Live reading of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses (FREE)
2021-12-13 18:30 - 19:30 (Europe/London)
From The Latin Qvarter…

Join us for a live reading of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (a blend of Latin and English) on the evening of Monday, 13th December.

Hear the tale of Pyramus & Thisbe and their doomed love, the story of Baucis and Philemon – equally loving (and living much longer) – and the fate of the disbelieving Pentheus …

We start with Mother Earth’s appeal to Jupiter to stop the world burning up … read by Emma Kirkby. The supporting cast is pretty hot too, with Ben Cartlidge, Matthew Hargreaves, Andy Keen, Katie Marshall, Llewelyn Morgan and George Sharpley.

Click the link below!

https://latinqvarter.co.uk/ovid/

6.30pm, Monday, 13th December 2021

FREE – on Zoom. Email back for Zoom access.

UCL Classics and Ancient World Taster Day 2 - 2022
2022-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
UCL Classics and Ancient World Taster Day 2 – 2022

Meet staff and students at the Department of Greek and Latin, and hear a sample lecture, with plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

About this event

This taster day will involve presentations by the Head of Department, the Outreach Tutor Dr Mark Weeden, a sample lecture entitled “Where did the (Roman) Alphabet come from” by Professor Stephen Colvin, several presentations by current students, and plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

For more information and to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-classics-and-ancient-world-taster-day-2-2022-tickets-228649064507?aff=erelexpmlt

Further information about UCL’s taster and open days: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/outreach/taster-and-open-days

FHS Classics Symposium
2022-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
Covid put paid to that event but we are holding another one on Friday January 28th here at Francis Holland Regent’s Park from 2pm. It is open to all pupils studying Classical subjects from Y10 and above and their teachers. We will be hosting as speakers Professor Robin Osborne and Professor Caroline Vout. The event is free but students and teachers must register via eventbrite – Francis Holland School Classics Symposium Friday 28th January Tickets, Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite.

Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association: New Year Lecture
2022-02-10 17:30 - 18:30 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association

The BMCA would like to invite you to their two events this academic year, both to be held in person in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.

The New Year Lecture

This will be held on Thursday 10 February 2022 at 5.30 pm. The speaker will be Dr Elena Giusti (University of Warwick) on ‘Dido of Carthage: World of the Heroine’.

The Texts and Topics Conference

This will be held on Wednesday 23 March 2022, 12pm- 3.15pm, and is open to A Level students of Ancient History and Classical Civilisation.

The Programme

12.00-12.45 Arrival and Registration

12.45-13.00 Welcome

13.00-13.30 Session 1

Session: Politics of the Late Republic

Session: Greek Theatre

13.30-14.00 Session 2

Session: Greeks and Barbarians

Session: Homer

14.00-14.15 Break

14.15-14.45 Session 3

Session: The Julio-Claudians

Session: The Aeneid

14.45-15.15 Session 4

Student talks: Classics and Ancient History at University

The Conference is free for students at maintained schools and £5 per person for students at independent schools.

To register your interest in these events please email Polly Stoker on P.Stoker@bham.ac.uk

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The BMCA

These Great Athenians/Daughters of Sparta
2022-02-14 19:00 - 21:00
An evening with Valentine Carter and Claire Heywood, authors.
Further information: https://www.waterstones.com/events/revisit-ancient-classics-with-valentine-carter-and-claire-heywood/bristol-galleries

The New Testament from a Roman Perspective with John Davie
2022-02-17 18:00 - 20:00
From Classics for All…

The New Testament from a Roman Perspective with John Davie

Thursday 17 February | 18:00 GMT

At the time of Jesus’ birth, the Roman empire was governed by the emperor Augustus (27 BC – AD 14). The province of Judaea came under direct Roman rule in AD 6 and increasingly strained relations between the Romans and Jewish population had an inevitable influence on the portrayal of events in the Gospels. In this talk, lecturer John Davie roots the New Testament in its social and political context and shows how a historical approach can help us understand the problems faced by Jewish subjects and Roman authorities alike in Roman Palestine. Covering the political background to Jesus’ life and final days, the governorship of Pontius Pilate, and the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish belief, this wide-ranging talk untangles a pivotal moment in history, when classical and biblical worlds collide.

The first in our series of 2022 Lawyers Group events, this fascinating talk by lecturer John Davie will be livestreamed from King’s College London via Microsoft Teams and hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson, Chair of our Lawyers Group Steering Committee.

Tickets (£10 standard, £5 concession) are available via the link below. You may also to choose to give an additional donation toward Classics for All’s work supporting classics teaching in state schools.

Buy tickets here

This event will be livestreamed via Microsoft Teams, but you do not need a Teams account to watch it. After you have purchased your tickets, you will receive an email containing the link to watch the livestream. Simply click on the link and choose ‘Watch on the web instead’. You will be taken to the livestream webpage where you will see the message ‘The live event hasn’t started’ until the event starts at 6pm.

John Davie:

John Davie is a graduate of Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on Greek Tragedy. For twenty years he held a lectureship at Trinity College, Oxford, where he taught undergraduates once a week. He taught Classics at Harrow for nine years and later became Head of Classics at St. Paul’s School, where he taught until his retirement in 2010. John has translated the complete surviving works of Euripides for Penguin Classics (4 vols) and excerpts from Seneca, Horace, and Cicero for Oxford World’s Classics (3 vols). He lives with his wife in South Devon.

If you have any queries about this event, please contact events@classicsforall.org.uk.

Loughborough Schools Foundation Department of Classics Spring Lecture
2022-02-24 17:30 - 19:00
Returning and Recovery: the Homeric Odyssey on Trauma and Survival

Online Lecture by Professor Joel Christensen, Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University, USA

Thursday 24 February, 5:30 pm (GMT)

Abstract: The Homeric Odyssey explores a return to life and community after suffering trauma at war, at sea, and at home. Modern cognitive and clinical psychology can help us appreciate how deeply Greek epic understands the helplessness we suffer after repeated loss and how we can use stories to return to the world and rebuild our communities.

The event will be held on Teams. Please register through Eventbrite.

Sussex Classical Reading Competition 2022
2022-03-01 16:00 - 18:30
Sussex Classical Reading Competition 2022

The Sussex Classical Reading Competition is back this year, held at Roedean School. Please contact oba@roedean.co.uk for details of the passages.

We welcome all schools who can make it to Roedean for the occasion. It will be held on Tuesday 1 March 4.15pm-6.15pm.

Please do come if you can, we would love to see you!

London Classical Reading Competition
2022-03-02 | Westminster School, Little Smith Street, London, SW1P 3PF, United Kingdom
This Classical Reading Competition, which is supported by the Classical Association, will be held on Wednesday 2 March at Westminster School, 17 Dean’s Yard, London SW1P 3PF. The school is a five-minute walk from St. James’s Park Tube, or a 15-minute walk from Victoria Station. The event will begin at 2 pm and finish by 5 pm. We will break for tea after the first section, from about 3-3.20 pm.

Masks should be worn while inside and removed when performing. Unfortunately it is not possible to invite candidates’ parents to attend. Commemorative prizes will be awarded.

The competition is in six sections, with one entry only from each school per section. No candidate may enter for more than one Latin section.

Beginners’ Latin, open to pupils who have not yet completed five terms of Latin (an individual, a pair, or a group of three candidates): Cambridge Latin Course Book 1, Stage 12, “finis”.

Beginners’ Greek, open to pupils who have not yet completed five terms of Greek (an individual, a pair, or a group of three candidates): Babrius, Fable 122, “Doctor Wolf”.

Pre-GCSE Latin, open to one pupil who has not yet taken Latin GCSE: Virgil, Aeneid 2.776-789.

Greek dialogue, open to an individual or a pair of candidates at any stage: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 931-947 and 958-960.

Open Latin, open to one candidate at any stage: Catullus, Poem 8.

Greek chorus, open to a group of six to ten pupils at any stage: Euripides, Hippolytus 525-554.

Please send entries via the application form, with the fee of £30 per school, by Wednesday 9 February. We will need the names of candidates by Wednesday 23 February.

Please note: copies of the passages marked with macrons, and the scansion of the chorus, are included with this invitation, along with unmarked copies. The macrons and scansion will not be included in the copies from which the candidates will read at the competition.

Booking Form | Passages for 2022 (with macrons)
Passages for 2022 (without macrons) | Scansion for Chorus

Please send replies by email or post to:

Mr Joseph Ireland,
Teacher of Classics
Westminster School,
17 Dean’s Yard,
London SW1P 3PF.
email: joseph.ireland@westminster.org.uk

‘Recent discoveries in Pompeii’
2022-03-02 19:00 - 20:00
It is our aim that all talks will be held at Badminton School, Peace Memorial Hall. Talks will not be recorded or live streamed. Please email Barbara Bell (bmbellmini@aol.com) to register. There are no tickets, and talks are free for Bristol Classical Association members, students, and school pupils. There will be a cost of £5 for visitors. Refreshments available from 6.30pm.

Wednesday 2nd March, 7pm – Dr Shelley Hales (Bristol)

‘Recent discoveries in Pompeii’

After years of poor publicity and accusations of mismanagement and neglect aimed at the superintendency at Pompeii, the new excavations in the city have generated enormous public interest, positive headlines, and several internet memes! The combination of the excitement of discovery, the promise of new technologies to aid excavation and analysis and the novelty of finds fresh from the ground has proved enchanting to the point that this has been seen as Pompeii’s ‘Renaissance’. This talk is an opportunity to take a closer look at the buildings, objects, decoration, and human remains found in Regio V but also to ask whether these excavations are really so different from those of previous generations and what the longer-term consequences might be.

The Great Gatsby' and 'The Dinner of Trimalchio': Decadence in New York and Ancient Rome, Dr Emily Pillinger
2022-03-03 15:00 - 16:00
Key Stage 5 English and Classics KCL Talk – ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Dinner of Trimalchio’: Decadence in New York and Ancient Rome, Dr Emily Pillinger – Thursday 3rd March, 3-4pm online

Topic: ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Dinner of Trimalchio’: Decadence in New York and Ancient Rome. This talk shows how one of the greatest loved American novels of the twentieth century emerged from Fitzgerald’s reading of a much less well-known ancient Roman novel by Petronius. It explores how both novels speak to the inequality, corruption, and cynicism of their contemporary worlds, and in the process demonstrates to students that the combined study of English and Classics is a rich and valuable degree focus. There is no need for students to know anything of either works before the talk, though they may like to read ’The Great Gatsby’ in advance, or watch the film (dir. B. Luhrmann, 2013). For more information and to reserve your place, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/252095383077

ARLT Latin Refresher Day 2022
2022-03-05 | Loughborough Grammar School, 3 Burton Walks, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2DU, United Kingdom
5th March at Loughborough Grammar School.

Director: Ana Henderson

Venue: Loughborough Grammar School, Burton Walks, Loughborough LE11 2DU (directions)

Further Information and to Book

Programme

09.30 Registration and refreshments

10.00 – 10:45 Introduction followed by Dr Claire Holleran of Exeter University on ‘The Pompeian myth?’

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15 Option Groups A

12:15 – 13:15 Option Groups B

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Emeritus Professor Stephen Hodkinson of Nottingham University on ‘New Approaches to Classical Sparta’

14:45 – 15:45 Option Groups C

15:45 Refreshments followed by Departure

16:00 ARLT Committee Meeting

The Hellenic Book Service will be displaying their collection throughout the day.

The cost of the day is £40 (Option Group leaders £20) including refreshments and lunch. Payment arrangements are imminent!

Programme in pdf format

Option Groups

Group A
Group B
Group C

Laura Beech: Suburani
Alison Henshaw: Minimus/Maximum Classics
Rachel Plummer and Ana Martin: Spoken Latin

Dr Mireya Rodriguez Gonzalez: A Level CC World of the Hero
Liz Scott: brush up your Latin language (beginners)
Jess Dixon: A Level Latin Cicero Pro Cluentio

Phil Harper: Minecraft and the Metaverse in the Classics Classroom
Joanna Johnson: A Level CC Greek Art
Lauren Bright: Eduqas GCSE Paper 3: Alycone and Ceyx

Peter Geall: Teaching Classics in semi-retirement
Helen Lowe: Eduqas GCSE Superstition and Magic
Hilary Walters: Refreshing the ARLT songbook

Rebecca Jones: A level Greek set texts (15 mark questions)

de Romanis Teachers' Event (8th March)
2022-03-08 16:30 - 17:30
Their next event is on Tuesday 8th March at 4.45PM. It will be focused on teaching the grammatical content in de Romanis. It’s a chance for teachers to ask the author team their questions and find out more about the course.

The eventbrite page for the event is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/de-romanis-teaching-webinar-tickets-271087529097

de Romanis also has a newsletter teachers can sign up to! Link to sign up: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/newsletters/de-romanis-newsletter/

CLC/Amaranthus/Suburani Training Day
2022-03-11
From David Stephenson…

Dear All,

On Friday 11th March Warwick School is hosting a day’s training on i) developments with the CLC, ii) CSCP’s Amarantus project and iii) Suburani with special focus on book 2. (These will be presented by Caroline Bristow, Caroline Musgrove and Will Griffifths respectively). The Hellenic Bookservice will also be present.

The provisional schedule is:

9.30am – arrival, refreshments
10.00am – Amarantus
11.30am – Break / Hellenic
12.00pm – CLC
13.00pm – Lunch / Hellenic
13.45pm – Suburani with special focus on bk 2
15.45pm – finish / time for any further questions

If you are interested in attending, please email me on d.stephenson@warwickschool.org letting me know whether you wish to come all day or just for the morning or afternoon. There is no charge except possibly a nominal contribution to the buffet lunch (c. £10 per person but exact amount depending on who comes) if I cannot persuade Warwick to foot that. (I’m not kidding when I say our kitchens are really rather good at catering for events like this.)

Best wishes,

David.

Classical Association Teaching Board CPD event: ‘Post-Lockdown Civilisations: Classical Civilisation back in the classroom’
2022-03-12 11:00 - 14:30
March 12, 2022 11:00 am – 2:30 pm
Lessons from lockdown: reflecting on the teaching of Classical Civilisation at GCSE and A-Level, both in the classroom and online.
About this event
The Classical Association Teaching Board presents a free online event which offers teachers the opportunity to reflect on and share best practice of the teaching of Classical Civilisation at GCSE and A-Level, both in the classroom and online.
Participants will be given links to pre-recorded materials and will then be invited to join two sessions where the contributors, led by Rob Hancock-Jones, will facilitate the sharing of teaching strategies and resources, and answer any questions on their respective topics. Participants will be encouraged to share their teaching resources, which will then be made available to all who attend at the end of the day.
The event will also include an opportunity for teachers to engage with the Classical Association’s qualifications review, following the joint CA/CfA survey undertaken at the end of the 2021. The CA’s Education Co-ordinator, Gráinne Cassidy, will talk broadly on the aims of the review and the outcomes of the survey, before providing teachers with the chance to suggest practical ideas for change to the GCSE and A-Level specifications. Participants will also be able to register their interest in being part of the review long-term.
The day will be led by practising teachers, but will be relevant both to experienced practitioners, and those new to teaching Classical Civilisation.
Further information, and FREE registration via Eventbrite, is available via this link.

Classics Lecture Day - Sappho and Tacitus - MMXXII - 15th March, 1:45pm
2022-03-15 13:00 - 16:00 | St Olave’s School, Goddington Lane, Orpington, BR6 9SH, United Kingdom
Drs. Sonya Nevin and Christopher Burden-Strevens

Saint Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington, BR6 9SH – Ides of March 2022

Please join us for talks by Drs. Nevin (University of Cambridge) and Burden-Strevens (University of Kent).

Sappho, Fr.44, Animations and Ancient Music

Tacitus on Tiberius and Sejanus: Painting a Portrait Through Rhetoric

Please contact acarroll@saintolaves.net for more information.

Talk on The Julio-Claudian Period Study by Dr James Corke-Webster
2022-03-16 15:00 - 16:00
A Level Ancient History – Talk on The Julio-Claudian Period Study by Dr James Corke-Webster – Wednesday 16th March, 3-4pm online

Topic: The 30-minute talk will address the Ancient History A level compulsory period study ‘ The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 31 BC–AD 68’ with a particular focus on the Res Gestae as a source for Augustus. For more information and to reserve your place, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/251844653137

Oxbridge Classics Open Day
2022-03-21
The 2022 Oxbridge Classics Open Day is a chance to find out more about applying to study Classics at Oxford and Cambridge

About this event

The 2022 Oxbridge Classics Open Day is a chance to find out more about applying to study Classics at Oxford and Cambridge, with course presentations, taster lectures, and opportunities to ask questions to current students and academics. Options to attend in person and online are available.

The programme will include a range of activities including; introductory talks, taster lectures, sessions covering Classics and joint school courses, common questions about the application process, and a teachers’ forum. The aims of the day are to help young people make informed decisions about their university choices, encourage them to consider Classics as an exciting degree pathway, and to help them develop their interest in, and understanding of, the ancient world.

These open days are aimed at all students (UK and abroad) interested in pursuing a Classics degree. They offer the chance to find out more about Classical subjects in general, but also the specific degree programmes offered by Oxford and Cambridge in particular.

For further information and to register, click here!

British School at Athens Virtual Course for School Teachers
2022-03-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-29 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-31 17:00
https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/school-teachers-course/

2022 Virtual Course for School Teachers

The British School at Athens is delighted to invite UK school teachers to attend a free virtual CPD course, focusing on the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation module ‘Myth and Religion‘. Participants will follow a series of four virtual lectures, introducing the main themes of the module and providing new case studies beyond the GCSE syllabus. By the end of the course, participants will have a sound working knowledge of myth and religion in Classical Athens, helping them to teach this material to students with confidence.

Teachers can participate in this course via ‘Zoom’, for which registration links will be available c. one month before the course.

‘Festivals: The City Dionysia and the Great Panathenaia’
– Prof. Robin Osborne (Professor of Ancient History, Cambridge / Vice-Chair, BSA)
Tuesday 22nd March, 5:00pm

‘Religion and the City: Temples’
– Dr Tulsi Parikh (A.G. Leventis Fellow in Hellenic Studies, BSA)
Thursday 24th March, 5:00pm

‘Death and burial’
– Dr Michael Loy (Assistant Director, BSA)
Tuesday 29th March, 5:00pm

‘Visualising myth and religion in art: digital teaching tools and public engagement’
– Ms Zofia Guertin (St Andrews Unviersity / Artist Award Holder 2020-2021, BSA)
Thursday 31st March, 5:00pm

Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association: Texts and Topics Conference
2022-03-23 12:00 - 15:30 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham's annual Sixth Form Classics and Ancient History Conference
2022-03-23 13:00 - 15:30
From the Dept at Birmingham…

I am delighted to announce that Birmingham’s annual Sixth Form Classics and Ancient History Conference is returning for 2022! Please see the provisional programme for this half-day event, which will take place in person on the University campus.

Date: Wednesday 23rd March 2022

Time: From 13:00-15:15

Venue: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, B15 2TT (exact location tbc)

This event is free for all state school students. There is a charge of £10 per students from independent schools.

There will be an Eventbrite circulated in the new year for registration. For now – get this date in the diary, and we look forward to seeing as many of you and your students as possible in March!

Any questions, please contact Polly Stoker: p.stoker@bham.ac.uk

Talk on The Julio-Claudian Period Study by Prof Dominic Rathbone
2022-03-23 15:00 - 16:00
A Level Ancient History – Talk on The Julio-Claudian Period Study by Prof Dominic Rathbone – Wednesday 23rd March, 3-4pm online

Topic: ‘Nero and the Agrippina murder mystery’. The 30-minute talk will address the Ancient History A level compulsory period study ‘ The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 31 BC–AD 68’ with a particular focus on our sources on Nero’s reign and the death of Agrippina. For more information and to reserve your place, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/252056366377.

Medea, King's Company, Ely
2022-03-24 - 2022-03-26 | The King’s School, Ely, The Old Palace, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4EW, United Kingdom
King’s Company (from the King’s School, Ely) are performing Euripides’ Medea (a translation by Nicholas Rudall), 24th – 26th March (including a matinee on the Saturday afternoon). Tickets are free for non-independent schools or offered at a reduced rate for independent schools (£15 for 10 students with any more at an additional £1.50). If you would like to bring students, please contact mollyarmstrong@kingsely.org or contact me directly on elisabethtyrrell@kingsely.org

Alternatively, tickets can be booked online at www.kingsely.org/boxoffice

International CICERO Competition 2022
2022-03-26 - 2022-04-01
After a two year hiatus owing to Covid, the 2022 UK round of the International Cicero Competition will be taking place again this year. In view of the continuing restrictions and challenges faced by schools, the competition will now take place online rather than in individual centres, but as before it will consist of three parts (a team and an individual quiz on a classical civilisation topic) and a Latin translation test. Schools will be able to complete the three tests in their own time in the week between 26 March and 1 April. The theme for this year’s competition will be the nature deities, from the pantheon through to strictly localised gods and goddesses.

The entry fee for this year’s competition will be £7.50 for each school. The entry fee will help to fund prizes for the winning teams.

For further details of the competition, and to enter, please contact the UK organiser, Ian Tompkins, ian.tompkins@ellesmere.com.

The LSA CA Classics Competition
2022-03-26 14:00 - 15:00
The 2022 LSA CA Classics Competition is open to all students aged 11-18!

FURTHER DETAILS and GUIDELINES

The date of the Grand Final is the 26th March at 2pm at AKS Lytham!

ELCSS Easter Revision Days for Year 11 Latin Pupils
2022-04-04 - 2022-04-05
The East London Classics Summer School will be running Easter Revision Days for current Year 11 students, on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th April, who will choose which day they’d like to attend.

The same programme will run for the two days and students can state their preferred date on the booking form.

Brochure | Booking Form (Word) | Booking Form (pdf)

Classics Between the Wars with Dr Daisy Dunn
2022-04-12 18:00 - 20:00
Classics Between the Wars with Dr Daisy Dunn

Tuesday 12 April | 18:00 BST

Coinciding with the publication of her new book, Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars, Dr Daisy Dunn joins Professor Paul Cartledge to discuss the place of classics in the early twentieth century, from the performance of new translations of Euripides by Gilbert Murray, to the subversion of ancient history by the Nazis. What role did the classical past play in contemporary culture between the two world wars? And why did it become part of the national conversation?

Hosted via Zoom Webinar by Professor Paul Cartledge, this illuminating talk will uncover how classics became a unifying language for Oxford classics scholars like Maurice Bowra, E. R. Dodds and Gilbert Murray.

Tickets are £10 standard and £5 concession*. You may also to choose to give an additional donation toward Classics for All’s work supporting classics in state schools.

Buy tickets here

*Concessionary tickets are available to anyone who is a pensioner, unemployed or still in full-time education.

Free tickets are available to teachers, pupils, alumni and regional network personnel working with Classics for All’s schools programme. If you are in one of these groups, please email events@classicsforall.org.uk to apply.

This event will be held via Zoom. After you have purchased your ticket(s), you will receive an email inviting you to sign up to the Zoom Webinar. You must register your name and email address with Zoom in order to receive your link to watch this event. Please save this link as you will need it to access the webinar on the day.

Please note: Anyone who buys a ticket but is unable to attend on the night will be sent the link to the recording the following day.

Dr Daisy Dunn:

Dr Daisy Dunn is an award-winning author and classicist. Her first books, Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet and The Poems of Catullus: A New Translation, were published in 2016. Her dual biography, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, was an Editors’ Choice in the New York Times in 2019. Her other books include Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome and the Ladybird Expert book on Homer. She is editor of ARGO: A Hellenic Review.

Professor Paul Cartledge:

Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College and A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus at Cambridge University. He is an honorary citizen of modern Sparta, and President of the Hellenic Society (UK). He’s the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of some 30 books, most recently Democracy: A Life and Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact events@classicsforall.org.uk.
