Latin and Greek CPD Day 2021
2021-09-18
The Classical Association Teaching Board

Latin and Greek CPD Day 2021

Saturday 18th September

Online

The Classical Association Teaching Board would like to invite teachers to an online CPD day.

Date and time: Saturday 18th September, 10am – 2.30pm

Participants will be given links to some pre-recorded materials and then will be invited to join some or all of the live panels (see below) where the contributors will be available to answer questions on their respective topics.

The event will focus primarily on Latin, with pre-recorded videos plus live panels on Latin A-level, GCSE Latin and a small number on teaching Greek.

The day will be led by practising teachers and academics and will be relevant for both experienced secondary teachers and those new to teaching Classics.

Cost: free

Please register for this event at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/teaching-latin-and-greek-language-a-free-online-cpd-event-tickets-167734040029

(Registration closes on Thursday 16th September.)

Panel 1: 10.00 – 11.00

Introduction + A level Literature Panel

The pre-recorded videos for this panel will focus on the following:

Latin verse set text for examination in 2023 and 2024: Rebecca Armstrong, St Hilda’s, Oxford on Catullus
Latin prose set text for examination in 2023 and 2024: Chris Burnand, Abingdon School on Cicero, pro Cluentio
Ancient Greek prose for examination in 2023 and 2024: Rowena Hewes, Westminster School on Plato, Symposium
Ancient Greek prose for examination in 2023 and 2024: Edmund Lewis, Winchester College on Thucydides, Histories 6

This panel will be chaired by Aisha Khan-Evans, King’s College London.

Panel 2: 11.15- 12.15

GCSE Literature

The pre-recorded videos for this panel will focus on the following:

OCR Latin verse for examination in summer 2022: Alex Karski, King’s College School on Virgil, Aeneid 2
OCR Latin verse for examination in summer 2023 and 2024: Graham Lodge, Chelmsford County High School on Echo et Narcissus and amor
Eduqas GCSE Latin i) A beginners’ guide to Eduqas (video) and ii) Superstition and Magic (video + panel): Latin Literature and Sources Theme B for examination in 2022 and 2023: Henry Cullen, St Albans High School

This panel will be chaired by Stuart Macaulay, Rooks Heath School, who will also share some resources he uses for teaching literature at GCSE.

Panel 3: 13.00-14.00

Latin and Greek Language

The pre-recorded videos for this panel will focus on:

Teaching GCSE Latin Language Teaching GCSE Latin (and Greek) Language (primarily focused on the OCR specification): John Taylor, University of Manchester
Teaching A level Latin Language: Katharine Radice, Stephen Perse Foundation
*Teaching Greek Language for the new Intermediate Certificate in Classical Greek (ICCG): Claire le Hur, Colfe’s School

*Please note there will be no pre-recorded video for this element but Claire will give a brief introduction to the new qualification on the day and will be happy to answer questions

This panel will be chaired by Chris Burnand, Abingdon School.

Open forum: 14.00 – 14.30

This will be an opportunity to discuss the day and ask any further questions.

Links to the videos will be sent a week before the event and the Zoom link for the day will be sent out on 17th September, after registration has closed.

Emily Hauser, Recovering the Women of Ancient Greek Myth
2021-09-21 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
The Guildford Classical Association Opening Party webinar, Tuesday 21st September, 7.30-8.30pm
All are welcome to attend this webinar. For a link to register, please email guildfordca.office@gmail.com before 6pm on Tuesday 21st.

GCSE Latin for Beginners (Online), Funded Places
2021-09-25 - 2021-10-23
GCSE Latin for Beginners – Starter Course

Dates & Times

25th September – 23rd October 2021 (5 weeks)

Saturdays from 11:00-12:00 BST, Online.

Overview

A fun, fast-paced and supportive introduction to Latin based on the current GCSE language component (OCR). This Saturday course will provide a great foundation for students interested in learning or revising Latin alongside their main studies, building the tools for self-study and gaining an insight into the language, mythology and history of ancient Rome.

More Info

Who is it suitable for?

Complete beginners and those keen to revise the basics.
Students interested in language learning or the ancient world in general, who have not previously had the chance to study Latin.
Students interested in working towards GCSE-level Latin independently.
Students looking for an alternative to 1-on-1 private tuition, see also Booster groups.

5 Funded Places for students who meet some, or all, of the eligibility criteria:

Student attends, and has always attended, a non-selective UK state school or college.
Student has not previously had the chance to study GCSE Latin on-timetable.
Student would be the first in their immediate family to attend university.
Student has been eligible for free school meals at secondary school.

To apply for a funded place, eligible students should complete the application form by 15th September 2021.

To sponsor someone else’s place on the course, school departments can now donate a place.

Antigone at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-16
The show runs from 1-16 October & marks the British premiere of Australian actress & playwright, Merlynn Tong’s adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy. This fierce, fiery, feminist take sees the traditionally male role of Creon, played by a woman. The piece is directed by Dawn Walton OBE, an award-winning Director & Founder of the UK’s Principal Black-Led Production company, Eclipse Theatre.

They welcome school and college groups, and are able to offer tickets at the reduced rate of £11.50, and when 10 tickets are ordered you get one free for teachers/assistants. To make a school booking please call our box office on 01206 573948.

They can also provide Greek Theatre workshops to coincide with the performances, and a Resource Pack for KS4 & 5 – more information on this can be found here: Antigone | Mercury Theatre

A Level Classical Civilisation/Ancient History Study Day at the BM | 1st October
2021-10-01 10:00 - 14:00
Join British Museum staff and expert guest speakers for online presentations on key topics to help support your studies.

The focus for this study day is Nero and the Julio Claudian dynasty and the social, economic and politic world of the Roman empire. The role of women in both the Ancient Roman and Greek worlds will be discussed and there will be opportunities to develop study skills through exploring Ancient Greek inscriptions and vases.

FURTHER INFORMATION

‘The realities of the Olympic Games’
2021-10-12 19:00 - 20:00
It is our aim that all talks will be held at Badminton School, Peace Memorial Hall. Talks will not be recorded or live streamed. Please email Barbara Bell (bmbellmini@aol.com) to register. There are no tickets, and talks are free for Bristol Classical Association members, students, and school pupils. There will be a cost of £5 for visitors. Refreshments available from 6.30pm.

Tuesday 12th October, 7pm – Professor Michael Scott (Warwick)

‘The realities of the Olympic Games’

We are all used to the idea of the links between the ancient and modern Olympics. But what were the ancient Olympics really like? How did you get there, where did you stay and what was the experience on the ground for competitors and spectators? What might you see, hear, and think about? What kind of impressions of ancient Greece, and of the ancient Greeks, did you come away with? And as a result, just what real links are there between the ancient and modern Olympics after all?

A Moot Trial of Boudica: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? (A Classics for All Event)
2021-10-14 16:00 - 18:00
A Moot Trial of Boudica: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?

Live from the Supreme Court

Thursday 14 October | 18:00 BST

Mother, daughter, warrior queen – Boudica stands on trial for terrorism. Her defence is that she is a freedom fighter in a war against foreign invaders. The Roman authorities view her as a criminal. Will justice be served? Watch the proceedings unfold online and discover a historical heroine whose actions raise urgent questions about imperialism, war and resistance to foreign occupation that are still relevant today.

Book tickets here

Boudica (also known as Boudicca or Boadicea) was Queen of the Iceni tribe in 60/61 BCE when she led a fierce rebellion against Roman rule that sent shockwaves through the empire. Some 18 years after the Roman conquest of Britain, she succeeded in rallying an army of disaffected Britons to her cause and in destroying three major Roman settlements: Colchester, London and St Albans. She was by all accounts a formidable leader – both Tacitus and Cassius Dio attribute to Boudica a stirring pre-battle speech – but were her actions those of a terrorist or freedom fighter?

Her case is listed for hearing at the UK Supreme Court between 6-7:15pm on Thursday 14 October. The prosecution will argue that Boudica was a terrorist, whose rebellion against Roman rule caused massive loss of life. The defence will argue that she was a freedom fighter in a war: the Romans had no right to be in Britain, and her brutality was no worse than theirs. A crucial issue will be whether the Roman authorities were the lawful government of Britain in 60/61 CE .

The trial of Boudica will be presided over by Lord Stephens (Justice of the Supreme Court and former Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland) with Alison Morgan QC counsel for the prosecution, and Thomas Grant QC counsel for the defence.

Tickets to watch the livestream are £10 standard and £5 concession*. You may also choose to give an additional donation toward Classics for All’s work supporting classics teaching in state schools. *Concessionary tickets are available to anyone who is a pensioner, unemployed or still in full-time education.

Teaching the ancient world at the British Museum
2021-10-20 17:00 - 18:30
Join the British Museum Schools team, curators and experts, and learn about teaching the ancient world using primary evidence.

Free

20 Oct 2021

16.00–17.30 Online

To register : https://www.britishmuseum.org/events/teaching-ancient-world-british-museum

This teacher Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training is suitable for primary and secondary teachers and trainee teachers will provide information about ancient Rome and ancient Greece, and will cover ways you can use the Museum’s digital assets in the classroom. You’ll consider how exploring a case study of a person or place can build subject knowledge and develop historical enquiry skills.

The event includes the following presentations:

Exploring Nero through archaeology and ancient sources, with Francesca Bologna (British Museum)
Using ancient Greek inscriptions to investigate the past, with Peter Liddell (University of Manchester)

A question and answer session with the speakers will follow.

Anatomical votive © 2021 The Trustees of the British Museum

CAI Dublin Branch Lecture
2021-10-26 19:30 - 21:00
Tuesday 26th October at 7.30 p.m.
Dr Jane Masséglia (University of Leicester)
Falling with Style: How to Fight and Die like a Greek Woman
This lecture explores the mythology and reality of Greek women facing mortal danger. Drawing on art, literature and inscriptions, it asks what we can learn about Greek culture from accounts of female combatants, killers and victims.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cai-dublin-branch-lecture-dr-jane-masseglia-26th-october-at-730-pm-tickets-192343934887?aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=checkoutwidget

Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries: a Talk by Professor Edith Hall
2021-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn, London, EC1N 2HH, United Kingdom
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/ancient-libraries

Although Mesopotamian civilisations had assembled texts, the ancient Greeks brought the idea of the universal book collection to its near-legendary consummation in the Library of Alexandria, which edited and housed thousands of papyrus rolls on every subject and attracted brilliant scholars from all over the ancient world. But there were many other libraries, serving also as scientific laboratories, public record offices, restaurants, mausoleums and even baths. This illustrated lecture investigates their history and the continuing influence on our modern world.

Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 12 noon -1pm Barnard’s Inn Hall or watch later. Ticketed, free. NB please note change of time, starts at noon

The Bristol CA AGM
2021-11-11 12:30 - 14:00
Thursday 11 November 2021, 12.30-1.45pm via Zoom – The Bristol CA AGM

Augustus and the Imperial Image
2021-11-11 19:00 - 20:00
The Guildford Classical Association’s November Talk, 7-8pm Thursday 11th November

Dr Christopher Burden-Strevens, University of Kent, will speak on Augustus and the Imperial Image

While the talk is particularly relevant to Sixth Formers preparing for the Imperial Image section of the A Level Class Civ course, we expect that it will also be of interest to a much wider audience.

The talk will be via Zoom with a Q and A session to follow. For the link to register email guildfordca.office@gmail.com by the end of Wed 10th November. The link will be sent out a few days before the talk or, if later, on receipt of your request.

The Harrodian Classics conference is back!
2021-11-12
The Harrodian Sixth Form Classics Conference 2021, Friday 12th November

The Harrodian school will once again be hosting their annual sixth form Classics conference.

For details please contact gseaton@harrodian.com.

Ancient History A Level – Greek Period Study Talk
2021-11-16 16:00 - 17:30
Ancient History A Level – Greek Period Study Talk – Tuesday 16th November, 4-5:30pm

I am excited to announce the first of this year’s talks with KCL, in collaboration with CfA, on Ancient History A Level – this time on the Greek Period Study.

The talks will start with a brief presentation by Dr Pavlos Avlamis about the Classics Department at KCL (5-10 minutes) and then there will be 45 minutes between Dr Allen and Dr Polinskaya.

They will then open up with a general introduction to the historical period covered in the Greek period study which sets up the individual focused discussion; Dr Allen will have 15 minutes on the Persian sources on the specification in relation to the topic; Dr Polinskaya will conclude with 15 minutes on the Greek sources.

There will be a chance for Q&A at the end.

The videos will be recorded and uploaded in due course on the KCL website.

To register, please click on the Eventbrite link below – please note that if students are watching at home separately they will need to register individually, in order to receive their own unique link for the webinar. If they are watching with you in a classroom, then that is not necessary.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kcl-ancient-history-talk-greek-period-study-tickets-195899830667

Spartans on the Capitol: Recent Far-Right Uses of Sparta and Their Historical Problems
2021-11-17 17:00 - 19:00
An online talk by Professor Stephen Hodkinson, Director of the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (University of Nottingham)

The Department of Classics at Loughborough Schools Foundation is pleased to invite you to attend the Autumn Term Classics Lecture on Wednesday 17 November at 5pm, as part of our Classics Lecture Series 2021/22.

On 6 January 2021 a crowd of Donald Trump supporters besieged and invaded the U.S. Capitol building. Some of them bore emblems linked to modern images of Sparta as a warrior society. The insurrection was the latest of many recent occasions when the Far Right around the world has invoked Sparta’s martial reputation to add pseudo-historical inspiration and authority to its cause. Professor Stephen Hodkinson’s will illustrate some of these recent Far-Right uses of Sparta and will briefly discuss their historical roots. He will also argue that the real historical Sparta was by no means as militaristic as is normally thought.

Register via Eventbrite. Booking will close 24 hours before the event, and registrants will receive a link to join the online event on Wednesday 17 November, via their provided email address.

Please contact us at lgsclassics@lsf.org if you have any questions.

This event is open to all.

Tuesday 23rd of November 2021, 7pm - Bristol Classical Association Virtual Book Club (Zoom)
2021-11-23 19:00 - 20:00
For its fifth meeting, the Bristol Classical Association Virtual Book Club will take a detour to the world of comic books and fantasy with Volume 9 of Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel The Sandman, entitled The Kindly Ones. As per previous meetings, one of the members of the book club has generously agreed to introduce The Kindly Ones. If you would like to join the fifth meeting of the book club, please let Dr Richard Cole know by email (richard.cole@bristol.ac.uk). All welcome, especially

The Online Première of Penelope by Tom Stoppard
2021-12-06 18:00 - 20:00
The Online Première of Penelope by Tom Stoppard

Monday 6 December 2021 | 18:00 GMT

Classics for All invites you to the première of Penelope, a prose poem written by Sir Tom Stoppard and read by Hattie Morahan. Penelope was premièred in the UK on 8 November 2021 to a studio audience at Cazenove Capital, where it was filmed by Hat Trick Productions. It will be screened online for the first time on 6 December.

The screening commences with a lively discussion on Penelope in Homer and her reception through the ages, chaired by Martha Kearney (BBC Radio 4 Today programme) with Sir Tom Stoppard and Dr Emma Greensmith (St John’s College, Oxford). Hattie Morahan will then give Penelope its first UK performance.

Tom Stoppard composed Penelope on commission from the late composer André Previn. In it, Penelope, the wife of the Greek Homeric hero Odysseus, recalls and reflects on her husband’s twenty-year absence at and return from the Trojan war. It was set to Previn’s music and sung by Renée Fleming in its US première in Tanglewood in 2019. Stoppard has since experimented with it as a read monodrama, and as such it will be given its first UK performance in this fundraising event for Classics for All.

Tickets (£10 standard, £5 concession) are available via the link below. You may also to choose to give an additional donation toward Classics for All’s work supporting classics teaching in state schools.

Buy tickets here

*Concessionary tickets are available to anyone who is a pensioner, unemployed or still in full-time education. Free tickets are available to teachers, pupils and regional network personnel working with Classics for All’s schools programme. If you are in one of these groups, please email events@classicsforall.org.uk to apply.

After you have purchased your ticket(s), you will receive an email inviting you to sign up to the Zoom Webinar. You must register your name and email address with Zoom in order to receive your personal invitation link. Please save this link as you will need it to access the webinar on the day.

We offer our special thanks to Cazenove Capital for sponsoring this event.

Cazenove Capital is one of the UK’s largest wealth managers. Still largely owned by their founding family, their independence and expertise has, for more than 200 years, looked after the wealth of entrepreneurs, professionals, families and charities. To find out more about how Cazenove can support you and your family, visit their website or contact George Lake at george.lake@cazenovecapital.com.

Sir Tom Stoppard CBE:

Sir Tom Stoppard is the UK’s greatest living playwright. He is best known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Brazil (1985) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). He was awarded the CBE in the 1978 Queen’s Honours List and Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 Queen’s Honours List for his services to drama. In 2000 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. He has won Broadway’s Tony Award four times as author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968), Travesties (1976), The Real Thing (1984) and Coast of Utopia (2006).

Dr Emma Greensmith:

Emma Greensmith is a classicist at St John’s College, Oxford, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history. Her recent book, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic, explores the poetics and politics of the Greek imperial period. Her next book, entitled Homer and the Bible: The Religious Politics of Verse in Late Antiquity, seeks to expand this work. Emma is passionate about improving access to Classics and communicating its value in today’s society.

Martha Kearney:

Martha Kearney is a journalist and broadcaster who read Classics at Oxford. She was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4’s lunchtime news programme The World at One for 11 years, and she is now presenter of the early morning Today programme. She was previously a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and the political editor of Newsnight. Her awards include Political Commentator of the Year (House Magazine), Radio Presenter of the Year (TRIC) and Best Individual Contribution to Radio (Voice of Listener and Viewer).

Hattie Morahan:

Hattie Morahan is a television, stage and film actor. She is well known for roles including Gale Benson in The Bank Job (2008), Ann in Mr. Holmes (2015), Rose Coyne in My Mother and Other Strangers (2016), and Agathe/The Enchantress in Beauty and the Beast (2017). She also starred as Alice in ITV mini-series The Bletchley Circle (2012) and Elinor Dashwood in BBC One’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (2008).

If you have any queries about this event, please contact events@classicsforall.org.uk.

A Level Ancient History - Optional depth study: 'Ruling Roman Britain, AD 43–c.128’ (Dr John Pearce, KCL)
2021-12-08 15:00 - 16:00
A Level Ancient History – Optional depth study: ‘Ruling Roman Britain, AD 43–c.128’ (Dr John Pearce, KCL)

Date/time: Wednesday, December 8, 3:00-4:00pm

Location: Online event

About this event

The event will start with a brief presentation by Dr Pavlos Avlamis about the Classics Department at KCL (5-10 minutes), followed by a 30-minute presentation on Roman Britain by Dr John Pearce, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at KCL and specialist on this topic.

There will be a chance for Q&A at the end.

The event will be recorded and uploaded in due course on the KCL Classics, Schools Network website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/our-connections/schools-network.

To register for the event please click on the Eventbrite link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-level-ancient-history-depth-study-ruling-roman-britain-ad-43c128-tickets-204381710197.

A Level Ancient History - Optional depth study: 'Ruling Roman Britain, AD 43–c.128’
2021-12-08 15:00 - 16:00
A Level Ancient History – Optional depth study: ‘Ruling Roman Britain, AD 43–c.128’ (Dr John Pearce, KCL)
Date/time: Wednesday, 8th December, 3:00-4:00pm
Location: Online event
The event will start with a brief presentation by Dr Pavlos Avlamis about the Classics Department at KCL (5-10 minutes), followed by a 30-minute presentation on Roman Britain by Dr John Pearce, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at KCL and specialist on this topic.
There will be a chance for Q&A at the end.
The event will be recorded and uploaded in due course on the KCL Classics, Schools Network website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cla…/our-connections/schools-network.
To register for the FREE talk, please click on the Eventbrite link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/204381710197

Live reading of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses (FREE)
2021-12-13 18:30 - 19:30
From The Latin Qvarter…

Join us for a live reading of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (a blend of Latin and English) on the evening of Monday, 13th December.

Hear the tale of Pyramus & Thisbe and their doomed love, the story of Baucis and Philemon – equally loving (and living much longer) – and the fate of the disbelieving Pentheus …

We start with Mother Earth’s appeal to Jupiter to stop the world burning up … read by Emma Kirkby. The supporting cast is pretty hot too, with Ben Cartlidge, Matthew Hargreaves, Andy Keen, Katie Marshall, Llewelyn Morgan and George Sharpley.

Click the link below!

https://latinqvarter.co.uk/ovid/

6.30pm, Monday, 13th December 2021

FREE – on Zoom. Email back for Zoom access.

UCL Classics and Ancient World Taster Day 2 - 2022
2022-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
UCL Classics and Ancient World Taster Day 2 – 2022

Meet staff and students at the Department of Greek and Latin, and hear a sample lecture, with plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

About this event

This taster day will involve presentations by the Head of Department, the Outreach Tutor Dr Mark Weeden, a sample lecture entitled “Where did the (Roman) Alphabet come from” by Professor Stephen Colvin, several presentations by current students, and plenty of opportunities for Q&A.

For more information and to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-classics-and-ancient-world-taster-day-2-2022-tickets-228649064507?aff=erelexpmlt

Further information about UCL’s taster and open days: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/outreach/taster-and-open-days

FHS Classics Symposium
2022-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
Covid put paid to that event but we are holding another one on Friday January 28th here at Francis Holland Regent’s Park from 2pm. It is open to all pupils studying Classical subjects from Y10 and above and their teachers. We will be hosting as speakers Professor Robin Osborne and Professor Caroline Vout. The event is free but students and teachers must register via eventbrite – Francis Holland School Classics Symposium Friday 28th January Tickets, Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite.

Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association: New Year Lecture
2022-02-10 17:30 - 18:30 | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association

The BMCA would like to invite you to their two events this academic year, both to be held in person in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.

The New Year Lecture

This will be held on Thursday 10 February 2022 at 5.30 pm. The speaker will be Dr Elena Giusti (University of Warwick) on ‘Dido of Carthage: World of the Heroine’.

The Texts and Topics Conference

This will be held on Wednesday 23 March 2022, 12pm- 3.15pm, and is open to A Level students of Ancient History and Classical Civilisation.

The Programme

12.00-12.45 Arrival and Registration

12.45-13.00 Welcome

13.00-13.30 Session 1

Session: Politics of the Late Republic

Session: Greek Theatre

13.30-14.00 Session 2

Session: Greeks and Barbarians

Session: Homer

14.00-14.15 Break

14.15-14.45 Session 3

Session: The Julio-Claudians

Session: The Aeneid

14.45-15.15 Session 4

Student talks: Classics and Ancient History at University

The Conference is free for students at maintained schools and £5 per person for students at independent schools.

To register your interest in these events please email Polly Stoker on P.Stoker@bham.ac.uk

Looking forward to seeing you there!

The BMCA

These Great Athenians/Daughters of Sparta
2022-02-14 19:00 - 21:00
An evening with Valentine Carter and Claire Heywood, authors.
Further information: https://www.waterstones.com/events/revisit-ancient-classics-with-valentine-carter-and-claire-heywood/bristol-galleries

The New Testament from a Roman Perspective with John Davie
2022-02-17 18:00 - 20:00
From Classics for All…

The New Testament from a Roman Perspective with John Davie

Thursday 17 February | 18:00 GMT

At the time of Jesus’ birth, the Roman empire was governed by the emperor Augustus (27 BC – AD 14). The province of Judaea came under direct Roman rule in AD 6 and increasingly strained relations between the Romans and Jewish population had an inevitable influence on the portrayal of events in the Gospels. In this talk, lecturer John Davie roots the New Testament in its social and political context and shows how a historical approach can help us understand the problems faced by Jewish subjects and Roman authorities alike in Roman Palestine. Covering the political background to Jesus’ life and final days, the governorship of Pontius Pilate, and the significance of Jerusalem in Jewish belief, this wide-ranging talk untangles a pivotal moment in history, when classical and biblical worlds collide.

The first in our series of 2022 Lawyers Group events, this fascinating talk by lecturer John Davie will be livestreamed from King’s College London via Microsoft Teams and hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson, Chair of our Lawyers Group Steering Committee.

Tickets (£10 standard, £5 concession) are available via the link below. You may also to choose to give an additional donation toward Classics for All’s work supporting classics teaching in state schools.

Buy tickets here

This event will be livestreamed via Microsoft Teams, but you do not need a Teams account to watch it. After you have purchased your tickets, you will receive an email containing the link to watch the livestream. Simply click on the link and choose ‘Watch on the web instead’. You will be taken to the livestream webpage where you will see the message ‘The live event hasn’t started’ until the event starts at 6pm.

John Davie:

John Davie is a graduate of Glasgow University and Balliol College, Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on Greek Tragedy. For twenty years he held a lectureship at Trinity College, Oxford, where he taught undergraduates once a week. He taught Classics at Harrow for nine years and later became Head of Classics at St. Paul’s School, where he taught until his retirement in 2010. John has translated the complete surviving works of Euripides for Penguin Classics (4 vols) and excerpts from Seneca, Horace, and Cicero for Oxford World’s Classics (3 vols). He lives with his wife in South Devon.

If you have any queries about this event, please contact events@classicsforall.org.uk.

Loughborough Schools Foundation Department of Classics Spring Lecture
2022-02-24 17:30 - 19:00
Returning and Recovery: the Homeric Odyssey on Trauma and Survival

Online Lecture by Professor Joel Christensen, Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University, USA

Thursday 24 February, 5:30 pm (GMT)

Abstract: The Homeric Odyssey explores a return to life and community after suffering trauma at war, at sea, and at home. Modern cognitive and clinical psychology can help us appreciate how deeply Greek epic understands the helplessness we suffer after repeated loss and how we can use stories to return to the world and rebuild our communities.

The event will be held on Teams. Please register through Eventbrite.

Sussex Classical Reading Competition 2022
2022-03-01 16:00 - 18:30
Sussex Classical Reading Competition 2022

The Sussex Classical Reading Competition is back this year, held at Roedean School. Please contact oba@roedean.co.uk for details of the passages.

We welcome all schools who can make it to Roedean for the occasion. It will be held on Tuesday 1 March 4.15pm-6.15pm.

Please do come if you can, we would love to see you!

London Classical Reading Competition
2022-03-02 | Westminster School, Little Smith Street, London, SW1P 3PF, United Kingdom
This Classical Reading Competition, which is supported by the Classical Association, will be held on Wednesday 2 March at Westminster School, 17 Dean’s Yard, London SW1P 3PF. The school is a five-minute walk from St. James’s Park Tube, or a 15-minute walk from Victoria Station. The event will begin at 2 pm and finish by 5 pm. We will break for tea after the first section, from about 3-3.20 pm.

Masks should be worn while inside and removed when performing. Unfortunately it is not possible to invite candidates’ parents to attend. Commemorative prizes will be awarded.

The competition is in six sections, with one entry only from each school per section. No candidate may enter for more than one Latin section.

Beginners’ Latin, open to pupils who have not yet completed five terms of Latin (an individual, a pair, or a group of three candidates): Cambridge Latin Course Book 1, Stage 12, “finis”.

Beginners’ Greek, open to pupils who have not yet completed five terms of Greek (an individual, a pair, or a group of three candidates): Babrius, Fable 122, “Doctor Wolf”.

Pre-GCSE Latin, open to one pupil who has not yet taken Latin GCSE: Virgil, Aeneid 2.776-789.

Greek dialogue, open to an individual or a pair of candidates at any stage: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 931-947 and 958-960.

Open Latin, open to one candidate at any stage: Catullus, Poem 8.

Greek chorus, open to a group of six to ten pupils at any stage: Euripides, Hippolytus 525-554.

Please send entries via the application form, with the fee of £30 per school, by Wednesday 9 February. We will need the names of candidates by Wednesday 23 February.

Please note: copies of the passages marked with macrons, and the scansion of the chorus, are included with this invitation, along with unmarked copies. The macrons and scansion will not be included in the copies from which the candidates will read at the competition.

Booking Form | Passages for 2022 (with macrons)
Passages for 2022 (without macrons) | Scansion for Chorus

Please send replies by email or post to:

Mr Joseph Ireland,
Teacher of Classics
Westminster School,
17 Dean’s Yard,
London SW1P 3PF.
email: joseph.ireland@westminster.org.uk

‘Recent discoveries in Pompeii’
2022-03-02 19:00 - 20:00
It is our aim that all talks will be held at Badminton School, Peace Memorial Hall. Talks will not be recorded or live streamed. Please email Barbara Bell (bmbellmini@aol.com) to register. There are no tickets, and talks are free for Bristol Classical Association members, students, and school pupils. There will be a cost of £5 for visitors. Refreshments available from 6.30pm.

Wednesday 2nd March, 7pm – Dr Shelley Hales (Bristol)

‘Recent discoveries in Pompeii’

After years of poor publicity and accusations of mismanagement and neglect aimed at the superintendency at Pompeii, the new excavations in the city have generated enormous public interest, positive headlines, and several internet memes! The combination of the excitement of discovery, the promise of new technologies to aid excavation and analysis and the novelty of finds fresh from the ground has proved enchanting to the point that this has been seen as Pompeii’s ‘Renaissance’. This talk is an opportunity to take a closer look at the buildings, objects, decoration, and human remains found in Regio V but also to ask whether these excavations are really so different from those of previous generations and what the longer-term consequences might be.

The Great Gatsby' and 'The Dinner of Trimalchio': Decadence in New York and Ancient Rome, Dr Emily Pillinger
2022-03-03 15:00 - 16:00
Key Stage 5 English and Classics KCL Talk – ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Dinner of Trimalchio’: Decadence in New York and Ancient Rome, Dr Emily Pillinger – Thursday 3rd March, 3-4pm online

Topic: ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Dinner of Trimalchio’: Decadence in New York and Ancient Rome. This talk shows how one of the greatest loved American novels of the twentieth century emerged from Fitzgerald’s reading of a much less well-known ancient Roman novel by Petronius. It explores how both novels speak to the inequality, corruption, and cynicism of their contemporary worlds, and in the process demonstrates to students that the combined study of English and Classics is a rich and valuable degree focus. There is no need for students to know anything of either works before the talk, though they may like to read ’The Great Gatsby’ in advance, or watch the film (dir. B. Luhrmann, 2013). For more information and to reserve your place, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/252095383077
