Events

A one-day course for complete beginners, Sat 22nd November. An introduction to the language, its history, and influence on English. More details: http://www.lingua.co.uk/latin/classes

On Monday 24th November at 4.30 pm.  Dr Gail Trimble will be speaking on: How we got our classical texts This talk tells the story of how classical texts got from their authors to us, how much got lost and broken on the way, and what we can do today to attempt to restore and fix … Continue reading "Gail Trimble to speak on ‘How We Got Our Classical Texts’"

I would like to invite everyone to two events that the Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association are holding in the coming months. Our first event is a Christmas Social, to be held at the University of Birmingham, on Wednesday 3 December 2014 at 6pm. Professor Simon Esmonde Cleary will be speaking about recent discoveries at Chedworth Roman … Continue reading "Recent Discoveries at Chedworth Roman Villa"

From persecution to domination: Christians in the Roman empire: A lecture presented by Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe Now one of the largest religions on the planet, Christianity provided a central focus for many across the world, but was it always this way? Dr Lunn-Rockliffe will explore the development of Christianity from its origin to domination. All … Continue reading "From persecution to domination: Christians in the Roman empire: A lecture presented by Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe"

Stephen Chambers will be talking on Ovid's Dido at Colfe's School, SE12 at 4.15pm on Thursday 4th December. All welcome, but please contact if you are planning to attend.

GUILDFORD CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION GCSE LATIN CONFERENCE Thursday 12th March 2015 9:45 – 12:30 At Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Guildford.  GU1 3RR Lecture 1: Mr Melvin Cooley, Warwick School.  ‘Unlike uncle unlike nephew – the two Plinii’ Lecture 2: Dr Ingo Gildenhard, King’s College Cambridge.  ‘Virgil, Aeneid 9: Death, Lineage and the Powers of Fiction’ … Continue reading "GUILDFORD CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION GCSE LATIN CONFERENCE"

On Wednesday 21 January at 4.30 pm, Dr Stephen Heyworth will be speaking on: 'The Metamorphoses as an Epic of Change’ Dr Heyworth is Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Wadham College, Oxford. He will be focusing his talk on Book 3 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, the AS level verse set text this year. The talk is hosted … Continue reading "Stephen Heyworth to speak on Ovid’s Metamorphoses"