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The new book "Medea's Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts" edited by Ana Filipa Prata and Rodrigo Verano is an engaging collection that follows Medea 'into the conflictive territories of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and visual arts.' classicalreception.org/tracing-back-m…

Remember you can join Monday's poetry event with Kimberly Johnson reading from her #Virgil and #Hesiod translations (plus conversation with @ae_stallings) ONLINE as well as in person. 💻Visit apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/01… for the Zoom link!

EVENT REMINDER @APGRD will host an in-person event @hilda_beastoxf, 'The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the NT'. on 3 Feb. The event is free & inc. a talk by @wee_bookworm & Jess Richardson from @NationalTheatre. More info & tix here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-f…

The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre Discussions & digital content with Erin Lee Head of Archive, and Jess Richardson Head of Production & Content at the National Theatre Free but please book 5pm Mon 3 Feb @JdP_oxford eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-f…

Reminder of our first event in 2025! Reading by poet & translator Kimberly Johnson from her translations of #Virgil and #Hesiod, followed by a conversation with Professor of Poetry, A.E. Stallings 🕑 2pm UK time 📅 20 January 📍🌐 Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles #Oxford and online

What does the future hold for libraries, books, and archives? Join Richard Ovenden (@bodleianlibs) & Hermione Lee (@engfac) to explore these pressing questions. 🗓 18 Feb ⏰17:30 📍Wolfson College Free and open to all Free registration: shorturl.at/RIhaj

🎄 Just before we head off for Christmas, a date for your brand new diaries! 📅📑 Mon 20 January 2pm: Reading by poet & translator Kimberly Johnson (from translations of #Virgil and #Hesiod) followed by a conversation with Professor of Poetry, @ae_stallings 📍66 St Giles' Oxford

Attention #ClassicsTwitter 📣new and exciting items in our #StudyGuide for #UCLClassicalPlay2025 📷and a digital exhibition on Aristophanes at UCL 😊 tickets and more here: ucl.ac.uk/classics/class… @lucyruddiman @UofGClassics @bloomstheatre @GrandLat @APGRD

We've started our journey of discovery for a new project last week - Songs of Solidarity. Delighted to be working again with Marouf Majidi and with Maria Aberg from @ProjektEuropa who will be co-directing with our Artistic Director @josephine_dash. ⬇️

Catch up on Conor Hanratty in conversation with @edithmayhall on Na Peirsigh on the APGRD's YouTube channel, where they discuss directing Aeschylus' Persians in Irish, creative influences, and the visuals and soundscape of Na Peirsigh. youtu.be/s4dCwVMzWng?fe…

Have you signed up to receive A.E. Stallings' #poetry newsletter yet? In each newsletter, @ae_stallings explores a contemporary poem from a new book or anthology & explains what she admires about it. #poetrylovers #poetrytwitter english.web.ox.ac.uk/echolocations-…

🎭 Applications are now open for the summer 2025 Greek Theatre Program, run by @BADAONLINE (British American Drama Academy)! The course starts in London, visits Delphi, Nafplio & Athens, before finishing with a week with us at APGRD Oxford! Details at: bada.org.uk/study/greek-th…

Congratulations to all the contributors to the recently published Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Zoa Alonso Fernández and Sarah Olsen. Watch the book launch on our YouTube channel, with responses from Tom Sapsford and Sue Jones. youtube.com/watch?v=Cp6ZLS…

Did you miss writer-director Alexander Zeldin in conversation with Fiona Macintosh and Laura Swift about his adaptation of Antigone, The Other Place, earlier this term at the APGRD? Catch up with the event recording, now live on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/M3Y3z--jCmc?fe…

This term's in-conversation with Giovanna Di Martino, Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe) & Dave Carey (Chickenshed) is now live on our YouTube channel! They discuss the importance of inclusive theatre, community building & Aristophanes. youtu.be/GuQ0M7J2xV4?fe… via @YouTube

I was blown away by Conor Hanratty’s ‘Na Peirsigh’ in the Peacock last March, so it was a privilege to get an insight into the directorial decisions which led to him fusing the Irish-language tradition with the Ancient Greek so powerfully. 1/2 @AbbeyTheatre @edithmayhall

Congratulations to our colleagues at @retags_tragedy 🇿🇦 for publishing Making/Doing/Thinking: Methods for Performance Research, an important contribution to Practice as Research scholarship. Check out Making/Doing/Thinking, available open access: openbooks.uct.ac.za/uct/catalog/bo…