LOVE & POETRY AT THE ASHMOLEAN TALK 3

This talk is both in-person in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom

Light refreshments will be served from 3pm, when the Museum doors open before the in-person talk starts at 3.30pm

Booking is required, tickets are £15 in-person and £10 online. Book below

With Dr Steve Kershaw, classicist & expert in Greek mythology, teaching courses at Oxford University, New York University, and the V&A

In the third of our Love & Poetry series of talks, Dr Steve Kershaw will explore ancient love and the poetry it inspired through the vases, frescoes, sculptures, and paintings in the Ashmolean’s world-renowned collection of Greek and Roman antiquities.

Fragmentary Athenian red-figure vase showing a wedding ceremony, c. 420 BCE

Combining moving and enchanting verse with the brilliance of the ancient artistic tradition, he will share the delights and dangers of Aphrodite and Eros as experienced by mythical lovers in some of the world's greatest poetic works from Homer to Ovid.

The talk will be recorded, and the recording will be shared with all ticketholders following the event.

MORE LOVE & POETRY TALKS

• 29 May at 10.30am: Talk 1: Titian's Triumph of Love
• 13 Jun at 3.30pm: Talk 2: Renaissance bronze