Events

Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize Supported by the Classical Association Westminster School Thursday, 13th February 2020 9.40am -1.00pm This conference offers pupils in years 10 and 11 the chance to attend a series of appropriately pitched lectures on their Latin and Greek set texts and on topics of wider interest. The … Continue reading "Conference In GCSE Latin and Greek & Essay Prize Supported by the Classical Association"

An exciting opportunity for VIth Form pupils to attend lectures and seminars given by university lecturers. Wednesday February 5th 2020, Leicester University Pupils: £8 Staff (including lunch): £15 Book online at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emact-vith-form-classics-day-tickets-88806096425 Bookings will close 31st January 2020 at 16:00.

12th-14th February 2020 Idealistic thoughts of good peace terms? General critiques of political policy? Citizens rejecting the leadership to whom it now follows? Nearly 2,500 years later and still the political themes present in Aristophanes’ Frogs are of great pertinence to us today. Yet, with our millennial majority rapidly transforming society, is the ‘new’ directing … Continue reading "UCL Classics Play 2020: Aristophanes’ Frogs"

  Thursday 13th February, 7pm – Professor Matthew Nicholls ‘Virtual Rome: A Digital Model of the Ancient City’ Matthew has spent several years creating a large-scale digital model of ancient Rome, for use in his teaching and research at Reading and Oxford universities. He has also worked with broadcasters and computer games companies, and produced … Continue reading "‘Virtual Rome: A Digital Model of the Ancient City’"

Thursday 9th January 7pmWalking With The Gods: The Religious Lives of the Ancient GreeksProfessor Michael Scott, Historian, Author, Broadcaster Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick AKS, Main Entrance, Clifton Drive South, Lytham St Annes FY8 1DT Lectures 7 – 8pm Doors open at 6.15pm MEMBERS ONLY. You can join anytime. https://lsaclassics.com/ FLIER … Continue reading "Walking With The Gods: The Religious Lives of the Ancient Greeks"

This programme of lectures is designed to support students and teachers taking GCSE and A level Classics Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications, and is coordinated by Advocating Classical Education and the British Museum. For all further information and to book go to: https://www.britishmuseum.org/school-lecture-classical-civilisation-and-ancient-history Troy: the World of the Hero For Teachers  The British Museum's exhibition … Continue reading "OCR Classics in 20 British Museum Objects"

The 2020 KCL play is based on Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs. It will run 26-28th February. Further information is available here... https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-classics/dionysus-in-the-underworld-bacchae-frogs-kings-greek-play-2020?sfns=mo  

A Level and GCSE Ancient History Training (also suitable for those teaching Democracy and the Athenians, and Politics of the Late Republic from the A Level Classical Civilisation) Saturday 29th February, 1:15 - 5:30pm Pimlico Academy, Lupus Street, Pimlico, SW1V 3AT Classics for All and Pimlico Academy would like to invite you to a FREE … Continue reading "A Level and GCSE Ancient History Training"

3rd of March 2020 St. Olave’s Grammar School is pleased to invite you to attend the Classics Day, at which Dr Kathryn Tempest (University of Roehampton) will give a talk entitled Cicero the Arpinate: The Advantage of a Political Outsider. When Cicero won the consulship for 63 BC, he was the first novus homo to … Continue reading "Classics Day, St Olave’s Grammar, Orpington"