The Malta Classics Association was honoured to be host this year’s Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World 2025, fully online. The Conference ran on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd November. Click on the hyperlinks below to access the recordings of each particular submission.

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Friday 21st November

Friday Keynote: Martha Graham’s Engagement with Greek Myth: A Dancer’s Approach to the Ancient World

Prof. Nina Papathanasopoulou (Society for Classical Studies; College Year in Athens)

Panel 1 – Classics and Later Literature

Echoes of Vergil’s Aeneid in Emily Hauser’s For the Most Beautiful

Theshira Pather (Independent Scholar)

The Story of Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fotini Gkotzampasopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Saturday 22nd November

Classics Through Digital Leisure-Learning – Project CITADEL

Dr Carmel Serracino & Andrew Debono Cauchi (University of Malta)

Panel 2: Comics, Illustrations and Games

“Our Hero Henry…”: Video Game Protagonists as a Contemporary Extension of Mythical Heroes.

Anna Baranek (University of Warsaw)

Comics in Latin as an effective incentive for learning the language and ancient culture – case study of Impluvius et Compluvius apud Sarmatas.

Marta Pszczolińska (University of Warsaw)


The Beginnings Added at the End: A Project on the Origins of Soviet Mythological Animation.

Hanna Paulouskaya (University of Warsaw)

Panel 3: Film and the Visual Arts

Embodying Athena, Wandering as Odysseus, and Singing with Sappho: Mythic Selves in Felicita Vestvali’s Pallas Athene

Holly Lawson (University of Cambridge)

Infanticide in Euripides’ Fragmentary Plays and his Influence on Visual Arts

Maria Simantiri (University of the Peloponnese)

Panel 4: Classics and Later History

Thucydides iterum? The reception of Thucydides in the Library of Federico da Montefeltro

Maria Angela Carfora (University of Urbino)


Antiquarianism and the Classical Heritage: A New Concept in Modern Age Sicily

Antonino Crisa (Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University)


Comparison with Rome and dialectic of states in the USA: against England, Italy and the USSR

Lucas Tamargo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

The Island of Oblivion – interview with Screenwriter and Director Jamie Vella