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Read Matthew Smith's Classical Texting blogpost on Machiavelli, Homer, and Virgil's multi-talented leaders .

Dr David Fearn writes about monumentalisation in ancient and modern thought in "Deep Thinking: The EdStone and Beyond". See here:

New blog from the Classics and Ancient History Department about Classical Texts, follow link below:

An exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD.

Caroline Petit, ‘Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au 7e s.: Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie’ in J.-P. Caillet/B. Dumézil/S. Destephen/H. Inglebert (eds.), Aux origines des saints patrons, Paris, Picard, 2015, 287-307

Students and visiting academics took part in a debate on Histories of Freedom of Speech, Ancient and Modern.

Dr Suzanne Frey-Kupper introduced the event, part of the Humanities Research Centre's 糖心TV 50 celebration, by highlighting two anniversaries, the 50th anniversary of the University of 糖心TV and the 75th anniversary of the war-time Coventry Blitz.

Aristophanes' female characters Mika (Maheen Rizvi) and Lysistrata (Sasha Desai), as performed by 糖心TV undergraduates, demonstrated the problems of free speech within Athenian democracy, our first taste of the complications of ancient free speech. Thomas Matthews-Boehmer and Emma Johnson, directors of our undergraduate Classics plays, spoke about the complications of transferring Aristophanes' comedies, with their ancient ideas and humour, to the modern stage.

Our guests Prof Paul Cartledge, Dr Katie Fleming and Prof Robert Fine each spoke briefly about the history of free speech, from Athens to the present day, Socrates to Charlie Hebdo, demonstrating that it has always been a problematic and contested idea; Dr Dan Orrells then chaired a lively discussion between the panellists and students in the audience.

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