The Jackson Knight Memorial Lecture 2011

02 November

Queens LT1, 17:00. Followed by a reception at Queen's Senior Common Room, 18:15 - 20:30;

This public lecture will be given on 2 November 2011 by the distinguished novelist, screenwriter and playwright Frederic Raphael.

His film scripts range from Darling in 1965 to Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, and his most widely read novel is The Glittering Prizes (1976), which traces the lives of a group of Cambridge University undergraduates in post-war Britain.  He has long taken an interest in the Classics, and published a translation of the poems of Catullus with Kenneth Mcliesh in 1979. His most recent work, a radio play about the relationship of Catullus and Lesbia, A Thousand Kisses, aired on Radio 3 on 10 April 2011.

He has recently finished a book on another classical subject, the writer Josephus, from a priestly Jewish family, who as young man led Jewish resistance to Roman forces during the Jewish uprising of AD 66, was captured, taken to Rome, and wrote the history of the Jewish Wars and about the Antiquities of his people under the patronage of the Flavian emperors. 

Frederic Raphael’s lecture will explore the complexities and ambiguities of this subject in his lecture:

‘Squeezing Josephus – surviving survival’

Those wishing to attend should e-mail Gwen Rumbold (g.rumbold@exeter.ac.uk)  

Tickets will be free.