THE ARCHIVE OF PERFORMANCES OF GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA
Joint colloquium with Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford

POLITICS, CULTURE AND THE ANCIENT WORLD IN POST-WAR GREECE
2 PM – 6.30 PM, 16 June 2008
Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, 66 St Giles’

Constanze Guthenke ( Princeton University )
‘Inside or Outside the University? Greek Classical Scholarship After 1945’

Eleftheria Ioann id ou ( University of Oxford )
‘The Heterotopia of the Ancient Theatre: Greek Tragedy and Cultural Politics in Post-War Greece ’

Pantelis Michelakis ( University of Bristol )
‘The Tragedy of History in Theo Angelopoulos’ Travelling Players’

Dimitris Papanikolaou ( University of Oxford )
‘Popular Culture, Banal Exceptionalism and the Classical Tradition in Post-War Greece ’

Dimitris Tziovas ( University of Birmingham )
‘Meta-Classical Revisions: Modern Attitudes to the Past’


The Plenary discussion, led by Edith Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London , Co-Director APGRD) and
Oliver Taplin ( University of Oxford , Co-Director APGRD) , will be followed by a drinks reception.

APGRD, Classics Centre, University of Oxford , 66 St. Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU . Telephone: 01865 288 210 . Email: apgrd AT classics.ox.ac.uk