Victorian desire and the classical body

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• Professor Simon Goldhill, Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
• Monday 30 January 2012, 19:00-20:00
• Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Paul Ireland.

This lecture will describe how Victorian painters used the classical body to express a complex and often conflicted notion of male desire, and how such images still inform the imagination today.

Booking is essential as places are limited – book online via the ICE website.

This talk is part of the Madingley Lectures series.

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