Bronze Head of Hypnos, 1-2nd century AD, Roman copy of Hellenistic Original, British Museum.
The IGRCT promotes research into all aspects of Greco-Roman culture from antiquity to the present day. It has the tradition of antiquity at the core of its academic mission, but it is alive to the concept that the modern world shapes what we think of antiquity just as much as antiquity informs modernity. It embraces research from multiple fields, including history of all kinds, archaeology, literary studies, art history and philosophy, and has a particular focus on research that explores the intersections of the ancient and modern.
The Institute achieves its aims by hiring postdoctoral research fellows and supporting their research, inviting distinguished scholars to give seminars and lectures, holding symposia and conferences, cultivating international links with other scholars and organisations, and supporting the development of research projects in the faculty.
The IGRCT was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Bristol Institute of Hellenic and Roman Studies, founded in 2000 by Prof. Robert Fowler, now the IGRCT’s President, and the Bristol Centre for the Classical Tradition, founded by the late Prof. Thomas Wiedemann.
The work of the Institute would be impossible without the generous contributions of individual and corporate donors, and we would like to express our gratitude for their continued support.
An IGRCT-sponsored staged reading and screening of ‘Bacchae: A Rock Opera’ at the Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol, February 17, 2023.
Website banner: page from the scrapbooks of H.D./Hilda Doolittle, courtesy of the Beinecke Library.