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Sixth Form Classics Conference (The University of Exeter)
The University of Exeter is hosting its annual conference for A Level students on 17th March 2012. Members of the Department will provide talks on a broad selection of the prescribed A Level Latin and Greek texts, and Dr Michael Scott will speak on ‘Olympia and the ancient (and modern) Olympics’.
Programme
9.45 am Welcome (Professor Lynette Mitchell)
10.00 Dr Sharon Marshall, ‘Ovid, Amores 3: The end of the affair’
10.50 Professor Richard Seaford, ‘Religion and Chastity in Euripides’, Hippolytus’
11.30 Break
11.45 Mr Stephen Jenkin, ‘The Labours of Aeneas’ (Aeneid Book 1)
12.35 Dr Myrto Hatzimichali, ‘Achilles and Hector in Iliad 24’
1.10 Lunch
2.00 Dr Michael Scott: ‘Olympia and the ancient (and modern) Olympics.’
3.00 Dr John Dillon, ‘Cicero, Verres’
3.50 Break
4.00 Professor David Braund, ‘Nero the General: Tacitus on matricide, slavery and the Roman frontier’ (Tacitus, Annals 14)
4.50 Professor Lynette Mitchell, ‘A story of homecoming: Xenophon’s Anabasis’
5.30 Finish
Cost: £10 per student
(We do request payment in advance, either by cheque made out to Classical Association, South West Branch, or by e-transfer, for which details are available on request; please send cheques to Dr John Dillon, Treasurer, Classical Association South West Branch, c/- Dept of Classics and Ancient History, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ)
Please bring a packed lunch (catering facilities at the University on a Saturday can be limited).
For more information, please contact: Professor Lynette Mitchell (l.g.mitchell@ex.ac.uk)
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