Written by Please find below the details of the speakers and timings; the event is free to attend but it would be very useful if you could send an email to ) to let her know if you and/or your students are planning to attend.
The event is targeted primarily at GCSE and A-Level students of Latin and Classical Civilisation, though all are very welcome.
Please get in touch with Alice if you have any questions; and do please share this news with other teachers and students of Classics. We would like to reach as many schools as possible, to share this and other events run by the Virgil Society.
Saturday 17th January: 11.45-4pm
Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House
11.45: Welcome and introduction
Alice Bolland, South Hampstead High School GDST / UCL
12.00 – 12.30: Why do we study Virgil?
Professor Matthew Leigh, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
12.35 – 1.15: Setting the scene in Aeneid 2
Henry Tang, Headington School
1.20 – 2.15: Coffee / lunch break*
2.15 – 3.00: Virgil’s women and relationships in Aeneid 4
Rosie Turnor, South Hampstead High School GDST
3.05 – 3.45: The glory of Rome and the symbolism of the tree in the Aeneid
Jonathan Barnes, UCL
*Please note, we will not be providing lunch
