Our Mythical History: People

Jerzy Axer
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
‘By Oak, Ash, and Thorn!’: The Meaning of the Lessons in Roman History with Puck of Pook’s Hill

Rachel Bryant-Davies
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
'A nobler entertainment': Graeco-Roman History in British Children's Toys and Games, c. 1750–1914

Krishni Burns
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Spectacular Colonialism: Naumachia in "Children of Blood and Bone"

Véronique Dasen
Department of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg
Gods, Heroes, and Monuments: Greek and Roman Antiquity in Games

Eleanor A. Dasi
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Mythic Fulfillment and Performance in the Bafut Abinimfor and the Greek Dionysian Festivals

Susan Deacy
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton
Making Sixth-century BCE Athens All about Herakles for Autistic Children: Out of Myth – into History

Didymus T. Douanla
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
PhD-Thesis: The Construction of Post-ethnic Identities in J.M. Coetzee’s Fiction

Raimund Fichtel
Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
raimund.fichtel@klassphil.u...
The Birth of the Suetonian Nero from the Spirit of Mythology and Its Modern Variations

Frances Foster
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Another Late Antiquity: John Christopher’s "Fireball"

Valentina Garulli
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna
The Irresistible Charm of History: Laura Orvieto’s Narrative on Historical Themes

Elizabeth Hale
School of Arts, University of New England
Funny Bones: Archaeology, Humour, and Australian Children’s Books

Edith Hall
Department of Classics, King’s College London
Secular Ethics for Junior Socialists: F.J. Gould on ancient history, 1906–1913

Owen Hodkinson
Department of Classics, University of Leeds
Groovy Greeks, Rotten and Ruthless Romans: The Classical Past in the “Horrible Histories” Serie

Elena Iakovou
Seminar for Classical Philology, University of Göttingen
Panel Moderator

Markus Janka
Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
markus.janka@klassphil.uni-...
Rejuvenating Heroes of Roman History in Robert Harris' Novels and HBO's "Rome"

Katarzyna Jerzak
Institute of Modern Languages, Pomeranian University in Słupsk
Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad” (1869): An Irreverent Look of the New World Upon the Old

Przemysław Kaniecki
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Ancient History in Contemporary Modern Greek Comics

Jan Kieniewicz
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
A Knight with No Blemish and without Fear and beyond Reproach: Heroic Myth in Polish Children Novel and National Identity during Captivity

Przemysław Kordos
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Ancient History in Contemporary Modern Greek Comics

Karolina Kulpa
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
“Caesar and Cleopatra unite Rome and Egypt”: (Re)creating and Playing with Ancient History on the Playmobil Series

Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
German Department, University of Tübingen
bettina.kuemmerling-meibaue...
“The most splendid guy of ancient history”: Facts and Fiction on Spartacus in Leftist German Children’s Literature


Agnieszka Maciejewska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
agnieszka.maciejewska@stude...
PhD-Thesis: The Reception of Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator in Children's and Youth Culture

Katarzyna Marciniak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
The Once and Future Antiquity: Greek and Roman Heritage in BBC Merlin

Lisa Maurice
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Reading the Greco-Roman World from Right to Left: The Portrayal of Greeks and Romans in Jewish Children’s Fiction

Anna Mik
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
PhD-Thesis: Signs of Exclusion. Monsters Inspired by Greek and Roman Mythology as Symbols of Rejected Minorities in Literature, Film, and TV-Series for Children and Young Adults: From Mid-20th Until Early 21st Century

David Movrin
Department of Classical Philology, University of Ljubljana
Classics & Communism project co-leader (with Elżbieta Olechowska), Panel Moderator

Sheila Murnaghan
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Champion of History, Inveterate Liar: Biographies of Heinrich Schliemann for Young Readers

Divine Che Neba
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Mythic Fulfillment and Performance in the Bafut Abinimfor and the Greek Dionysian Festivals

Sonya Nevin
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Create Your Own Ancient Vase

Daniel A. Nkemleke
Department of English ENS, University of Yaoundé 1
Mythic Fulfillment and Performance in the Bafut Abinimfor and the Greek Dionysian Festivals

Elżbieta Olechowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Ancient History in DC’s “Legends of Tomorrow”, Season 3, Episodes 1, 6, 18 (“Aruba-Con”, “Helen Hunt”, “The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly”)

Hanna Paulouskaya
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
The Lives of Remarkable Ancients for Use of Soviet Youth


Ayelet Peer
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
He Came, He Saw, He Conquered Hollywood: Julius Caesar in Popular Culture

Deborah H. Roberts
Department of Classics, Haverford College
The Gadfly and Athenian Girlhood: Socrates in Historical Fiction for Children

Giacomo Savani
Department of Classics, University of Leeds
Getting the Narrative Right: Authority and Imagination in the Educational Book “Life in the Roman World: Roman Leicester”, Co-authored by Giacomo Savani, Sarah Scott and Mathew Morris

Ulrich Schädler
Swiss Museum of Games
Gods, Heroes, and Monuments: Greek and Roman Antiquity in Games

Sonja Schreiner
Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neolatin Studies, University of Vienna
Reduced to Stereotypes vs. Historical Realism: Ancient People in Children’s Literature in the 1950s and in the Third Millennium

Steve Simons
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Create Your Own Ancient Vase

Wilfried Stroh
Institute of Classical Philology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
stroh@klassphil.uni-muenche...
De fabulis scaenicis in Germania exhibitis (inaugural lecture in Latin)

Robert A. Sucharski
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Witold Makowiecki and His Two Novels on the Mediterranean in the Sixth Century BC

Karoline Thaidigsmann
Slavic Department, University of Heidelbeg
Post-Socialist Identity between Slavic Gods, the Graeco-Roman Tradition and Western Christianity. A Reading of Dorota Terakowska’s Crossover Novel "The Loneliness of the Gods"

Renzo Tosi
Faculty of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna
Cluster Board Member, Panel Moderator
ERC Grant Seminar Students' Session

Olga Banasikowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
“Classic History Lesson” by Jacek Kaczmarski

Viktoryia Bartsevich
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Have the Triumvirates Been Behind Everything? Nero, Caligula, Commodus in “The Trials of Apollo” by Rick Riordan

Anastasiia Khrul
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Alexander the Great, as Seen by Soviet Novelists

Agnieszka Maciejewska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
To the Rescue of Alexandria – Cleopatra and Romans in “Caesar, Who's He?” Alain Surget’s series “Children of the Nile”

Anna Mik
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
“Dobby is Free!” The House Elf as Spartacus of the Wizarding World

Haruka Miwa
International Students Exchange Programme, Shinshu University in Nagano
Three Historical Heroes from a Neutral Point of View

Marta Pszczolińska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Sparta between Myths and History – “The Wolf of Sparta” by Antonis Antoniadis and the Modern Hero of Ancient History>

Krzysztof Rybak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Our Honeyed History: The Ancient World in “The Book of Bees” and “The Book of Trees” by Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski
Belarusian and Russian Bursary Recipients' Session

Anastasiia Ashaeva
The School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
A Polish Mirror: Ancient Mythology in the USSR from Tadeusz Zieliński to Kazimierz Kumaniecki

Anastasiya Davydava
Faculty of Philology, Belarusian State University
Mikhail Gasparov, or How to Make Greece Entertaining

Angelina Gerus
Faculty of Philology, Belarusian State University
“Socrates in Love”: How to Introduce Plato to the Youngest

Alexandra Pisaruk
Faculty of Philology, Belarusian State University
Ancient History in Contemporary Street Art of Modern Greece