This talk explores how Shaw’s Caesar engages with contemporary concerns about British imperial identity and how his lessons take on new meaning when re-performed on stage and screen up to the end of the Second World War. His troublesome young pupil Cleopatra, however, sees through his self-construction as a quasi-mystical authority and yearns for love. A weary elder statesman, this Julius Caesar promotes the honourable exercise of power. Maria Wyke (University College, London) Lessons in Leadership & History: Bernard Shaw’s Caesar on Stage and Screenįirst performed in 1899, Shaw’s play Caesar and Cleopatra offers lessons in leadership and the presentation of history. Maria Wyke on Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra In Edenic Adam’s turn from cosmic speculation to daily life, Milton reconceives a classical and Renaissance humanism contrast between anxious cares for the faraway and salutary care for the near in Adam and Eve’s argument whether to separate that precedes their fall, Milton radically revises classical epics’ gendered treatments of cares while in his depiction of Edenic sleep, Milton reimagines the classical epic topos of sleeping guards in order to dramatize the vexed relationship between divine care and human “security.” Prof. “Care” has resonances ranging from negative “sorrow, anxiety” to positive “caution, heedfulness,” while “secure” can mean blessedly “carefree” or recklessly “careless.” With revisionary neoclassicism Milton engages with analogous terms and concepts in ancient epic and classical thought. This talk will examine “care” and “secure” as related keywords in "Paradise Lost" that vitally shape Milton’s depiction of Edenic life and its loss. Joshua Scodel, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, will speak on "Paradise Lost and Classical Traditions of Care" 14, 2020 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, Room 203, Georg Morgenstiernes hus 2019 Professor Joshua Scodel on Milton and Classical Traditions of Care Project presentation (in Norwegian) by Senior lecturer Eirik Welo, Research assistants Astrid Grindeland (MA-student, Greek) and Silje Marie Andreassen (BA-student, Latin), and Associate professor Vibeke Roggen. Use of electronic resources in learning and teaching classical languages The key to the new interpretation is found in the suture between the two proems to the Muses that open the Theogony. In this talk, I will offer a speculative reading of different parts of Hesiod’s transmitted corpus, considered in relation to the “Homeric” epic poems, with the goal of clarifying its oddly heterogeneous composition, the startling prominence of the speaking persona in the Theogony, and the pseudo-biographism of the Works and Days. The cultural and specifically political functions that various sub-forms of early Greek hexameter poetry performed in the 8th-6th centuries BCE remain clouded in uncertainty. 21, 2020 5:15 PM–7:00 PM, Meeting room 452, Georg Morgenstiernes hus 25, 2020 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, Meeting room 452, Georg Morgenstiernes hus What Really Happened on Helikon: A Political Reading of Hesiod MA student Victoria Mostue, IFIKK: Presentation of MA thesis. 10, 2020 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, Meeting room 452, Georg Morgenstiernes hus The Metamorphosis of Semele: The Reception of the Myth of Semele in Handel’s Oratorio Professor Diana Spencer, University of Birmingham. Time and place: 4:15 PM–6:00 PM, Møterom 452, Georg Morgenstiernes hus Varro’s strategies of quotation in De Lingua Latina
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