In Conversation: Ferdia Lennon and Clare Pollard

Welcome to Classics Now, an exciting cultural festival online, in Dublin and beyond.Now in our sixth year, the weekend will showcase the current burst of exploration and re-engagement with Classics and the ancient world. Artists, writers and thinkers, international and Irish, are taking Classics as a lens to examine our contemporary cultural and political preoccupations and challenges.Our programme in February 2025 will present inviting encounters including performances and readings, both online and live, in public spaces - art galleries and cultural centres - with a number of events appealing to second and third-level students. In interviews, discussions, film screenings, dance and musical theatre performances you will see and hear from artists working in different genres and art forms, in thought-provoking and imaginative ways.Come and join the new Renaissance.https://www.classicsnow.ie/

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Join us for a conversation about two brilliant début novels,  touching on Greek tragedy, myth, prophecy and
more. Chaired by Tanya Dean

City Assembly House, Irish Georgian Society

Set in 412 BC in Sicily during the Peloponnesian war, Ferdia Lennon’s début novel, Glorious Exploits, explores the bonds forged between local potters, Lampo and Gelon, and a group of Athenian prisoners of war, held captive in a quarry in Syracuse. This brilliantly boisterous novel culminates in their staging of Euripides’ tragedy Medea, a performance that they will never forget, as it becomes difficult to distinguish between friends and enemies. Ferdia Lennon will be in conversation with poet and playwright Clare Pollard, whose captivating début novel, Delphi, reads between the lines of ancient prophecies. In London in 2020 during the pandemic, the novel’s sharp, witty narrator, a Classics scholar, is attempting to write a book about prophecy in the ancient world and becomes fixated on our many forms of divination and prediction. ‘To write anything requires this ludicrous confidence in the future – that it exists, and contains a person who might read my words with interest.’ (Delphi)Join us for a conversation that will touch on Greek tragedy, myth, war, death and more. It will be chaired by academic and dramaturg, Tanya Dean.

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