Join Professor Edith Hall (University of Durham) on campus for their free public lecture - Repurposing Tomyris from Deschamps to Queen Anne

Most of the great heroic women of classical literature and history who defied mighty empires ended up defeated, or dead, or both. The exception is Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae, who defied and executed Cyrus the Great to keep her people free.  This talk traces her repurposing in art and literature from her inclusion in the medieval canon of female worthies and her representation in Renaissance and Early Modern visual art to her popularity in Restoration English theatre.

This lecture is part of the Leverhulme-funded International Symposium The Past is a Female Country: Ancient Women and their Reception in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

This event is organised by Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, supported by the Leverhulme Trust and shared by Resonate.

The recommended age for this event is 18+.