Professor Helen King Professor Emerita of Classical Studies The Open University

Tuesday 23rd March 2021, 7pm –  Dr Emily Hauser (Exeter) 'Women in the Trojan War'. In this talk, Emily will return to one of the oldest stories of Greek myth – the Trojan War – and ask what happens when we look at the story from the point of view of the women. What did Helen really […]

UNIVERSITY OF KENT CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURES SPRING TERM 2021  Weds 27th Jan: Prof. Eleanor Dickey (Reading) 'What did people actually do in a Roman school? Weds 3rd Feb: Prof. Martin Carver (York) Remembering the Dead in Byzantine, Islamic and Norman Sicily 3rd-13th century. Weds 24th Feb: Prof. Ruth Webb (Lille) Performance in Late […]

Classics for All in collaboration with King's College, London: Politics of the Late Republic An excellent afternoon of free/online talks on Wednesday 31st March on Politics of the Late Republic. Click on the Eventbrite link below to reserve your space. Talks will be recorded and made available down the line if you can't attend. The […]

With conditions too uncertain to plan for the CA’s usual conference at a UK university this year, CA2021 will be held as a free online event from 6-8 April 2021.  Registration is via the CA website here. Sessions focus on key issues facing classicists, including inclusivity, outreach and employability.  For details of the panels, presenters […]

What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis A Lawyers Group Event with Professor A. C. Grayling, hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson. Thursday 11 March | 18:00 GMT Stoicism was the ethical outlook of educated people in the Hellenic and Roman periods of classical antiquity for over 500 years, and remained influential among […]

The British School at Athens is delighted to invite UK school teachers to attend a free virtual CPD course, focussing on the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation module ‘The Homeric World’. The course is intended both for those who already teach the new GCSE (or similar specifications), and also for those who have never taught the subject […]

The British School at Athens is delighted to invite UK school teachers to attend a free virtual CPD course, focussing on the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation module ‘The Homeric World’. The course is intended both for those who already teach the new GCSE (or similar specifications), and also for those who have never taught the subject […]

The British School at Athens is delighted to invite UK school teachers to attend a free virtual CPD course, focussing on the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation module ‘The Homeric World’. The course is intended both for those who already teach the new GCSE (or similar specifications), and also for those who have never taught the subject […]

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