The Classics Library

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-01-30 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Sheffield High School for Girls, 10 Rutland Park Broomhall, S10 2PE, United Kingdom
Double bill of Greek Myth touring Jan-Mar (suitable for 14yrs+)

Plunge into the wild world of the goddess Artemis. Then meet Kassandra, blessed with the power to see the future, cursed with never being believed

Storytellers: Katy Cawkwell & Lucy Lill More details: www.wildvisions.org

Venues: Dorset Rural Touring, Sheffield, Poole, Cambridge, Richmond (N. Yorks), Newcastle, Bath, Leicester, Liverpool, Leeds, Oxford, Havant, nr Bristol

Sponsored by Elanthy extra-virgin olive oil from Greece

Also schools performances part-funded by the Hellenic Society. Contact katycawkwell@gmail.com for more details

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-02-03 | Lighthouse, 21 Kingland Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1UG, United Kingdom

EMACT Latin and Greek Reading Competition
2024-02-07 14:00 - 17:00 | Loughborough High School, 3 Burton Walks, Loughborough, LE11 2DU, United Kingdom
LATIN AND GREEK READING COMPETITION 2024
Wednesday 7 February 2024, 2.00pm

Loughborough High School, Burton Walks, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 2DU.

CATEGORIES: READING LATIN
Novice Latin -for pupils in their first year of Latin. statue from D. Burnell (1991) Vesuvius and Other Latin Plays.
Junior Latin – KS3 – Cambridge Latin Course Stage 11: Lucius Spurius Pomponianus in villa.
Intermediate Latin – KS4 – Catullus Carmen XIII.
Senior Latin – KS5 – Virgil Aeneid II.201-219.

Further information can be found HERE.

Elgin Marbles: National Treasure or National Disgrace?
2024-02-07 19:00 - 20:00
The new programme is ready!

If you’re not a member of SandB CA and would like to become a member, CLICK HERE.

There are eight events in all across the next academic year…

CSCP Teachers’ Forum (24/2/24)
2024-02-24
CSCP Teachers’ Forum

24th February 2024

The Cambridge School Classics Project’s Annual Conference – now named “The Forum” – returns on Saturday 24th February 2024. CSCP invites the Classics teaching community to be part of the programme by proposing a session to present on the day, or by telling us what topics the event should address.

All the details can be found on the CSCP website here:
https://www.cambridgescp.com/Array/teachers-forum-2024

The closing date for session proposals is 15th October 2023.

If you have any questions or ideas to share, please contact CSCP’s Outreach and Events Coordinator, Caroline Musgrove, at courses@cambridgescp.com.

Key Stage 3 History CPD - ‘Why was ‘rex’ such a dirty word in Ancient Rome?’
2024-02-28 16:00 - 17:00
Key Stage 3 History CPD – ‘Why was ‘rex’ such a dirty word in Ancient Rome?’

Wednesday 28th February 2024, 4–5pm, Online

Delivered by Gem Adams, and organised by Classics for All (contact anna@classicsforall.org.uk if you have any questions)

Gem Adams is a Head of Classics at a state school in Leeds and is also a former Head of History. Gem has created a Key Stage 3 History scheme of work centred on Ancient Rome. The scheme, titled “Why was ‘rex’ such a dirty word in Ancient Rome?” explores Roman attitudes to monarchy using source evidence and the scholarship of Mary Beard.

In this CPD session, Gem will discuss the unit, including introducing students to substantive concepts such as monarchy, tyranny, political authority, and legitimacy. She will explore how we can enhance students’ confidence in reading and engaging with academic scholars, while also developing their disciplinary knowledge of history. This will involve examining causation, consequences, significance, source interpretation, and evidential issues.

Gem will support history teachers in developing their own knowledge of Ancient Rome by exploring the core and hinterland knowledge required for this unit. The unit covers Rome’s foundation, the establishment of the Roman Republic, the assassination of Julius Caesar, and the ascent of Augustus as Rome’s first emperor.

To register for the CPD please complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNIaOLf5VAvpyxwEnfFm2xxGx8MBIuTwqZPptIBeeDbihmAQ/viewform?usp=sf_link by Friday 23rd February. Zoom details for the event will be sent out on Tuesday 27th February.

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-02-29 | The Georgian Theatre Royal, Victoria Road, Richmond, DL10 4DW, United Kingdom

Legion: Teachers’ Private View (British Museum)
2024-02-29 17:00 - 20:00 | British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom
Free

Thursday 29 Feb 2024

https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/legion-teachers-private-view

17.00 – 17.45 Legion: Life in the Roman Army presentation with Richard Abdy, Legion exhibition curator.

Clore Education Centre, BP lecture theatre.

18.00 – 20.00 Exhibition private view including drop-in workshops and talks in the Legion exhibition and exhibition foyer

Join the School and Young Audiences Team for an early evening private view for teachers of the Legion exhibition. Find out about resources available to support a visit with students, chat to members of the Schools’ Team, join a curator talk and develop your personal understanding of this period of history. Free refreshments available on the evening and the Legion exhibition bookshop will be offering a discount. Suitable for primary and secondary school teachers. Trainee teachers are most welcome.

Booking Information:

Phone: +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Free, booking essential.

‘How do you solve a problem like writing a biography of Medea?’
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:00 | AKS, Clifton Drive South, Lytham, Sta Anne's, Lancashire, FY8 1DT, United Kingdom
Professor Edith Hall, Classics Professor, Writer, Lecturer, Broadcaster University of Durham

https://lsaclassics.com/current-programme/

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-01 | The Chillingham Arms, Chillingham Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 5XL, United Kingdom

ARLT Refresher Day 2024
2024-03-02 | Kendrick School, 41-3 London Road, Reading, RG1 5BN, United Kingdom
SAVE THE DATE!

Registration is about to open for our Refresher Day 2024. This year, we will be meeting on Saturday 02/03 in Reading under the direction of Jacob Duncan, and we have a great line-up of workshops as well as Eleanor Dickey, The Hellenic Book Service and Grain Cassidy from the CA in attendance.

You can have a first peak here: https://www.arlt.co.uk/event-posts/refresher-day-2024-kendrick-school-reading/

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-02 | Rondo Theatre, Bath, BA1 6RT, United Kingdom

de Romanis Teachers' Day
2024-03-02 | King Edward’s School Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2UA, United Kingdom
Saturday 2nd March

Download the Flyer!

Programme for the Day

10am Arrivals: Join us for coffee, biscuits and informal discussion

10.20 Introduction to the day
Dom Jones (HoD, King Edward’s School, Birmingham)

0.30-11.15 Discussion Workshop 1: Getting Started
Naomi Bradshaw (Notting Hill and Ealing High School) and Ana Henderson (Loughborough Grammar School) will lead two discussion workshops, each focussed on getting started.

This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on making the change, why it’s worth it, and how to manage the transition smoothly.

11.35-12.20 Discussion Workshop 2: Flexibility and Accessibility
Laura Warren (Queenswood School) and Angela Cheetham (de Romanis author, Bedford Modern School) will lead two discussion workshops, each focussed on the core pedagogical principles behind de Romanis’ design: flexibility and accessibility.

This workshop is an opportunity to discuss how to get the best from the flexibility offered by the course and how to make materials more or less challenging in a way that caters for your classes’ needs.

2.30-1pm de Romanis Book 3: Scriptores
Katharine Radice (lead author for de Romanis, Parkside Community College) will outline the details of de Romanis Book 3, planned for publication in 2025.

1-1.45pm Lunch

1.45-2.30pm Discussion Workshop 3: What’s left when the lesson ends?
Dom Jones and Dr Sonya Kirk (de Romanis author, Chesterton Community College) will lead two discussion workshops, each focussed on what happens when the schemes of work have finished: what are students left with as takeaway knowledge / skills and what difference does the course make for those students continuing to GCSE and beyond?

This workshop is an opportunity to think about the transferable language literacy skills developed by de Romanis and the impact of the cultural context covered by the course.

2.40-3.15pm Final thoughts: conclusions and next steps
Katharine Radice will chair a round-table discussion, focussed on the headline conclusions from the days’ sessions. This discussion will face forwards to the course’s development and reflect on ways to best support departments in using de Romanis and how to develop the course further.

‘Mapping the Middle in Vergil’s Aeneid’ (Virgil Society)
2024-03-02 02:30 - 16:00 | Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
Saturday 2 March 2024, 2:30 p.m.

Dr Matthew Robinson (University of Oxford)
‘Mapping the Middle in Vergil’s Aeneid’

FURTHER INFORMATION

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-03 | Leicester Guidhall, Guildhall Lane, Leicester, LE3 0JS, United Kingdom

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-07 | The Capstone Theatre, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP, United Kingdom

The Roman World: A-Level Study Day for Schools (British Museum)
2024-03-08 | British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom
Free

https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/roman-world

Join British Museum staff and expert guest speakers at this study day for students aged 16+ which will support those studying A-level Classical Civilisation and Ancient History. Year 11 pupils who are interested in extending their knowledge and considering studying the relevant subjects at A-level are also welcome.

Programme overview

10.00–10.30: Registration in The Clore Centre for Education foyer

10.00–12.00: Opportunity to visit the Legion: life in the Roman army exhibition

12.00–12.30: Lunch slot reserved in the Ford Centre for Young Visitors

12.30–15.00: Presentations in the BP Lecture Theatre. Each presentation will last around 45 minutes.

Legion: life in the Roman army, with Richard Abdy, Legion exhibition curator

Roman Britain: life in an imperial province, with Dr Katharine Hoare, from the British Museum’s School and Young Audiences team

Entertainment and Exploitation: Roman Culture in the Amphitheatre, with Dr Virginia L Campbell, Associate Lecturer at The Open University

This event is for UK schools only.

To attend this free event call the Box Office on +44 (0)20 7323 8181.

Students must be accompanied by a member of school staff.

Home educated students are welcome with an attending adult but please note we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at this event.

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-08 | Carriageworks Theatre, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD, United Kingdom

BMCA Texts and Topics Sixth Form Conference
2024-03-13 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
To request a booking form, or for further details please contact Hebe Barlow at: bham.classicsforall@contacts.bham.ac.uk

‘How to End a Book According to Ovid’ - Llewelyn Morgan and Bristol CA
2024-03-13 18:30 - 20:00 | Peace Memorial Hall, Badmington School, Bristol, BS9 3BA, United Kingdom
You are warmly invited to our first Bristol CA talk for 2024, which will take place on Wednesday 13th March. Professor Llewelyn Morgan (University of Oxford) will deliver a talk titled ‘How to End a Book According to Ovid’.

Registration for this event can be made via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-end-a-book-according-to-ovid-professor-llewelyn-morgan-oxford-tickets-838689642297

‘How to End a Book According to Ovid’ – Professor Llewelyn Morgan (University of Oxford), 13th March 2024

About the talk: Ovid’s Metamorphoses is an extremely mischievous poem written by a super-sophisticated poet. One consequence is that we find humour generated in this poem from some quite technical aspects of poetry. How can the way in which the fifteen books start or end be a source of amusement or poetic impact? To discover this is to appreciate the essence of Rome’s most influential (and funniest) poem, Ovid’s Book of Change.

About the speaker: Llewelyn Morgan is University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Classics at Brasenose College. He has a special interest in Roman literature, and has published on Virgil, Ovid, Horace, satire, historiography and metrical form. He also has interests in literature in the reign of the emperor Domitian, in Central Asia both in antiquity and more recently, and in Latin literature of the nineteenth century.

Venue: As in previous years, the talk will take place in the Peace Memorial Hall at Badminton School, Westbury Rd, Bristol BS9 3BA (https://maps.app.goo.gl/icdzFHE6RecbRBgW8).

Tickets: There is no charge for registering via Eventbrite, and talks are free for Bristol Classical Association members, students, and school pupils. There will be a cost of £5 at the door for visitors who have registered but do not fall in one of the above categories.

The link to register can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-end-a-book-according-to-ovid-professor-llewelyn-morgan-oxford-tickets-838689642297. If you encounter issues, or have any questions, please contact us at bristolca23@gmail.com

Refreshments will be available from 6.30pm.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

With warm wishes,
the Bristol CA committee

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-14 | Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2LW, United Kingdom

‘Thebes: Forgotten City of Ancient Greece?’
2024-03-14 19:00 - 20:00 | AKS, Clifton Drive South, Lytham, Sta Anne's, Lancashire, FY8 1DT, United Kingdom
Professor Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus University of Cambridge

https://lsaclassics.com/current-programme/

Wild Visions, Untamed Myth
2024-03-15 | The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, 56 East Street, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 1BS, United Kingdom

Classics Symposium at FHS Regent's Park
2024-03-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Francis Holland School, Clarence Gate, London, NW1 6XR, United Kingdom
Francis Holland School, Regent’s Park, London, hosts its annual Classics Symposium on Monday 18th March at 4pm.

Venue: School Hall, Francis Holland Regent’s Park, Ivor Place, London NW1 6XR

Speakers: Professor Robin Osborne, King’s College, Cambridge, and Professor Caroline Vout, Christ’s College, Cambridge

Note: The subjects covered will be of particular interest to pupils studying A Level Classical Civilisation but all students from Y10 upwards with an interest in Classical subjects are welcome.

Programme

4pm Welcome

4.15pm Professor Robin Osborne on “How far did Athenian drama relate to Athenian life?” Questions from the audience.

Break for refreshments

5.15pm Professor Caroline Vout on “Visual Evidence for Ancient Love, Desire and Marriage.” Questions from the audience.

6pm Event finishes

The event is free but you should book your place using this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/francis-holland-school-classics-symposium-tickets-796027669187

Online Lecture by Dr Kathryn Tempest on 'Women ‘on trial’ in Cicero’s Speeches'
2024-03-20 17:30 - 18:30
ONLINE via MS Teams 4 Burton Walks, LE11 4DU

Wed 20th March 2024

Free online talk by Dr Kathryn Tempest, Lecturer in Roman History at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.

The advocates, defendants, witnesses and the jury that we meet in the pages of Cicero’s surviving speeches are nearly always men. Yet every now and then a woman steps into steal the limelight – and the result is rarely positive. In this lecture, Kathryn Tempest explores Cicero’s presentation of two infamous women, Clodia and Sassia, to examine why his character assassinations worked and what this information reveals about attitudes towards gender in ancient Rome.

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The Latin Programme Poetry Prize 2024: Sharing Event
2024-03-21 18:30 - 20:30 | The Broadway Bookshop, 6 Broadway Market, London, E8 4QJ, United Kingdom
Join The Latin Programme Poetry Prize 2024 at their annual poetry sharing event, in association with the Broadway Bookshop. There will be drinks, canapés and readings from this year’s shortlisted poems.

The event will be on Thursday 21st of March, 6:30-8:30pm at the Broadway Bookshop (6 Broadway Market, London E8 4QJ).

To reserve your ticket, please fill out the form on their website.

Classical Association Conference 2024
2024-03-22 - 2024-03-24 | Warwick University, Gibbet Hill Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Friday 22-Sunday 24 March 2024

Full details at HERE.

Registration ends 23rd February.

The Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick will host the Classical Association Conference on 22-24 March 2024. The conference will take place on Warwick’s central campus (Oculus and new award-winning Faculty of Arts Buildings), close to the centre of Coventry, with its excellent rail, bus, and road transport links. University accommodation is available for booking on campus and delegates are also welcome to make their own arrangements for off campus accommodation in Coventry, Kenilworth, or Leamington Spa.

The programme will include a keynote lecture by Yannis Hamilakis (Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University) on Friday evening, on the topic ‘Undoing Monumental Racecraft: The Acropolis Otherwise’.

On Saturday evening, there is a unique performance by the new CA President, award-winning poet, translator and professor of classical languages, Anne Carson.

Other highlights on Sunday include the inaugural Young Speaker’s Award presentation and a performance of the Octavia. The exhibition ‘Black Classicists’ will also be displayed in the Atrium of the Faculty of Arts Building throughout the conference.

They are taking advantage of the proximity of the Warwick Arts Centre to offer a film screening workshop run by Maria Wyke, entitled Museum of Dreams: The Classical World in Silent Cinema. Workshops relevant to teaching Classics, Classical Civilisation, Archaeology, and Ancient History in all its rich diversity include sessions focusing upon Teaching with Inscriptions; Student engagement in classical subjects, from school to university; Utilising ancient coins and tokens; Teaching Queer Pasts; Performing and Producing Drama; Teaching in Translation.

Delegates will have the opportunity to engage in discussion about the future of the curriculum, via a workshop run by the Classical Association Teaching Board, in collaboration with OCR. Approaches to language teaching will be discussed via workshops on Latin Language Teaching: EDI and course intensity and Interactive Learning Adventures for Classical Languages in the Spatial Metaverse Language-teaching, run by colleagues from the Universidad de La Sabana in Colombia. A full programme of panels and workshops throughout the three days of the conference explore the conference themes:

Beyond Greece and Rome

Ecocriticism, Ecopoetics, and the Environment

Medical Humanities

Migration and Mobility

Memory and Monumentality

Performance Cultures

Race, Gender, & Class

Temporality

National Latin Spelling Bee 2024
2024-03-27 | Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, Mayflower Road, Chafford Hundred, Essex, RM16 6SA, United Kingdom
After a long interruption due to Covid, this unique and exciting event is making its return.

It will take place on the 27th March 2024 and last time we had over 25 schools taking place. It will be great to get as many schools as possible on board.

Wishing to keep it simple, please see below some of main rules of the competition.

This event will open for KS3 (ideally Year 7-8) students and promises delightful surprises and valuable prizes from esteemed authors and organizations in the classics field. It is also a day of celebration, uniting schools in their reverence for Latin.

Each school is required to conduct knock-out rounds within their institutions, based on vocabulary booklets provided to them. Each school will select the top 5 students who will represent their school in the big final. It is essential to adhere strictly to the specified group number to ensure equitable scoring among all participating schools.

The spelling bee will focus on CLC book 1 and Suburani up to chapter 10. A special vocabulary booklet has been designed and it will be sent to those schools, once confirmation is received.

Participation fees for each school are set at £35.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to Pantelis Iakovou at p.iakovou@harrischaffordhundred.org.uk if you have any further questions.

Roman Noses
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:00

ELCSS 2-day GCSE Easter Latin Revision Course 2024
2024-04-02 - 2024-04-03
Two full days of intensive Latin Language learning and consolidation in direct preparation for the GCSE examinations in the summer. Candidates will be coming to the end of Year 11 and will be readying themselves for examination. We will be revisiting aspects of the language specification that students generally find difficult, like the indirect statement, the ablative absolute, and the uses of the subjunctive. These set-pieces feature in every GCSE examination paper and it is important that the grammatical knowledge of them is secure. We will look at these constructions in isolation, and then also disguised in unseen passages of Latin, GCSE past papers, where they can be more difficult to identify.

Information Brochure

By the end of two days, students will not only be able to comfortably understand the core linguistic grammatical detail of the Latin syntactical constructions, but also be able to recognise and translate them with confidence. The course will directly improve public examination performance as they will have readied themselves for the content.

Book with their online booking form!
