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Durham Centre for Classical Reception

Past Events

Classics in Translation. A Workshop

25-26 September 2007, Department of Classics & Ancient History, Ritson Room.

Tuesday, 25 September 4.00: Tea 4.30: Lorna Hardwick (Open University), Translating Classical Texts: The Arts of Negotiation 5.30: Ahmed Etman (Cairo University), Homer in the Arab World 7.00: Workshop dinner Wednesday, 26 September 9.00: Coffee 9.30: John Gilmore (University of Warwick), John Clarke and the ‘Usefulness of Translations’ in education 10.15: Joanna Paul (University of Liverpool), Homer and the Cinema: Translation, Adaptation, and Teaching 11.00: Coffee 11.30: Sandra Rocha (University of Brasilia & RHUL), Herodotus and Thucydides in Translation: Looking at Underlying Views of Writing and Orality in the 5th Century 12.15: Buffet Lunch 13.15: Edmund Thomas (Durham University), Visual Translations of Vitruvius 14.00: Francesca Sapsford (University of Glasgow), Translations of Roman Satire in the Eighteenth Century: Morality and Obscenity 14.45: coffee 15.00: Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham University), ‘A country previously undiscovered’: Epigram and the Victorian Invention of Greece For further information contact: Barbara Graziosi (barbara.graziosi@dur.ac.uk) or Ingo Gildenhard (ingo.gildenhard@dur.ac.uk)

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