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and of striking a mortal blow to Thomism. Defending Dante against Gilson’s accusations (and accusing Gilson, instead, of crimes against Thomism), this lecture argues for for a new Leonine renaissance of both Thomistic and Dante studies."

The event is free, open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception. Lecture abstract:

"The papal encyclical Praeclara Summorum (1921) celebrates Dante as the ‘disciple of St Thomas Aquinas’. By contrast, Étienne Gilson accused Dante in 1934 of two crimes against Aquinas >

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Thankyou very much to everyone who attended our events and to everyone who made them happen - we wish you all a restful holiday season and a happy new year!

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We also successfully launched a new annual event, the director's reception series, with a series of online lectures entitled "Oblique Classicisms / Hidden Histories." We have heard from three incredible speakers already, and are looking forward for the continuation of the series this coming March.

In November, we were delighted to welcome documentary maker and historical consultant Jonathan Stamp for our annual donors' celebration. Jonathan delivered a fascinating talk on Ancient Roman life and his experience working on HBO's "ROME".

At the end of October we also facilitated the launch of a new South West and Wales network for the Hellenic Society - we look forward to seeing what other collaborations and events come of this!

and only four days later we hosted a book launch for Connie Bloomfield-Gadelha and Edith Hall's volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature."

It explores how particular themes are instantiated across a range of imperial contexts, as well as offering carefully selected case studies for detailed analysis.

sophisticated analyses, though to date there has been a lack of significant scholarly engagement with geographical context. This volume explores the experiences of classical mirror and mask users across the Roman empire, from Gaul and Africa to Asia Minor and the Levant.

This book explores the ways in which masks and mirrors mediated encounters, enabled performances and effected visual and social metamorphoses across the Roman empire. The complex and multifaceted roles played by masks and mirrors in Roman culture has been the subject of several >

The lecture was followed by an engaging Q&A, and discussions continued during the drinks reception.

We were fascinated to learn about how his experience studying classics and his perspective on the ancient Roman mindset influenced his consultation for the series - and how the TV producers responded to his expertise!

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into the silhouettes of the characters, as a stiffness hindering movement as well as the very possibility of relationality. This stiffness, as I argue, can help us understand oblique classicism as an atmospheric overload, an unbearable sense of the unspeakable." #classicssky #ancientbluesky

I read the play alongside Laura (1944), the Otto Preminger film, which likewise stars Gene Tierney. I am interested in the formal feel of a dense uprightness, conceptualizable as horror itself, that seeps into human bodies, >

"In this talk, I illustrate one possible aesthetic facet of oblique classicism by theorizing possible intersections between Greek tragedy’s elemental horror/ism and noir aesthetics. Building on the connections that Bonnie Honig proposes between Euripides’ Hippolytus and Leave Her to Heaven (1945) >