Tuesday 24th September, 7pm – Professor Esther Eidinow ‘Curses! Or How to “Nail Down” Your Enemy the Ancient Greek Way’ This talk will tell you everything you would need to know if you were an ancient Greek who wanted to curse your enemy – from the question of which gods to invoke, to the correct … Continue reading "‘Curses! Or How to “Nail Down” Your Enemy the Ancient Greek Way’"
The Guildford Classical Association is pleased to welcome Emeritus Professor Chris Carey (UCL) to our Opening Party. He will be speaking on ‘Thermopylae Revisited’. Where: Royal Grammar School (RGS), High Street, Guildford, GU1 3BB. The talk is upstairs in the old, white building opposite the main RGS building. When: Tuesday 24th September. Refreshments 7.30pm, talk … Continue reading "Thermopylae Revisited"
The Classical Association Teaching Board would like to invite teachers to a CPD day at The University of Manchester on Saturday 28th September 2019. The day will primarily focus on Latin A-level with some sessions on GCSE and on Greek. The day will include a range of optional sessions, on the teaching of language and … Continue reading "CA Latin and Greek CPD Day"
The Classical Association Teaching Board Latin and Greek CPD Day 2019 Saturday 28th September at Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL The Classical Association Teaching Board would like to invite teachers to a CPD day at The University of Manchester on Saturday 28th September 2019. The day will primarily focus on Latin A-level (language and literature), … Continue reading "Latin and Greek CPD Day 2019"
The Grand Classics Quiz Saturday 28th September, 9.30 am, King's College London. Tickets £15 each, including light refreshments. In response to popular demand, we are delighted that Latin and Ancient Greek teacher and classicist Isabel Raphael will host an entertaining and informal classics-themed quiz at King's College.
What was Roman marriage like? Wednesday 2nd October, 6.30pm King's College London. Tickets £16 each, including light refreshments. This year's Friends of Classics memorial lecture will be delivered by Gregory Hutchinson, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.
FREE Classics for All CPD: A Level Classical Civilisation, World of the Hero Thursday 3rd October 2019, 1:00-6:00pm Wimbledon High School (GDST), Mansel Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4AB Classics for All and Wimbledon High School would like to invite you to a FREE afternoon training session on the World of the Hero component of the Classical … Continue reading "CPD: A Level Classical Civilisation, World of the Hero"
Thursday 3 October, 6.30pm Hurstpierpoint College (New Bury Theatre) Fast-paced, funny, daring and delightful, UNMYTHABLE is a whistle-stop tour through the greatest Greek myths ever told. Join the young hero Jason on board the Argo as he sets off on his biggest mission yet - the quest for the Golden Fleece. Along the way there … Continue reading "‘Unmythable’ at Hurstpierpoint College"
The Guildford Classical Association is presenting the Latin Qvarter's adaptation of Virgil’s classic and ever more timely story of a refugee leading his people from the east, performed in Latin and English. The Song of Arms and a Man presents Aeneas’ struggle to fulfil his destiny as founder of Rome – from his escape from … Continue reading "The Song of Arms and a Man"
Blind, broken and ravaged by years of weary exile, Oedipus comes upon the sacred grove of Colonus, the place the gods have prophesied that he will die. Realising that he has only hours to live, Oedipus seeks the protection of Theseus, King of Athens, for he knows he is about to be betrayed by those … Continue reading "The Cambridge Greek Play: Oedipus at Colonus"
