sinistrâ”; Translation into Latin and Chinese literature as world literature: Some Latin versions of poems from the Confucian Book of Songs

Response and Final Discussion led by Prof Alastair Blanshard