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KYKNOS is the Swansea, Lampeter and Exeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World.
Its mission is
- To stimulate, co-ordinate and promote research on the narrative literatures of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East, through collaborative work, conferences and publications
- To form the centre of national and international networks of scholars working in this field
- To raise the profile of the subject area and to attract top-quality research students to its constituent universities
- To secure high-level funding for research projects
Fragmented Narrative: the Narratology of the Letter and Epistolary Literature in Ancient Greek - PG bursaries now available
An International KYKNOS Conference at the University of Wales, Lampeter
21 – 24 September 2008
The First KYKNOS Publication
Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 10) is now accessible online and available in hard copy at http://www.ancientnarrative.com/index.html.
KYKNOS Reading Group
The KYKNOS Reading Group meets regularly during term-time to read and discuss an ancient text. Meetings are informal and aim to discuss linguistic and literary issues of mutual interest that arise from the close reading of the narratives of the ancient world. In the academic year 2006-7 we read Joseph and Aseneth, and this year we are reading the Life of Aesop.
