Links
The following sites contain material of interest and relevance to scholars working in the field of the reception of the classical world.
Institutions / Networks / Projects
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford)
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/about.htm
The Archive was founded in 1996 by Edith Hall and Oliver Taplin in response to the need for a coordinated research effort devoted to the international production and reception of ancient plays since the Renaissance. Its scope revivals and adaptations on stage, film and radio, and in opera and dance.
Casts Project
casts-project.blog-city.com
The Casts Project is intended to explore modern reactions to the remains of the thousands of people who died in Pompeii, victims of the devastating eruption of Vesuvius in August 79AD, which killed them by belching out poisonous gases and boiling pyroclastic surges. The project works with with academics, writers and artists, school students and the wider community to explore ways in which modern audiences have tried to bring the city and its dead back to life.
The Classical Reception Studies Network
www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/crsn/
Formed in early 2004, this network is a collaboration between six universities with research specialisms in various aspects of Classical Reception Studies (Bristol, Durham, Nottingham, Open, Oxford, Reading).
Contexts for Classics (University of Michigan)
www.umich.edu/%7Ecfc/index.html
CFC is an interdepartmental faculty initiative that aims to rethink the discipline(s) of Classical Studies from various critical, historical and pedagogical perspectives. Website contains useful list of web resources.
European Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama Performances
www.cc.uoa.gr/drama/network/
The Network was fostered to demonstrate the major importance of Ancient Greek Drama in modern Europe, both as a generating force for scientific and artistic production, and also as a significant cohesive factor in forming a common European cultural identity. It hosts conferences, publishes a newsletter as well as sponsoring performances and workshops.
Institute for the Classical Tradition (Boston University)
www.bu.edu/ict/
The ICT is the North American base of the International Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT) and serves as the editorial offices for the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT).
Institute of Greece, Rome and The Classical Tradition (Bristol University)
www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute
Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome and The Classical Tradition was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Bristol Institute of Hellenic and Roman Studies and the Bristol Arts Faculty's Centre for the Classical Tradition. The Institute has an active fellows and visiting scholars programme.
Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms
http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/imperialisms/imp-home-2.asp
The Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms is an attempt to discuss the relationship between ancient and modern imperialisms and to assess how this relationship has contributed to the historical understanding of empire.
Network for Early European Research
www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/
The social and cultural structures of modern Australia are still heavily influenced by the long European histories that European settlers - and subsequent generations of European immigrants - brought with them.
The ARC Network for Early European Research (NEER) is a national framework for enhancing and supporting innovative Australian research into these long European histories and their place in the development of Australian society and culture.
From 2006 NEER will have five Research Themes: Cultural Memory; Social Fabric; Intellectual Formations: Science, Medicine and Philosophy; Early European/ Australasian Connections and Religion and Spirituality.
The Reception of the Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry in English
www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/
This project directed by Prof. Lorna Hardwick has been established to document and analyse the theatrical and literary surge of interest in Greek texts and drama in the late twentieth century. It contains a searchable database of texts (reviews, programme notes, scripts) relating to theatre performance.
Journals
Arion
Classical Receptions Journal
Double Dialogues
International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science
New Voices in Classical Reception Studies
The Social History of Medicine
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