Events

WARWICK ANCIENT DRAMA FESTIVAL SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS KING, 30-31 JANUARY 2020 GENEROUSLY FUNDED BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY Following the success of the 2018 and 2019 festivals on Medea and Frogs (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/medea2018/ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/dramafestival/frogs/), the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick would like to invite teachers and students to this year's Ancient Drama Festival, which will focus … Continue reading "WARWICK ANCIENT DRAMA FESTIVAL: SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS KING, 30-31 JANUARY 2020"

Watford Grammar School for Girls Trojan Women production The WGGS Drama and Classics Departments are proud to be performing Euripides’ Trojan Women as our school production this year. The play is set in a refugee camp on outskirts of Troy in the aftermath of the Trojan War. With all the men dead, the women are … Continue reading "Watford Grammar School for Girls Trojan Women production"

Greek Drama Day – King’s College London, Friday 31 January 2020, 1.30pm We are delighted to offer an exciting day of talks and workshops for school students and teachers of Ancient Greek Drama, entirely for free. This day will explore some of the big issues facing those studying, teaching, and staging Ancient Greek Drama, including how to make it accessible … Continue reading "Greek Drama Day at KCL"

An exciting opportunity for VIth Form pupils to attend lectures and seminars given by university lecturers. Wednesday February 5th 2020, Leicester University Pupils: £8 Staff (including lunch): £15 Book online at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emact-vith-form-classics-day-tickets-88806096425 Bookings will close 31st January 2020 at 16:00.

12th-14th February 2020 Idealistic thoughts of good peace terms? General critiques of political policy? Citizens rejecting the leadership to whom it now follows? Nearly 2,500 years later and still the political themes present in Aristophanes’ Frogs are of great pertinence to us today. Yet, with our millennial majority rapidly transforming society, is the ‘new’ directing … Continue reading "UCL Classics Play 2020: Aristophanes’ Frogs"

This programme of lectures is designed to support students and teachers taking GCSE and A level Classics Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications, and is coordinated by Advocating Classical Education and the British Museum. For all further information and to book go to: https://www.britishmuseum.org/school-lecture-classical-civilisation-and-ancient-history Troy: the World of the Hero For Teachers  The British Museum's exhibition … Continue reading "OCR Classics in 20 British Museum Objects"

The 2020 KCL play is based on Euripides’ Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs. It will run 26-28th February. Further information is available here... https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-classics/dionysus-in-the-underworld-bacchae-frogs-kings-greek-play-2020?sfns=mo