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Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

27 Mar 2019

Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.

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Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity

02 Aug 2018

Epic poems telling of cultures colliding, deeply conflicted identities and a fast-changing world were written by the Greeks under Roman rule in the...

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Federico Barocci’s portrayal of Aeneas fleeing the burning Troy, from 1598

Enter the world of Aeneas in a powerful new drama

29 Jan 2014

With powerful themes of anger, hate, devotion, love, death and survival, a new play tells the story of one of the great heroes of the Classical world...

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Christos Tsirogiannis as Achilles and Gail Trimble as Thetis James Willetts

Meet a flawed hero in Greek drama brought alive

15 Feb 2013

Many of us have seen blockbuster movies based on the stories told in Homer’s epic poems. Now there’s a rare chance to see an accessible dramatisation...

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JVC-HA-F150W

History’s great books meet today’s technology

17 Apr 2012

A lecture series by Sidney Sussex College about great ideas and works is now available on iTunes.

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A manuscript of Samuel Butler’s translation of the ancient Greek poem, the Odyssey (Butler/II/3/4).

‘Picture This #6′ – Samuel Butler's translation of the 'Odyssey', St John's College.

28 Sep 2011

Samuel Butler was a man with big ideas and a big imagination. He wrote on literature, science, art and religion, always thinking outside the box and...

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