Classics Taster Afternoon for Year 12 students at St Hugh’s College, Oxford

The College will be holding a Classics taster event on Tuesday 26th April for Year 12 students interested in Roman and Greek antiquity, and its reception in modernity. This will be an opportunity to learn more about studying Classics at the University of Oxford, and about St Hugh’s College itself.

1.20pm – Registration

1.40pm – Welcome Talk

1.45pm – Lecture by Tutors of St Hugh’s College, ‘The Last of the Wine,’ Mary Renault and Athenian Democracy.

2.30pm – Tours of College

3pm – Leave College to walk to the Ashmolean Museum

3.30pm – Tours of the Ashmolean Museum

Book now to reserve a place.

Evening Event

The College will also be holding an evening event between 5pm and 7.30pm on Tuesday 26th April. There will be a small exhibition of material from the Mary Renault papers, and of artwork from the new Folio Society’s editions of Renault’s novels. This will be followed by an academic lecture.

5pm – Reception in Hamlin Gallery

6pm – Lecture in The Mordan Hall, ‘The first of the wine;’ Drinking Deep from Mary Renault by Professor Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, with further contributions on Mary Renault and historical fiction from Tom Holland and Bettany Hughes.