Patterns of Magnificence: Tradition and Reinvention in Greek Women's Costume The Hellenic Centre & The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation Abundant in local variety, rich in embroidered and woven decoration and monumental in its completed ensemble, Greek traditional women’s dress has few equals in other countries. The exhibition, “Patterns of Magnificence: Tradition and Reinvention in Greek Women’s … Continue reading "Tradition and Reinvention in Greek Women’s Costume"
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"
Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment 28th of February 2014 4pm Anatomy Museum, King’s College London The performance spaces of fifth-century Athenian drama were in many respects radically different from anything we encounter in the modern era. Theatres were not so much buildings as landscape architecture. They were embedded in the natural landscape and offered their … Continue reading "‘Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment’, a Public Workshop"
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
For most of March, the Theatre Lab Company is bringing us Medea. Quoting their site... Medea By Euripides Directed by Anastasia Revi Medea is the story of a woman, a gypsy princess, a gifted sorceress who follows her heart to the prosperous West to be with Jason, a charming but ambitious Western aristocrat. He betrays … Continue reading "Medea, at the Riverside Studios"
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 CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION LONDON GREEK & LATIN READING COMPETITION 2014 The 2014 competition will be held on THURSDAY 6th MARCH at Queen’s College, 43-49 Harley Street London W1G 8BT (parking is not available at the school). The competition will be held in a single round. The event will begin at 2:00 pm and finish … Continue reading "London Greek and Latin Reading Competition"
On behalf of the Classical Association South West, Dr Sharon Marshall of Exeter University will deliver a lecture on Latin Love Poetry at King's College Taunton on Thursday 6th March at 7.15pm. The lecture will cover the genre of Love Poetry and will be particularly relevant to those students studying Ovid's Amores for AS Latin … Continue reading "Latin Love Poetry Lecture – King’s College Taunton. Thurs 6th March"
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"
The annual CICERO Concordia Competition will take place on Saturday March 22nd at the following centres: The Blue Coat School, Liverpool; Bristol Grammar School; George Heriot's School, Edinburgh; King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham; North London Collegiate School, Edgware and Wellington College, Crowthorne. CICERO is an international Latin translation and Classical culture competition … Continue reading "CICERO Concordia Competition 2014"
You are warmly invited to come and bring your students to St Swithun's first Classics Inspiration Day to be held on Tuesday 25 March from 10am to 3pm. We aim to give students taking GCSE in any Classical subject an insight into the manifold wonders of the Classics beyond their school text books with a … Continue reading "Classics Inspiration Day for Years 10 and 11 at St Swithun’s School, Winchester"
The Classics department at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that we are now accepting bookings for our annual ‘Ancient World Study Day’ event (formerly ‘Texts Day’). This free event, on Wednesday 26th March, consists of a day of lectures delivered by academic staff and doctoral researchers, which look at the AS and A2 Latin … Continue reading "Ancient World Study Day- University of Reading"
Professor Michael Trapp, from King's College London, is speaking at Channing School on Monday March 31st at 4:15pm. He will explore the life of Cato the Younger in discussing, 'Can A Roman Die like Socrates?' The talk is open to students in Years 10-13 but places are limited due to the building works that are … Continue reading "Can a Roman Die Like Socrates? Talk by Professor Michael Trapp, King’s College London"
On Tuesday 1st April the cast of the highly-acclaimed show UNMYTHABLE will be coming to the East Oxford Community Classics Centre to run a series of workshops throughout the day as part of our Classical Storytelling Day! At 4 -5pm they will be running a community myth and storytelling workshop. This will be suitable for … Continue reading "Classical myth and storytelling workshop"
Dr Rosie Wyles of King's College London will speak on Greek Tragedy at St. Paul's Way Trust School, London E3 4FT (nearest tube station Mile End, Central line). The talk will take place on 2nd April 2014 4-5:30 and is specifically aimed at students studying the OCR AS Classical Civilisation module 'Greek Tragedy in its context', … Continue reading "Greek Tragedy talk by Dr Rosie Wyles"