WEEK 8, 20/11/17

This week’s session looked at classical reception of Greco-Romano culture within Roehampton, through its neoclassical exteriors and interiors, including temples, and historical figures associated with such recpetion – this includes Robert Adams and Sir William Chambers.

We were in Adams Room of Grove House, approriately a neoclassical manor where the dicussed Herclean chimmney piece resides. Utilisation of a receptive location on campus during such a lecture highlighted the importance in seeing studied pieces in person if possible; it enababled a more critical understanding of the piece and more easily critical approach to scholary interpretations.

Being provided specialist vocabulary, as supplied in Lorna Hardwick’s works, was incredibly invauable. Using learnt tenchical terms, such as foreigisation and acculturation, enables a heighten undertanding and a more sophisicated, indepth discussion on reception in research. Educated in different topical approaches – Classical Traditionalist, Classical Reception, and Deep Classics – I am able to discuss reception studies within a essay papaer or an oral presentation through theses newfound techniques

Given everything I’ve learnt this week, I could conduct research into acculturation of the Heracles myth in 18th century Britian: ‘What is explored in the neoclassical chimmney piece, ‘Choice of Hercules’?