The epigrams of Henry Wellesley's 'Anthologia Polyglotta' (1849): literary tradition and academic politics

Paper delivered at the University of Calabria in December 2011, trying out some new material from Ch.2 of the forthcoming book (2013).

The epigrams of Henry Wellesley's 'Anthologia Polyglotta' (1849): literary tradition and academic politics

Paper delivered at the University of Calabria in December 2011, trying out some new material from Ch.2 of the forthcoming book (2013).

300: the PG Version (Black20)

AV material in support of my chapter in Stephen Hodkinson and Ian Macgregor Morris (eds.), 'Sparta in Modern Thought' (Classical Press of Wales, forthcoming 2011/12). The chapter is entitled '"This is Cake-Town!": '300' (2006) and the Death of Allegory'.

It's Raining 300 Men (suburbania)

AV material in support of my chapter in 'Sparta in Modern Thought'

AU Troy Fanfiction Trailer (Chrissykat24)

AV material in support of my chapter in 'Sparta in Modern Thought'

300 Simpsons Trailer (Rajansos)

AV material in support of my chapter in 'Sparta in Modern Thought'

Troy: Bed of Flames (Darla1aeryn1fan)

AV material in support of my chapter in 'Sparta in Contemporary Thought'

Powerpoint for 'Prolegomena to a Steampunk Catullus'

The accompanying PowerPoint for my BSFA Lecture

Prolegomena to a Steampunk Catullus: Classics and SF

Script of the annual BSFA Lecture I delivered at Illustrious, the 2011 Eastercon

PowerPoint for 'Mecha on Olympus'

Uploaded as a PDF for easier download

Mecha on Olympus: Masamune Shirow's 'Appleseed'

Paper delivered to the Text and Cultural Construction seminar, IAA, Birmingham, February 2011

PowerPoint for 'God Mode'

Uploaded as PDF to keep file size manageable

This is the PowerPoint associated with the paper I gave at 'Release the Kraken!' in October 2010.

Sappho in Roman Epigram

I gave this paper at a joint Oxford/Norwegian conference on Sappho's Roman reception in September 2010. The handout's at the end.

'God Mode: unlocking Clash of the Titans (2010) with Sony's God of War

I gave this at 'Release the Kraken!', a half-day colloquium at the University of Leeds organised by Steve Green on 29th October 2010. The handout's at the end.

'"And your father sees you": paternity in Alexander (2004)'

in Beth Carney and Dan Ogden (eds.) (2010), 'Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives'. There's a partial preview on Amazon.

More mischievous film nonsense following on from my 'Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture'.

'Sex Lives of the Sophists: epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto'

in Swain, Harrison and Elsner (eds.) (2007), 'Severan Culture'. There's a partial preview on Google Books.

Greek Skoptic Epigram of the First and Second Centuries AD (DPhil dissertation)

A Sickness of Discourse: The Vanishing Syndrome of Leptosune

7. Ammianos (chapter in first book)

Introduction: Skoptic Epigram (chapter in first book)

Review of Pomeroy, 'Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano'

Hesiod, Works and Days: A Didaxis of Deconstruction?

"And Your Father Sees You": paternity in 'Alexander'

Skoptic Oddments (chapter in first book)

10. Conclusion (chapter in first book - very short)

Review of Fitzgerald, 'Martial: the World of the Epigram'

2. Situating Skoptic Epigram (chapter in first book)

5. Broken Masks: Skoptic Epigram's Identity Crisis (chapter in first book)

3. Loukillios (chapter in first book)

6. Political Epigram? Loukillios and Nero (chapter in first book)

8. Loukianos (chapter in first book)

4. Nikarkhos (chapter in first book)

Review of Kay (Ed., Trans.) 'Epigrams From the Anthologia Latina'

1. Reading Skoptic Epigram (chapgter in first book)

"Barbarous Verses": a mixed-media narrative from Greco-Roman Egypt