APGRD - Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

05/10/2026

15 Oct, 6pm at ICS, Senate House. Join Josephine Burton (Dash Arts, co-director), Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford, APGRD), and one of the five commissioned writers on the project for a public conversation and performance exploring the development of Songs of Solidarity, a project that brings together artists, researchers and refugees to co-create a new epic that celebrates and redefines the migrant experience.

22/09/2026

Former APGRD Director Fiona Macintosh remembers Pat Easterling and her contributions to the ICS and the London Classics community.

Fiona Macintosh (Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception, University of Oxford) remembers Pat Easterling's contributions to the ICS and the London Classics community.

14/09/2026

Very excited about the return of the Oxford triennial Greek Play, Oxford Playhouse presented by our friends at the Oxford Classical Drama Society. Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides. Not to be missed! More information and tickets: https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphigenia-at-aulis

08/09/2026

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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Ij-cCu08Q
A fuller discussion of these ideas can be accessed here:
https://st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/news/homeric-narrative-technique-in-nolans-the-odyssey

Dr Tom Nelson, Ancient Greek Fellow at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, shares how Christopher Nolan's Odyssey with 5 Homeric storytelling techniques

07/07/2026

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.
To convey the sense of Aulis's rural isolation, and to complicate notion(s) of "nationalist identity", OCDS' vision for Iphigenia at Aulis invokes Celtic-inspired aesthetics, both acoustic and visual.
Not to be missed!
Bookings now open: https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/iphigenia-at-aulis

29/06/2026

From our friends !
Body Politic. Residency with DANSOX as they develop their new work No Place!

All welcome to
Open Rehearsal and Showing on Sunday 5th July 2-4pm
Free followed by reception
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College, Oxford

For information and Eventbrite see
https://dansox3.wordpress.com/

or book directly
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/body-politic-open-rehearsal-tickets-1992346352573

23/06/2026

Two exciting events will take place in Oxford this Thursday:

26th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium, hybrid
Thursday 25 June 9:30am-8:30pm - St Hilda's College (9.30-17.00); Ioannou Centre (18.00-20.30) and on Zoom

The Digital Auteur: Technology, Transmission, and the Re-Invention of Greek Tragedy
Public lecture at the Postgraduate Symposium by George Rodosthenous
3.30pm, Thursday 25 June: The Pavillion, St Hilda's College, Oxford and on Zoom

A Red Extreme Heat Warning has been issued for Oxfordshire and the South East on Wednesday and Thursday which urges people to avoid all non-essential travel.

Although these events are still taking place in person, we have invited speakers to switch to remote presentations if they wish - and we would also like attendees to consider joining us as an online audience on Zoom.

There are a significant number of participants who have already travelled (or are in the process of travelling) to be here with us, so the rooms, timings, and arrangements remain the same. Both the Pavilion at St Hilda’s College (daytime sessions) and the Lecture Theatre at the Ioannou Centre (evening) are air-conditioned, and if you are still planning to join us in person, please give extra consideration for moving across the city to reach the venues.

15/06/2026

From our friends at Dansox!
All welcome to these lectures:

16th June 5.30pm-7.30pm
*The Astaires: Fred and Adele*
Alastair Macaulay in conversation with Kathleen Riley. Alastair and Kathleen discuss Kathleen's biography of the Astaire siblings.
+Q&A& reception.
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-astaires-fred-adele-tickets-1989841194578

18 June 5.30-7.30pm
Kathleen Riley, "Like watching music: Fred Astaire and Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday".
Kathleen Riley, a classics scholar, writer and biographer of the Astaires, discusses the synergies between the work of Fred Astaire and Lil' Buck.
+Q&A and reception.
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford.
FREE and OPEN TO ALL
Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/like-watching-music-fred-astaire-and-lil-buck-virtuosi-of-the-everyday-tickets-1989841525568

See: https://dansox3.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/

08/06/2026

We are still having some problems with our website, so here is the programme for Saturday, just in case you can't access it:

'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'

-9:15 - 10:15: ‘Journeys to the West: Mediterranean Antiquity in Japanese Video Games’. Dr Dunstan Lowe (University of Kent). Chair: Alex MacFarlane (University of Birmingham)
-10:15 - 10:30 Break
-10:30 - 12:00 PANEL 1: Epic & Divinity. Chair: Edward Hammond (University of Bristol)
-10:30 - 11:00 ‘The Epic Turn: Scale, Transmediality, and Classicism in Online Gaming Culture’. Kevin Wong (Harvard University)
-11:00 - 11:30 ‘Creators & Controllers: Puppeting the Past in Raji: An Ancient Epic’. Sanjana Ramanathan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
-11:30 - 12:00 ‘Gods of the Command System: Machinic Sovereignty and Divine Infrastructure in Fate/Grand Order’s Lostbelt No.5’. Mario Valori (University of Pisa)
-12:00 -12:15 ‘Future Directions in Antiquity Game Studies’. Dr Richard Cole (University of Bristol)
-12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
-13:30 - 14:30 PANEL 2 Environment. Chair: Sarah Marshall (University of Oxford)
-13:30 - 14:00 ‘Alea Iacta Est in Ash: Caesar’s Rubicon and Ecological Catastrophe in Armored Core VI’. Dr Jiawen Zhu (UCL)
-14:00 - 14:30 ‘Hyrule Histories: The Legend of Zelda’s Use of Graeco-Roman Architecture’. Margaret Daily (KCL)
-14:30 - 14:45 Break
-14:45 - 15:45 PANEL 3 Pocket Classics. Chair: Clare Chang (University of Oxford)
-14:45 - 15:15 ‘Philosophical Vesselisation: An Alternative Mode of Classical Reception in Honkai: Star Rail's Amphoreus Arc’. Haoran Jin/Existential XP (Independent)
-15:15 - 15:45 ‘Love stronger than the player’s affection: Circe, Europa, and Artemis in Fate/Grand Order’. Dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz (University of Warsaw)
-15:45 - 16:00 Break
-16:00 - 17:00 ‘(Re)constructing Ancient Egypt in non-Western Video Games’. Dr Jennifer Cromwell (Manchester Metropolitan University). Chair: Dr Pantelis Michelakis (University of Oxford)
-17:00 onwards Drinks Reception

08/06/2026

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.