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8th August 2013
TACITUS ON BRITAIN
This historian gave us the memorable line on the imperial achievements of his own people: “They make a desert and call it peace”. One wonders what he might say about the current EC (the European Community or the Economic Crisis or both!). In Britain, Boudicca (Boadicea), Caratacus and Cassivellaunus were chieftains who held their own against the power of Rome, for a while at least … More details and download enrolment form
9th August 2013
HOW GLOOMY WAS DIS?
Selections of poetry illuminate the imagined underworld of the ancient world, in particular Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI. The day will not be anything like as gloomy as it may seem! Some beautiful verse to enjoy.