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This blog celebrates the work of teachers and students of Classics at the University of Nottingham, reflects on teaching developments and introduces some of the aspects of the Greek and Roman world that feature in our teaching.
The main contributor is Helen Lovatt, Associate Professor in Classics, who has published books on Greek and Roman epic, and articles on Latin literature and its reception, but other members of the department will also write guest posts.
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Censorship, gender and power: Fordyce and Catullus 58
March 12, 2015
Helen Lovatt considers the relationship between bowdlerising a classical text and broader questions of censorship. Issues of free speech are still very much debated: recently the classicist Mary Beard was caught up in a twitter storm about no-platforming speakers at universities, in particular certain radical feminists whose views offend some in the transgender community. It …
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