The poet Ovid tells the stories of Actaeon, Narcissus and Echo, and others from Metamorphoses Book 3. A two-day course Sat 7th & Sun 8th March 2015. From The Latin Qvarter. www.lingua.co.uk/latin
Dr. Matthew Nicholls, from Reading University, will be giving a talk at RGS Guildford on Tuesday 10 March in Big School (in the old buildings) at 4.15-5.15pm. He will be talking about the entertainment buildings at Rome. If you are interested in coming along contact Ed Bush on
We are delighted to be holding a drinks reception at the East Oxford Community Classics Centre at Cheney School on Friday 13th March, 6 - 8pm, to launch our artefact collection and wider project to create a museum at the classics centre. The event will enable visitors to see and handle some items in our … Continue reading "Museum within a School, evening reception 13th March, 6 – 8pm, Cheney School"
Prof. Stephen Heyworth, Wadham College, Oxford will be speaking on Ovid’s Metamorphoses: An Epic of Change at Hymers College, Hull at 2:30pm on Monday 16th March. All are welcome, but please contact Christina Myers at if you are planning to attend.
Colfe's Classics/Philosophy Society presents Nick Denyer talking on 'How to make people agree'. 4.15pm. Wednesday 18th March. Colfe's School - SE12 8AW. Emial for more info.
The Oxbridge Classics Open Day will be taking place in Oxford this year on Friday 20th of March 2015. The day is organised between Oxford and Cambridge universities aimed at all students (UK and abroad) interested in pursuing a Classics degree at either university. For the 2015 programme and booking details please visit our website. … Continue reading "Oxbridge Classics Open Day – Friday 20th of March 2015"
E-mail your closest CICERO centre: Andy Keen (Bristol Grammar School) Wendy Smith (Henrietta Barnett School, London) Declan Lawell (Blue Coat School, Liverpool) Duncan Carnegie (George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh)
On Monday 23 March 2015, Pocklington School, York will be hosting a revision day for pupils studying the OCR GCSE Classical Greek Short Course (J091). There will be taught sessions on Unit B401 Greek Language 1 (mythology and domestic life); and on Unit B404 Greek Verse Literature (Homer: Odyssey XXI). Times will be from 09.30 - … Continue reading "GCSE Classical Greek Revision Day"
On Monday 23rd March at 4.30 pm, Mr Nicholas Denyer will be speaking on: ‘The Origins of Justice’ Why be just? Why be nice to other people? One obvious answer is that you will be punished if you aren't. But the obvious answer raises new questions. For example, why be nice if you won't get caught? The … Continue reading "Nicholas Denyer to speak on ‘The Origins of Justice’"
Monday 23 March at 5pm The talk on 'Aeneas the Villain' begins by acknowledging that Aeneas is a hero, but tries to bring out the way in which Virgil has written his epic so that an attentive reader is enabled and at some points compelled to see the poem’s protagonist as socially inept, emotionally stunted, morally questionable, deceitful, … Continue reading "Dr Stephen Heyworth will be giving a talk on ‘Aeneas the Villain’ at Sherborne Girls, Dorset, Monday 23 March"
