The Oxbridge Classics Open Day will be taking place in Oxford this year on Friday 20th of March 2015. The day is organised between Oxford and Cambridge universities aimed at all students (UK and abroad) interested in pursuing a Classics degree at either university. For the 2015 programme and booking details please visit our website. … Continue reading "Oxbridge Classics Open Day – Friday 20th of March 2015"
E-mail your closest CICERO centre: Andy Keen (Bristol Grammar School) Wendy Smith (Henrietta Barnett School, London) Declan Lawell (Blue Coat School, Liverpool) Duncan Carnegie (George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh)
On Monday 23 March 2015, Pocklington School, York will be hosting a revision day for pupils studying the OCR GCSE Classical Greek Short Course (J091). There will be taught sessions on Unit B401 Greek Language 1 (mythology and domestic life); and on Unit B404 Greek Verse Literature (Homer: Odyssey XXI). Times will be from 09.30 - … Continue reading "GCSE Classical Greek Revision Day"
On Monday 23rd March at 4.30 pm, Mr Nicholas Denyer will be speaking on: ‘The Origins of Justice’ Why be just? Why be nice to other people? One obvious answer is that you will be punished if you aren't. But the obvious answer raises new questions. For example, why be nice if you won't get caught? The … Continue reading "Nicholas Denyer to speak on ‘The Origins of Justice’"
Monday 23 March at 5pm The talk on 'Aeneas the Villain' begins by acknowledging that Aeneas is a hero, but tries to bring out the way in which Virgil has written his epic so that an attentive reader is enabled and at some points compelled to see the poem’s protagonist as socially inept, emotionally stunted, morally questionable, deceitful, … Continue reading "Dr Stephen Heyworth will be giving a talk on ‘Aeneas the Villain’ at Sherborne Girls, Dorset, Monday 23 March"
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. This free event, on Tuesday 24th March, consists of a day of lectures delivered by academic staff and doctoral researchers, which look at the AS and A2 Latin and Greek set … Continue reading "Ancient World Study Day 2015, University of Reading."
Following in the steps of Medea, Electra, and Antigone in recent years, the classical students of St Paul’s Girls’ School are mounting a production of Euripides’s Hecuba in Greek, for one night only. The performance, which is abridged but fully staged, with surtitles, will take place at 6.00 pm on Wednesday 25th March in the Singing Hall. It will last … Continue reading "Hecuba in Greek at St Paul’s Girls’ School"
On Monday 11th May, the East Oxford Community Classics Centre is delighted to be hosting Historical Interpretations Group Comitatus, who will be running all day workshops introducing students to the Romans through a range of artefacts. The sessions will include daily Roman life and life in the Roman Army, and will involve handling sessions and activities. Between 3.45 … Continue reading "Roman Life Artefact Workshop, 11th May, at EOCCC"
This is a 7 week course by Lisa Eberle Mondays, 6 - 7pm - starting April 20th at the East Oxford Community Classics Centre What is the best way to live? What obligations towards other human beings does it entail? And how should answers to these questions inform how we act every day? These are the questions that … Continue reading "Reading Ancient Philosophy: Cicero – evening class"
Prof. Leigh talks on 'Military ethics in Aeneid IX' at St Edward's School Lyne Society Tues 21st April, 7-8pm in the Old Library Please contact if you'd like to bring GCSE or 6th form students.
