April, 2026
Event Details
Kimon Friar Lecture 2025-2026
Poets, Painters, Pugilists, and the Parthenon: How Poets and their Friends Framed the Controversy Over Elgin’s Removals
By A.E. Stallings
American Poet, Essayist, and Translator
Introductory remarks
Haris Vlavianos
Chief Consultant and Head of the Advisory Board
Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts (IHCLA)
The American College of Greece
When:
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | 19:00
Where:
ACG Events Hall, 6 Gravias str., Aghia Paraskevi, GR 153 42, Deree – The American College of Greece
About the lecture
Poets (English poets including Byron and Keats, but also Greek poets such as Cavafy and Seferis) and their friends, have not only weighed in on the debate over Elgin’s removals of the sculptures of the Parthenon, but have been key to setting the terms. A.E. Stallings, who has recently written a book, Frieze Frame, exploring this network of relationships, will give an overview of “the last poor plunder of a bleeding land” (Byron) and the Grecian “shadow of a magnitude” (Keats).
About A.E. Stallings
A.E. Stallings is an American poet, essayist, and translator, who resides in Athens. She has published four volumes of poetry and a selected poems (This Afterlife, which received The Runciman Award), and three volumes of verse translation (most recently, the Pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice). Her history of poets and the Parthenon marbles, Frieze Frame, is out with Paul Dry Books. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is serving as the current Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Photo credit: Kostas Mantziaris
While registration is not mandatory, it is kindly requested.
The lecture is free & open to the public, with a reception to follow.
Parking on campus, upon availability.
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