Roedean School will host the Sussex Classical Reading Competition for 2014 on Tuesday 4 March at 5pm. Please contact me via school () 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
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 … Continue reading "Medea, at the Riverside Studios"
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 … Continue reading "Dr Rosie Wyles to speak on Euripides’s Medea"
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 … Continue reading "London Greek and Latin Reading Competition"
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 … Continue reading "Latin Love Poetry Lecture – King’s College Taunton. Thurs 6th March"
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 … Continue reading "THE BMCA Texts and Topics Conference: 8th March"
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 … Continue reading "Euripides’ Medea & Greek Tragedy – a talk by Professor Paul Cartledge"
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 … Continue reading "CICERO Concordia Competition 2014"
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 … Continue reading "Classics Inspiration Day for Years 10 and 11 at St Swithun’s School, Winchester"
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 … Continue reading "Ancient World Study Day- University of Reading"
