Classics Professor, Writer, Lecturer, Broadcaster
Exciting And Useful Education
Orpheus charms the animals
on a mosaic of the
Roman imperial era
Athenian boys
learn to recite poetry
Every good drinking party needs a woman to provide pipe music
Bust of Minerva by Enoch Wood Pottery
Dionysus on a Victorian house tile by Minton
Interview on Aristotle and Politics
Tom Watson's Persons of Interest interview
Plato and the Lost City of Atlantis.
History Extra podcast 1 December 2020.
Gresham Lecture November 26 2020
A People's History of Classics
APGRD filmed seminar with Henry Stead and Fiona Macintosh, November 23 2020.
Ancient Theatre Around the Black Sea
APGRD podcast with Rosie Wyles and Claire Barnes, July 2020.
Ancient Greek Medicine: Hippocrates, Gresham Lecture May 28 2020.
Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse, Gresham Lecture on the amazing Sicilian polymath who cried EUREKA, March 5 2020
The First Physicists: Gresham Lecture on Thales and other Ionian Pioneers of Science, November 2019.
ARISTOPHANES: The Comedy of Democracy for Greece Podcast.
21st-Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad. BSA/BA Lecture, November 27 2020.
The Theatre of Dionysus at Athens, Gresham Visiting Professor Lecture, 28 November 2019.
Pericles' Funeral Oration, Gresham Visiting Professor Lecture, 7th March 2019.
Aristotle's Lyceum, Gresham Visiting Professor Lecture, 30th May 2019
How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life, Yale Lecture April 2019
Slave Stories: Aesop and Walter Crane, Gresham Visiting Professor Lecture. 8th March 2018.
Aristotle Goes the Movies: How to study Virtue Ethics throuh Cinema. Durham Castle Lecture, January 2018.
Aristotle's Tyrant, Sophocles' Theban Rulers, Shakespeare and Greenblatt, Harvard/Nafplio Center for Hellenic Studies Lecture, 26th January 2018.
Sappho & the age of Greek Tyrants via Gounod's Opera, Gresham Visiting Professor Lecture, January 2018.
Aristotle & the Future of the Human Race, Penn Museum, Lecture to Wolf Humanities Center's 2017-18 Forum on Afterlives
Homer's Iliad via the movie TROY, Gresham College Visiting Professorial Lecture, November 2017.
Christianity and the Classical World: how Christianity became the Official Religion of the Roman Empire, BBC History Magazine roundtable with Catherine Nixey, September 2017.
A Celebration of Aristotle's 2,400th Birthday, Hellenic Society Lecture, London University Senate House, June 2016.
Western Canon Podcast on Greek Tragedy in Classical Athens, especially the Oresteia. April 2018.
Aristotle's Example in Bridging Arts, Humanities and Sciences, lecture at Tbilisi StateUniversity Sciencefest, September 2018.
'Classicist foremothers and why they matter', J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, June 7th 2017.
The Comedy of Democracy: Podcast in Series Ancient Greek Declassified.
'Aristotle and the Idea of the University', Honorary Doctorate Acceptance Speech, University of Athens, Feb 14th 2017.
'Iphigenia: Quest heroine', filmed at Princeton University May 2010.
'Aristophanes’ Knights', King's College London 2016
'Pearls Before Swine? The Past and Future of Greek', Gaisford Lecture, University of OxfordMay 2015.
'The Homeric Tradition', British Library, 2016
'Plutarch's Gracchi on the French, English and Irish Stages', The Warburg Institute, with Rosie Wyles, 2014.
What Do the Ancient Greeks Have to Say to the Third Millennium?, Cornell 2015
'Conflict Resolution in Aeschylus' Oresteia', Getty Villa Council Lecture, 2015, California
'Some Palladian Presences: the Reception of Pallas' epigrams', UCL 2014
'Peisetairos, Adventurer in Thrace: a New Reading of Aristophanes’ Birds, National Hellenic Research Foundation October 2016, Athens.
Discussing and
reciting Sappho on BBC 2 Newsnight.
'Ancient Greeks, the West and the Modern World', China, Zhejiang University
'Contestations of Class and Power in the Reception of Aesop's Fables', Center for Hellenic Studies Washington, Fellows' Research Talk, with Sara Monoson.
The Life and Homes of Aristotle, 2016.
Cities and Ideas in the Ancient World, Festival of the Future City, with Bettany Hughes, Bristol 2016
Bacchai, directed by Peter Hall, National Theatre
An Introduction to Greek Tragedy, National Theatre
An Introduction to Greek Theatre, National Theatre
Antigone: An Introduction, National Theatre
Antigone: The Chorus, National Theatre
Women of Troy: Stage Design, National Theatre
Save Classics at Royal Holloway, 2011
War Love Politics, Panel Discussion at KCL
From Aristotle to Albert Square, Panel Discussion at Almeida Theatre
Tony Harrison’s Iphigenia in Tauris, with Henry Stead
The Public Intellectual in Classical Athens and Today, The Royal Society in London, with Bettany Hughes and Charlotte Higgins
Characterisation and Hippolytus
The Invention of the Barbarian
Research Consultancy day on Classics & Class in Wales, Swansea 2014
Roman Orator Cicero
Colosseum
Athenian Orator Demosthenes
Practises Volume on the Beach
Doric Temple at Paestum
Drawing of a vase, now lost, illustrating the myth of Actaeon and Artemis
Antony & Cleopatra (Enoch Wood)
London University
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