The Classics Library

Caecilius is listening!
2018-11-03 | Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Caecilius is Listening! The Future of the Cambridge Latin Course
Booking Now Open: here
The Cambridge School Classics Project (CSCP) is excited to announce a wide spread review and a period of development of the Cambridge Latin Course (CLC). This will be a collaborative enterprise between the CSCP team, Latin teachers and their pupils, and the wider Classics community.
At this innovative launch event CSCP will present you with an opportunity to influence the future direction of the CLC.
Discussion will include:

content
mode of delivery
value in preparing for GCSE Latin:

Language
Literature
Culture

accompanying technology
support offered to teachers

This invitation is extended predominantly to teachers who use or would like to use the CLC with their classes at any level, but we welcome the voices of anyone with an interest in shaping its future.
There is no charge for the event. If we are oversubscribed, places will be allocated to maximise the diversity of participating voices. Subject to demand we may run this event again online or in a second location.
Date: 3rd November, 2018
Time: 10:15am to 4:30pm (refreshments available from 10:00am)
Location: Mary Allen Building, Homerton College, Cambridge
Cost: FREE
Click here to sign up or express interest in further events: Caecilius is Listening!

Sixth Form Lecture - Performing Homer in Antiquity
2018-11-06 17:30 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Royal Grammar School, Guildford, GU1 3BB, High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3BB, United Kingdom
Professor Tim Whitmarsh from Marlborough College, Cambridge, will give a talk on Performing Homer in Antiquity.
On Tuesday, 6th November from 5.30-7pm. Refreshments from 5.30pm, talk 6-7pm.
At Big School (the old, white building), the Royal Grammar School, Guildford GU1 3BB.
This talk is aimed at sixth formers, but all members of the Guildford Classical Association are welcome. For further details, contact Mr Ian Peel at: Ipeel@swps.org.uk (as soon as possible, please).

Harrodian Sixth Form Classics Conference Friday 9th November 2018
2018-11-09 | Harrodian School, Lonsdale Road, London, SW13 9QN, United Kingdom
On Friday 9th November the Harrodian School (Barnes, London) will be hosting its annual Sixth Form Classics Conference. The day is an excellent opportunity for students and their teachers to hear some outstanding speakers from some of the top universities speaking on topics of interest to all sixth form Classicists or Ancient Historians.
For details contact gseaton@harrodian.com

OCR Entry Level Latin Training Day
2018-11-09 13:30 - 16:00 | St John’s School, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8SP, United Kingdom
An invitation from Lucy Harrow to a FREE OCR Entry Level Latin Training Day on Friday 9th November…

Actors of Dionysus Anniversary Performance and Lecture
2018-11-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU, United Kingdom
Actors of Dionysus are celebrating their 25th anniversary by giving a free performance/lecture. Details from AoD…
Registered charity and theatre company Actors of Dionysus are celebrating their 25th birthday with an exciting free performance lecture on the 12th November from 17.00 at the Ioannou Centre in Oxford, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. Artistic Director Tamsin Shasha will be joined by founder of the company, David Stuttard, and Education Officer Mark Katz, for an exciting evening of discussion, readings, performance and a trip down memory lane, as they discuss their 25 years of adapting Greek Classics for the stage. The event is free and there’s no booking required – Come on down and join in the fun!

MEGAN ROGERS
General Manager
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Tel: 07817 859428
www.actorsofdionysus.com

Classics Teach-Meet - Bath
2018-11-14 17:00 - 18:30 | Royal High School, Bath, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5SZ, United Kingdom
Classics Teach-Meet – Bath
14 November 2018, 5.00 PM – 14 November 2018, 7.00 PM
Royal High School, Bath
The Bristol Classics Hub is delighted to announce the first of two Classics Teach-Meets for primary and secondary teachers, this one for schools in and around Bath.
Through the hub, we aim to foster regional Classics expansion and encourage the sharing of expertise and the development of new approaches to Classics teaching. This TeachMeet will give you the opportunity to share ideas and to meet other Classics teachers in an informal environment.
Everyone is welcome, whether you are teaching Latin, Greek, Classical Civilisation or Ancient History on the curriculum, or whether you are running (or interested in running) a Classics club or embedding Classics into the teaching of English or other subjects. It doesn’t matter whether you have been teaching Classics for many years or for just a few weeks!
If you would like to share an idea or an example of how you are teaching (or planning to introduce) Classics in your own school, you can sign-up to give a short 4 or 8 minute presentation. Alternatively, you may prefer just to come along and listen.
This event is FREE but please register for the event here, indicating whether you would like a ‘Presenter’ ticket or an ‘Audience only’ ticket.

Drinks and refreshments: 5.00 – 5.30pm
Presentations: 5.30pm onwards

Contact information
For further information, please contact Richard Cole at classics-hub@bristol.ac.uk

Weaving Women’s Stories (Being Human Festival 2018)
2018-11-16 - 2018-11-17 | St Margaret’s House, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL, United Kingdom
St Margaret’s House, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PL
16-17th November
From the Institute of Classical Studies…
Explore the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece to modern London. Join us to look for the stories of our craftivist foremothers in artefacts and poetry from the past; hear the voices of these ‘subversive stitchers’ with an evening performance from By Jove Theatre Company,introduced by experts on ancient craft; try your hand at spinning wool into yarn, or at weaving on our replica loom; and make artefacts – from clay and cloth – inspired by archaeological evidence from ancient Greece and Rome.
For more information, visit https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/special-events/weaving-women%E2%80%99s-stories-being-human-festival-2018

Medea in Exile: Origins of a Myth
2018-11-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Wickham Theatre, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, United Kingdom
November 21, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

“We think we know Medea, the scorned lover and her act of monstrous revenge, but Euripides’ tragedy was just one of approximately 19 classical plays to feature her, and in antiquity she was also a familiar figure from epic and lyric poetry.

‘Medea in Exile’ features the world premiere of a trilogy of new plays written by Tom Holloway in collaboration with Emma Cole. The staged reading, directed by Caroline Steinbeis, blends cutting-edge research into fragmentary plays, epics, and vase paintings from antiquity with creative innovation to reconceptualise the ancient heroine Medea. Touching upon Medea’s exile from her homeland, Corinth, and Athens, as well as her relationship with fellow child-killer Herakles, the project places the ancient and the contemporary in dialogue and shatters our preconceptions about Euripides’ tragic heroine.
There will also be a post-show Q&A featuring Cole, Holloway, Steinbeis, and the cast.”

For FURTHER INFORMATION and TO BOOK

Roman Art Beyond the Roman Empire: A View from Gandhara and China, a Talk by Dr Peter Stewart
2018-11-22 18:00 - 20:00 | AKS, Clifton Drive South, Lytham, Sta Anne's, Lancashire, FY8 1DT, United Kingdom
Roman Art Beyond the Roman Empire: A View from Gandhara and China
with Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology;
Director of Classical Art Research Centre,
University of Oxford
Dr Peter Stewart
Thursday 22nd November, 7pm
AKS, Main Entrance, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes FY8 1DT
Lectures 7 – 8pm Doors open at 6.15pm

Lytham St Annes Classical Association
2018-19 Lecture Programme
lsaclassics@gmail.com Membership just £12 (students £5) a year

Classics Teach-Meet - Bristol
2018-11-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom
Classics Teach-Meet – Bristol
28 November 2018, 5.00 PM – 28 November 2018, 7.00 PM
Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building
The Bristol Classics Hub is delighted to announce the second of two Classics Teach-Meets for primary and secondary teachers, this one for schools in and around Bristol.
Through the hub, we aim to foster regional Classics expansion and encourage the sharing of expertise and the development of new approaches to Classics teaching. This TeachMeet will give you the opportunity to share ideas and to meet other Classics teachers in an informal environment.
Everyone is welcome, whether you are teaching Latin, Greek, Classical Civilisation or Ancient History on the curriculum, or whether you are running (or interested in running) a Classics club or embedding Classics into the teaching of English or other subjects. It doesn’t matter whether you have been teaching Classics for many years or for just a few weeks!
If you would like to share an idea or an example of how you are teaching (or planning to introduce) Classics in your own school, you can sign-up to give a short 4 or 8 minute presentation. Alternatively, you may prefer just to come along and listen.
This event is FREE but please register for the event here, indicating whether you would like a ‘Presenter’ ticket or an ‘Audience only’ ticket.

Drinks and refreshments: 5.00 – 5.30pm
Presentations: 5.30pm onwards

Contact information
For further information, please contact Richard Cole at classics-hub@bristol.ac.uk

The Theatre of Dionysus
2018-11-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, London, EC1N 2HH, United Kingdom
Thursday 29 November 2018, 1 pm at Barnard’s Inn Hall, London
The Theatre of Dionysus https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/theatre-dionysus
Medea, Antigone, Oedipus and Lysistrata – these are just some of the characters from ancient Greek drama who still walk our contemporary stages and haunt our imagination. One of the classical Athenians’ most important inventions was the medium of theatre. From the mid-sixth century BCE they gathered to watch tragedies, and later comedies in their sanctuary of the wine-god Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis. This lecture outlines the origins of Greek drama in this historic setting, its architectural development and some of the greatest masterpieces.

Natalie Haynes in Conversation: Comedy Fundraiser at Camden School for Girls
2018-11-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Camden School for Girls, Sandall Rd, London, NW5 2DB, United Kingdom
Natalie Haynes in Conversation: Comedy Fundraiser at Camden School for Girls
For ticket reservations, contact ebateson@csg.school

Inaugural Classics Christmas Lecture and Parthenon Cast Unveiling
2018-12-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Surbiton High School, Surbitonn Crescent, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2JT, United Kingdom
You are warmly invited to an evening celebrating all things Classical at the unveiling of Surbiton High School’s Parthenon frieze casts, restored by the hard fundraising efforts of the Sixth Form Classical Society.
Professor Edith Hall will be delivering the inaugural lecture to commemorate this most special event, where we celebrate restoring the ink-spattered and overlooked casts into a more prominent position in the school. The idea is to make them available to the local community and celebrate our rich classical history.
Friday 14th December 2018
Doors open 6pm. Main lecture 7.30pm. Doors close 10pm.
Surbiton High School Assembly Rooms, 138 Maple Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 4RT
Email tori.truett@surbitonhigh.com to register your interest.

Attendance is free. All money raised after restoration will be donated to Classics for All.
School groups most welcome! There are activities for younger children, so bring the kids along too! It promises to be a family-friendly and entertaining affair.
Visit: https://classicalsocietysurbiton.wordpress.com/ for more information on the students’ journey and why they think restoring the casts is so important.
Follow @SHSClassics for tweets relating to the event.

Where Eagles Dare - Delphi at the Centre of the Ancient Mediterranean World, a Talk by Professor Michael Scott
2019-01-10 18:00 - 20:00 | AKS, Clifton Drive South, Lytham, Sta Anne's, Lancashire, FY8 1DT, United Kingdom
Where Eagles Dare – Delphi at the Centre of the Ancient Mediterranean World
with Historian, Broadcaster, Author Professor of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick
Professor Michael Scott

Thursday 10th January, 7pm
AKS, Main Entrance, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes FY8 1DT
Lectures 7 – 8pm Doors open at 6.15pm

Lytham St Annes Classical Association
2018-19 Lecture Programme
lsaclassics@gmail.com Membership just £12 (students £5) a year

Egyptology and Assyriology Study Day at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2019-01-17 10:00 - 16:30 | Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, St Andrew's Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AP, United Kingdom
Egypt and Mesopotamia (modern Iraq; ancient Sumer, Assyria and Babylon) bequeathed to posterity some of the most fascinating remains from all of the ancient world.
At Cambridge, Egyptology and Assyriology are based in the Department of Archaeology where you can study the archaeology, cultures and languages of one or both of these fascinating ancient civilisations in all three years as an undergraduate student.
Join us for our Egyptology and Assyriology Study Day, kindly hosted by Emmanuel College, on Thursday, 17 January to discover more about these subjects at Cambridge through lectures, language and artefact sessions.
Attendance is free, but booking is required.
BOOK HERE
Booking closes 19 December.
For Year 12 students, parents, teachers, HE advisers and mature students.
In some cases travel bursaries may be available. Please contact outreach@arch.cam.ac.uk for further details.

Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2019 Aristophanes' Frogs
2019-01-24 - 2019-01-25 | Warwick University, Gibbet Hill Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
The students and staff at the University of Warwick Department of Classics and Ancient History would like to invite teachers and students to our Annual Ancient Drama Festival for Schools on Friday 25 January 2019. The day will focus around a performance of Aristophanes’ Frogs, directed by Kelsi Russell. The play will be produced by the Classics students at Warwick and will be performed at the Warwick Arts Centre.
For more information, please check out our production webpage:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/frogs/
Supporting the performance, the Department is offering a series of lectures and seminars specifically for school students to link in with Latin, Greek, Classical Civilisation, Ancient History, Drama and English syllabuses at GCSE and AS/A2 (no previous knowledge of the subject area or play will be expected). These include:

Dr Michael Scott (Professor of Classics) on ‘Aristophanic comedy and society’
Dr Emmanuela Bakola (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature), on ‘Why does Dionysus choose Aeschylus at the end of Frogs?’
Professor C.W. Marshall (Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia) ‘Aristophanic comedy: serious laughter?’
Dr David Fearn (Reader in Greek Language and Literature): ‘Aristophanes Up Close’ (seminar-workshop)
Dr Marchella Ward (Archivist/Researcher, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford) ‘Staging Aristophanic Comedy’

The day will begin at 11am and finish at 5pm. The event is FREE, but attendees are asked to organise their own transportation and lunch. For detailed timings, access information and other enquiries please email our Outreach Assistant, Harvey Aungles (H.Aungles@warwick.ac.uk).
If you wish to book, please email Harvey Aungles with the (approximate) number of students by 23 December 2018.
If the Friday performance is fully booked, or an evening event is preferable, you can also book yourselves for the performance of the 24th of January (7.30 pm), which will be preceded by a talk on Frogs by Professor C.W. Marshall and Dr Emmanuela Bakola (at 6.30pm). Tickets for the Thursday performance and talk are £6 only (bookings for this performance will open soon at the Warwick Arts Centre website.
For information, videos, and teaching resources based on our 2018 production Medea, please follow the link below to our fantastic updated website:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/medea2018/
For information, videos, and teaching resources based on our 2018 production Medea, please follow the link below to our fantastic updated website:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/medea2018/

Provisional Programme
24 JANUARY 2019
PUBLIC TALK AND PERFORMANCE
6.30 pm – Pre-performance talk and discussion on Frogs and Aristophanic comedy, by Professor C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia) and Dr Emmanuela Bakola (University of Warwick)
7.30 pm – Production of Aristophanes’ Frogs by the Warwick Classics Society, directed by Kelsi Russell
Bookings at https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/list/theatre

25 JANUARY 2019
SCHOOLS DAYFrom 10.30 am – Main stage auditorium open
11am-11.20 Main Stage – ALL – Welcome and Introduction to Ancient Theatre – Dr Emmanuela Bakola
11.20-12 – Main Stage – ALL – ‘Aristophanic Comedy and Society’ – Professor Michael Scott
SEMINARS – SESSION 1
12.15-1pm Option A: Dr Emmanuela Bakola: on ‘Why does Dionysus choose Aeschylus at the end of Frogs?’
12.15-1pm Option B: Professor C.W. Marshall (Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia) ‘Aristophanic comedy: serious laughter?’
12.15-1pm Option C: Dr David Fearn (Reader in Greek Language and Literature) on ‘Aristophanes up close’ (seminar/workshop)
12.15-1pm Option D: Dr Marchella Ward (Archivist/Researcher, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford) on ‘Staging Aristophanic comedy’
1-2 pm – Lunch break for all
SEMINARS SESSION 2
2.15-3pm Option A: Dr Emmanuela Bakola: on ‘Why does Dionysus choose Aeschylus at the end of Frogs?’
2.15-3pm Option B: Professor C.W. Marshall (Professor of Classics, University of British Columbia) ‘Aristophanic comedy: serious laughter?’
2.15-3pm Option C: Dr David Fearn (Reader in Greek Language and Literature) on ‘Aristophanes up close’ (seminar/workshop)
2.15-3pm Option D: Dr Marchella Ward (Archivist/Researcher, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford) on ‘Staging Aristophanic comedy’
3pm – Doors open of theatre for people to take seats
3.30pm – 5pm PERFORMANCE of Aristophanes’ Frogs
Bookings – please contact Outreach Assistant, Harvey Aungles H.Aungles@warwick.ac.uk with the (approximate) number of students by 23 December 2018.
We look forward to seeing you here in January.

The Gods in Epic
2019-01-29 17:30 - 18:30 | King Edward’s School, North Road, Bath, BA2 6HU, United Kingdom
Professor Denis Feeney (Princeton University) will be giving a lecture on ‘The Gods in Epic’ at King Edward’s School in Bath on Tuesday 29th of January from 5.30-6.30pm.
If anyone is interested in attending then they should contact Mike Bull on m.bull@kesbath.com with their name and number of people attending. Light refreshments will be provided!

Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association
2019-02-01 - 2019-02-02, 2019-02-07 16:30 - 18:00 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association
Some dates for your diaries:
Thursday 11 October 2018, 5.30pm, the University of Birmingham
The Autumn Lecture: Dr Amy Russell (Durham), ‘Augustus, the Senate and the Ara Pacis’
Thursday 7 February 2019, 5.30pm, the University of Birmingham
The New Year Lecture: Dr Hannah Cornwell (Birmingham), ‘Rome’s Civil Wars: Violent Words and Bloody Deeds (TBC)’
Saturday 2 February 2019: BMCA Teachers’ Day, the University of Birmingham
We are currently planning the programme for our popular Teachers’ Day. We are thinking about having sessions on Democracy, Love and Relationships, and the Late Roman Republic, as well as a plenary lecture on Augustus and the Aeneid, and hearing from both OCR and Eduqas about summer 2018 exams.
If there is any topic or subject area that people feel they would like covered please let us know by contacting Joanna Johnson (johnsonj@solsch.org.uk).
The cost of the day will be £50 (including lunch) and there will be bursaries available for teachers working in state schools and student teachers.
Looking forward to seeing you at our events.
The BMCA

Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association Teachers’ Day | 2 February 2019
2019-02-02 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association would like to invite all teachers to their annual Teachers’ Day, which will be held in the Arts Building at the University of Birmingham. Please see the programme for the day below.
Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association Teachers’ Day
Saturday 2 February 2019
9.30-9.45: Arrival, coffee and welcome
9.45-10.30: Discussion of the new A Level Classical Civilisation specifications, Alex Orgee, OCR
10.40-11.30: Session A: Discussion of the new GCSE Classical Civilisation specifications, Alex Orgee, OCR
Session B: GCSE Latin, Eduqas, David Stephenson, Eduqas
11.30-12.00: Coffee break with Alex Orgee and David Stephenson
12.00-1.00: Session A: Love and Relationships, Elena Theodorakopoulos, University of Birmingham
Session B: Politics of the Late Republic, Henriette van der Blom, University of Birmingham
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-3.00: Session A: Imperial Image, Lily Agri, University of Birmingham
Session B: Barbarians and Sparta, Andrew Bayliss, University of Birmingham
Session C: Greek Tragedy, Polly Stoker, University of Birmingham
3.00-3.15: Coffee break
3.15-4.00: ‘Women’s Responses to Homer: Not Such Silent Girls’, Elena Theodorakopoulos, University of Birmingham
4.00-4.30: Tea, final questions and departure
Please contact Joanna Johnson at Solihull School (Johnsonj@solsch.org.uk) to register your interest and book a place on the day.
The cost of the event is £45 per attendee which can be paid on the day. Receipts can be supplied after the event. Schools do not need to be a member of the Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association to attend.

EMACT Sixth Form Study Day
2019-02-06 | Nottingham High School, Waverley Mount, Nottingham, NG7 4ED, United Kingdom
Wednesday 6th February 2019

Nottingham High School

10:30 Welcome and Introduction

Introductory Lecture:

The World of the Hero, Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney, University of Leicester

11:30 Refreshments

12:00 Seminar Session 1. Choose from the following options:

1A
1B
1C
1D

Cicero: Philippic II
Greek Art
Greek Theatre
Tacitus: Annals I/ Julio Claudian themes (unites Latin and Ancient History options)

Speaker to be confirmed
Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney, University of Leicester
Dr Ben Cartlidge, University of Liverpool
Dr Matt Myers, University of Nottingham

12:50 Lunch

1:55 Seminar Session 2. Choose from the following options:

2A
2B
2C
2D

Virgil: Aeneid XI
Love and Relationships
Herodotus VII/ Thucydides IV
C5th BC Greek World, including Persians (useful for Class Civ or Ancient History)

Dr Ben Cartlidge, University of Liverpool
Professor Helen Lovatt, University of Nottingham
Dr Edmund Stewart, University of Nottingham
Dr Richard Brock, University of Leeds

2:50 Plenary Lecture: Dr Emily Hauser, University of Exeter

3:50 Book signing, Emily Hauser

Dr Hauser is the author of For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner and For the Immortal. Books will be available to purchase on the day, and she is happy to sign copies people already have.

4:00 Finish

BOOKING FORM

Please return this form together with your cheque to:

Ben Harrison, Head of Classics, Nottingham High School, Waverley Mount, NG7 4ED

Alternatively, email the form to classics@nottinghamhigh.co.uk and send the cheque separately or bring it on the day.

Please ensure that you send this form by Wednesday 23rd January 2019

Please note the following:

Parking – There will be parking on site for minibuses. Large coaches, however, will need to drop off outside the School and return to pick up at the end of the event. Directions will be sent to all participating Schools nearer the time

Lunch – Lunch will be provided for speakers and staff at the cost of £10 per person. Please indicate the number of staff wishing to have lunch below. Students should either bring money for lunch (there is a Sainsbury’s Local just outside the School) or bring a packed lunch to eat on site.

Name: …………………………………………….

Email address: …………………………………………….

School: …………………………………………….

Number of Students at £5.00 each, including coffee/tea: …………………………………………….

Number of Staff attending (no charge): …………………………………………….

Number of Staff lunches at £10.00 each …………………………………………….

Staff lunch dietary requirements …………………………………………….

I enclose a cheque, payable to EMACT,for £…………………………………………..

Method of transport / parking requirements …………………………………………….

Mobile phone number for contact on the day …………………………………………….

Names of students and seminar choices

Please indicate the seminars your students would like to attend, using the seminar numbers as printed of the programme. The reserve choices are to be made in the event that some of the seminars become oversubscribed, although we will aim to allocate all students to their first choice seminars.

Pupil Name
Session 1 Seminar
Session 2 Seminar
Reserve choices

Alexander The Great
1D
2C
1A and 2B

UCL Classical Play 2019: Oedipus Rex
2019-02-06 - 2019-02-08 | Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH, United Kingdom
New of UCL’s 2019 Classical Play…
The UCL Greek and Latin Department and the Bloomsbury Theatre present the Classical Play for 2019: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
Gripped by plague, the citizens of Thebes petition their king, Oedipus, to purify a divine pollution and appease the gods. Yet as he works to uncover the mysteries of a forgotten crime, the horrifying truth of his own sordid past is brought out into the light for all to see, and a terrible price is paid. Widely praised as having one of the greatest tragic plots ever written, this production will recast Sophocles’ ancient masterpiece in a more familiar context, featuring an original score and translation. Modern audiences will be confronted with the play’s timeless question: what is the cost of truth?
Book for the lecture taking place before the show on 6th, 7th & 8th February, 6-7pm Lecture
Book for the workshop with renowned director David Stuttard, taking place on 8th February at 11am-1.30pm Workshop
FURTHER DETAILS

Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association – Spring Term 2019
2019-02-07 17:30 - 19:00 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Spring lecture, Thursday 7 February 2019
Dr Hannah Cornwell (Birmingham) will speak on:
‘The fight for the Republic: Rome’s violent words and deeds in civil war’
This lecture will look at the verbal and physical attacks that Romans made against fellow Romans during the civil wars of the late Republic, as part of the political strategies and rhetoric used to gain control of the state. It will explore just how far language and identity could be push during civil unrest, and how this could be affected by the medium of communication and questions of audience.
The lecture will be held in the Arts Building at the University of Birmingham at 5.30pm, and is free to attend. To register your interest please contact Polly Stoker at Polly Stoker P.Stoker@bham.ac.uk.

The Secrets of Ancient Greek Music, a Talk by Professor Armand D’Angour
2019-02-07 18:00 - 20:00 | AKS, Clifton Drive South, Lytham, Sta Anne's, Lancashire, FY8 1DT, United Kingdom
The Secrets of Ancient Greek Music
with Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Professor Armand D’Angour
Thursday 7th February, 7pm
AKS, Main Entrance, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes FY8 1DT
Lectures 7 – 8pm Doors open at 6.15pm

Lytham St Annes Classical Association
2018-19 Lecture Programme
lsaclassics@gmail.com Membership just £12 (students £5) a year

LSA CA Classics Competition 2019
2019-02-09 14:00 - 17:00 | AKS, Clifton Drive South, Lytham, Sta Anne's, Lancashire, FY8 1DT, United Kingdom
FURTHER INFORMATION

‘Song of Arms and a Man’, Readings from Virgil’s Aeneid
2019-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom
Reception Room, Wills Memorial Building
The ‘Song of Arms and a Man’ tells the story of Aeneas’ escape from Troy, his stay with Dido and his struggle to fulfil his destiny as founder of Rome. These readings from Virgil’s Aeneid are selective, but tell the whole story of the poem, rarely heard, in a unique presentation of the original verse, echoing the ancient culture of public performance of poetry.
George Sharpley’s adaptation of the poem is read by Emma Kirkby, Matthew Hargreaves, Elizabeth Donnelly and Llewelyn Morgan. The event is organised by The Latin Qvarter, in collaboration with the Bristol Classics Hub and the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.
Tickets for this event are now on sale. Further information can be found here.
If you would like to bring your students to this event, please contact Richard Cole at classics-hub@bristol.ac.uk

Classical Civilisation Study Day, Brentwood School
2019-02-12 | Brentwood School, Middleton Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 8EE, United Kingdom
Brentwood School will be hosting a Classical Civilisation Study Day on Tuesday 12th February, 2019.
The day is tailored for students of OCR Classical aCivilisation A level, and in particular we hope that it will help to provide secondary quotes from the speakers.
The day will begin with registration and coffee from 9.30am, with the first lecture at 10am.
It will include lectures from Peter Jones & Edith Hall for all students, with an optional session where students will be able to choose between a Politics session or Love and Relationships. There will also be a seminar after the World of the Hero lecture.
Our confirmed speakers are:

Peter Jones: The World of the Hero
Edith Hall: Greek Tragedy
Kathryn Tempest: Politics in the Late Republic
Armand D’Angour: Love and Relationships

The order of the day is in the final planning stages.
The event is absolutely FREE and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
If you would like to attend, please email me via zkf@brentwood.essex.sch.uk by Monday 14th January, letting me know:
– how many students and staff you will be bringing
– if your students will attend the Politics or Love and Relationships lecture in this option session.

KCL Greek Play 2019: Antigone
2019-02-13 - 2019-02-15 | Greenwood Theatre, 55 Weston Street, London, SE1 3RA, United Kingdom
KCL brings Sophocles thrilling exploration of resistance and responsibility to life in a daring new production. Ancient questions are re-framed for the twenty-first century: when personal values clash with the government, is duty to your beliefs or to the sanctity of the law more important? How acceptable is civil disobedience against an unchecked power? These questions play out in this battle of the individual against the state, staged under the relentless scrutiny of twenty four hour news. Following the success of last years acclaimed production of Medea, which played to over a thousand audience members across its run, the 2019 Greek Play celebrates another defiant woman of Greek tragedy and will again be performed in a combination of ancient Greek and English.
The play will be performed at the Greenwood Theatre (55 Weston Street, SE1 3RA) on the following dates and times:
13 February – 2.30pm and 7pm
14 February – 7pm
15 February – 2.30pm and 7pm
There will be pre-show talks and discussions featuring leading scholars at 6pm every evening, free to that evening’s ticket holders.
PLEASE NOTE: School & further education groups wanting to book should email Sophie Norgate, this year’s Business Manager, directly at greekplay@kcl.ac.uk. Teachers accompanying their students go free – please contact Sophie to arrange.

Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize Supported by the Classical Association
2019-02-14 09:30 - 13:00 | Westminster School, Little Smith Street, London, SW1P 3PF, United Kingdom
Westminster School

Thursday, 14th February 2019 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 – Mr Franco Basso: ‘A Baffling God: Readings in Herodotus’ Theology’.

Franco Basso is Senior Language Teaching Officer in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Trinity Hall. He is interested in Greek and Roman historians and their reception. He has recently published (with Geoffrey Greatrex) a study on the reception of Herodotus and Thucydides in Procopius: C. Lillington-Martin (ed.) Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations (Routledge 2018).

Session 2: 10.30-11.10 – Professor Rhiannon Ash: ‘Visions of the Druids in Ancient Historiography: Fact or Fantasy?’

Rhiannon Ash is Professor of Roman Historiography and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. She is interested in the representation of the historical tradition and especially in the language and syntax of Tacitus. She has published commentaries on Histories II (Cambridge 2007) and Annals XV (Cambridge 2018).

Break: 11.15-11.30

Session 3: 11.30-12.10 – Dr Oliver Thomas: ‘Studying Odyssey 6 in ancient Greece’

Oliver Thomas is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham, who specialises in Ancient Greek literature and religion. He is currently finalising an edition and commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and starting a translation of ancient scholarship on Iliad books 3-6.

Session 4: 12.15-12.55 – Dr Emily Pillinger: ‘Threats, silence, and song: Dido’s vocal strategies.’

Emily Pillinger is Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at King’s College, London. Her expertise includes late Republican and early Imperial Latin poetry. Her book, Cassandra and The Poetics of Prophecy (C.U.P, in press) examines the power of the female prophetic voice in ancient literature, including Greek tragedy and Roman epic.

1.00 – End

Classics Masterclass at Cambridge University
2019-02-16 | Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Classics Masterclass at Cambridge University, offering students a true flavour of studying Classics.
For more information visit: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/masterclasses
