Open Book has just published a new Latin textbook, by Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos: Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions (http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/293). It’s FREE to read online, just like the other Open Book publications, and relatively cheap to purchase in various formats, including pdf.

News about this year’s Cambridge Greek Play… Dear Teachers, An education pack to accompany this year’s Cambridge Greek Play is now available, including plot synopses, previews of the production and a wide range of activities for individual and classroom use. The pack is free to download at www.cambridgegreekplay.com/teaching-the-play. The Cambridge Greek Play 2016 is a double […]

A message from Cambridge University on its schools’ days… Dear All, Just a “back to school” reminder of our forthcoming Study Days for GCSE and Sixth Form Students. GCSE Classical Civilisation and Ancient History Study Day Saturday 24 September Yr 12/Lower 6th Classical Civilisation Study Day Tuesday 27 September Yr 12/ Lower 6th Latin & […]

From Cambridge University Classics Outreach… Dear All, The full programmes for our forthcoming GCSE and Yr 12/L6 Classics Study Days are now online. There is a broad range of lectures and workshops on offer given by experts who teach and study at Cambridge. In addition, new this year, we have added a special session for […]

Tickets for the 2016 Cambridge Greek Play are on sale now at www.cambridgeartstheatre.com. A double bill of Sophocles’ Antigone and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, it will be produced by the team responsible for the acclaimed productions of Agamemnon (2010) and Prometheus/Frogs (2013), with director Helen Eastman and original music composed by Alex Silverman. It runs for four […]

Calling all Classics departments! Follow @medeathefilm Medea the Film is an exciting project brought together by a team of classicists (led by Harry Tanner, Maria Overy and Eliza Vierny, from KCL) and filmmakers (Philippa and Chris, Westminster Uni of Film) to produce an original language film of Euripides’ Medea. The film will be performed entirely […]

New from The Iris Project… We are offering a variety of free evening and weekend language courses at the classics centre at Cheney School this autumn. Details are as follows: Sunday: Beginners Latin for children and families – 11 – 12 – http://eoccc.org.uk/beginners-greek-evening-class Monday: Beginners Greek for ages 14+ to adult – 6 – 7pm […]

Why Aegina? Far more than just ”The Invisible”   Soft breezes, peaceful with an absence of tourist throngs, Temples, museums, glorious long sandy beaches, Byzantine churches, traditional villages, fabulous food, a floating fruit and veg market, horse drawn carriages, sculpture and pottery workshops, wildlife sanctuary and hospital, even a camera obscura – and all within […]

Michael Murray of Churcher’s College, Petersfield has written the following topical blog post…   I come to bury Corbyn, not to praise him. The forces of globalisation left the Roman republican senate behind, our political parties face the same danger. ‘Et tu, Michael’, commented Stanley Johnson, Boris Johnson’s father, in response to Michael Gove’s leadership […]

You might be interested to hear about a new project at Cambridge, Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS for short). We are keen to engage schools and the public in our research, which will involve some specific activities to be launched in the near future. For now you can read about the […]