This year's Greek play from UCL is Aristophanes' Clouds. The show will run from 11th to 13th February (2:30pm and 7:30; no matinee on the 11th), and rehearsals are under way! For updates on all of this, and ultimately how to book, check out the blog of the show: http://uclgreekplay.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/back-into-swing-of-things-poster.html
The KCL Greek Play 2014 will be Aristophanes' Wasps, directed by Rosa Wicks. Dr Rosie Wyles will be Executive Director. Further details will follow on this page. Performance dates Wednesday 12 February 2014: 14.30, 19.00 Thursday 13 February 2014: 19.00 Friday 14 February 2014: 14.30, 19.00 Guest Lecture A pre-show talk by Rosie Wyles will be given … Continue reading "KCL Greek Play 2014: Aristophanes’ ‘Wasps’"
On Thursday 13th February at 4:15pm Professor Robin Osborne will be speaking on the 'Art & Architecture of the Athenian Acropolis' at Highgate School, N6 4AY. This is the third Douglas MacDowell Memorial Lecture, which is annual event. All are very welcome indeed and it should prove particularly useful for those pupils studying Architecture and … Continue reading "ART & ARCHITECTURE OF THE ACROPOLIS – a talk by Professor Robin Osborne"
Friday 21 February 2014 Hosted by Balliol College in liaison with the Oxford University Classics Faculty The event is aimed at Year 10 and Year 11 students who are interested in understanding more about the study of Classics at university. No prior knowledge of any classical subject or language is required, just general enthusiasm and … Continue reading "Classics Taster Day, Balliol College, Oxford"
British Museum Saturday 22 February 2014, 10.00 & 14.00 Stevenson Lecture Theatre £15, Members/concessions £12 Visit the British Museum site for news about the event! In these workshops for adults, Peter Jones, Director of the Reading Greek series, author of Learn Ancient Greek, co-founder of Friends of Classics and columnist for The Spectator, will introduce … Continue reading "Alpha to Omega: Ancient Greek from Scratch (with Peter Jones)"
Please join us for our next event when Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King's College London) will be speaking on: The Devil and his Works in Late Antiquity Date: Monday 24 February Time: 6pm (doors open at 5.45) Place: Duchesne Building, 001 (University of Roehampton) Maps and travel directions can be found at: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Contact-Us/ All welcome: standard … Continue reading "Roehampton and SW London CA Branch Event. Monday 24 February"
Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment 28th of February 2014 4pm Anatomy Museum, King’s College London The performance spaces of fifth-century Athenian drama were in many respects radically different from anything we encounter in the modern era. Theatres were not so much buildings as landscape architecture. They were embedded in the natural landscape and offered their … Continue reading "‘Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment’, a Public Workshop"
Roedean School will host the Sussex Classical Reading Competition for 2014 on Tuesday 4 March at 5pm. Please contact me via school () or the Classics Library if you are interested and I'll send you the details of the passages chosen for this year. Thanks, Becky Miller
For most of March, the Theatre Lab Company is bringing us Medea. Quoting their site... Medea By Euripides Directed by Anastasia Revi Medea is the story of a woman, a gypsy princess, a gifted sorceress who follows her heart to the prosperous West to be with Jason, a charming but ambitious Western aristocrat. He betrays … Continue reading "Medea, at the Riverside Studios"
On Wednesday 5th March at 4.30 pm, Dr Rosie Wyles will be speaking on: ‘Dramatising Ordered Chaos in Euripides's Medea’ Dr Wyles will explore how Euripides develops themes of both chaos and order in Medea through his use of staging in the play. Please note that pupils at St Paul's Girls' School will be performing an abridged version of Medea in Greek on Wednesday 2nd April … Continue reading "Dr Rosie Wyles to speak on Euripides’s Medea"
