"Every time I sing this song, I hope it’s the last time" - War, its costs and consequences: #Homer’s ‘#Iliad’ continues to speak to us - by Ben Brown (Sydney) on STC's An Iliad - ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/war...

May 4 hybrid/Sydney (12.15PM AEDT/UTC+10) Classics & Ancient History research seminar: Jamie Nguyen (Sydney), Who Speaks for Antiquity? Reimagining Latin Textbooks through Classical Reception in Australian Schools. Zoom - email [email protected] or [email protected]

May 1-2 Sydney (CCWM 6pm) #Antigone events.humanitix.com/antigone-f6c... "After nearly seven decades..Sydney will..witness the power of Sophocles' Antigone.. return to a tradition that began with the.. 1886 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon..that launched Greek drama in Australia."

May 1 deadline #CFP The Froben Publishing House and Roman History (1518-1554) - September 3-4, 2026 - All Souls College, Oxford listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

May 1 deadline #CFP 2026 Janus Project Conference: "The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity" - Oxford (Corpus Christi College) - June 18–19, 2026 janus-project.org/events/confe...

Starting April 30 - Research Centre of Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens online lecture series on representations of flowers, trees and forests in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese literature - see listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... or email [email protected]

April 30 online (5.30pm AEST/7.30pm NZ) Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies #AWAWS Equity and Diversity online lecture series: Sarah Lawrence (UNE), Grammar as a Social Justice Issue. Zoom link circulated to members. Enquiries to [email protected]

April 29 Oxford (CCC auditorium, 5pm UK) Corpus Christi Classics Centre's annual lecture: Professor Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), #Sappho: A New Proposal www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/about-corpus...

April 29 hybrid/Sydney (VGCC 5.30pm AEST) CAHS/Classical Assoc. NSW: Prof Stefan Pfeiffer (MLU), #Asterix & #Cleopatra: Translating Antiquity into the Modern World from Comic to Film classics.org.au/events/calen... In person RSVP: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/asterix-an...

April 29 online/Bristol (5pm UK) IGRCT Director’s Annual Reception Series (Oblique Classicisms/ Hidden Histories): Alexander Beecroft (South Carolina) ‘Ekphrastic Voyeurism: Gyges and Candaules in Anglophone Fiction of the 1970s and 1990s www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

April 27-29 Bristol (Digital Futures Institute) Festival of History and Heritage in Games www.tickettailor.com/events/brist...

From April 13 Canberra (NGA) #exhibition - Blueprint for Temples - "brings together sculpture and assemblages, paintings, prints and photographs that map connections across architecture, #classicism and the human form" nga.gov.au/exhibitions/...

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review Elizabeth R. Macaulay on R. Alston, Classicism & the construction of capital cities: London, Athens & Rome in 19th century bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04... "scholars..on the reception of classical ideas in Europe &..European urbanism will find it informative"

#classicalreception @ BMCR #review Jacqueline Klooster on Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Daniel Nisa Cáceres, Classical reception & the rewriting turn in contemporary women’s fiction bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04... "open access.., rich bibliography, ..accessible writing.. a very useful resource"

Starting today!

David Malouf was a writer of wisdom, grace and generosity - by Brigid Rooney (Sydney) in The Conversation AU @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/david-malouf...

David Malouf, Australian author of Remembering Babylon and Ransom, dies aged 92 - www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... #classicalreception #Iliad (also An Imaginary Life, on #Ovid)

I just came across the crowdfunding campaign for Nostos, a post apocalyptic fantasy game drawing heavily on Classical themes. It looks really cool! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

#CFP Teaching Classical Languages Symposium 2026 - hybrid/University of Sydney - August 14th - Keynote: Carla Hurt - Due by April 28 to [email protected] & [email protected] mailman.sydney.edu.au/pipermail/us...

May 6-7 St Andrews (in person) - St Andrews Centre for the Reception of Antiquity (SACRA): Workshop - Collaborations with Antiquity: Medieval and Early Modern sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/04/15/c... Register by April 29

Program - online CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026: Overlooked/Undercooked: Classical Reception in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeast Asia, convened by Leslie Wong (King’s College London) classicalreception.org/crsn-ics-sum... - beginning April 27, 12pm UK, Zoom

April 25 online [7pm PST/10pm EDT/April 26 10am Beijing Time] Guangqi Classics Lecture Series: Prof. Rose MacLean, The #Spartacus Project 斯巴达克斯项目 emory.zoom.us/j/97184356216 via listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

April 24 Barnard College (LeFrak Theatre, 6pm) GRITA! (Greeks & Romans in the Americas) event: staged reading of Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó (1948), adapted/dir. by Leyma López; new English tr. by Kate Eaton; discussion moderated by Prof Rosa Andújar www.eventbrite.com/e/electra-ga...

April 24-25 [USA/UK/EU]/April 25-26 [Australasia] online conference - Beyond the Protagonist: Supporting Characters in Big Screen Greece and Rome. Links to program/abstracts: eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr Zoom registration docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

April 23 online (4pm CEST) Prolepsis Research Network - NeoClassica: Texts & Perspectives from Early Modern Classical Tradition series - Ingrid De Smet on Simon Ford's Piscatio; Stephen Harrison on George Buchanan's Silvae. [email protected] listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

April 23 Bristol (in person, Peel Lecture Theatre, 5pm UK) IGRCT 10th Annual Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture: Professor Josephine Quinn, The Provincialisation of Ancient History, or an Enlightenment Tragedy www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...

April 23 Manchester (5pm UK, Roscoe Building, Room 1.008) Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar: Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh), The Book Leads the Way: William Morris and Classical Reception

April 22-25 Canberra (ANU, Kamri Theatre) #Lysistrata - from the Shakespeare Society ANU campus.hellorubric.com?tab=events&s...

April 22 Canberra (in person, RSSS Auditorium, 6.15pm) ANU Classics Research Seminar/Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Public Lecture: Prof. Edward Watts (Uni California, San Diego), Why the Roman State Lasted for 2000 Years—and What We can Learn from It slll.cass.anu.edu.au/events/why-r...

April 20 deadline #CFP Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments - online - June 13, 2026 - www.cfplist.com/CFP/46848

An #Iliad review – David Wenham is a great match for contemporary twist on #Homer’s epic www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a... - "the dark magic of masterful oral storytelling... the intolerable human cost of war" [Sydney, STC, April 20-June 21]

Classics in the current Private Eye…

#CFP [journal] AI & Antiquity: Journal of Teaching and Technology in Ancient Studies. Theme: Neurodiversity & Inclusive Pedagogy. Deadline May 15 - "How might neurodivergent perspectives reshape the way we teach, study, and interpret the ancient world?" ai-antiquity.org/index.php/ai...

Old Sovereign Publishing playwrighting competition - based on an episode or biography within the Lives of #Plutarch oldsovereignpublishing.com/pages/compet... Deadline Aug 3 ($ + publishing contract)

#PhD x2 Drs Sarah Corrigan (Melbourne)/Franck Cinato (CNRS): Biblical Vocabulary & Classical Latin Side by Side: Expending Semantic Knowledge findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/...; Brittany to Auxerre: Networks of Knowledge along the Loire & Beyond findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/...

a lot going on there -- James #Gleeson (1915-2008), #Metamorphosis, 1967-68 www.bonhams.com/auction/3200...

April 22-25 Canberra (ANU, Kamri Theatre) #Lysistrata - from the Shakespeare Society ANU campus.hellorubric.com?tab=events&s...

#CFP The Froben Publishing House and Roman History (1518-1554) - September 3-4, 2026 - All Souls College, Oxford listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Due by May 1

#CFP An Extraordinary Substance: A History of Demons and Blood Across Time - online - October 3, 2026 sites.google.com/view/bloodan... Due by Aug 3

April 20 deadline #CFP Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments - online - June 13, 2026 - www.cfplist.com/CFP/46848

April 16-17 Oxford (in person, Faculty of Classics) Canons of Latinity network: Latin responses to HoratianLyric, 1150 to the present www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/latin-...

April 15-17 hybrid/University of Parma - GLOBAL #THUCYDIDES II. EDITORS, READERS, TRANSLATORS (1848-2024) www.unipr.it/node/111405#...

April 15 hybrid/Liverpool (3pm UK) WIP seminar: Theshira Pather (Edinburgh), A New Song for Homer's Women: Silence as Resistance and Lullabies as Songs of Memorialisation in Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls. Teams: email [email protected] or see listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...

From April 15 (Wed 6.16pm CEST) online series "Coping with Life: Ancient Tools for Modern Problems?... Talks & Shared Reflections" - mourning, sleep, mental health, childhood, ageing, pain listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... (Lebenshilfe im antiken Rom project, JGU lebenshilfe.uni-mainz.de)

Saw a preview of 'An Iliad' at the Sydney Theatre Company last night. Powerful and timely. @acrsn.bsky.social @sydneytheatreco.bsky.social sydneytheatre.shorthandstories.com/an-iliad/ind...

New matinee performance added for #Antigone in Sydney on May 2 (rest of shows sold out) events.humanitix.com/antigone-f6c...

Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada: www.classicscrossroads.com

April 20 hybrid/Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum (6:30pm Macau/GMT+8) - Dr. Yves Vendé (Lille/Paris), Bridging East And West: François Noël S.J. (1651–1729)’s Synthesis Of Aristotelian And Confucian Virtue Ethics In Philosophia Sinica riccimac.org/index.php/en... (register/Zoom)

April 10-11 online - Mediterranean Antiquity in the Work of H. P. #Lovecraft www.carmanromanophd.com/lovecraftcon... Zoom: brynmawr-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

April 10 online (10am London/6pm Seoul) 'Building Bridges: Exploring Graeco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric from a Cross-cultural Perspective' series: Jaewon Ahn (Seoul National University), Demosthenes in Korea ishr-web.org/aws/ISHR/pt/... [pdf program: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/d14dww...