Tag Archives: Helen King

My Classics Career: Prof Helen King

Posted on August 15, 2016 by

How did one of the UK’s leading Classicists get to where she is? Prof Helen King blogs on her career on the Women in Classics site. “I’ve managed (and that word suggests more of a conscious process than it should!) my … Continue reading →

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Prof Helen King published in The Lancet

Posted on March 17, 2014 by

Professor of Classical Studies Helen King‘s article Narratives of healing: a new approach to the past?, exploring the connection between life writing from the ancient past and modern narrative medicine, is published in The Lancet. “Aelius Aristides (117—180 AD) was … Continue reading →

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Prof Helen King on BBC Radio 4′s ‘In Our Time’

Posted on October 7, 2013 by

Helen King, Professor in Classical Studies, appears as an expert in BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, presented by Melvyn Bragg, on Thursday 10 October. Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Roman physician and medical theorist Galen. The most … Continue reading →

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Prof Helen King on Radio 3’s ‘H7STERIA’ concert programme

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

Prof Helen King (Classical Studies) takes part in the interval discussion during Radio 3’s coverages of the BBC Concert Orchestra’s ‘H7STERIA’ programme, at 19.30 on Monday 3 December 2012. This event contains explicit material and is suitable for audiences aged … Continue reading →

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Prof Helen King on Titian at the National Gallery

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Professor Helen King, Chair of Classical Studies, speaks about the myth of Diana and Calysto as painted by Titian in the August podcast from the National Gallery. Accompanied by a recording of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes reading his … Continue reading →

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Professor of Classical Studies examines Ancient X-Files

Posted on June 8, 2012 by

Professor of Classical Studies Helen King helped investigate a mysterious case on National Geographic Channel on 8 June and 9 June. In ‘The Green Children of Woolpit’ on Ancient X-Files, Prof King looks at an account of two green children … Continue reading →

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‘Bad history? Virgins, vibrators and Queen Victoria in the history of medicine’

Posted on May 28, 2012 by

Public Lecture at the University of Kent Wed 30 May 5.15 pm by Professor Helen King, Open University ‘Bad history? Virgins, vibrators and Queen Victoria in the history of medicine’ In this lecture, I shall be reflecting on current debates … Continue reading →

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“Pain and at the same time the pleasure” – can Roman ‘genital massage’ inspire an Age of Great American Sex?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

In an article in The Atlantic on 14 May, journalist Andy Isaacson investigates the design of sex toys, and how their marketing has changed over time.  He talked to Helen King, Professor of Classical Studies at The Open University, about … Continue reading →

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