The Raczyński Library, the Institute of Classical Philology of the Adam Mickiewicz University and the Poznań branch of the Polish Philological Society invite participants to the Iliad Days on March 21 and 22, which will take place in Poznań as part of the Iliad International Festival.

On March 21, a scientific session Around the Iliad: topics, characters, language is planned. The inaugural lecture “Theogonic Motifs in the Iliad” will be delivered by Dr Bruno Currie from the University of Oxford. In the evening, a concert will take place during which fragments of the operas: Deidamia Georg Friedrich Händel and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patri Claudio Monteverdi will be presented.

On March 22 at 10 a.m, the Adam Mickiewicz University’s Collegium Maius will begin international reading of selected episodes of the Iliad, and from 17 in the Raczyński Library and students of the Institute of Classical Philology will read lecturers and excerpts from book VI (Farewell to Hector and Andromache) and book XXII (Death of Hector).