Honour Among Thebes Natalie Haynes Author, Journalist and Broadcaster Thursday 20th April 7pm Lytham St Annes Classical Association Enjoy all our 2016-17 lectures for just £12 a year (students £5)! Email: for further details or send cheques payable to LSA Classical Association to The Treasurer, LSA CA, 34 Myra Road, Lytham St Annes, … Continue reading "Honour Among Thebes"
George Sharpley's Latin for Beginners is coming to cathedrals and Roman sites in the spring of 2017: Saturday 28th Jan - Roman Baths Saturday 25th Feb - Gloucester Cathedral Saturday 4th March - Roman Baths Saturday 25th March - St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire Saturday 22nd April - Fishbourne Roman Palace, Sussex Saturday 29th April - … Continue reading "Latin for Beginners, with THE LATIN QVARTER"
Re-scheduled from last term: On Wednesday 26th April at 4.30 pm, Dr Tom Mackenzie will be speaking on: ‘The First Philosophers? An Introduction to the Presocratics’ Histories of Western philosophy tend to start with the archaic Greek thinkers known as the Presocratics. Yet their theories (as far as we can reconstruct them from the few surviving fragments … Continue reading "An Introduction to the Presocratics (re-scheduled)"
George Sharpley's Latin for Beginners is coming to cathedrals and Roman sites in the spring of 2017: Saturday 28th Jan - Roman Baths Saturday 25th Feb - Gloucester Cathedral Saturday 4th March - Roman Baths Saturday 25th March - St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire Saturday 22nd April - Fishbourne Roman Palace, Sussex Saturday 29th April - … Continue reading "Latin for Beginners, with THE LATIN QVARTER"
**Classical Association Teaching Board INSET day (II) on A-level Classical Civilisation (Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, 10 am - 4pm, Wednesday 24th May)** In addition to the Manchester INSET day on 18th February, the Classical Association Teaching Board is pleased to announce a further, London-based, INSET day aimed in support of teachers of … Continue reading "Classical Association Teaching Board INSET day (II) on A-level Classical Civilisation"
From University College, Oxford... Ancient Civilisations Day - Thursday 15 June 2017 If you love all things ancient then this study day is for you. Univ is hosting a full day of lectures and classes featuring subjects like Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology. This is an excellent chance to explore your subject interest further and … Continue reading "Ancient Civilisations Day at University College, Oxford"
Classics Lecture, 6-7 p.m., Monday 19th June 2017 St Benedict's School, 54 Eaton Rise, Ealing, London W5 2ES 'From diabetes to haemorrhoids' - ancient Greek medical language & practice Dr Peter Jones MBE Much of the terminology of modern medicine derives from ancient Greek, often via the Latin into which Roman doctors converted it, e.g. … Continue reading "‘From diabetes to haemorrhoids’ – ancient Greek medical language & practice, a talk by Peter Jones"
'Expanding the Classics’: A Workshop for School Teachers 2017 Tuesday, 20 June 2017 from 13:45 to 17:30 (BST) Join us for the Department of Classics’ annual teacher’s workshop, this year on the topic of ‘Expanding the Classics’. Aimed at teachers of classical subjects across secondary and further education, this one day event consists of sample … Continue reading "‘Expanding the Classics’: A Workshop for School Teachers 2017"
See www.readingancientschoolroom.com for a unique opportunity to participate in an authentic re-enactment of an ancient Roman school, not only learning how to use papyri, wax tablets, and ostraca but also looking and acting like a Roman child while doing the school exercises that ancient children did. (Usually in English, but Latin is also available.) Various … Continue reading "Reading Ancient Schoolroom"
30th June: deadline for schools’ competition (http://swwclassicalassociation.weebly.com/schools-competition.html)
