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NEW! Cicero in Verrem: Interactive Online Commentary!
Are you teaching Cicero in Verrem 2.1 to your AS Latin students? Are you using the new Gildenhard commentary, or considering using it? TODAY The Classics Library, Open Book Publishers, and Ingo Gildenhard are launching an online and fully-interactive version of the commentary! You can read the entire book online from any computer, tablet or smartphone with internet access. BUT,
Medea
Classics Play 2012 – ‘Medea’ by Euripides Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd March 2012 Although it was first performed two-and-a-half millennia ago, Medea remains one of the most shocking tragedies of all time. It tells the story of a woman whose anger and vengeful pride drove her to commit the worst crime a woman can: to kill her own children.
CICERO in Serbia
Saturday 24th March – and I shall be at the CICERO competition in Serbia! (Where will you and your students be?) I haven’t yet worked out what the time difference will be, but from about 1pm – 4pm their time students in Sremski Karlovski will be hoping to communicate with students in the UK as well as in France, Italy
Lysistrata
Lysistrata at The Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Hall, Croydon, 22-24 February - http://www.fairfield.co.uk/showSearch.php?searchtext=lysistrata&search=Search+for+Show
Ides of March Lecture at Brighton and Hove High School
Dr Peter Jones will be giving a lecture entitled, ‘What the ancients have done - and might still do - for us’. Thursday 15th March, 6.30 pm in the School Hall. For further information and free tickets contact Philip Towler, Head of Classics, at p.towler@bhhs.gdst.net.
Request for A Level History Tuition
If you would be interested in some AS/A2 Ancient History tuition to a boy near Baker Street, London, please contact his father, Ram Dhillon at ram.dhillon@rila.co.uk. This would be home tutoring and the times/days are flexible.
ARLT Refresher Day March 3rd Senate House London
There are still a few places available for the forthcoming Refresher Day. Full details of timings and all option groups are on the ARLT website www.arlt.co.uk For further details or to apply contact laurabeech@aol.com
Monmouth Classics Society Lecture: Cicero and his Villains
Haberdashers’ Monmouth School for Girls will host a lecture on Cicero and his Villains by Dr Kathryn Tempest of Roehampton University on Friday February 10th at 7.30 pm. This should be of particular interest to students of AS Latin, although any fan of Cicero would be certain to enjoy it. For further details please contact lbeech@hmsg.co.uk
Classics talks at Bablake School
Dr Armand D’Angour of Jesus College Oxford will be presenting a talk entitled “Alpha, Beta and Gamma … everything you always wanted to know about the Greek alphabet” on Tuesday 6th March at 4.30 in the theatre at Bablake School. The rescheduled talk by Professor Stephen Harrison of Corpus Christi College Oxford on Rome and Hollywood will take place on Monday
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