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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 … Continue reading “Classics Inspiration Day for Years 10 and 11 at St Swithun’s School, Winchester”
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British Museum Saturday 22 February 2014, 10.00 & 14.00 Stevenson Lecture Theatre £15, Members/concessions £12 Visit the British Museum site for news about the event! In these workshops for adults, … Continue reading “Alpha to Omega: Ancient Greek from Scratch (with Peter Jones)”
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On Thursday 13th February at 4:15pm Professor Robin Osborne will be speaking on the ‘Art & Architecture of the Athenian Acropolis‘ at Highgate School, N6 4AY. This is the third … Continue reading “ART & ARCHITECTURE OF THE ACROPOLIS – a talk by Professor Robin Osborne”
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On Monday 10th February, 7-8pm, Dr Dorothy J. Thompson will deliver the following talk at The King’s School, Canterbury: ‘Crocodiles & Kings: Hellenistic Egypt Recycled’ When Greeks and Romans visited Egypt as … Continue reading “‘Crocodiles & Kings: Hellenistic Egypt Recycled’, The King’s School, Canterbury”
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On Monday 3rd February at 4.30 pm, Dr Paul Millett will be speaking on: ‘Slavery and the Ancient Greeks’ The talk will discuss how dependent Greek society was upon slavery, and some of the … Continue reading “Dr Paul Millett to speak on Slavery and the Ancient Greeks”
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Notting Hill and Ealing High School Classics Society will be hosting a talk on Tuesday 28th of Janaury at 4.30pm. Professor Bert Smith, Lincoln College, Oxford will be speaking on: Art, text, … Continue reading “‘Art, text, and history in the Alexandrian Mosaic from Pompeii’”
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Dr Paul Roberts: “Pompeii and Herculaneum – bringing the exhibition to the British Museum” Date: Monday 20 January Time: 6pm (Doors Open at 5.45pm) Place: Duchesne Building, Room 004 Please … Continue reading “Paul Roberts on Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the BM Exhibition”
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‘Roots and Wings’ – the artistic tradition behind the sculptures of the Parthenon I am very pleased to invite you and your pupils to this talk hosted by St James Senior … Continue reading “‘Roots and Wings’ – the artistic tradition behind the sculptures of the Parthenon”
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This year’s Greek play from UCL is Aristophanes’ Clouds. The show will run from 11th to 13th February (2:30pm and 7:30; no matinee on the 11th), and rehearsals are under … Continue reading “Aristophanes’ ‘Clouds’, UCL’s Greek Play 2014”
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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 … Continue reading “Tradition and Reinvention in Greek Women’s Costume”
