Finding the Snake Goddess: new poems by Ruth Padel

Speaker
Ruth Padel, Ellen Adams, Nicoletta Momigliano, Christine Morris, Andrew Shapland
Event date
Event time
14:00
Venue
Faculty of Classics (and Online)
Ioannou Centre
66 St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3LU
Venue details

Lecture Theatre

Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Not required

In conjunction with Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality, the current exhibition in the Ashmolean Museum, and as part of the project 'The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess', Ruth Padel will read poems on the Snake Goddess figurines, found at Knossos in 1903 by Sir Arthur Evans.

Ellen Adams (KCL); Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol); Christine Morris (TCD); and Andrew Shapland (Oxford) will introduce Ruth Padel’s performance with a short archaeological and historical talk on the figurines and join her afterwards for Q&A with the audience. An in-person event, free, open to all, no booking required.

This event will also be live-streamed for those who cannot make it in person. Please check the APGRD website on the day for the live-stream link.