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Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize
Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize
Supported by the Classical Association
Westminster School
Thursday, 8th February 2018 9.40am -1.00pm
This conference offers pupils in years 10 and 11 the chance to attend a series of appropriately pitched lectures on their Latin and Greek set texts and on topics of wider interest.
The conference lectures will tie into the Classical Association GCSE Essay Prize: each speaker will provide further reading at the end of the lecture and an essay title (1000 words maximum). Pupils who choose to write one of these essays can enter the Classical Association GCSE Essay prize: the winner will receive £100 in book tokens, and their essay will be posted on the Classical Association website.
A voluntary £5 contribution per pupil attending is suggested: for more information and to reserve places please contact andy.mylne@westminster.org.uk
Programme for the day:
9.15-9.40 Arrive at Westminster School & gather in the School Hall (‘Up School’)
Session 1: 9.45 – 10.25 – Dr Bruno Currie: ‘Communication between the Sexes in Odyssey book 6’
Dr Bruno Currie is Associate Professor in Classics at Oxford University and Fellow of Oriel College. His chief research interests are in ancient Greek poetry (especially epic and lyric), ancient Greek religion, and in the interaction of these two. He has published widely on Homer and the Epic tradition, including Homer’s Allusive Art, (OUP) in 2016.
Session 2: 10.30-11.10 – Dr Peter Thonemann: ‘A burning problem: Croesus on the pyre (Herodotus 1.86-7)’
Dr Peter Thonemann is Associate Professor in Ancient History at Oxford University and Fellow of Wadham College. He is interested in most aspects of the ancient world, but particularly in people on the margins of Greco-Roman society: peasants, slaves, children, women, the illiterate and the underprivileged. He is fascinated by ancient Turkey and wrote a history of what he considers a particularly beautiful part of south-western Asia Minor: The Maeander Valley; A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (CUP, 2011).
Break: 11.15-11.30
Session 3: 11.30-12.10 – Dr Ellen O’Gorman: ‘The Romans and the Exotic North’
Dr Ellen O’Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Bristol University. She teaches Roman historiography of all periods, Post-Augustan poetry and prose and Roman political thought. She has published on the reception of the ancient historians in translation, historical fiction, and political commentaries, from the Renaissance to the present day. She is the author of Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (CUP, 2000).
Session 4: 12.15-12.55 – Dr Fiachra Mac Góráin: ‘Tragic themes in Virgil’s Dido’
Dr Fiachra Mac Góráin is Lecturer in Classics at University College London. He specialises in Augustan poetry, Roman authors’ use of the past and the reception to Virgil, as well as Ireland and the Classics. He has published many articles on Latin literature and especially on the gods in the Aeneid. He is currently finishing a book to be entitled Virgil’s Dionysus.
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