Events

THE ANCIENT GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE          WITH NATALIE HAYNES AT STREAM SOUTH LONDON BOOK FESTIVAL 12 NOON – 1.00 PM    SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2015 The multi-talented Natalie Haynes, writer (non-fiction: The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, fiction: Amber Fury, children’s book: The Great Escape), critic and broadcaster, classicist and former stand-up comic, with The Ancient Guide to … Continue reading "The Ancient Guide to Modern Life: Natalie Haynes at STREAM South London Book Festival"

Classics Week at Hitchin Girls' School 16th to 20th November The Classics Department is holding its first Classics Week to celebrate all things ancient. There is a packed programme of events, including a series of evening lectures open to the entire community. We hope that you will be able to join us. All lectures (listed … Continue reading "Classics Week at Hitchin Girls’ School"

On Monday 16th November at 4.30 pm, Dr Rupert Thompson will be speaking on: ‘Why Greek is still a living language and Latin isn’t’ Latin is universally held to be a 'dead language', but Greek has since antiquity been the language of the Hellenic people and remains the official language of Greece and Cyprus to the present … Continue reading "Why Greek is still a living language and Latin isn’t: a talk by Dr Rupert Thompson"

On Friday 20th November 2015 the Harrodian will be hosting their annual Sixth Form Classics conference. The talks will be on Homer and Virgil, Greek Tragedy, Ancient Comedy and Ovid. For more information please contact  

News of a forthcoming production... We are setting the play in the slums of New Orleans with a live Jazz band accompanying the Choral Odes and we have been strongly influenced by the horror genre in our approach. The play will be performed at St Mary’s College in Crosby on the 20th November and in … Continue reading "Electra: A Production at St Mary’s College, Crosby"

Perspectives on Greek History: A Classical Association Teaching Board INSET day on the history of ancient Greece and its teaching University of Leeds, 10am-4pm, Saturday, 21st November 2015.   The teaching of classical Greek history is rewarding – for both teacher and student -- at every level of engagement: it gives its practitioners the opportunity … Continue reading "Perspectives on Greek History: A Classical Association Teaching Board INSET day on the history of ancient Greece and its teaching"

We are delighted that Dr Susan Deacy will be speaking at New Hall on the subject of ‘Athena: Power of Craft and Creativity’ on Thursday 26th November from 4.45 to 5.45 pm in the Jubilee Hall, New Hall School. Dr Deacy is currently Principal Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Roehampton. … Continue reading "Talk by Susan Deacy, Roehampton University – Athena, Power of Craft and Creativity"

All schools are welcome to come to Magdalen College School (Oxford) on Wednesday, 2nd December at 4.10 p.m. for a talk by Dr Luke Pitcher (Somerville College, Oxford), entitled 'Our friends in the North: Caesar and Tacitus on Barbarian Management'. This promises to be a lively and engaging talk for GCSE and A-level students, so please … Continue reading "Talk: Dr Luke Pitcher, ‘Our friends in the North: Caesar and Tacitus on Barbarian Management’"