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From el-Amarna to the English National Opera
Posted on: 2 April 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
Earlier this month, 10 Liverpool Egyptology students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), undertook a two-day visit to London – part-funded by a faculty prize for the quality of our Egyptology teaching. The trip was heavily oversubscribed, and students were selected by random ballot for the trip. We arranged the excursion around a visit to the English National Opera (ENO) to see Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten, based on the controversial pharaoh who abandoned Egypt's traditional gods, and instead devoted himself to the worship of the sun.
Sappho: a strong and modern female voice
Posted on: 28 March 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
For Women's History Month, ancient history student Kian Goodsell explores the work of Greek poet, Sappho.
Alice in Wonderland - My trip to the stores of the World Museum
Posted on: 19 March 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
Egyptology MA student Alice Baddeley reflects on her opportunity to visit the storeroom of Liverpool's World Museum as part of her Masters study.
Guest speaker: Exploring evolution and entanglement
Posted on: 8 March 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
Two of our graduate students in Archaeology, Emily Prtak and Eleanor de Spretter Yates, reflect on our recent Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (ACE) flagship seminar, on the theme of 'Evolution and Entanglement' featuring guest speaker Professor Ian Hodder (Stanford University):
Classics and Ancient History seminars this semester: Sicily and rhetoric
Posted on: 4 March 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
The Classics and Ancient History seminars this semester have got off to a great start, with the emergence of a surprise emphasis on Sicily in our first two seminars.
LGBT History Month - Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
Posted on: 27 February 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
This February in the department we have been reflecting about LGBT history, not least following the wonderful lecture by Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on Alexander the Great. In this post, Dr Ben Cartlidge dwells on a puzzling feature of the ancient Greek evidence for male homosexuality.
Alexander the Great or Alexander the Gay?
Posted on: 19 February 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
For LGBT history month, guest blogger Prof Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University) asks: 'Alexander the Great or Alexander the Gay?' before his talk this week, exploring Alexander's sexuality and popular culture.
End of an era: ACE’s Penycloddiau field school comes to a natural close
Posted on: 25 October 2018 | Category: 2018 posts
With the ACE field school now moved to Norton Priory, a small but perfectly-formed team completed the former field school site at the Penycloddiau Hillfort between 15 July - 11 August. The excavations worked to train eight students, in partnership with the Institute for Field Research (IFR Global), alongside onward employability training for recent graduates.
Vandals and fragments: what to expect from our classics and ancient history seminars
Posted on: 19 October 2018 | Category: 2018 posts
Research Fellow, Ben Cartlidge, gives us the inside track on the varied themes covered in our Classics and Ancient History seminars at Liverpool - from ancient religion to music and poetry.
New texts from an old site: discoveries from the September 2018 season at the Hatnub alabaster quarries
Posted on: 9 October 2018 | Category: 2018 posts
Roland Enmarch is Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and co-director of the Anglo-French Hatnub Survey / Mission de Hatnoub, along with Dr. Yannis Gourdon (IFAO). In this blog, Roland provides an overview of his visit to Hatnub, Egypt, examining the ancient inscriptions in the site's alabaster quarries.
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From el-Amarna to the English National Opera
Posted on: 2 April 2019 | Category: 2019 posts
Earlier this month, 10 Liverpool Egyptology students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), undertook a two-day visit to London – part-funded by a faculty prize for the quality of our Egyptology teaching. The trip was heavily oversubscribed, and students were selected by random ballot for the trip. We arranged the excursion around a visit to the English National Opera (ENO) to see Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten, based on the controversial pharaoh who abandoned Egypt's traditional gods, and instead devoted himself to the worship of the sun.