2023 Events

22 May

Greek & Roman antiquities handling workshop: Recording, illustrating, 3D modelling.

Joanna Ashe (Librarian) and Gabriel Bodard (Reader in Digital Classics, ICS) organised a workshop -  Greek & Roman antiquities handling workshop: Recording, illustrating, 3D modelling. Participants heard short lectures on collecting, studying and digitising antiquities, before having the opportunity to handle some of the objects in the Ehrenberg Bequest, learning how to illustrate and photograph them, and seeing one of the vases being 3D-printed.

 

 

13 February

Alicia (A.E.) Stallings: Love Poems from the Institute of Classical Studies

Alicia (A. E.) Stallings read and discussed work from her four published collections of poetry gathered into her new selected poems, This Afterlife, poems that explore Greek mythology, classical reception, ancient and modern Greece, and the diachronic strata of the city of Athens, as well as translations of modern Greek poems engaged in classical reception. Poems from the Institute of Classical Studies were also be included! The readings were followed by drinks in the Library where Alicia signed copies of This Afterlife: Selected Poems.

Gabby Bodard demonstrates photographing the objects