Events

British Museum Saturday 22 February 2014, 10.00 & 14.00 Stevenson Lecture Theatre £15, Members/concessions £12 Visit the British Museum site for news about the event! In these workshops for adults, Peter Jones, Director of the Reading Greek series, author of Learn Ancient Greek, co-founder of Friends of Classics and columnist for The Spectator, will introduce … Continue reading "Alpha to Omega: Ancient Greek from Scratch (with Peter Jones)"

Please join us for our next event when Dr Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King's College London) will be speaking on: The Devil and his Works in Late Antiquity Date: Monday 24 February Time: 6pm (doors open at 5.45) Place: Duchesne Building, 001 (University of Roehampton) Maps and travel directions can be found at: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Contact-Us/ All welcome: standard … Continue reading "Roehampton and SW London CA Branch Event. Monday 24 February"

Roedean School will host the Sussex Classical Reading Competition for 2014 on Tuesday 4 March at 5pm. Please contact me via school () or the Classics Library if you are interested and I'll send you the details of the passages chosen for this year. Thanks, Becky Miller

On Wednesday 5th March at 4.30 pm, Dr Rosie Wyles will be speaking on: ‘Dramatising Ordered Chaos in Euripides's Medea’ Dr Wyles will explore how Euripides develops themes of both chaos and order in Medea through his use of staging in the play. Please note that pupils at St Paul's Girls' School will be performing an abridged version of Medea in Greek on Wednesday 2nd April … Continue reading "Dr Rosie Wyles to speak on Euripides’s Medea"

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"