Exciting news! Our friends at the National Theatre bring a new, interactive free exhibition: "The Greeks: Radical Reinvention". Journeying through past reimaginings of Greek tragedies & featuring archival objects. Not to be missed! #nationaltheatre #thegreeks #greektragedy #reception #performance

🎉🎉New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing “Greek”: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing. #clothing #performance #classics #reception

Our friends at Thiasos Theatre are performing two comedic plays at The Cockpit Theatre, London, 16th to 20th September: Euripides' Cyclops and Aristophanes' Clouds. Not to be missed!! #euripides #cyclops #aristophanes #clouds #ancientdrama

🎉🎉New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing “Greek”: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing. #clothing #performance #classics #reception

An extremely interesting event coming up soon, organised by our friends at BCLA: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality British Academy / British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) St John’s College, Oxford. 11–12 Sept 2025. To book (free) go to: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

⚠️📡 This sounds like we also need to improve our Hypsipyle detection radar! If anyone knows of Hypsipyles or Hypsipyle-inspired performances - anytime since 1315 CE, any country, drama, dance, radio, tv, film etc. - let us know at: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/apg... (we accept Medeas too 💛)

Did anyone said "birds"? Costume design, music score and some performance pictures of Aristophanes' Birds and other comedies. Beautiful findings in our Aristophanes' drawer... #aristophanes #classics #reception #birds #performance

🎉🎉If you missed the launch of this fascinating, thought provoking issue, 'What Makes an American “Classic”?' co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes, the recording is now online! Head to the APGRD Website to watch the video, or go to our YouTube channel. #reception #classics #american

It feels strange to see our walls so bare... but we are bringing in some changes over the summer! Blue lady is down 😢... and a little birdie is flying in... #poster #exhibition #birds #classics

🎉🎉 If you missed it, Dr Emily Pillinger's fascinating contribution to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception is now online, accessible to all. Go to the APGRD website or our YouTube channel to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjzb...

Happily rummaging through the APGRD's video recording collection. So many interesting little gems there! And behold! Another bird (or birds) in the Archive... #birds #archive #greektragedy #video #drama

📕🚀ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH!!! Don't miss our next event, Monday 14 July 5pm (UK time) ONLINE book launch, 'What makes an American Classic?', an invitation from co-editors Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes.For the Zoom link to join us, please go to the APGRD website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

What Makes an American “Classic”? Monday July 14 5pm UK Time= 12pm, EST @apgrd.bsky.social www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... Celebrates the publication of New American Studies Journal vol. 76 (2025) What Makes an American “Classic”? edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes

Exciting events coming up from our friends at DANSOX. Thursday 24 July, SHOBANA JEYASINGH in residence at the Jacqueline du Pré Building 21st-25th July, We Caliban, an inventive, sideways look at Shakespeare’s The Tempest. For more details, head to: dansox3.wordpress.com/upcoming-eve...

Kindly donated by Bill Zewadski, this little gem holds pictures of an 1887 production of Antigone in Zurich, collected as a memento of the performance for/by (?) Prof Dr Hugo BLÜMNER, a German archaeologist & classicist who in 1877 transferred to Zurich University #antigone #reception #performance

Book Launch! Join us online to explore and celebrate the publication of the especial edition of the New American Studies Journal (Vol. 76, 2025) What Makes an American 'Classic'?, co-edited by Caterina Domeneghini and Claire Barnes. Zoom link: apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/

This week the BADA (British American Drama Academy) Greek Theatre Summer Programme has come to the APGRD for a few days of enriching varied activities and workshops. Here they are interacting with some of the Archive’s fascinating collections. #archive #classics #theatre #reception #drama #bada

We are now so close to the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Thu-Fri 3-4/07, and Prof Vicky Angelaki's fascinating guest lecture "Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres", 4:30pm Thu 3/07. In Person and ONLINE via Zoom. More details on the APGRD website.

"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all. #reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre

You are warmly invited to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July. University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London. Zoom link and Programme now available: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Congratulations to our Advisory board members Prof Fiona Macintosh, former Director of the APGRD, Dr Ezra Baudou, and current APGRD Researcher Dr Giovanna Di Martino for their brilliant contributions to Théâtre Public, fresh out of the oven! #theatrepublic #reception #drama #classics

The recording of the 2025 annual Classics and English lecture delivered by Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou on Monday 2 June is now on YouTube! If you missed it, head to our YouTube channel to watch this truly fascinating lecture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eAh...

"Contemporary Crises and the Classical Canon: Staging Intersectional Eco-Theatres" public lecture by Prof Vicky Angelaki coming soon! Don't miss it. Free and open to all. #reception #theatre #classics #classicalcanon #ecotheatre

Don't miss Vindices, a Latin Play, free entry and open to all. Tomorrow Friday 13/06 at 8pm and Saturday 14/06 at 3pm, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles. #theatre #performance #latin #play #reception

Not long until the 25th Annual Postgraduate Symposium! 'Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception'. There will be a public lecture open to all on 3rd July. More details to come. #reception #classics #symposium #ecology #performance

What is cooking in the APGRD kitchen...? Exciting things coming up, we are planning a new exhibition open to the public. Watch this space! #exhibiton #reception #classics #poster #theatre #design

A performance in Latin free and open to all, don't miss this unique experience. Saturday matinee followed by a conversation with director and cast. Book your free ticket: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/... #latin #roman #performance #theatre

If you missed the brilliant Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall at the Ioannou Centre, you can now watch this public lecture's recording. Fascinating snippets of her life acting and directing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfIS... www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Not long to our English & Classics Lecture on Monday 2 June 2pm. If you can't attend, you can join us online via Zoom. Head to our website for the Zoom link: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Not long to our English & Classics Lecture on Monday 2 June 2pm. If you can't attend, you can join us online via Zoom. Head to our website for the Zoom link: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Don't miss Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou's lecture on American Women Writers and The Tenuousness of Classics, "Tilted Gazing", Monday 2nd June at 2pm at the Ioannou Centre. #classics #oxford #americanwomenwriters #reception

🦉📚 Introducing our first bird-in-the-archive! (Is that a thing? Can we make this a thing @apac-ssn.bsky.social?) #birds-in-archives #athena #owl #Aristophanes_Birds

Medea's children and the rare book collection temporarily taking over the Study Room while new shelving is put up! #medea #classics #rarebooks #reception

Exciting new public lecture coming up at the APGRD, add it to your diaries! Monday 2nd June, 2pm at the Ioannou Centre, Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou on American Women Writers & Classics. For more details go to: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/ #classics #englishliterature #americanwriters #literature

If you missed yesterday's brilliant event at the APGRD, Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall, you can watch it on our YouTube page, link to be published soon. Here are some brilliant materials Dame Janet Suzman donated to the APGRD after the event! #theatre #drama #reception #classics

Don't miss Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall TODAY 2pm at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford. Or join us online! Zoom link on our website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

The wonderful Reception Research Group meets up every week during Term Time for workshops, lectures, discussions, and a whole array of activities linked to Reception. Some pics of week 1 poetry workshop. Don't miss next week's meeting! APGRD in the Ioannou centre at 5:15-6:45 on Tuesday 13/05

Very interesting International Workshop "Greek Myths in Arabic Literature: Reception, Translation, Circulation, Re-Creation" related to the project Digimyth coming up soon. You can find some information on their CFP at this address: www.digimyth.eu/upcoming-eve...

Have you got the KCL Greek Play in your diary? Our students are staging 'Elektra - A Throne Restored' and it's going to be BRILLIANT. 📆10 to 12 June 2025 at Greenwood Theatre, Guy’s Campus, London. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek...

I'll be doing a talk about translating the Iliad in NYC on May 9th. I'll discuss gaps between ancient and modern ideas about violence, humanity and heroism. Free and open to all! hunter.cuny.edu/event/emily-...

2pm (UK time), Monday 12 May: Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall. APGRD Public Lecture; Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles' Oxford and online. Free and open to all. For the link for ONLINE attendance, please check the APGRD website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

We have extended the Call For Papers for this year's postgraduate symposium - new deadline for abstracts is Friday 9 May! #CFP #classics 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #TheatreSky #classicalreception #postgrads #oxford

Have you got any questions that you'd like us to ask Janet Suzman on Monday 12th? Let us know and we'll do our best to include your queries! Get in touch!

We have extended the Call For Papers for this year's postgraduate symposium - new deadline for abstracts is Friday 9 May! #CFP #classics 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #TheatreSky #classicalreception #postgrads #oxford

🎺 In other exciting news, we've also joined... *checks notes* the "Instagram". Better late than never? Find us: apgrd_oxford Where can we find you lovely people?

Don't miss this free and open to all talk! Janet Suzman in conversation with Prof Edith Hall at the Ioannou Centre, Oxford, 2pm Monday 12th May. If you can't attend in person, you can do it online. Check our website closer to the day for a link to attend via Zoom. www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

🔔⏰📣 REMINDER! #CFP The deadline for our Call For Papers is fast approaching for you to present at our annual Postgraduate Symposium! This year's theme: Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception. Details: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 @apgrd.bsky.social's 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium will take place on 3 & 4 July. This year's theme: Ecologies & Futures in the Theory & Practice of Greek and Roman Performance & its Reception. Details on how to apply can be found here: shorturl.at/OWy7N

🔔⏰📣 REMINDER! #CFP The deadline for our Call For Papers is fast approaching for you to present at our annual Postgraduate Symposium! This year's theme: Ecologies and Futures in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception. Details: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

🎺 In other exciting news, we've also joined... *checks notes* the "Instagram". Better late than never? Find us: apgrd_oxford Where can we find you lovely people?