Armand d'Angour - Songmaking to Socrates: New Light on Ancient Classics

Schedule

Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Noel Salter Room, New College | Oxford, EN

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Lecture 1: The Sound of Music in Ancient Greece

Lecture 2: Archimedes’ Eureka

Lecture 3. Catullus and his Lesbia

Lecture 4. Aspasia, Teacher of Socrates


Armand d'Angour is Professor of Classics and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His work has ranged across wide areas of Greek culture, especially music and lyric poetry. His works include Socrates in Love (Bloomsbury 2019) and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton 2021).

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Noel Salter Room, New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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