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Welcome to the Institute of Classical Studies The national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in Classics and related disciplines throughout the UK and abroad.

School of Advanced Study, University of London


    • Feb 19, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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    ICS/ Herculaneum Society Lecture: 'Invisible Herculaneum'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2020 63:44


    Michael Scott, whose BBC documentary series 'Invisible Cities' delved beneath Naples, Rome and Athens - amongst other cities - talks about his experiences at Herculaneum and examines what else may yet be uncovered. In 79CE, the seaside town of Hercu...

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    ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 'January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2018 48:57


    Professor Rita Volpe, Roma Tre University On January 14 1506 the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognized at once as the same work of art which Pliny the Elder consid...

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    Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2018 43:21


    Speaker: Anthony Corbeill, University of Virginia In 56 BCE Cicero, orator and statesman, was enjoying his first Roman spring since returning from exile. April brought terrestrial rumblings north of Rome. The senate chose to investigate, enlisting E...

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    ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2017 59:46


    Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom Dr Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella) Sixty years of continuous a...

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    ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2017


    Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom Dr Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella) Sixty years of continuous a...

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    Why do we need Monsters?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2017 81:16


    Why do we need Monsters? Today we worry about chimaeras - organisms created by combining genes from more than one species - and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets, just as nineteenth-century novelists placed them in the...

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    Why do we need Monsters?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2017


    Why do we need Monsters? Today we worry about chimaeras - organisms created by combining genes from more than one species - and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets, just as nineteenth-century novelists placed them in the...

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    Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2017 54:47


    Institute of Classical Studies Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) J P Barron Memorial Lecture

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    Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2017


    Institute of Classical Studies Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) J P Barron Memorial Lecture

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    Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2017 87:07


    Institute of Classical Studies Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence Professor Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg) Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture

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    Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2017


    Institute of Classical Studies Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence Professor Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg) Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture

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    Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2017 40:17


    Institute of Classical Studies Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome) Since 1985 we have been investigating the northern slopes of the Palatine, aiming to recover its physical lay-out, and...

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    Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2017


    Institute of Classical Studies Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome) Since 1985 we have been investigating the northern slopes of the Palatine, aiming to recover its physical lay-out, and...

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    Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2017 64:44


    School of Advanced Study Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past Professor Greg Woolf (Director of the Institute of Classical Studies) Professor Greg Woolf's research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the ve...

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    Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2017


    School of Advanced Study Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past Professor Greg Woolf (Director of the Institute of Classical Studies) Professor Greg Woolf's research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the ve...

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    The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2016


    Institute of Classical Studies The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta Dr Stella Chrysoulaki The rescue excavations at Faliron are carried out by the Ephorate of West Attica, Piraeus and the Islands since 2012 at the area, where the Stavros Ni...

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    The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2016 58:41


    Institute of Classical Studies The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta Dr Stella Chrysoulaki The rescue excavations at Faliron are carried out by the Ephorate of West Attica, Piraeus and the Islands since 2012 at the area, where the Stavros Ni...

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    ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture: What ever happened to the barbarian?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2016 67:07


    Institute of Classical Studies ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture What ever happened to the barbarian? Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews) John Penrose Barron Memorial Lecture

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    ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture: What ever happened to the barbarian?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2016


    Institute of Classical Studies ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture What ever happened to the barbarian? Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews) John Penrose Barron Memorial Lecture

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    Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2016 68:55


    Institute of Classical Studies Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century Professor Gregory Crane (Tufts; Leipzig) ST Lee Fellow in round table discussion with Dr Imre Galambos (Cambridge), Professor Eleanor Robson...

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    A.D.Trendall Lecture - Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2016 48:02


    Institute of Classical Studies A.D.Trendall Lecture Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia Thomas Carpenter (Ohio)

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    A.D.Trendall Lecture-Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2016


    Institute of Classical Studies A.D.Trendall Lecture Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia Thomas Carpenter (Ohio)

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    T.B.L Webster Lecture - Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016 51:02


    Institute of Classical Studies T.B.L Webster Lecture Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy Eric Csapo (Sydney)

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    T.B.L Webster Lecture - Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016


    Institute of Classical Studies T.B.L Webster Lecture Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy Eric Csapo (Sydney)

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    Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2016 50:05


    Institute of Classical Studies Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory Isabella Colpo (Universit degli Studi di Padova) London Roman Art seminar

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    Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2016


    Institute of Classical Studies Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory Isabella Colpo (Universit degli Studi di Padova) London Roman Art seminar

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    Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2016 50:38


    Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Rome-London Lecture Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo Vincent Jolivet Rediscovered at the end of the XXth century, and systematically excavated since 2...

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    Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2016


    Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Rome-London Lecture Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo Vincent Jolivet Rediscovered at the end of the XXth century, and systematically excavated since 2...

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    Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2015 51:45


    Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Seminar Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose Elizabeth Cook Salley Vickers

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    Classics in Contemporary Drama

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2015 77:20


    Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Classics in Contemporary Drama Chair: Nick Lowe (RHUL) Phyllis Brighouse (Liverpool) By Jove theatre company

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    New investigations and finds at the Mycenaean palace of Thebes (Boeotia)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies ICS Autumn Lecture in association with the British School of Athens New investigations and finds at the Mycenaean palace of Thebes (Boeotia) Vassilis Aravantinos (Ephor Emeritus of Boeotia) From the outset exca...

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    A good death?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies A good death? Prof. Andrew Cooper (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust) Dr Mary Bradury (British Psychoanalytical Society) Prof. Michael Trapp (KCL) Prof. Eleanor Robson (UCL) Chaired by Paul Jenkins, OBE (CEO of th...

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    A good death?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies A good death? Prof. Andrew Cooper (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust) Dr Mary Bradury (British Psychoanalytical Society) Prof. Michael Trapp (KCL) Prof. Eleanor Robson (UCL) Chaired by Paul Jenkins, OBE (CEO of th...

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    Women Translating the Classics

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Seminar Women Translating the Classics Josephine Balmer & Clare Pollard

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    Classics in Contemporary Women's Poetry

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Classics in Contemporary Women's Poetry Tiffany Atkinson | UEA Erica McAlpine | Oxford Chaired: Maria Wyke | UCL

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    MA Intercollegiate Module Fair

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2015 59:53


    Institute of Classical Studies MA Intercollegiate Module Fair Degrees in Ancient History | Classics | Classical Art and Archaeology | Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Kings College London | Royal Holloway University of London | University Co...

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    MA Intercollegiate Module Fair

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies MA Intercollegiate Module Fair Degrees in Ancient History | Classics | Classical Art and Archaeology | Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Kings College London | Royal Holloway University of London | University Co...

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    Rome-London Lecture - The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered: a new architectural study

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2015 45:50


    Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered: a new architectural study Paolo Vitti (Rome)

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    Rome-London Lecture - The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered: a new architectural study

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2015


    Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered: a new architectural study Paolo Vitti (Rome)

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