Programme

• 11.00am: Stuart Gillespie, 'The culture of classical translation and English literary history'
• 11.45am: Robert Crowe, 'Happy Feats: Oxford, Penguin and the World('s Classics)'

12.15am: Panel Discussion. Chair: Chris Pelling

• Judith Luna (Oxford World’s Classics)
• Simon Winder (Penguin)
• David Raeburn (Oxford)
• Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)
• Peter Brown (Oxford)

1pm: Lunch

2.15pm: Chris Stray, 'The politics of translation in 19th-century England'
3.00pm: Oliver Taplin, 'Murray, Dodds and the value of translation classes'
3.45pm: Peter McDonald, 'The Deaths of Tragedy: The 'Agamemnon' of MacNeice, Dodds, and Yeats'

4.30pm: Tea

5.00pm: Leverhulme Lecture: 'Translating the classics’ - Timberlake Wertenbaker and Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth) in conversation

6pm Drinks