THE BMCA Texts and Topics Conference Saturday 8 March 2014 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, Arts Building, 1st Floor 9.30 a.m.- 1.30 p.m. Plenary Lecture by Dr Alison Cooley on Augustus Texts: Ovid, Amores; Cicero In Verrem; Virgil, Aeneid Topics: Greek Comedy; City Life in Athens; Women in Greek Tragedy; Sparta Greek and Latin master-classes … Continue reading "THE BMCA Texts and Topics Conference: 8th March"
On Tuesday March 11th at 4:15pm Professor Paul Cartledge (Clare College, Cambridge) will be speaking at Highgate School N6 4AY on Greek tragedy, with specific reference to Euripides' Medea. All are very welcome to come along (there is no charge) and it may be of particular interest to those pupils studying Medea for Classical Civilisation … Continue reading "Euripides’ Medea & Greek Tragedy – a talk by Professor Paul Cartledge"
The annual CICERO Concordia Competition will take place on Saturday March 22nd at the following centres: The Blue Coat School, Liverpool; Bristol Grammar School; George Heriot's School, Edinburgh; King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham; North London Collegiate School, Edgware and Wellington College, Crowthorne. CICERO is an international Latin translation and Classical culture competition … Continue reading "CICERO Concordia Competition 2014"
You are warmly invited to come and bring your students to St Swithun's first Classics Inspiration Day to be held on Tuesday 25 March from 10am to 3pm. We aim to give students taking GCSE in any Classical subject an insight into the manifold wonders of the Classics beyond their school text books with a … Continue reading "Classics Inspiration Day for Years 10 and 11 at St Swithun’s School, Winchester"
The Classics department at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that we are now accepting bookings for our annual ‘Ancient World Study Day’ event (formerly ‘Texts Day’). This free event, on Wednesday 26th March, consists of a day of lectures delivered by academic staff and doctoral researchers, which look at the AS and A2 Latin … Continue reading "Ancient World Study Day- University of Reading"
Professor Michael Trapp, from King's College London, is speaking at Channing School on Monday March 31st at 4:15pm. He will explore the life of Cato the Younger in discussing, 'Can A Roman Die like Socrates?' The talk is open to students in Years 10-13 but places are limited due to the building works that are … Continue reading "Can a Roman Die Like Socrates? Talk by Professor Michael Trapp, King’s College London"
On Tuesday 1st April the cast of the highly-acclaimed show UNMYTHABLE will be coming to the East Oxford Community Classics Centre to run a series of workshops throughout the day as part of our Classical Storytelling Day! At 4 -5pm they will be running a community myth and storytelling workshop. This will be suitable for … Continue reading "Classical myth and storytelling workshop"
Dr Rosie Wyles of King's College London will speak on Greek Tragedy at St. Paul's Way Trust School, London E3 4FT (nearest tube station Mile End, Central line). The talk will take place on 2nd April 2014 4-5:30 and is specifically aimed at students studying the OCR AS Classical Civilisation module 'Greek Tragedy in its context', … Continue reading "Greek Tragedy talk by Dr Rosie Wyles"
This amazing and amazingly funny show is back at Battersea Arts Centre next year! Prepare to be transported to 1930s Paris where legendary musician, Django Reinhardt, has been cast as the lead in a new production of Orpheus. Your host for the evening is the charismatic songstress Yvette Pépin. With her troupe of operatic players … Continue reading "Orpheus, at the Battersea Arts Centre"
This looks set to be fantastic. The gods are in the betting shops, the gods are in the cafe, the gods can’t afford the deposit on their flat...Winged sandals tearing up the pavement, Me, you, everyone, brand new ancients. Poet and spoken word artist Kate Tempest tells an everyday epic over an exhilarating live score played … Continue reading "Brand New Ancients, by Kate Tempest"
