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UCL Classics Play 2020: Aristophanes' Frogs
2020-02-12 - 2020-02-14 | Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, 25 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AY, United Kingdom
12th-14th February 2020

Idealistic thoughts of good peace terms? General critiques of political policy? Citizens rejecting the leadership to whom it now follows? Nearly 2,500 years later and still the political themes present in Aristophanes’ Frogs are of great pertinence to us today. Yet, with our millennial majority rapidly transforming society, is the ‘new’ directing us towards a Utopia of tomorrow, or once again leading us astray from a clear and direct path to success?

Set within the backdrop of the artistic and social movement of Futurism, UCL’s 2020 Dionysus and Xanthius will be endeavouring to save their empty and artless world with the retrieval of a newer and younger rap artist Eu-RIP-ides. Yet after the parties, obscenities and confusion of identities, is it the new or old ways that are left for terminal decline?

There will be a series of pre-performance lectures ahead of all evening performances. Please note, these will take place at E28 Harrie Massey Lecture theatre, 25 Gordon Street, and not at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Lectures are free but booking is essential. Please book via the link below.

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‘Virtual Rome: A Digital Model of the Ancient City’
2020-02-13 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Badmington School, Westbury Road, Bristol, BS9 3BA, United Kingdom
Thursday 13th February, 7pm – Professor Matthew Nicholls

‘Virtual Rome: A Digital Model of the Ancient City’

Matthew has spent several years creating a large-scale digital model of ancient Rome, for use in his teaching and research at Reading and Oxford universities. He has also worked with broadcasters and computer games companies, and produced a five-week free online course (‘MOOC’) based on the model which over 30,000 people have now taken. This talk will look at how Matthew made this model, what evidence it is based on, and some of the uses to which it has been put.

All talks will be held at Badminton School, Peace Memorial Hall. Please email Barbara Bell (bmbellmini@aol.com) to register your interest. There are no tickets, and talks are free for Bristol Classical Association members, students, and school pupils. There will be a cost of £5 for visitors. Refreshments available from 6.30pm.

The Bristol Classical Association AGM will be on November 12, 2019, 12.30-2.00pm.
