Watford Grammar School for Girls Trojan Women production The WGGS Drama and Classics Departments are proud to be performing Euripides’ Trojan Women as our school production this year. The play is set in a refugee camp on outskirts of Troy in the aftermath of the Trojan War. With all the men dead, the women are … Continue reading "Watford Grammar School for Girls Trojan Women production"
Greek Drama Day – King’s College London, Friday 31 January 2020, 1.30pm We are delighted to offer an exciting day of talks and workshops for school students and teachers of Ancient Greek Drama, entirely for free. This day will explore some of the big issues facing those studying, teaching, and staging Ancient Greek Drama, including how to make it accessible … Continue reading "Greek Drama Day at KCL"
The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association The BMCA would like to invite everyone to their events this year. All events take place in the Arts Building at the University of Birmingham. Saturday 1 February 2020: The BMCA Teachers’ Day The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association would like to invite all teachers to their annual … Continue reading "The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association"
Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize Supported by the Classical Association Westminster School Thursday, 13th February 2020 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 … Continue reading "Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize Supported by the Classical Association"
An exciting opportunity for VIth Form pupils to attend lectures and seminars given by university lecturers. Wednesday February 5th 2020, Leicester University Pupils: £8 Staff (including lunch): £15 Book online at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emact-vith-form-classics-day-tickets-88806096425 Bookings will close 31st January 2020 at 16:00.
Egyptology and Assyriology Study Day at Christ's College - 7 February 2020 For Year 12 students, parents, teachers, HE advisers and mature students. 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 … Continue reading "Egyptology and Assyriology Study Day at Christ’s College"
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 … Continue reading "UCL Classics Play 2020: Aristophanes’ Frogs"
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 … Continue reading "‘Virtual Rome: A Digital Model of the Ancient City’"
Thursday 9th January 7pmWalking With The Gods: The Religious Lives of the Ancient GreeksProfessor Michael Scott, Historian, Author, Broadcaster Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick AKS, Main Entrance, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes FY8 1DT Lectures 7 – 8pm Doors open at 6.15pm MEMBERS ONLY. You can join anytime. https://lsaclassics.com/ FLIER … Continue reading "Walking With The Gods: The Religious Lives of the Ancient Greeks"
This programme of lectures is designed to support students and teachers taking GCSE and A level Classics Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications, and is coordinated by Advocating Classical Education and the British Museum. For all further information and to book go to: https://www.britishmuseum.org/school-lecture-classical-civilisation-and-ancient-history Troy: the World of the Hero For Teachers The British Museum's exhibition … Continue reading "OCR Classics in 20 British Museum Objects"
