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The British School at Athens is delighted to invite UK school teachers to attend a free virtual CPD course, focussing on the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation module ‘The Homeric World’. The course is intended both for those who already teach the new GCSE (or similar specifications), and also for those who have never taught the subject … Continue reading "BSA Virtual Course | ‘The Homeric World’" |
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Stoicism and After: Philosophy and Life A Lawyers Group event with Professor A. C. Grayling, hosted by Sir Rupert Jackson. Tuesday 27 April | 18:00 BST Back by popular demand, Professor A. C. Grayling has generously offered to host a sequel to his recent talk on What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis. … Continue reading "Stoicism and After: Philosophy and Life"
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Tuesday 27th April at 7.30 p.m. (on Zoom) Dr Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin) How to retire (if you're a Roman emperor) On the 1st May 305, Diocletian and Maximian, who had ruled the Roman Empire together for twenty years, abdicated. This was an action without precedent in Roman history, and a radical departure from … Continue reading "“How to retire (if you’re a Roman emperor)” Dr Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin)" |
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From the folks at The Oxford Greek Play... We are excited to announce that tickets for this year’s Oxford Greek Play are now available to reserve via the Oxford Playhouse website! Orestes will be performed online on 28th April at 5pm. 'From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back...' It has … Continue reading "Oxford Greek Play"
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From the folks at the OGP... The Oxford Greek Play is a major educational and outreach event for schools, particularly for students approaching GCSEs and A-levels (or equivalent). This year's multimedia production, Euripides' Orestes, will be streamed live *at no cost* online on 28 April 2021 at 5pm. The recording of the premiere will then be … Continue reading "The Oxford Greek Play 2021, Orestes" |
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Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for an online creative writing workshop, via Zoom. We will use characters and themes from Greek mythology, and paintings from the Brighton Museum collection, as an inspiration for your work. Amanda will lead you through some short exercises to help you to build characters and get you … Continue reading "Greek mythology creative writing online workshop" |
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Due to the ongoing global situation with COVID-19, the Manchester & District Branch of the Classical Association has moved all of its lectures online on the platform Zoom. All events are open live to members, and recorded for their YouTube channel. You can become a member here, also via Pay-Pal: . You can also‘tip’ them at: https://ko-fi.com/manchesterca. There will be further events for members throughout the year, including a student-led and careers workshops … Continue reading "Blazing Blackness in Greek Antiquity"
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Tuesday 11th May at 7.30 pm Callum Armstrong will give an illustrated talk on 'Reconstructing the Sounds of Ancient Double Pipes', with musical examples. This will be a Zoom webinar, open to all. For a link to register, contact Callum is a professional musician and expert aulos player. He has, through research and experiment, … Continue reading "The Guildford Classical Association May Talk" |
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Classics for All, Historically with Professor Edith Hall, hosted by Professor Paul Cartledge. Wednesday 12 May | 18:00 BST We are delighted to be joined by Professor Edith Hall who will discuss her recent book, A People's History of Classics, co-written with Henry Stead. Exploring the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, … Continue reading "Classics for All, Historically"
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Wednesday 12th May 2021, 7pm – Dr Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) 'Homer's AI'. In this talk, Professor Liveley asks: What is the legacy of Homer’s intelligent machines? Beginning with Homer’s descriptions of relatively simple automata in the Iliad and Odyssey, this talk goes on to consider the more sophisticated models of artificial mind and machine cognition that these ancient poems describe, … Continue reading "Prof Genevieve Liveley (Bristol): ‘Homer’s AI’." |
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Online Lecture by Dr Sharon Marshall, University of Exeter Tuesday 18 May at 5.00pm (Online Lecture). At the end of Virgil’s catalogue of Italian allies in Book Seven of the Aeneid comes the warrior woman Camilla, an extraordinary woman, inured to battle and swift enough to race the winds. When war breaks out again between … Continue reading "‘Virgil’s Camilla, Warrior Queen’" |
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Classics for All Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Network Event Wednesday 19th May 2021, 3:30 – 5:30pm On Wednesday 19th May, you are invited to a Zoom meeting on Teacher Assessed Grades for Classics. As many of our colleagues are in single person departments, we think it would be good for colleagues to meet to support … Continue reading "Teacher Assessed Grades Support Forum" |
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Due to the ongoing global situation with COVID-19, the Manchester & District Branch of the Classical Association has moved all of its lectures online on the platform Zoom. All events are open live to members, and recorded for their YouTube channel. You can become a member here, also via Pay-Pal: . You can also‘tip’ them at: https://ko-fi.com/manchesterca. There will be further events for members throughout the year, including a student-led and careers workshops … Continue reading "Prostitutes, Youths and Potty-Mouthed Clowns: Who Swore in Ancient Greek and Why it Matters" |
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Classical Association Teaching Board/Classics for All/British School at Athens CPD on Ancient Athenian Inscriptions in UK Collections, 10am-4pm BST, 5th June 2021 (virtual event) Among the most enduring habits of the ancient world was the inscription of public and private documents and accounts on stone and other hard surfaces. From ancient Athens alone there survive … Continue reading ""
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