How to Build a Heroine Community talk by Dr Gail Trimble (Oxford) 27 February at 6 - 7pm at the East Oxford Community Classics Centre Greek and Roman literature is full of heroic women who have been badly treated by men, and who take the stage to complain about and try to improve the circumstances … Continue reading "Community talk: How to Build a Heroine"
How to Build a Heroine An evening talk by Dr Gail Trimble (Oxford) 27 February at 6 - 7pm at the East Oxford Community Classics Centre (www.eoccc.org.uk) Greek and Roman literature is full of heroic women who have been badly treated by men, and who take the stage to complain about and try to improve … Continue reading "How to Build a Heroine: Evening talk at the EOCCC"
Roedean School is hosting the annual Sussex Classical Reading Competition on Tuesday 3 March this year. Please do consider bringing some pupils along to this vibrant event. Over 100 pupils took part last year, aged from 10-18, reading both Latin and Greek to a very high standard. Even if you have just started teaching Minimus, … Continue reading "Sussex Classical Reading Competition 3 March 5 – 7 pm at Roedean School"
This annual competition is taking place in March 2015. There are several sections varying in language, style and level. For more information click here. For the passages click here. For guidance on the competition click here.
At Fettes College Edinburgh, the Classics Society will be holding its second lecture of the new academic year. Dr Peter Morton will be giving a lecture on Augustus’ conquests and how they were depicted in Rome on Thursday 5th March 2015 from 19.30 to 20.30. It should be relevant and interesting to anyone studying the Augustus … Continue reading "Augustus Lecture at Fettes College, Edinburgh"
Classics – the study of ancient Greece and Rome, of Latin and Greek, and of the tremendously rich ‘afterlife’ of the ancient world in Western History and Culture – is for everyone! We want to share our enthusiasm in a new initiative addressed to teachers and pupils in Key Stages 3–5: come visit us at … Continue reading "Come, See, Be Inspired: Experience Classics at Cambridge"
Classical Association GCSE Latin and Greek Conference & Essay Prize Westminster School Friday, 6th March 2015 9.30am -12.40pm This conference offers pupils in years 10 and 11 the chance to attend a series of appropriately pitched lectures on their Latin and Greek set texts and on topics of wider interest. The Hellenic Bookservice will be … Continue reading "Classical Association GCSE Latin and Greek Conference & Essay Prize, Westminster School"
ARLT Refresher Day, the INSET by Teachers for Teachers Saturday 7th March 2015, 10.00am - 4.00pm At The Grammar School at Leeds, Harrogate Road, Leeds LS17 8GS Dr Danielle Frisby, University of Manchester, on animals in epic Professor Malcolm Heath, University of Leeds, on Sophocles’ Antigone 3 Option sessions, wide range of teaching topics … Continue reading "ARLT Refresher Day 7th March 2015"
Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association Texts and Topics Conference, Saturday 7 March 2015, 9.30am-1.15pm Arts Building, University of Birmingham Bookings are now being taken for our annual Texts and Topics Conference. The Conference is open to all sixth formers who are studying Latin and/or Classical Civilisation at AS and A2 Level. Sessions will be held … Continue reading "BMCA Texts and Topics Conference, Saturday 7 March 2015"
The poet Ovid tells the stories of Actaeon, Narcissus and Echo, and others from Metamorphoses Book 3. A two-day course Sat 7th & Sun 8th March 2015. From The Latin Qvarter. www.lingua.co.uk/latin
