Greek literature dates back from the ancient Greek literature,beginning in 800 BC,to the modern Greek literature of today.
Classical mythology,also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology,is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology,along with philosophy and political thought,is one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later,including modern,Western culture. The Greek word mythos refers to the spoken word or speech,but it also denotes a tale,story or narrative.
Edith Hall,is a British scholar of classics,specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history,and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. From 2006 until 2011 she held a chair at Royal Holloway,University of London,where she founded and directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome until November 2011. She resigned over a dispute regarding funding for classics after leading a public campaign,which was successful,to prevent cuts to or the closure of the Royal Holloway Classics department. Until 2022,she was a professor at the Department of Classics at King's College London. She also co-founded and is Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University,Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust,and Judge on the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. Her prizewinning doctoral thesis was awarded at Oxford. In 2012 she was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize to study ancient Greek theatre in the Black Sea,and in 2014 she was elected to the Academy of Europe. She lives in Cambridgeshire.
The ancient Olympic Games,or the ancient Olympics,were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held at the Panhellenic religious sanctuary of Olympia,in honor of Zeus,and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The originating Olympic Games are traditionally dated to 776 BC. The games were held every four years,or Olympiad,which became a unit of time in historical chronologies. These Olympiads were referred to based on the winner of their stadion sprint,e.g.,"the third year of the eighteenth Olympiad when Ladas of Argos won the stadion". They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule in the 2nd century BC. Their last recorded celebration was in AD 393,under the emperor Theodosius I,but archaeological evidence indicates that some games were still held after this date. The games likely came to an end under Theodosius II,possibly in connection with a fire that burned down the temple of the Olympian Zeus during his reign.
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans,and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations,and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. Roman mythology draws from the mythology of the Italic peoples and shares mythemes with Proto-Indo-European mythology.
Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh,is a British classicist and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the Greek literary culture of the Roman Empire,especially the Second Sophistic and the ancient Greek novel.
In the Roman Empire,Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates,primarily in May,but scattered through mid-July. The observance is sometimes called a rosatio ("rose-adornment") or the dies rosationis,"day of rose-adornment," and could be celebrated also with violets (violatio,an adorning with violets,also dies violae or dies violationis,"day of the violet[-adornment]"). As a commemoration of the dead,the rosatio developed from the custom of placing flowers at burial sites. It was among the extensive private religious practices by means of which the Romans cared for their dead,reflecting the value placed on tradition (mos maiorum,"the way of the ancestors"),family lineage,and memorials ranging from simple inscriptions to grand public works. Several dates on the Roman calendar were set aside as public holidays or memorial days devoted to the dead.
Christina Riggs is a British-American historian,academic,and former museum curator. She specializes in the history of archaeology,history of photography,and ancient Egyptian art,and her recent work has concentrated on the history,politics,and contemporary legacy of the 1922 discovery of Tutankahmun's tomb. Since 2019,she has been Professor of the History of Visual Culture at Durham University. She is also a former Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford. The author of several academic books,Riggs also writes on ancient Egyptian themes for a wider audience. Her most recent books include Ancient Egyptian Magic:A Hands-On Guide and Treasured:How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century.
Susan Jane Deacy is a classical scholar who has been Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton since January 2018. She researches the history and literature of the ancient Greek world,with a particular focus on gender and sexuality,ancient Greek mythology and religion,and disability studies. She is also an expert on the teaching of subjects which are potentially sensitive,including sexual violence,domestic violence,and infanticide;she was project leader on the initiative 'Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom'. She is also series editor of Routledge's Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, and has been editor of the Bulletin of the Council of University Classical Departments since 2011.
Barbara Elisabeth Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs,the language of classical art,and geoarchaeology.
Emily Joanna Gowers,is a British classical scholar. She is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College,Cambridge. She is an expert on Horace,Augustan literature,and the history of food in the Roman world.
Miriam Anna Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College,London. She is known in particular for her work on the reception of Greek tragedy in modern intellectual thought.
Lynda Nead is a British curator and art historian. She is currently the Pevsner Chair of the History of Art at Birkbeck,University of London. Nead's work studies British art,media,culture and often focuses on gender. Nead is a fellow of the British Academy,the Royal Historical Society and of the Academia Europaea.
Fiona McHardy is a Professor of Classics and also the Head of History and Classics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton. In 2003 she started work at Roehampton where she was responsible for building up the BA Classical Civilisation. Her research interests include ancient and modern Greek literature,folk poetry,anthropology and culture. She teaches modules on ancient Greek language,literature and culture.
Rebecca Jane Sweetman is an Irish classical scholar. She is Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology and the former Head of the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Sweetman is known in particular for her work on the archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Greece. Since September 2022,she has been Director of the British School at Athens.
Jennifer Baird,is a British archaeologist and academic. She is Professor in Archaeology at Birkbeck,University of London. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Rome's eastern provinces,particularly the site of Dura-Europos.
Margaret Irene Malamud is Professor of Ancient History and Islamic Studies at New Mexico State University. Malamud is known in particular for her work on classical reception in the United States.
Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews where she researchers the cultural history of objects and spaces. She is an expert on the reception of Classical material in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Naoíse Mac Sweeney is a British archaeologist,historian,writer,and academic. Since 2020 she has been Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna.
Michael SquireFBA is a British art historian and classicist. He became the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge in 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College,and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.
