Events

The Faculty of Classics would like to provide a fantastic opportunity for Year 12 students to research, write, present and film short documentaries about ancient artefacts in the Ashmolean Museum. This one-day course, which will take place on Tuesday 29th of October, is absolutely FREE for students. Students will also be given the opportunity to … Continue reading "Oxford Classics Documentary Shorts"

The Festival is back again on 2nd November 2013, with another long list of top names in Classics and classical authorship. Get your tickets fast! All the latest information is on the Heffers Classics website. Speakers and their topics include... Fact Festival Mary Beard – Talk TBC Paul Cartledge – The Oath of Plataea David … Continue reading "The Heffers Classics Festival 2013"

Karl Sydow in association with Natural Perspective, Supporting Wall and Southwark Playhouse presents the world premiere of Our Ajax by Timberlake Wertenbaker 6 November - 30 November 2013 Show Starts 8pm Matinee Starts 3.30pm Price £10 previews | £16 | £14 (conc) Quoting the site... Starring Olivier Award-winner Joe Dixon (The Orphan of Zhao, RSC; The Mummy Returns), … Continue reading "‘Our Ajax’ | World Premiere | Southwark Playhouse"

The LATIN QVARTER continues to offer courses in Latin and Greek to beginners, the more advanced, and specialists.   New Testament Greek course Gloucester Cathedral Two-day course: Sat 9th - Sun 10th November 2013, 10.00-17.00 Details and enrolment: http://ancientgreekinbristol.com/hellenistic.html  

Please find below the programme for this year’s EMACT 6th Form Classics Conference to be held at the University of Leicester on Thursday 14th November 2013. The cost is still only £5 per pupil (to include tea, coffee and biscuits!), staff are free; application forms and further details can be obtained by emailing .   … Continue reading "6th Form Classics Day 2013, Thursday 14th November"

On Wednesday 13th November at 4.30 pm, Dr Alfonso Moreno will be speaking on: ‘Do People Need Leaders? The Case of Athens’ Dr Moreno is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History at Magdalen College, Oxford where he specialises in Greek economic and social history. He is author of Feeding the Democracy - The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and … Continue reading "Dr Alfonso Moreno to speak on Cleisthenes and Athens"

Paul Roberts, the Curator of the British Museum who organised the highly successful Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum, is giving a talk at RGS Guildford on Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum at 7.30pm on Thursday 14th November in the school Auditorium. Email Ed Bush (the Head of Classics) on … Continue reading "Schools’ Talk: Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum"

On Friday November 15th The Harrodian School will be hosting its Annual Sixth Form Classics Conference. Dr Felix Budelmann of Magdalen College Oxford will speak on Greek tragedy Dr Rebecca Armstrong of St Hilda’s, Oxford will speak on Ovid’s Amores iii Professor Richard Jenkyns of Lady Margaret Hall Oxford will speak on Homer and Virgil … Continue reading "Harrodian Sixth Form Classics Conference"

Augustus and his bimillennium Making the most of 2014  Saturday 16th November 2013 University of Manchester This INSET day is aimed at established, new and prospective teachers of Ancient History and Classical Civilisation. The event is designed to support those who already teach or would like to teach Augustan topics in the classroom: both historical … Continue reading "JACT/University of Manchester INSET on Augustus in the 2014 Bimillennium"