Christine Plastow

On Friday 16th November, members of By Jove took part in a spoken word evening, which was part of a series of events called ‘Weaving Women’s Stories’, organised by Dr Emma Bridges and Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts as part of the Being Human Festival. For this event, our poets wrote Read more

After a long time with our lips sealed, we’re really pleased to let you in on something we’ve got in development. We’re bringing you an entirely new show that takes a look at queer identities, community building, and the politics of storytelling – all via the Greek mythological story of Read more

We’re happy to be taking part in a special one-off event as part of the 2018 Being Human Festival of the Humanities! Organised by the Institute of Classical Studies, Weaving Women’s Stories is a series of three events exploring the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece Read more

On Friday 22nd June, David Bullen and I attended the launch of the Art of Fragments network, a group promoting and exploring collaborations between artists and academics around the theme of (particularly ancient) fragments, hosted by Dr Laura Swift of the Open University and Russell Bender of the theatre company Read more

In January 2018, I began teaching a course on the Homeric poems in translation at UCL. The course was designed around a lecture and seminar per week; the students learned about the background and reception of the poems in the lecture with my colleague, then were split into two groups Read more

Tickets are now available for a new, one-off performance from By Jove Theatre. ***Only a few tickets remain!*** Women in the Iliad often seem to be possessions to be passed around, damsels in distress waiting to be rescued, or victims of war fearing a fate that they cannot control. In the Odyssey, though Read more

As a feminist classicist, it was only so long before this particular work came up! Mary Beard is perhaps the most well-known classicist in Britain, not just because she’s Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature, but because of her Read more

For the past couple of years, I’ve set a target of how many books I’d like to read over the year. That target has averaged out at 25, a number that seems low until you consider the fact that I only count non-work books and that a large part of Read more

Our first two weeks of By Jove Book Club have been non-fiction-heavy. Fear not, those who need a little more escapism: this month, we finally have a novel! Not just a novel, but a historical novel, and, coming off the back of our recent season of shows, no less than Read more