Our Mythical History: People
![Jerzy Axer](/assets/images/photos/axer.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/davies.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/burns.png)
Krishni Burns
Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois Chicago
Spectacular Colonialism: Naumachia in "Children of Blood and Bone"
![Véronique Dasen](/assets/images/photos/dasen.png)
Véronique Dasen
Department of Historical Sciences, University of Fribourg
Gods, Heroes, and Monuments: Greek and Roman Antiquity in Games
![Eleanor A. Dasi](/assets/images/present/people/dasi.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/deacy.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/douanla.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/fichtel.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/ffoster.png)
Frances Foster
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Another Late Antiquity: John Christopher’s "Fireball"
![Valentina Garulli](/assets/images/present/people/garulli.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/hale.png)
Elizabeth Hale
School of Arts, University of New England
Funny Bones: Archaeology, Humour, and Australian Children’s Books
![Edith Hall](/assets/images/photos/hall.png)
Edith Hall
Department of Classics, King’s College London
Secular Ethics for Junior Socialists: F.J. Gould on ancient history, 1906–1913
![Owen Hodkinson](/assets/images/photos/hodkinson.png)
Owen Hodkinson
Department of Classics, University of Leeds
Groovy Greeks, Rotten and Ruthless Romans: The Classical Past in the “Horrible Histories” Serie
![Elena Iakovou](/assets/images/photos/iacovou.png)
Elena Iakovou
Seminar for Classical Philology, University of Göttingen
Panel Moderator
![Markus Janka](/assets/images/photos/janka.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/jerzak.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/kaniecki.png)
Przemysław Kaniecki
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Ancient History in Contemporary Modern Greek Comics
![Jan Kieniewicz](/assets/images/photos/kieniewicz3.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/kordos.png)
Przemysław Kordos
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Ancient History in Contemporary Modern Greek Comics
![Karolina Kulpa](/assets/images/present/people/kulpa.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/kummerling.png)
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
![Nick Lowe](/assets/images/photos/lowe.png)
![Agnieszka Maciejewska](/assets/images/photos/maciejewska.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/marciniak.png)
Katarzyna Marciniak
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
The Once and Future Antiquity: Greek and Roman Heritage in BBC Merlin
![Lisa Maurice](/assets/images/photos/maurice.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/mik.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/movrin.png)
David Movrin
Department of Classical Philology, University of Ljubljana
Classics & Communism project co-leader (with Elżbieta Olechowska), Panel Moderator
![Sheila Murnaghan](/assets/images/photos/murnaghan.png)
Sheila Murnaghan
Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Champion of History, Inveterate Liar: Biographies of Heinrich Schliemann for Young Readers
![Divine Che Neba](/assets/images/photos/neba.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/nevin.png)
Sonya Nevin
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Create Your Own Ancient Vase
![Daniel A. Nkemleke](/assets/images/photos/nkemleke.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/olechowska.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/paulouskaya.png)
Hanna Paulouskaya
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
The Lives of Remarkable Ancients for Use of Soviet Youth
![Edoardo Pecchini](/assets/images/photos/pecchini2.png)
![Ayelet Peer](/assets/images/photos/peer.png)
Ayelet Peer
Department of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University
He Came, He Saw, He Conquered Hollywood: Julius Caesar in Popular Culture
![Deborah H. Roberts](/assets/images/photos/roberts.png)
Deborah H. Roberts
Department of Classics, Haverford College
The Gadfly and Athenian Girlhood: Socrates in Historical Fiction for Children
![Giacomo Savani](/assets/images/photos/savani.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/schaedler.png)
Ulrich Schädler
Swiss Museum of Games
Gods, Heroes, and Monuments: Greek and Roman Antiquity in Games
![Sonja Schreiner](/assets/images/present/people/schreiner.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/simons.png)
Steve Simons
Department of Humanities, University of Roehampton / Panoply Vase Animation Project
Create Your Own Ancient Vase
![Wilfried Stroh](/assets/images/photos/stroh.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/sucharski.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/thaidigsmann.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/tosi.png)
Renzo Tosi
Faculty of Classical Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna
Cluster Board Member, Panel Moderator
ERC Grant Seminar Students' Session
![Olga Banasikowska](https://via.placeholder.com/600x500.png)
Olga Banasikowska
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
“Classic History Lesson” by Jacek Kaczmarski
![Viktoryia Bartsevich](/assets/images/photos/bartsevich.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/khrul.png)
Anastasiia Khrul
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
Alexander the Great, as Seen by Soviet Novelists
![Agnieszka Maciejewska](/assets/images/photos/maciejewska.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/mik.png)
Anna Mik
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw
“Dobby is Free!” The House Elf as Spartacus of the Wizarding World
![Haruka Miwa](/assets/images/photos/miwa.png)
Haruka Miwa
International Students Exchange Programme, Shinshu University in Nagano
Three Historical Heroes from a Neutral Point of View
![Marta Pszczolińska](/assets/images/photos/pszczolinska.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/rybak.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/ashaeva.png)
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](/assets/images/photos/davydava.png)
Anastasiya Davydava
Faculty of Philology, Belarusian State University
Mikhail Gasparov, or How to Make Greece Entertaining
![Angelina Gerus](/assets/images/photos/gerus.png)
Angelina Gerus
Faculty of Philology, Belarusian State University
“Socrates in Love”: How to Introduce Plato to the Youngest
![Alexandra Pisaruk](/assets/images/photos/pisaruk.png)
Alexandra Pisaruk
Faculty of Philology, Belarusian State University
Ancient History in Contemporary Street Art of Modern Greece