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With @PatBarkerbooks, Paula Shields, @colinmurphyinfo, Conor Hanratty, @BrigidLaffan, @mark_mellett, Tobias Winright, David O'Shea, @MU_Classics @UCDClassics @KerryLPhelan, @CormacKinsella, @Lit_Ireland, @IFI_Dub, @RIAMDublin and all our fab volunteers. classicsnow.ie

A terrific close for our festival with @DAMendelsohnNYC and #BelindaMcKeon. Thanks to all our artists, partners, the @artscouncil_ie, and to our fantastic audiences last weekend @IrishMezzo @drangiehobbs @JoeHumphreys42 @officialnhaynes @ClassicalAssoc1 @TCDClassics @NCH_Music

Join us for a rare opportunity to see #Iphigenia (1977) from celebrated Greek film and stage director, Michael Cacoyannis, based on #Euripides. A sweeping drama of Iphigenia's sacrifice by her father Agamemnon to appease the gods. Sun 1 Feb, 3pm @IFI_Dub: classicsnow.ie/2026-events/ip…

How to hold a dialogue when there's disagreement? In her latest book on #Plato @drangiehobbs asks what we can learn from him about peaceful co-existence. Join her and @JoeHumphreys42 to discuss one of the most influential #Greek philosophers. Sat Jan 31st: classicsnow.ie/2026-events/an…

What are the rules of war? Who will hold belligerents to account? Our highly topical post-show discussion with @mark_mellett @KerryLPhelan and #TobiasWinright will be chaired by Prof Brigid Laffan @BrigidLaffan @NCH_Music @MU_Classics @colinmurphyinfo @ClassicalAssoc1 #Thucydides

It's Epic: @DAMendelsohnNYC discusses his acclaimed new translation of Homer's #Odyssey and his life in #Classics with novelist Belinda McKeon. Sunday Feb 1st, 6.30pm, Royal Irish Academy of Music. Supported by @Lit_Ireland @ClassicalAssoc1 Booking here: riam.ie/whats-on/danie…

Palace whispers: @PatBarkerbooks joins us online to talk about Agamemnon's fateful return from Troy to Mycenae, & her whole enthralling #TrojanWar trilogy, with arts journalist Paula Shields. #Iliad #TrojanWomen #Cassandra Sunday Feb 1st. Watch online: classicsnow.ie/2026-events/pa…

We're so looking forward to this! At Whyte Recital Hall, RIAM, Sat 31 January, 7pm. #Medea #GreekMyth

Remember Me: the doomed love affair between Dido Queen of Carthage and Trojan hero, Aeneas, has inspired music, poetry and painting down the centuries. #Virgil #Purcell Join @IrishMezzo, Conor Hanratty & David O'Shea for 'Dido's Lament', Fri 30 Jan. Book: riam.ie/whats-on/class…

What would Plato say? Public philosopher @drangiehobbs' new book explores Plato's thinking about abuses of political power and how public life can flourish. This and much more, Sat 31 Jan, with @JoeHumphreys42 @IrishTimes #Unthinkable #philosophy Booking: classicsnow.ie

The Negotiation: award-winning playwright @colinmurphyinfo examines questions of war and peace, justifications for invasion and conquest in his gripping adaptation from Greek historian #Thucydides. Panel chaired by @BrigidLaffan @NCH_Music Friday 30 Jan: nch.ie/all-events-lis…

Fantastic news! Congratulations to #FerdiaLennon, who was a guest at our festival in January. @ClassicsUCD @ClassicalAssoc1 @MU_Classics @TCDClassics

Save the Date! Our sixth festival is on its way, in Dublin and online. Keep 30 January ‐ 1 February free and look out for exciting programme announcements here in the coming weeks. @ClassicalAssoc1 @ClassicsUCD @TCDClassics @MU_Classics @ClassCivAncHist classicsnow.ie

'The Odyssey, with its stinks and stenches, its pigsties and drugged dinner parties, its beggars and bards, is not so high-flown as the Iliad.' A. E. Stallings: The epic of homecoming in a new translation #Echobox=1758211064" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the-tls.com/classics/greek…

Fantastic time talking the continuing power of ancient myth and literature to help us think about modern anxieties with interviewer Vincent Woods and author Yiannis Gabriel last night in Dublin. The city went wild because Ireland won the rugby !

With Andrew Synnott @synnottandrew and Megan Kennedy @JunkEnsemble (pictured above) @RIAMDublin, Gavin Kostick, Conall Morrison, @KerryLPhelan @IFI_Dub, Clare Pollard, Ferdia Lennon, Raphael Khouri, Myrto Stampoulou, #TheCollective, #AtticProjects, Vincent Woods and Tanya Dean

Our 2025 festival finished last night on a high! @lukemurphyattic Thanks to all our artists and guests, our partners, @artscouncil_ie and to our fantastic audiences over the weekend @edithmayhall @YiannisGabriel @GI_Irland @TCDClassics @MU_Classics @ClassicsUCD @ClassicalAssoc1

Opening this weekend! Join us in Dublin for discussions and performances. Limited tickets available for some events. @YiannisGabriel @edithmayhall #ClarePollard #FerdiaLennon #RaphaelKhouri #Myth #Epic @ClassicalAssoc1 @IFI_Dub Funded by @artscouncil_ie classicsnow.ie

Join us for new episodes of Gavin Kostick's dynamic version of Homer's #Odyssey: In the House of Alcinous with composer Andrew Synnott, Gavin Kostick and dance artist Megan Kennedy, on Sunday, February 2nd, 12.30pm @RIAMDublin #Myth #Epic Booking here: riam.ie/whats-on/the-o…

Set in Chicago among rival gangs, Spike Lee's urgent Chi-Raq will be introduced by @KerryLPhelan, Lecturer @MU_Classics, on Sunday February 2nd, 3.40pm @IFI_Dub #StrikeAgainstViolence #Lysistrata #Aristophanes #GreekDrama @ClassicalAssoc1 Booking here: ifi.ie/film/ifi-class…