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The Paper Cinema is producing a wonderful re-telling of Homer’s Odyssey, using beautiful illustration and puppetry accompanied by a live score. The show has just returned from a nationwide tour and was extremely successful – selling out nearly all of the 19 venues it visited. Further information and details on how to book can be … Continue reading "The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey"
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By Fettes Classical Society Dr Jason Koenig (St Andrews) on ”The Olympic Games in the Roman World” At 7.30. Please get in touch if you would like to come, especially if bringing some young people. Allan Girdwood |
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The Mount School is putting on a production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon in March. This play is being performed and produced by girls from Year 9, 10 and 11. The story is set in Mycenae, as the queen Clytaemnestra waits for her husband Agamemnon to return from the Trojan War, ten years after he sacrificed their daughter … Continue reading "Aeschylus’ Agamemnon at The Mount School"
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The annual Classical Reading Competition for the Sussex Classical Association will take place at Roedean School on Tuesday 5 March 2013, 5-7pm. The competition will be open to pupils in Years 5 to 13. There will be a choice of both Greek and Latin passages. Please do contact me at Roedean for details of the set passages … Continue reading "Sussex Classical Reading Competition 2013" |
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http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1350999581 Theatre Lab Company Lysistrata By Aristophanes Directed by Anastasia Revi SEX STRIKE TO STOP EURO CRISIS There's no solution to the Euro crisis ... riots, marches, what next? Lysistrata and the women of Europe refuse the one thing men can't do without - sex. A hilarious, naughty musical adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy set against … Continue reading "Lysistrata, at Riverside" 
Wednesday 6th March, 2.45-4.30pm This year the University of Liverpool Drama Society will be performing a new adaptation of Sophocles, Oedipus Rex on the evenings of 6th-8th March (flyer attached). In association with the play, there will be a workshop for Year 8 and 9 students on Wednesday 6th March, from 2.45pm-4.30pm. There will be … Continue reading "Greek Play Workshop 2013"
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On Wednesday 6th March at 4.30 pm Dr Jonathan Prag, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Merton College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Ancient History, will be speaking on: ‘'Cicero, Verres and Sicily'’ Dr Prag is a specialist in Ancient Sicily, and is currently working on commentaries on Cicero's speeches against the corrupt former Roman governor of Sicily, … Continue reading "Dr Jonathan Prag to speak on Cicero, Verres and Sicily" |
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"Sponsored by the Princeton Global Collaborative Network Fund on Postclassicisms It is by now a critical commonplace to observe that the last 30 years have seen a dramatic reversal in Ovid’s critical fortunes. From a maligned harbinger of Silver Latin, Ovid has moved to the centre of Latin literary criticism and classical reception studies. This … Continue reading "The Afterlife of Ovid: A Colloquium (7-8 March)"
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There will be a performance by kaloi k'agathoi at St Edward's School, Cheltenham, of Medea, Wicked with of the East, on Friday 8th March at 7.30 p.m. Commissioned for last year's Three Choirs event in Hereford, the production features a first act 'prequel', which sets the background to the tragedy, making it equally suitable for … Continue reading "kaloi k’agathoi’s Medea"
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The Birmingham and Midlands Classical Association is delighted to announce the details of its upcoming Sixth Form Conference, to be held on Saturday 9th March 2013 at the University of Birmingham. We have tried to make this event as relevant as possible for the A/AS Level Latin and Classical Civilisation syllabuses, bringing together experts from across the country to talk … Continue reading "Sixth Form Conference"
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Classical Association, South-West Branch Sixth-form Conference The Classical Association South-West Branch will be holding their annual Sixth-form Classics Conference on Saturday 9th March, from 9.30 am at Exeter School. The programme covers texts and topics for AS and A-level. There will be a charge of £10 for each student. Please send payment in advance … Continue reading "Classics Sixth-form Conference (Classical Association and University of Exeter)"
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Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls will host a lecture on Virgil's Rome to be given by Professor Peter Wiseman on Monday March 11th at 7pm. This will be of interest to students of the Aeneid as well as lovers of Rome. All welcome. Free of charge, but please contact if you intend to come, … Continue reading "‘Virgil’s Rome’, A Peter Wiseman Lecture at Monmouth School for Girls" |
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Dr Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) will be giving a lecture entitled, ‘The Classical Body’. Thursday 14th March (please note date, Ides -1), 6.30 pm in the School Hall. For further information and free tickets contact Philip Towler, Head of Classics, at
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KING’S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY PATER SOCIETY Monday 18th March 2013 7pm The Synagogue, King's Street, Canterbury Metamorphosing The Metamorphoses A talk by Miss Janet Taylor, KSC All welcome. The talk will last about an hour. Refreshments provided. |
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St Mary's College in Crosby, Liverpool will be putting on Antigone this March. More details to follow in a post!
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On Wednesday 20th March at 4.30 pm. Dr Rosanna Omitowoju will be speaking on: 'Competition and Aggression in Ancient Greek Culture' Dr Omitowoju is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at King's College, Cambridge where she is Senior Language Teaching Officer. She is also External Director of Studies for Sidney Sussex College. She is author of Rape and the Politics of … Continue reading "Dr Rosanna Omitowoju to speak on Competition and Aggression in Ancient Greek Culture" |
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Please find below the programme for this year’s ARLT Refresher Day to be held at Loughborough Grammar School on Saturday 2nd March 2013. The cost is £30 per person, including coffee, lunch and tea (£15 for Classics undergraduates or PGCE students); the booking deadline is 20th February; application forms and further details can be obtained by emailing … Continue reading "ARLT Refresher Day, Saturday 2nd March, Loughborough Grammar School"
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This year's CICERO Competition will take place on Saturday March 23rd at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham and at George Heriot's in Edinburgh. This year's theme is Alexander the Great. For details visit www.ciceroconcordia.com; to enter students please contact . |
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The Classics department at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that we are now accepting bookings for our annual 'Classics Texts Day' event. This free event, on Wednesday 27th March, consists of a day of lectures delivered by academic staff and doctoral researchers, which look at the AS and A2 Latin and Greek set texts … Continue reading "Classics Texts Day 2013, University of Reading"
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Following the resounding success of last year's Antigone, the classical students of St Paul's Girls' School are mounting a production of Sophocles's Electra in Greek, for one night only. With apologies for the late notice, the directors have decided to open this performance to teachers and pupils at other schools. The performance, which is abridged but fully staged, … Continue reading "Sophocles’s Electra in Greek at St Paul’s Girls’ School" |
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(From http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/news_and_press/press_releases/2012/pompeii_and_herculaneum.aspx) Latest news: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/pompeii_and_herculaneum.aspx 28 March – 29 September 2013 Reading Room Sponsored by Goldman Sachs In Spring 2013 the British Museum will present a major exhibition on the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, sponsored by Goldman Sachs. This exhibition will be the first ever held on these important cities at the British … Continue reading "Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum" |
