An Evening with the Classics
Hannah Lessiter, our Greek & Latin specialist, will be in conversation with Dr. Antony Makrinos Associate Professor in Classics (UCL) and Director of the Summer School in Homer, discussing classical authors and rare books on the classical world.
Hannah Lessiter, our Greek & Latin specialist, will be in conversation with Dr. Antony Makrinos, Associate Professor in Classics (UCL) and Director of the Summer School in Homer, discussing classical authors and rare books on the classical world. Amongst the works that they will be looking at are copies of classical works printed by the Aldine Press as well as some of the works of Heinrich Schliemann looking at the classical world from a distance.
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Refreshments will be served.
Dr Antony Makrinos
Antony Makrinos received his PhD in Classics from UCL in 2005. He has worked as a visiting Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary College and as a Teaching Fellow at KCL; in 2005 he has become a Research and Teaching Fellow in the Greek and Latin Department at UCL and since 2017 he worked at the Department as a Senior Teaching Fellow and then as an Associate Professor in Classics. In 2017 Antony has also become a Senior Teaching Fellow of the HEA. His interests include Greek epic (especially Homer), Greek education, scholarship in Byzantium, reception studies (especially Homer in film and popular culture) and teaching Classics with immersive technologies. He is currently working on an edition of Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey (book 1). He has contributed to many UCL and KCL courses in Classical Studies and he has produced teaching material on classical themes to a number of EUROCLASSICA workshops for European and international students. Antony is also the Director of the Summer School in Homer which takes place every summer in the G&L Dept. at UCL for the last 12 years.
Hannah Lessiter
Hannah joined the Shapero team in September 2021, having completed a Master’s in Classical Art and Archaeology, in which she specialised in nineteenth-century photography of Greek archaeological sites. She has an extensive knowledge of both Latin and ancient Greek, and has a particular interest in ancient Greek drama.
