The Classics Library

Alexander the Great: King or God? - a talk by Dr Hugh Bowden
2014-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Roehampton University, United Kingdom
Dr Hugh Bowden (King’s College, London)
‘Alexander the Great: King or God?’

Date: Monday 28 April
Time: 6pm (doors open at 5.45pm)
Where: University of Roehampton, Duchesne Building, 001
This event is hosted by the Roehampton & South West London Classical Association Branch. You can buy a ticket or become a member at the door:

standard entry fee of £3
membership for the period (January-September 2014): £10 / £8 for concessions
institutional membership (for school parties): £20

For travel advice and maps of the campus, see: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Contact-Us/

Medea in Greek at St Paul's Girls' School
2014-04-22 18:30 - 20:00 | St Paul’s Girls’ School, London, United Kingdom
Following in the steps of last year’s Electra, and Antigone the year before, the classical students of St Paul’s Girls’ School are mounting a production of Euripides’s Medea in Greek, for one night only.
The performance, which is abridged but fully staged, with surtitles, will take place at 6.00 pm on Wednesday 2nd April in the Singing Hall. It will last for about 40 minutes. Refreshments will be available from 5.30 pm.
The address of the school is Brook Green, London, W6 7BS; main telephone 020 7603 2288. The nearest tube is Hammersmith.
There is a nominal charge of £1, payable at the door. However, places are limited and it is essential to book seats in advance. If you or any pupils from your school would like to attend, please email gregory.wilsdon@spgs.org with expected numbers as soon as possible, and certainly by Monday 31st March.

The Paper Odyssey, at the Battersea Arts Centre
2014-04-22 - 2014-04-24
The utterly brilliant Paper Odyssey, a Paper Cinema production, returns to Battersea Arts Centre next year. BOOK EARLY, as this show gets sold out every time.
Here’s the BAC’s site for more information and how to book.
AND, here’s a review of the show from last year, just before it headed off to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Check out #PCOdyssey on Twitter!

Athens and the 5th C Intellectual Revolution
2014-04-21 - 2014-04-22 | Unnamed Venue, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ, United Kingdom
Athens and the 5th century intellectual revolution – an online course beginning 21 April
In the fifth century BC, the ancient Greeks developed a new way of understanding the world. This breakthrough inspired art, science, religion and philosophy that changed the world and laid the foundations of the modern era. This course studies both the intellectual revolution and the extraordinary society which produced it.
Visit www.ice.cam.ac.uk/athens
Our weekend courses begin with dinner on Friday and end after lunch the following Sunday. Meals from Madingley Hall’s award-winning kitchen are included in the course fee, which is £240. However, teachers from state-funded schools may be eligible for a £100 bursary, courtesy of Cambridge University Press, which will reduce the price to £140.
Bed and breakfast at Madingley Hall is available for course weekends for an additional £110, or £90 per person for two people sharing.
Bookings can be made online, by emailing admissions@ice.cam.ac.uk or by calling 01223 746262.

Brand New Ancients, by Kate Tempest
2014-04-18 - 2014-04-21 | Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN, United Kingdom
This looks set to be fantastic.
The gods are in the betting shops, the gods are in the cafe, the gods can’t afford the deposit on their flat…Winged sandals tearing up the pavement, Me, you, everyone, brand new ancients.
Poet and spoken word artist Kate Tempest tells an everyday epic over an exhilarating live score played by tuba, cello, violin, drums and electronics, that finds the gods of today all around us and reveals that our true heroes are much closer than we think.
A Kate Tempest and Battersea Arts Centre co-production co-commissioned by the Albany.
Also on tour. Find out more.
For all the information about the show and how to book, check the BAC’s website.

Greek Tragedy talk by Dr Rosie Wyles
2014-04-02 17:00 - 18:30 | St Paul’s Way Trust School, London, E3 4FT, United Kingdom
Dr Rosie Wyles of King’s College London will speak on Greek Tragedy at St. Paul’s Way Trust School, London E3 4FT (nearest tube station Mile End, Central line).
The talk will take place on 2nd April 2014 4-5:30 and is specifically aimed at students studying the OCR AS Classical Civilisation module ‘Greek Tragedy in its context’, but all students are welcome.
Dr Wyles will speak on literary contexts, previous productions of the set texts, and staging.
Refreshments will be available. If you would like to bring your students, please confirm your attendance by emailing me at osanchez@spwt.net.
Best Wishes
Olivia Sanchez

Classical myth and storytelling workshop
2014-04-01 - 2014-04-02 | East Oxford Community Classics Centre, Cheney Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7QH, United Kingdom
On Tuesday 1st April the cast of the highly-acclaimed show UNMYTHABLE will be coming to the East Oxford Community Classics Centre to run a series of workshops throughout the day as part of our Classical Storytelling Day!
At 4 -5pm they will be running a community myth and storytelling workshop. This will be suitable for all ages, and particularly aimed at primary age level. It will involve a fun and lively mixture of performances and activity rooted in classical myths.
If you would like to book for this workshop, please email info@irisproject.org.uk
As with all our events, this workshop will be free of charge.
For more details, please visit http://irisproject.org.uk/index.php/east-oxford-community-classics-centre/programme-of-events/43-special-events/173-storytelling-workshop

Can a Roman Die Like Socrates? Talk by Professor Michael Trapp, King's College London
2014-03-31 17:15 - 18:30 | Channing School, The Bank, Highgate Hill, London, N6 5HF, United Kingdom
Professor Michael Trapp, from King’s College London, is speaking at Channing School on Monday March 31st at 4:15pm.
He will explore the life of Cato the Younger in discussing, ‘Can A Roman Die like Socrates?‘ The talk is open to students in Years 10-13 but places are limited due to the building works that are taking place at Channing.
Please e-mail Sarah Elliot on selliot@channing.co.uk if you would like to bring students or attend yourself.
The address of the school is: The Bank, Highgate Hill, London, N6 5HF. Archway and Highgate underground stations are close by.

Ancient World Study Day- University of Reading
2014-03-26 | University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus (http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findmap.aspx), Reading, United Kingdom
The Classics department at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that we are now accepting bookings for our annual ‘Ancient World Study Day’ event (formerly ‘Texts Day’). This free event, on Wednesday 26th March, consists of a day of lectures delivered by academic staff and doctoral researchers, which look at the AS and A2 Latin and Greek set texts and Classical Civilisation topics. As additional enrichment activities we offer lectures on the Archaeology of the Roman World and on our Ure Museum of Greek vases.
Talks will include:

Cicero In Verrem II
Homer Iliad
Virgil Aeneid
Ovid Amores
Greek Tragedy

The event is intended for lower and upper sixth-form students and their teachers. There is no charge for this event but booking is essential, since numbers are limited.
For more information and the programme in full, please follow the link:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/humanities/conferences/TextDay/AncientWorldStudyDay2014.aspx
Or contact Maria Lloyd: tg003678@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Classics Inspiration Day for Years 10 and 11 at St Swithun's School, Winchester
2014-03-25 | St Swithin’s School, Alresford Rd, Winchester, SO21 1HA, United Kingdom
You are warmly invited to come and bring your students to St Swithun’s first Classics Inspiration Day to be held on Tuesday 25 March from 10am to 3pm.
We aim to give students taking GCSE in any Classical subject an insight into the manifold wonders of the Classics beyond their school text books with a day of illustrated lectures to include the following:

Dr Felix Budelmann (Magdalen College, Oxford): In search of Sappho
Dr Matthew Robinson (Balliol College, Oxford): In touch with their feminine side: perceptions of gender in Latin love poetry
Professor Roland Mayer (King’s College, London): Roman ruin-mindedness
Mr James Ede (Charles Ede Ltd Antiquities): Dealing in antiquities: the joys of rediscovery’

The event is free of charge and refreshments and a packed lunch will be provided.
For more information and to book places, please contact Claire Webster at websterc@stswithuns.com by Friday 7 March.

CICERO Concordia Competition 2014
2014-03-22
The annual CICERO Concordia Competition will take place on Saturday March 22nd at the following centres:
The Blue Coat School, Liverpool; Bristol Grammar School; George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh; King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham; North London Collegiate School, Edgware and Wellington College, Crowthorne.
CICERO is an international Latin translation and Classical culture competition for students aged 16 to 18 years, with generous prizes for winners. Please see our website www.ciceroconcordia.com for further details.
The theme of the competition this year will be Orpheus.
To enter students, please contact the following at your desired centre:
The Blue Coat School: Dr Declan Lawell d.lawell@bluecoatschool.org.uk
Bristol Grammar School: Andrew Keen akeen@bgs.bristol.sch.uk
George Heriot’s School: Duncan Carnegie dc@george-heriots.com
King Edward VI High School for Girls: Helen Chambers hlc@kehsmail.co.uk
North London Collegiate School: Dora O’Sullivan do’sullivan@nlcs.org.uk
Wellington College: Simon Allcock sxa@wellingtoncollege.org.uk
As in previous years there will be a £10 entry fee per school (regardless of number of students entered) to cover central administrative costs. Cheques should be made payable to CICERO UK and submitted to the contact at your chosen centre.
If you would like to become more involved with running or hosting the CICERO Competition, and helping to make the competition bigger and better, please contact consules@ciceroconcordia.com; we would be pleased to hear from you!

Euripides' Medea & Greek Tragedy - a talk by Professor Paul Cartledge
2014-03-11 - 2014-03-14 | Highgate School, North Road, London, N6 4AY, United Kingdom
On Tuesday March 11th at 4:15pm Professor Paul Cartledge (Clare College, Cambridge) will be speaking at Highgate School N6 4AY on Greek tragedy, with specific reference to Euripides’ Medea. All are very welcome to come along (there is no charge) and it may be of particular interest to those pupils studying Medea for Classical Civilisation at GCSE and A-level. Light refreshments will be available.
If you would like to bring your pupils or indeed just come along yourself please email me for directions and further details at:
guy.waller@highgateschool.org.uk
Pupils from Highgate are also performing Medea in English (Vellacott’s translation) on Wed 12th-Fri 14th March at 7pm. Please let me know if you’d like tickets for this too!
Guy Waller (Head of Classics, Highgate School)

THE BMCA Texts and Topics Conference: 8th March
2014-03-08 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
THE BMCA Texts and Topics Conference
Saturday 8 March 2014
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, Arts Building, 1st Floor
9.30 a.m.- 1.30 p.m.
Plenary Lecture by Dr Alison Cooley on Augustus
Texts: Ovid, Amores; Cicero In Verrem; Virgil, Aeneid
Topics: Greek Comedy; City Life in Athens; Women in Greek Tragedy; Sparta
Greek and Latin master-classes
General Interest: Handling Artefacts in the Classics Museum; Tutankhamun
£5 per pupil from independent schools/ £ 2.50 per pupil from maintained schools
For full programme, and to register pupils, please contact the BMCA at:
bm.classicalassociation@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Follow us on Twitter @CA_BhamMids | Like us on Facebook facebook.com/CA.BhamMids

Latin Love Poetry Lecture - King's College Taunton. Thurs 6th March
2014-03-06 19:15 | King’s College, Taunton, South Road, Taunton, Devon, TA1 3LA, United Kingdom
On behalf of the Classical Association South West, Dr Sharon Marshall of Exeter University will deliver a lecture on Latin Love Poetry at King’s College Taunton on Thursday 6th March at 7.15pm. The lecture will cover the genre of Love Poetry and will be particularly relevant to those students studying Ovid’s Amores for AS Latin but also be of interest to all those studying Classical subjects.
There is no charge for the lecture but please email me to give me an idea of numbers or if you require any further information.
lscashmore@kings-taunton.co.uk
Lisa Cashmore

London Greek and Latin Reading Competition
2014-03-06 14:00 - 17:00 | Queen’s College, 43-9 Harley street, London, W1G 8BT, United Kingdom
THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION
LONDON GREEK & LATIN READING COMPETITION 2014

The 2014 competition will be held on THURSDAY 6th MARCH at Queen’s College, 43-49 Harley Street London W1G 8BT (parking is not available at the school). The competition will be held in a single round. The event will begin at 2:00 pm and finish by about 5.00 pm.
As a new venture this year, the afternoon will start with a brief example and explanation of how to read Greek accents by John Hazel, former Head of Classics at City of London School for Boys. We will end with two short talks by our judges, Dr Armand D’Angour and Dr Jonathan Katz, of Oxford University, on Words and music in Sophocles’ Oedipus and Sound and Feeling in Ovid, who will be focusing on the current OCR set texts and the authors’ use of sound and metre. For this reason, schools not entering candidates for the competition, but who would like their staff or pupils to learn more about spoken Latin and Greek, perhaps with a view to entering another year, are warmly encouraged to attend, as are friends and parents of the candidates.
We will break for tea after the first three sections, from about 3:00 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.
The competition is in six sections, as follows:
1. Beginners’ Latin, open to ONE ENTRY only from each school by not more than 3 pupils who have not yet completed 5 terms of Latin: Cambridge Latin Course, 4th Edition, Book II, St 20, page 139 astrologus victor, part II.
2. Beginners’ Greek, open to ONE candidate (from each school) who has not yet completed 5 terms of Greek: Theocritus, XI, 19-33 (Oxford Classical Text)
3. Pre-GCSE Latin, open to ONE candidate from each school, of any age, who has not yet taken GCSE in Latin: Virgil, Aeneid XII 887-905. (Two centuries of Latin Poetry, ed. Kennedy & Davis, BCP)
4. Greek Dialogue, open to one or TWO candidates per school: Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 316-341 (Oxford Classical Text)
5. Open Latin, open to one candidate of any age per school: Ovid, Amores III.2 1-18 (Ovid, Amores III, A Selection, ed. Inglehart & Radice, BCP)
6. Greek Chorus, open to a group of six or more pupils per school: Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 151-177 (Oxford Classical Text)
NB No candidate may be entered for more than one Latin section.
Please note: schools attending the afternoon will be sent copies of the passages, marked with macrons and metre, and their translations, but these will not be included in the copies from which the candidates will read at the competition. A copy of the rules will be included in this mailing.
Entries should be sent using the form below to the organiser, with the fee of £15, by Fri 7th Feb 2014.
There will be no charge for non-competing schools.
Prizes will be awarded to the winners of each section and runner-up prizes may be awarded in sections where there is a sufficient number of entries. A further prize may be awarded in section 1 only, at the judges’ discretion, to deserving candidates from a school which has not entered previously or not since the distant past.
**************************************************************************************************************************
LONDON CLASSICAL READING COMPETITION Thursday 6th March 2014

I should like to enter candidates for the following sections (please tick, or indicate by writing 0 if you wish to attend without entering candidates this year):

Section: 1……….. 2………. 3……….. 4……….. 5………. 6………..

Please tick to select method of payment (fee only required if you are entering the competition):
I enclose a cheque for the £15 (please make payable to Queen’s College)

I have paid by BACS.

For payment by BACS:
Bank: Natwest Bank
Sort Code: 60-40-02
Account Number: 24807001
Account Name: Queens College
Swift Code: NWBKGB2L
IBAN: [REDACTED]
IBAN BIC: NWBKGB2L

If a receipt is required please enclose SAE.
To assist with organisation, pleases indicate the approximate number of people you expect to bring:

Staff ……Pupils………
Name (caps please)……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

School……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Address………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…………

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………..……………………….………………(include postcode)

Telephone ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

e-mail……………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

PLEASE fill in all these details!
Send or email replies to:
Mrs Sarah Harrison
Head of Classics
Queen’s College
43 – 49 Harley Street
London
W1G 8BT

Tel: 020 7 291 7033 e-mail sharrison@qcl.org.uk

Dr Rosie Wyles to speak on Euripides's Medea
2014-03-05 16:00 - 18:00 | St Paul’s Girls’ School, London, United Kingdom
On Wednesday 5th March at 4.30 pm, Dr Rosie Wyles will be speaking on:
‘Dramatising Ordered Chaos in Euripides’s Medea’
Dr Wyles will explore how Euripides develops themes of both chaos and order in Medea through his use of staging in the play. Please note that pupils at St Paul’s Girls’ School will be performing an abridged version of Medea in Greek on Wednesday 2nd April at 6.00 pm. Dr Wyles’s talk is likely to be a valuable introduction to some of the play’s themes for anyone attending the performance.
Rosie Wyles is Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at King’s College, London. She is a specialist in Greek tragedy, with a particular interest in theatrical performance, costume, and reception.
The talk is hosted by the St Paul’s Girls’ School Classics Society. Tea and cake will be served from 4.00 in the Dining Hall and the talk will be held in the Old Library. The event will finish between 5.30 and 6.00. There is no charge.
The address of the school is St Paul’s Girls’ School, Brook Green, London, W6 7BS; main telephone 020 7603 2288. The nearest tube is Hammersmith.
All are welcome, but if you or your pupils would like to attend, please email Gregory Wilsdon at gregory.wilsdon@spgs.org with expected numbers as soon as possible and at the latest by Monday 3rd March.

Medea, at the Riverside Studios
2014-03-05 - 2014-03-22 | Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London, W6 9RL, United Kingdom
For most of March, the Theatre Lab Company is bringing us Medea.
Quoting their site…
Medea
By Euripides
Directed by Anastasia Revi
Medea is the story of a woman, a gypsy princess, a gifted sorceress who follows her heart to the prosperous West to be with Jason, a charming but ambitious Western aristocrat. He betrays her. In an unaccepting society, she is an outsider, unwanted, but Medea must survive.
This powerful story explores extreme emotions and actions driven by betrayal and not belonging.
Following enormously successful productions of Lysistrata, Antigone and The Oresteia at Riverside Studios, Theatre Lab Company is returning in 2014 with their new production of Euripides’ Medea with live music by Daemonia Nymphe.
Theatre Lab Company (TLC) is a London based international company with a reputation for mesmerizing theatrical imagery, physical theatre and devised experimental work. Words, music, images and movement are brought together to create dynamic theatre that crosses the boundaries of culture, language, taboo and medium.
www.theatrelab.co.uk
RUNNING TIME
90 minutes with no interval.
AGE SUITABILITY
Suitable for ages 12+.
Studio 3
Wednesday 5 to Saturday 22 March at 7.45pm
Tuesday and Thursday matinees, and Saturday 22 March at 2.00pm
TICKETS: £17 (£14 concs.)
Groups (10+ get 10% discount): £12.00
Schools (Teachers and Children): £12.00
(020 8237 1111 and counter only)
All information about the production, dates, and venue is here.
Medea, at the Riverside Studios | @TheatreLabCo

Sussex Classical Reading Competition 2014
2014-03-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Roedean School, Brighton Road, BN2 5RQ, United Kingdom
Roedean School will host the Sussex Classical Reading Competition for 2014 on Tuesday 4 March at 5pm.
Please contact me via school (rmi@roedean.co.uk) or the Classics Library if you are interested and I’ll send you the details of the passages chosen for this year.
Thanks, Becky Miller

'Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment', a Public Workshop
2014-02-28 16:00 - 20:30 | King’s College, London, Strand, London, London, WC2B 5RL , United Kingdom
Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment
28th of February 2014 4pm
Anatomy Museum, King’s College London
The performance spaces of fifth-century Athenian drama were in many respects radically different from anything we encounter in the modern era. Theatres were not so much buildings as landscape architecture. They were embedded in the natural landscape and offered their audiences panoramic views of the surrounding environment. This environment has profoundly informed the plays’ imagery, dramaturgy and theoretical reflections. In many plays, the imagery of natural spaces (mountainscapes, the sea, agricultural fields), which evoked what would have lain immediately in view of the audience, is central to many plays’ reflection on the natural and the divine order. In other plays, there is intense focus on the beaten surface of the orchestra as evocative of the earth and its generative (and deadly) powers. Many plays integrate the presence and movement of the sun, the winds and other elements of the sky, trees and vegetation, rocks and hillsides, whilst exploiting the contrasts between light, shade and darkness generated during performance time in intensely symbolic ways. Beyond the immediate environment, Greek drama also evokes natural spaces beyond the audience’s horizon. It thus creates an all-encompassing whole which is crucial for its reflection on humanity’s place in the cosmic and natural order.

This workshop will explore the theory that the landscape – in terms of the audience’s perception not just of the theatre space but also of their apprehension of the natural world – is fundamental to our understanding of Greek drama as spatial medium. It will take a macroscopic and holistic view of theatre space relating it to the ecological surroundings of Greek theatrical performances. It will also look at what the engagement of the theatre with the landscape can tell us about Greek attitudes to the human relationship to the environment.
Talks by pioneering scholars in the field of theatre space will be followed by a roundtable discussion open to the audience. The event will take place in the state of the art KCL Anatomy Museum, whose facilities will be used to make a visual statement of the relationship between theatre space, landscape and environment.
Programme
4.00-4.30 Arrival and coffee/tea. Welcome.
4.30-5.15 Rush Rehm (Stanford): Tragic ecology: space and limit in Greek tragedy.
5.15-6.00 David Wiles (Exeter): Space and place: Greek theatre and the earth.
6.00-6.30 Break for drinks.
6.30-7.00 Peter Meineck (New York): Landscape and ecstasy: The neuroscience of the ancient Athenian theatre.
7.00-7.30 Emmanuela Bakola (KCL): The spaces that make the earth: a holistic spatial approach to Aeschylus’ Persians.
7.30-8.30 Discussion (Discussants: Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Richard Seaford (Exeter), Oliver Taplin (Oxford), Chris Carey (UCL), Nick Lowe (RHUL))

Information and Bookings
The event is sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, the KCL Public Engagement Department and the Benjamin Jowett Trust Fund.
Entry is free of charge. Places are restricted to 60, and prior booking is necessary to allow entry. Please register by e-mailing emmanuela.bakola@kcl.ac.uk.
Members of the public with an interest in Greek theatre are warmly encouraged to attend.

Roehampton and SW London CA Branch Event. Monday 24 February
2014-02-24 18:00 - 19:00 | University of Roehampton, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 , United Kingdom
Please join us for our next event when Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King’s College London) will be speaking on:
The Devil and his Works in Late Antiquity
Date: Monday 24 February
Time: 6pm (doors open at 5.45)
Place: Duchesne Building, 001 (University of Roehampton)
Maps and travel directions can be found at: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Contact-Us/
All welcome:
standard entry fee of £3
membership for the period (January-Septmeber
2014): £10 / £8 for
concessions

Alpha to Omega: Ancient Greek from Scratch (with Peter Jones)
2014-02-22 | British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom
British Museum
Saturday 22 February 2014, 10.00 & 14.00
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£15, Members/concessions £12
Visit the British Museum site for news about the event!
In these workshops for adults, Peter Jones, Director of the Reading Greek series, author of Learn Ancient Greek, co-founder of Friends of Classics and columnist for The Spectator, will introduce beginners to the basics of ancient Greek – alphabet, vocabulary, some real Greek and Greek stems in English
All materials supplied.
Please arrive punctually to guarantee admission.

Classics Taster Day, Balliol College, Oxford
2014-02-21 | Balliol College, Oxford, OX1 3BJ, United Kingdom
Friday 21 February 2014
Hosted by Balliol College in liaison with the Oxford University Classics Faculty
The event is aimed at Year 10 and Year 11 students who are interested in understanding more about the study of Classics at university. No prior knowledge of any classical subject or language is required, just general enthusiasm and an open mind. This event will particularly suit GCSE students who are considering taking a range of humanities subjects at A-Level (or IB), including English, Modern or Classical Languages, History and/or Art – to name a few.
The event will take place between three sites, Balliol College, the Classics Faculty and the Ashmolean Museum, offering attending students an opportunity to experience a bit of what studying at university might be like. Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet current undergraduates of the University, as well as hearing more about applying to university in general and to Oxford University in particular. Below is a brief outline of the day:

Time
Event
Venue

10.00
Arrival
Classics Faculty

10.15
Welcome
Classics Faculty

10.30
An introduction to Classics at Oxford
Classics Faculty

11.15
Classics lecture given by Adrian Kelly, Fellow of Balliol College
Classics Faculty

12.15
Lunch in Balliol Hall
Balliol College

13.00
Tour of Balliol College
Balliol College

14.00
Ashmolean Museum tour
Ashmolean Museum

15.00
Evaluation
Classics Faculty

15.30
Departure
Classics Faculty

There is no cost for this event: all activities, including lunch, are free of charge to participants. There are 25 places.
To register for your place, please fill in the booking form.
If you have any questions about the event, please get in touch with Kate Kettle, David Freeman Outreach and Student Support Officer, at outreach@balliol.ox.ac.uk.
For further information and updates, visit this page!

ART & ARCHITECTURE OF THE ACROPOLIS - a talk by Professor Robin Osborne
2014-02-13 16:15 - 18:00 | Highgate School, North Road, London, N6 4AY, United Kingdom
On Thursday 13th February at 4:15pm Professor Robin Osborne will be speaking on the ‘Art & Architecture of the Athenian Acropolis‘ at Highgate School, N6 4AY. This is the third Douglas MacDowell Memorial Lecture, which is annual event. All are very welcome indeed and it should prove particularly useful for those pupils studying Architecture and Sculpture at A-level. There will be light refreshments available.
Please let me know if you would like to come and whether you would like to bring your pupils along by emailing me at guy.waller@highgateschool.org.uk.
Many thanks,
Guy Waller (Head of Classics, Highgate School)

KCL Greek Play 2014: Aristophanes' 'Wasps'
2014-02-12 - 2014-02-14 | Greenwood Theatre, 55 Weston Street, London, SE1 3RA, United Kingdom
The KCL Greek Play 2014 will be Aristophanes’ Wasps, directed by Rosa Wicks. Dr Rosie Wyles will be Executive Director. Further details will follow on this page.
Performance dates

Wednesday 12 February 2014: 14.30, 19.00
Thursday 13 February 2014: 19.00
Friday 14 February 2014: 14.30, 19.00

Guest Lecture
A pre-show talk by Rosie Wyles will be given at 18.00 on Thursday 13 February. The speaker has not yet been confirmed.

Venue
The Greenwood Theatre, 55 Weston Street, London Bridge, London SE1 3RA
Location map of the Greenwood Theatre

Tickets

Standard: £8.00
Concessions (students/unwaged/OAPs): £5.00

Ticket price includes programme. Parties of 10+ receive £1.00 discount per ticket. School parties: accompanying teacher qualifies for concessionary rate.

How to buy tickets

By cheque. Complete a Greek Play booking form and send with a cheque made payable to King’s Greek Play to the address given on the booking form.
Via the online booking form (coming soon!).
On the door. Tickets can also be bought on the door on the date of the performance, but do check in advance to make sure that there are seats remaining.

Buy DVDs of past performances
Euripides’ Helen, Euripides Hecuba, Aristophanes’ Clouds and Frogs and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus are available to purchase, for further details please contact us at greekplay@kcl.ac.uk.

Tradition of the King’s Greek Play
The King’s Greek Play has been an annual tradition since 1953 and it is the only production in the country to be performed every year in the original Greek.
Please take a look at the Greek Play archive for performances dating back to 1953.

Get involved
If you are interested in being part of the next Greek Play, see the numerous different ways you could become involved here.
Greek Play Archive
The Greek Play Archive gathers together information and documentation on every Greek Play performed at King’s College London since its inception in 1953.

Contact
If you have any queries or comments; or if you have any information concerning previous King’s Greek Plays that may be of use to us, please contact us.
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2343
Email greekplay@kcl.ac.uk
Address King’s Greek Play
Department of Classics
King’s College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS

Aristophanes' 'Clouds', UCL's Greek Play 2014
2014-02-11 - 2014-02-13 | Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AH, United Kingdom
This year’s Greek play from UCL is Aristophanes’ Clouds.
The show will run from 11th to 13th February (2:30pm and 7:30; no matinee on the 11th), and rehearsals are under way!
For updates on all of this, and ultimately how to book, check out the blog of the show:
http://uclgreekplay.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/back-into-swing-of-things-poster.html

‘Crocodiles & Kings: Hellenistic Egypt Recycled’, The King’s School, Canterbury
2014-02-10 19:00 - 20:00 | King’s School, Canterbury, Canterbury, CT1 1NN, United Kingdom
On Monday 10th February, 7-8pm, Dr Dorothy J. Thompson will deliver the following talk at The King’s School, Canterbury:
‘Crocodiles & Kings: Hellenistic Egypt Recycled’
When Greeks and Romans visited Egypt as tourists what did they find there? The evidence of papyri, preserved in the dry desert sands, can introduce us to life in both the cities and the countryside of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. In Alexandria royal patronage was responsible for the preservation of earlier Greek literature while in the countryside agriculture continued as earlier, barely affected by the new settlers who had arrived following the conquest of Alexander in 332 BC.
Dorothy Thompson is a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary President of the International Society of Papyrologists. During her career, she has won numerous awards and fellowships, including a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. At Cambridge, she held the post of Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and was Director of Studies in Classics and Senior Tutor at Girton College. Her book on Memphis under the Ptolemies (ed.2, 2012) won the James H. Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association in 1989. “It is no exaggeration to say that her work has had a profound impact upon the study of Greco-Roman Egypt” (The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of Berkeley). Since retiring in 2006, the demand for Dr Thompson’s expertise in her field has taken her to deliver courses and lectures in Egypt and at Yale University.
The talk will take place in The Gateway Chamber, St Augustine’s, Monastery Street, The King’s School, Canterbury, CT1 1NN. Refreshments will be available and there is no charge for this event.
Please email Harmony Johnson (hj@kings-school.co.uk) by Monday 3rd February if you would like to attend the talk.

Warwick University Classics Department's Ancient Drama Day for Schools
2014-02-07 | Warwick University, Gibbet Hill Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Warwick University Classics Department’s Ancient Drama Day for Schools – 7th February 2014.
The students and staff at the University of Warwick Department of Classics would like to invite teachers and students to our ancient drama schools’ day on Friday 7th February 2014.
The day will focus around a special schools’ performance of Plautus’ Pseudolus, produced and directed by the Classics students at Warwick.
Supporting the performance, we are organising a series of lectures, seminars and workshops specifically for local schools 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:
1. a lecture on the context of performance of ancient drama in Greece and Rome by one of the Warwick Classics department,
2. a workshop with the cast on the processes of staging and performing the play
3. a seminar led by Warwick department staff on ancient drama, for which some preliminary readings will be made available in advance for students
4. a short session with students and staff on university undergraduate life.
5. the performance itself.
The day will begin at 10am and finish c. 4.30pm. Detailed timings will be announced in due course. There will be no cost for the event, but attendees are asked to organise their own transportation and lunch (there are many venues on campus from which to purchase food).
Can I please ask you to give me an indication of your attendance + rough numbers of students by 15th November 2013 to Dr Michael Scott, m.c.scott@warwick.ac.uk.
Best wishes and thanks
Michael

"Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum”, a talk by Paul Roberts
2014-02-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Churcher’s College, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4AS, United Kingdom
“Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum” at 7.30pm on Wednesday 5th February by Paul Roberts, Curator of the British Museum. The talk will focus on the recent exhibition at the British Museum.
Venue: Lecture theatre at Churcher’s College, Petersfield, Hants, GU31 4AS
Contact: Please email Jon Hegan (jhegan@churcherscollege.com) if you are interested in bringing a group of pupils.

‘Roots and Wings’ – the artistic tradition behind the sculptures of the Parthenon
2014-02-05 16:30 - 18:00 | St James’ Senior Girls’ School, Earsby Street, London, W14 8SH, United Kingdom
‘Roots and Wings’ – the artistic tradition behind the sculptures of the Parthenon
I am very pleased to invite you and your pupils to this talk hosted by St James Senior Girls School on Wednesday 5th February at 4.30 pm.
The sculptures of the Parthenon were not produced in a vacuum but drew on a tradition which developed rapidly over 2 centuries and was given in the mid-5th century BC a refined and perfected formulation.
Margot Camp trained in archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has excavated in Corinth and on Samothrace and worked “behind the “scenes” in the Agora Museum in Athens as well as teaching for programmes abroad. She an experienced teacher of Greek and Classical Civilisation at A-Level and her talk will be of interest not only to those studying Classics and Classical Civilisation but is also very relevant to History of Art and Art students.
Refreshments will be served beforehand. The event will finish between 5.45 and 6.00. There is no charge.
The address of the school is Earsby Street W14 8SH; main telephone 020 7348 1777. The nearest train stations are West Kensington Underground and Kensington Olympia Overground.
If any pupils from your school would like to attend, please email me with expected numbers as soon as possible, and certainly by Friday January 31st.
Mrs Jane Mason
Head of Classics
St James Senior Girls School
j.mason@sjsg.org.uk

Antigone at Warwick School (4th-7th Feb 2014) | @warwickschool
2014-02-04 19:15 - 2014-02-07 19:15 | Bridge House Theatre, Warwick School, Warwick, CV34 6PP, United Kingdom
Using the Fagles translation, the Warwick School Classical Society proudly presents its third production.
If you would like to come, please email das@warwickschool.org telling him how many tickets (only £5 each) and which night. Parking is extremely easy – massive school car park right by the theatre – and I will send directions.
There is also a pre-show talk on the Tuesday by Dr. Adrian Kelly of Balliol College, Oxford, at 6.30pm for no extra charge.
The theatre bar will be open every evening from 7.00pm.
