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EMACT 6th Form Classics Day Wednesday 8th February 2017
Applications are now open for the EMACT 6th Form Classics Conference, to be held on Wednesday 8th February 2017 at Loughborough High School (between Leicester and Nottingham!). Please find the programme below – the cost is £5 per pupil (including tea, coffee and biscuits) and staff are free; application forms and further details can be obtained by emailing n.pollock@lesgrammar.org
EMACT VI Form Conference
Wednesday February 8th 2017, Loughborough High School
10.30am Lecture Homer’s Odyssey Dr Oliver Thomas, University of Nottingham
11.30am Tea/coffee
12.00pm Seminar Session 1 – choose from following options:_
| 1A: Homer Iliad | 1B: Virgil Aeneid Book 6 | 1C: Sophocles Antigone | 1D: Cicero Pro Milone | 1E: Catullus 64 |
| Dr Oliver Thomas, University of Nottingham | Professor Matthew Leigh, University of Oxford | Dr Rosie Wyles, University of Kent | Dr Chris Whitton, University of Cambridge | Professor Stephen Heyworth, University of Oxford |
12.50pm Lunch
1.55pm Lecture Virgil’s Aeneid Professor Matthew Leigh, University of Oxford
2.50pm Seminar Session 2 – choose from following options:_
| 2A: Homer Odyssey Book 10 | 2B: Virgil Aeneid Book 8 | 2C: Euripides Medea | 2D: Tacitus Annals 4 | 2E: Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid: a sequence of programmes |
| Dr Oliver Thomas, University of Nottingham | Professor Matthew Leigh, University of Oxford | Dr Rosie Wyles, University of Kent | Dr Chris Whitton, University of Cambridge | Professor Stephen Heyworth, University of Oxford |
3.40pm Finish