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Newsletter 2016 NEWSLETTER 2016 From the Chair of the Hannah Willey was another new starter on the teaching staff in Michaelmas 2015, Faculty but to a permanent, not a temporary Dr James Clackson job. She is a historian, with a particular interest in Ancient Greek religion, and its intersections with law and society in the One of the most important, and also See Inside... archaic and classical periods. Her source one of the most interesting, aspects of materials encompass not just inscriptions Greek Plays Present and Past serving as Chair of the Faculty Board is 2 serving on the Faculty Appointments and ancient historians, but also a wide committee. Appointments of new lec- range of literary works, from philos- turers to permanent positions are made ophy to drama. Hannah is a Fellow and by a University Committee chaired by Director of Studies in Classics at Murray a representative of the Vice-Chancellor, Edwards College, and her appointment but I chair the Appointments Committee is proleptic in advance of the retirement for the increasing number of temporary of Paul Millett—which is fortunately still academic staff, filling in for University some way off. Teaching Officers when they win pres- In 2016 we will, however, see the retire- Digging up Surprises tigious prizes and grants which allow for ment of another long-serving member of 6 extended periods of research leave. For the Faculty, Geoff Horrocks, Professor of each of these appointments we can be guaranteed an exceptionally strong field, Comparative Philology and Fellow of St with applicants from around the world. Johns. Geoff was an undergraduate and Our success in securing the best can- graduate student at Downing, writing his didates is shown by the frequency with PhD on Mycenaean and Homeric Greek which these temporary lecturers go on under the supervision of John Chadwick. to permanent lectureships in Cambridge After a spell as Lecturer in Linguistics and elsewhere. at SOAS, Geoff returned to Cambridge in 1983, becoming Professor in 1997. In This year we are fortunate to welcome his many books, Geoff has shown the The Birthday of an Archive 8 three new temporary lecturers to the insights that modern linguistics can Faculty: Tom Mackenzie is filling in for bring to the study of ancient languages. Lucia Prauscello, who will be spending His writing and teaching are notable for two years as a Humboldt Fellow in, clarity, acumen, elegance and wit. appropriately, the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, working on a new edition and Geoff’s retirement meant that the Chair commentary of the papyrus fragments of in Comparative Philology was adver- the Boeotian poetess Corinna. Siobhan tised last summer, and this gave me the Chomse is replacing Emily Gowers, now opportunity to see what an appointments in the final year of her Leverhulme Major committee was like from the other side Research Fellowship. Emily’s replace- of the table, since I was an applicant. Classics on Film ment last year, Erica Bexley, migrated last Reader, I got the job. 9 summer to a perma- nent post at Swansea University. Ailsa Hunt Inaugural Lecture stands in for Mary Beard, who also has Prof. Tim Whitmarsh a two-year Major A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust; Ailsa will be 14 October 2016, 5pm taking up a lectureship Retracing a Photographer’s Steps at Birmingham Uni- versity in 2017. 11 For further details check www.classics.cam.ac.uk Antigone and Lysistrata will be performed at the Cam- THE GREEK PLAY bridge Arts Theatre 12 – 15 October 2016 at 2.30pm and Dr Katherine before your eyes, as formal photographic portraits and drawings in the national 7.45pm every day. Schools McDonald press give way to more casual snapshots talks will take place before (accompanied by a sad letter from the each matinee, and an aca- Play’s ‘official’ photographer, asking the demic symposium will be The Cambridge Greek Play, a Cambridge committee not to let the tradition of tradition since 1882, is returning in studio portraits end because of budg- held in Newnham College on 2016. After the huge success of 2013’s etary constraints). Colour photographs 16 October (details to follow Promethus/Frogs double-bill, we have appear from 1989 onwards, and finally on our website). Tickets for the play are available through the Cambridge Arts Theatre website: www.cambridgeartstheatre.com the past seem to appear with suspicious regularity. The archive has always been consulted by scholars of theatre and Classical recep- tion, but has never been freely available on the internet before. Many of the cast and crew members from those 42 past productions have not seen the photo- graphs for decades. Almost immediately after the website launched, I started get- ting emails from the huge international community of Greek Play alumni. Some Antigone 1959 simply wanted to thank us for allowing gone for another tragedy/comedy pairing digital photos make their appearance in them to revisit some happy and unique – this time, Sophocles’ Antigone and 2007. The programmes and tickets have memories. Others wanted to send in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Director Helen changed a great deal too, from simple their stories and mementos of previous Eastman and composer Alex Silverman bold playbills to the more elaborate productions, adding considerably to the will be returning after their breath-taking, recent designs – though press cuttings stock of photos, programmes and press vibrant productions in both 2013 and which denounce the student audience for cuttings in the archive. 2010. Auditions have been held, the play being noisy, drinking too much and not I was particularly thrilled to receive an has been cast, and the initial rehearsals knowing Greek as well as the students of email from Isabel Raphael, née Lawson will take place in March (to give every- one a head start on the Greek before the summer!) But this year we have been looking back to the history of the Greek Play too. As part of the launch of the 2016 production, and thanks to some generous funding from Gifford Combs (Queens’, 1983), we decided to set up a permanent internet home for the Cambridge Greek Play. Not only would this website act as a source of information on upcoming productions, but also as an archive of all 42 previous productions. Accordingly, I spent a week in August 2015 in the Manuscripts Room of the University Library, photographing as much as possible from the Cambridge Greek Play archive, with the help of archi- vist Vanessa Lacey. Going through the archive is like watch- Frogs 2013 ing the history of photography unfold 2 Focus on Research Alina Kozlovski My research is about the relationship Romans had with the material remains of their past. Most societies have to deal with the tangible traces of past genera- tions in some way. Some things remain Prometheus 2013 because they are carefully collected and (New Hall 1957-1960) which started As well as showcasing some excellent treasured in homes, tombs and public spaces, while others are left behind after with the line ‘I am the Antigone from 1980s hairstyles, the archive photographs being rendered unusable by deliberate 1959!’ The Antigone 1959 production was show just how much energy and laugh- destruction or the slow decay of time. the last time Sophocles’ Antigone was ter went into this production. I am also performed as the Cambridge Greek Play a big fan of the set design drawings, the I am interested in how Romans thought – and the photographs are some of my colour originals of which survive for this about these heirlooms, ruins and frag- favourite images from the archive, with production, unlike almost every other ments, and in how these objects were not sets and costumes inspired by the Bronze production. The other major example of only used as sources by those that wrote Age Minoan civilization. Making contact this is 1912’s Oedipus Tyrranus, for which history, but also the impact they had on with a cast member – who just happens original watercolours of the costume the history that was written. One of my to have an original vinyl recording of designs can still be found in the archive, case studies relates to how Romans may the production in her attic – was almost looking as though they were painted have conceived the reconstruction and too good to be true. We’re hoping to yesterday. restoration of buildings in their city. transfer this recording to an electronic format soon, so that we can listen to the You can take a look at the website and In his Res Gestae inscription, Augus- 1959 production again in time for 2016’s archive at www.cambridgegreekplay.com tus claimed that he omitted his name Antigone. – and if you have any mementos from a from many of the structures he rebuilt, previous Cambridge Greek Play hidden preferring instead to retain the names of The last time Lysistrata was performed as away in your loft, please consider sending the individuals who had originally paid the Cambridge Greek Play was in 1986. them in. for the buildings. I argue that this was an act of backdating of material culture, as buildings in styles that we know to be Augustan now received labels that made them seem older. Historians used inscriptions as sources and the confusion created by Augustus’ actions is evident in later texts. Hadrian later also changed the appearance of Augustan Rome in the same way by putting Agrippa’s name on a building from the early second century AD. This confused Classicists’ understanding of the structure up until the late nine- teenth century and demonstrates how perceptions of material culture could be manipulated and could affect the writing of history both in the past and in the present.
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