A couple of weeks ago I took a selection from my selection from the Greek Anthology to this:
https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/thinktank/whats-on/thinktank-lates-with-the-university-of-birmingham
It was great fun! I walked people round a couple of the rooms, repurposing modern science exhibits as ancient sites and structures on which to pin the Anthology's little texts. I'd had the opportunity to plan some routes before hand (thanks, Thinktank!) and though I didn't use all of them, it gave me enough structure that I could improvise for the particular twos and threes of people I was catering for. Almost all the other University of Birmingham contributors were from the sciences (and were amazing) and I was pleased to have the chance to represent literature and the arts.
Taking these poems to an interested, non-specialist public with no educational background in classics, and seeing and hearing them 'get it', was a wonderful experience. It has filled me with enthusiasm for finding new audiences for this amazing ancient material.
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