An Introduction to Studying the Ancient World in Yr 13/Upper 6th for students of Class. Civ., Greek, and Latin. more…
A study day aimed at those who have just finished AS-Levels and are beginning work on A2-Level Classical Civilization, Greek, or Latin. The day will consist of lectures, given by experts who teach and study at the University of Cambridge, which will introduce you to the A2 topics and the A2 set texts (and in particular their historical and cultural context) that you will be studying. There will also be an opportunity to take a guided tour of our famous collection of casts of ancient sculpture, to visit one of the Cambridge Colleges, to find out more about making a successful application to University, and – for those who have not yet studied one of the ancient languages – to participate in a taster session in Latin or Greek. See below for last year’s programme, to get a taste of what is on offer.
Stay over in Cambridge on Wednesday night to attend the University Open Days the next day.
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Programme for 2015
10.00 – 10.30: Refreshments and Registration
Participants are welcome to come to any lecture or tour that interests them. However, the sessions will be of particular relevance to those studying the subjects listed beneath the titles of the options.
10.30 – 11.20: Session 1:
Option 1: Virgil’s Aeneid:Down to Hell and Back to the Future
Ingo Gildenhard (King’s)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Roman Epic”, “Virgil and the World of the Hero”, “Roman Epic”
For Latin students studying Virgil, Aeneid 6
Option 2: The Poems of Catullus
Stephen Oakley (Emmanuel)
For Latin students studying Catullus
Option 3 (NEW – by popular demand!): The Romans in Britain
Eleri Cousins
For Classical Civilization students studying “Roman Britain: Life in the Outpost of Empire”
11.30 – 12.20: Session 2:
Option 1: All the world’s a stage … The art of life in Pliny’s Letters
Chris Whitton (Emmanuel)
For Latin students studying Pliny
Option 2: On Coming After: The Problem of Succession in Imperial Rome
Ingo Gildenhard (King’s)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Tiberius and Claudius” or “Roman History: The Use and Abuse of Power”
For Latin students studying Tacitus, Annals 4
Option 3: Tour of the Museum of Classical Archaeology (*)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Classical Art” and any others who are interested.
12.20 – 14.00: Packed Lunch & ‘Applying to Cambridge’ Q & A (optional)
During Lunch the Museum will also be open for individual visits to the casts and to the current exhibition: “The Labours of Herakles”: worlds collide in this exhibition by artist Marion Maguire as the ancient hero takes his labours to colonial New Zealand
14.00 – 14.50: Session 3:
Option 1: Tragedy at Athens
Rosanna Omitowoju (King’s)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Greek Tragedy”
For Greek students studying Sophocles, Antigone
Option 2: Understanding Ancient Comedy
Richard Hunter (Trinity)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Comic Drama in the Ancient World”
For Greek students studying Aristophanes, Frogs
Option 3: Augustus, the first Emperor?
Alessandro Launaro (Gonville & Caius)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Augustus and the Foundation of the Principate” or “Roman History: The Use and Abuse of Power”
For Latin students studying Virgil, Aeneid 6
15.00 – 15.50: Session 4:
Option 1: Socrates and the City
Paul Millett (Downing)
For Classical Civilization Students studying “Socrates and Athens”
For Greek students studying Plato, Phaedo
Option 2: Remembering the Persian Wars
Franco Basso (Faculty of Classics)
For Classical Civilization students studying “The Persian Wars” or “Greek History: Conflict and Culture”
For Greek students studying Herodotus 6
Option 3: A Taster of Ancient Greek
Option 4: Tour of the Museum of Classical Archaeology (*)
For Classical Civilization students studying “Classical Art” and any others who are interested.
(*) The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to more than 450 casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. But why do we have a collection of copies or ‘fakes’? Join us for a guided tour of the casts and their history, ancient and modern.