APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
@apgrd.bsky.social
University of Oxford research centre into performances inspired by ancient Greece and Rome: stage plays, ballets, films, tv, audio dramas, drag shows, dance, animation, musicals... from 1315 to present day!
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk
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📣 The APGRD website is currently down - we're looking into it - hopefully have it back up and running again soon! 👩💻🔧⚙️
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
Unfortunately we still have ongoing issues with the APGRD website. We have had to take down our databases temporarily, but the rest is still up - although it is still struggling. Speak gently, go softly, cross your fingers 🤞⚙️🔧
15 Oct, 6pm at ICS, Senate House. Join Josephine Burton (Dash Arts, co-director) & Fiona Macintosh (APGRD), for a public conversation and performance exploring the development of Songs of Solidarity, a project that aims to co-create a new epic that celebrates and redefines the migrant experience.
October 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM
15 Oct, 6pm at ICS, Senate House. Join Josephine Burton (Dash Arts, co-director) & Fiona Macintosh (APGRD), for a public conversation and performance exploring the development of Songs of Solidarity, a project that aims to co-create a new epic that celebrates and redefines the migrant experience.
Former APGRD Director Fiona Macintosh remembers Pat Easterling and her contributions to the ICS and the London Classics community.
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Pat Easterling at the Institute of Classical Studies in London from 1987-1994
Fiona Macintosh (Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception, University of Oxford) remembers Pat Easterling's contributions to the ICS and the London Classics community.
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September 22, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Former APGRD Director Fiona Macintosh remembers Pat Easterling and her contributions to the ICS and the London Classics community.
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Very excited about the return of the Oxford triennial Greek Play, Oxford Playhouse presented by our friends at Oxford Classical Drama Society. Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides. Not to be missed! More information & tickets: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphig...
#euripides #classics #drama #oxford
#euripides #classics #drama #oxford
September 14, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Very excited about the return of the Oxford triennial Greek Play, Oxford Playhouse presented by our friends at Oxford Classical Drama Society. Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides. Not to be missed! More information & tickets: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphig...
#euripides #classics #drama #oxford
#euripides #classics #drama #oxford
Check this short video on Nolan's use of Homeric narrative techniques in The Odyssey by Dr Thomas Nelson of St Hilda's College, and share your thoughts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ij...
A fuller discussion of these ideas can be accessed here:
st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/homeric...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ij...
A fuller discussion of these ideas can be accessed here:
st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/homeric...
The Odyssey: 5 Homeric storytelling techniques in Christopher Nolan's film
YouTube video by St Hilda's College
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September 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Check this short video on Nolan's use of Homeric narrative techniques in The Odyssey by Dr Thomas Nelson of St Hilda's College, and share your thoughts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ij...
A fuller discussion of these ideas can be accessed here:
st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/homeric...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ij...
A fuller discussion of these ideas can be accessed here:
st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/homeric...
We are thrilled to circulate information on the Oxford Classical Drama Society's 2026 Triennial Greek Play! Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis at the Oxford Playhouse. Wed 4 to Sat 7 November 2026. Not to be missed!
Bookings now open: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphig...
Bookings now open: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphig...
July 7, 2026 at 9:01 AM
We are thrilled to circulate information on the Oxford Classical Drama Society's 2026 Triennial Greek Play! Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis at the Oxford Playhouse. Wed 4 to Sat 7 November 2026. Not to be missed!
Bookings now open: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphig...
Bookings now open: www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphig...
From our friends @Dansox! Body Politic. Residency with DANSOX as they develop their new work No Place!
All welcome to Open Rehearsal and Showing Sun 5 July 2-4pm
Free followed by reception. Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College, Oxford. Bookings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/body-polit...
All welcome to Open Rehearsal and Showing Sun 5 July 2-4pm
Free followed by reception. Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College, Oxford. Bookings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/body-polit...
June 29, 2026 at 1:30 PM
From our friends @Dansox! Body Politic. Residency with DANSOX as they develop their new work No Place!
All welcome to Open Rehearsal and Showing Sun 5 July 2-4pm
Free followed by reception. Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College, Oxford. Bookings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/body-polit...
All welcome to Open Rehearsal and Showing Sun 5 July 2-4pm
Free followed by reception. Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College, Oxford. Bookings:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/body-polit...
A Red Extreme Heat Warning has been issued for Oxfordshire advising to avoid non-essential travel. You can still join us in person but feel free to join us online! 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium, Thur 25 June - St Hilda's College (9.30-17.00); Ioannou Centre (18.00-20.30) and on Zoom.
June 23, 2026 at 11:22 AM
A Red Extreme Heat Warning has been issued for Oxfordshire advising to avoid non-essential travel. You can still join us in person but feel free to join us online! 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium, Thur 25 June - St Hilda's College (9.30-17.00); Ioannou Centre (18.00-20.30) and on Zoom.
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📣 The 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception will take place on one day only this year: Thursday 25 June 2026.
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
June 18, 2026 at 2:44 PM
📣 The 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception will take place on one day only this year: Thursday 25 June 2026.
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
📣 The 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception will take place on one day only this year: Thursday 25 June 2026.
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
June 18, 2026 at 2:44 PM
📣 The 26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception will take place on one day only this year: Thursday 25 June 2026.
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
Join us in person at 9.30am Riverside Pavilion, St Hilda’s College, or on Zoom!
Details: www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/techno...
Unfortunately we still have ongoing issues with the APGRD website. We have had to take down our databases temporarily, but the rest is still up - although it is still struggling. Speak gently, go softly, cross your fingers 🤞⚙️🔧
📣 The APGRD website is currently down - we're looking into it - hopefully have it back up and running again soon! 👩💻🔧⚙️
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
June 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Unfortunately we still have ongoing issues with the APGRD website. We have had to take down our databases temporarily, but the rest is still up - although it is still struggling. Speak gently, go softly, cross your fingers 🤞⚙️🔧
TOMORROW (we heard that Lil' Buck may be attending!)
18 June 5.30pm: Like watching music: Fred Astaire & Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday; Kathleen Riley discusses the synergies between the work of Fred Astaire and Lil' Buck +Q&A +reception. Free, all welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/like-watch...
18 June 5.30pm: Like watching music: Fred Astaire & Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday; Kathleen Riley discusses the synergies between the work of Fred Astaire and Lil' Buck +Q&A +reception. Free, all welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/like-watch...
Like Watching Music: Fred Astaire and Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday
Kathleen Riley discusses Fred Astaire and Lil Buck
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June 17, 2026 at 12:03 PM
TOMORROW (we heard that Lil' Buck may be attending!)
18 June 5.30pm: Like watching music: Fred Astaire & Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday; Kathleen Riley discusses the synergies between the work of Fred Astaire and Lil' Buck +Q&A +reception. Free, all welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/like-watch...
18 June 5.30pm: Like watching music: Fred Astaire & Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday; Kathleen Riley discusses the synergies between the work of Fred Astaire and Lil' Buck +Q&A +reception. Free, all welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/like-watch...
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⚠️☀️ Summer Closure ☀️⚠️
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
May 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM
⚠️☀️ Summer Closure ☀️⚠️
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
Our friends at DANSOX have two great events, free and open to all, next week at the JDP.
FIRST Tuesday 16 June, 5.30pm - The Astaires: Fred and Adele - Alastair Macaulay in conversation with Kathleen Riley. FREE and OPEN TO ALL, book at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-astair...
FIRST Tuesday 16 June, 5.30pm - The Astaires: Fred and Adele - Alastair Macaulay in conversation with Kathleen Riley. FREE and OPEN TO ALL, book at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-astair...
The Astaires: Fred & Adele
Alastair Macaulay in conversation with Kathleen Riley
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June 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Our friends at DANSOX have two great events, free and open to all, next week at the JDP.
FIRST Tuesday 16 June, 5.30pm - The Astaires: Fred and Adele - Alastair Macaulay in conversation with Kathleen Riley. FREE and OPEN TO ALL, book at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-astair...
FIRST Tuesday 16 June, 5.30pm - The Astaires: Fred and Adele - Alastair Macaulay in conversation with Kathleen Riley. FREE and OPEN TO ALL, book at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-astair...
We are still having some problems with our website, so here is the programme for Saturday, just in case you can't access it!
June 8, 2026 at 12:18 PM
We are still having some problems with our website, so here is the programme for Saturday, just in case you can't access it!
Not long to go! Saturday 13 June, 9am-5pm, Conference 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. Organised by Clare Chang & Sarah Marshall in collaboration with the APGRD and Bristol Digital Game Lab.
June 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Not long to go! Saturday 13 June, 9am-5pm, Conference 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. Organised by Clare Chang & Sarah Marshall in collaboration with the APGRD and Bristol Digital Game Lab.
📣 The APGRD website is currently down - we're looking into it - hopefully have it back up and running again soon! 👩💻🔧⚙️
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
June 4, 2026 at 8:58 AM
📣 The APGRD website is currently down - we're looking into it - hopefully have it back up and running again soon! 👩💻🔧⚙️
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
[Image: American spiders and their spinning work. A natural history of the orbweaving spiders of the United States, with special regard to their industry and habits, 1889]
Coming up events, last few weeks of Trinity Term! Sat 13 June: 'Antiquity in Simulation' Classics and videogames! Thur 25 June: Technologies and Classical Reception and 'The Digital Auteur'. Join us in person/online. Visit the APGRD website for more info and zoom links. www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events
June 2, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Coming up events, last few weeks of Trinity Term! Sat 13 June: 'Antiquity in Simulation' Classics and videogames! Thur 25 June: Technologies and Classical Reception and 'The Digital Auteur'. Join us in person/online. Visit the APGRD website for more info and zoom links. www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events
Musical Workshop opportunity coming up! A new musical based on Homer's Iliad at the Phoenix Arts Club, London 17-18/06. Featuring an original pop-rock soundtrack, Age of the Hero is a retrospective of the epic woven with contemporary interpretations of the text.
phoenixartsclub.com/events/age-o...
phoenixartsclub.com/events/age-o...
May 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Musical Workshop opportunity coming up! A new musical based on Homer's Iliad at the Phoenix Arts Club, London 17-18/06. Featuring an original pop-rock soundtrack, Age of the Hero is a retrospective of the epic woven with contemporary interpretations of the text.
phoenixartsclub.com/events/age-o...
phoenixartsclub.com/events/age-o...
⚠️☀️ Summer Closure ☀️⚠️
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
May 25, 2026 at 12:37 PM
⚠️☀️ Summer Closure ☀️⚠️
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
The Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies will be undergoing major building works this summer and we are unable to accept visitors from July to October 2026. If you had hoped to consult the collections during that time, please email us to discuss an alternative.
Check our new "Introductions to... Women in Greek Theatre", by Leo Kershaw. Go to the APGRD website/ Learning to access all our Introductions and Notes from the Archive.
May 25, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Check our new "Introductions to... Women in Greek Theatre", by Leo Kershaw. Go to the APGRD website/ Learning to access all our Introductions and Notes from the Archive.
Saturday 13 June! 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. A conference on Eastern and Western approaches to the reception of the classical world in video games. For the zoom link to join online & programme, please go to:
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
May 19, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Saturday 13 June! 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. A conference on Eastern and Western approaches to the reception of the classical world in video games. For the zoom link to join online & programme, please go to:
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
Exciting event in Oxford focused on artistic responses to the new Euripides fragments discovered in 2024.
'Stories from the Sands', 11 June, 2-5:30pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College. Organised by Prof Laura Swift & Oxford University. Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-fr...
'Stories from the Sands', 11 June, 2-5:30pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College. Organised by Prof Laura Swift & Oxford University. Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-fr...
May 19, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Exciting event in Oxford focused on artistic responses to the new Euripides fragments discovered in 2024.
'Stories from the Sands', 11 June, 2-5:30pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College. Organised by Prof Laura Swift & Oxford University. Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-fr...
'Stories from the Sands', 11 June, 2-5:30pm, Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College. Organised by Prof Laura Swift & Oxford University. Book your free ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-fr...
From our friends at Dansox: TODAY 11/05, 5:30PM!! Clare Finburgh Delijani: “A Way to Inhabit the World”: Decolonial-Environmental Resistance in Dance from the French Caribbean
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resistance...
Livestream: youtube.com/live/b2B7RO8...
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resistance...
Livestream: youtube.com/live/b2B7RO8...
Resistance in Dance from the French Caribbean
Claire Finburgh Delijani joins us for a lecture on resistance in dance from the French Caribbean.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 11, 2026 at 9:54 AM
From our friends at Dansox: TODAY 11/05, 5:30PM!! Clare Finburgh Delijani: “A Way to Inhabit the World”: Decolonial-Environmental Resistance in Dance from the French Caribbean
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resistance...
Livestream: youtube.com/live/b2B7RO8...
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resistance...
Livestream: youtube.com/live/b2B7RO8...
📣📣❗❗Tomorrow 2pm!!! Join us for the annual Classics & English Lecture, delivered by Dr Miranda Stanyon (University of Melbourne), in the Ioannou Centre lecture theatre and online at 2pm on Tuesday 12 May.
May 11, 2026 at 8:10 AM
📣📣❗❗Tomorrow 2pm!!! Join us for the annual Classics & English Lecture, delivered by Dr Miranda Stanyon (University of Melbourne), in the Ioannou Centre lecture theatre and online at 2pm on Tuesday 12 May.