Songmaking to Socrates: Armand d'Angour - New Light on Ancient Classics

Mon Feb 02 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm UTC+00:00

Oxford, Noel Salter Room, New College Holywell Street, OX1 3BN | Oxford

The Pharos Foundation
Publisher/HostThe Pharos Foundation
 Songmaking to Socrates: Armand d'Angour - New Light on Ancient Classics
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Armand d'Angour is Professor of Classics and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His work has ranged across wide areas of Greek culture, especially music and lyric poetry. His works include Socrates in Love (Bloomsbury 2019) and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton 2021).
Lecture 1: The Sound of Music in Ancient Greece
Lecture 2: Archimedes’ Eureka
Lecture 3. Catullus and his Lesbia
Lecture 4. Aspasia, Teacher of Socrates
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