From the CICERO organisers... CICERO Latin and Class Civ competition 2018 This year's competition for Sixth Form students (S4-S6 in Scotland) will take place on Saturday 17 March 2018. It's a challenging and engaging competition with plenty of fun, and has three rounds - Latin translation, Cultural Quiz (this year's topic is plant metamorphosis in … Continue reading "CICERO Competition 2018"
OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL GDST Department of Classics Prof Barbara Goff, Daughters of Antigone March 19, 2018 at 4.30 pm Professor Barbara Goff, a specialist in ancient Drama and its reception and a senior member of the Classics Department at Reading University, will be speaking on ‘Daughters of Antigone’. Sophocles’ Antigone is one of the … Continue reading "Daughters of Antigone"
Senior Classics Competition Final 2018 Patron and Judge: Professor Paul Cartledge For Year 7 —13 Students Wednesday 21st March 7 pm AKS Senior School Hall Clifton Drive South
The second annual spelling bee for students who study Cambridge book 1 The event will be hosted at Harris Chafford Hundred on the 28th March 2018 and it will be supported by Classics for all and the Classics Association. For further information contact Pantelis Iakovou ()
Ingres, 1808. Oil on Canvas. Louvre, Paris. We would like to invite you to bring your students to hear a talk by Dr. Adrian Kelly (Balliol College, Oxford) on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. 11.00am, Wednesday 28th March 2018. Admission is free and you would be most warmly welcomed. This is part of the superlative Oxbridge Classics … Continue reading "Classics Lecture – Sophocles – St. Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington, Kent"
The classical students of St Paul's Girls' School would like to warmly invite you to our production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, performed in the original Greek with surtitles, and following in the footsteps of Bacchae, Prometheus Bound, Hecuba and Medea in recent years. The performance, which is abridged but fully staged, will take place in the Singing Hall at … Continue reading "Aeschylus’ Agamemnon at St Pauls’ Girls’ School"
Rocks, Holes and Pots of Gold Mary-Ann Ochota Broadcaster, Archaeologist, Author of Hidden Histories and Britain’s Secret Treasures Thursday 12th April 7pm AKS, Main Entrance, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes FY8 1DT Free to members Non-members £5 Everyone Welcome Free Car Parking Lectures 7 - 8pm Doors open at 6.15pm
"Dr. Bettany Hughes is an award‐winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her speciality is ancient and medieval history and culture. Her first book Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore has been translated into ten languages. Her second, The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life was a New York Times bestseller. Described … Continue reading "‘What It Takes to Build a City’, by @bettanyhughes"
An evening of readings and discussion Join us for a lively discussion about Ovid’s work between Classics for All Patron Natalie Haynes and Professor Stephen Heyworth (Wadham College, Oxford), chaired by Dr Peter Jones MBE on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The evening will commence with a reading, by an actor, of selected passages of Ovid … Continue reading "VIVAM! Ovid IS alive 2,000 years after his death"
On Wednesday 2nd May at 4.30 pm, Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Professor of Greek and Head of the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London, will be speaking on: ‘Classics, Reception and Cinema’ Professor Kahane will be discussing the portrayal of Homer in modern cinema, with a particular focus on the films ‘Troy’ (2004) … Continue reading "Professor Ahuvia Kahane to talk on Classics, Reception and Cinema at St Paul’s Girls’ School"
