The Odyssey & Other Wanders: the Greek James Bond
Specialist Hannah Lessiter will be in conversation with Dr. Antony Makrinos Professor in Classics (UCL) and Director of the Summer School in Homer, discussing The Odyssey, Odysseus and other wanderers.
Hannah Lessiter, our Greek & Latin (and Modern Lit) 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 and works on paper with links to The Odyssey, including works by authors including Flaxman, Pope, James Joyce, and Margaret Atwood.
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Dr Antony Makrinos
Associate Professor in Classics (UCL)
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 became 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 became a Senior Teaching Fellow of the HEA.
Antony's 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 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 has taken place every summer in the G&L Dept. at UCL for over a decade.
Hannah Lessiter
Greek & Latin Specialist at Shapero
Hannah joined the Shapero team in September 2021, having completed an MA in Classical Art and Archaeology, in which she specialised in nineteenth-century photography of Greek archaeological sites. She has an extensive knowledge of the Classical languages as well as Modern Greek, and has a particular interest in Greek modernism and the 'Generation of the '30s'. Outside Shapero, Hannah is a practising archaeobotanist and has been working and teaching on sites in Italy since 2019.
