The 2025 Wilfred Owen Birthday Lecture:
Wilfred Owen's Uriconium: the Site and the Ode
Tuesday, March 18 · 7:30 - 9pm GMT ONLINE
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In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver will focus on Owen's interest in and love for Roman material culture and the city of Uriconium, the ruins of which are situated in what is now Wroxeter, five miles south of Shrewsbury. She will highlight the city's history and how it inspired Owen's pre-war poem, 'Uriconium: An Ode'.
Elizabeth Vandiver is the Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A., and an Honorary Member of the WOA. She is the author of Stand in the Trench, Achilles (2010) and, with Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison, Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections and Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen Classical Connections (OUP, 2024).
