Classics Department

Extra Curricular events: spring term 2008

Below is a list of what is going on this term.  Ask your Classics teacher if you would like more details of any event. 

* Events with asterisks mean that you will need to have returned a permission slip: ask your Classics teacher for a letter.

Remember, Classics Society meets every Friday in Room 26 at 1.15 p.m.  All 1st and 2nd years are welcome.

Thursday 24 January
Lecture at LEH:. Llewelyn Morgan, Brasenose College, Oxford: Aeneas, Hercules and the Italians. 4.15 p.m.
Sixth form Classicists and interested 4th and 5th formers

Friday 1 February
2nd year reading competition: Classics Society, Room 26, 1.15 p.m. Open to all 2nd years – come and support your friends!  Prizes to be won.
2nd years 

* Wednesday 6 February
Play: Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, performed in Greek with English subtitles. 7 p.m., the Greenwood Theatre, King’s College, London.  Preceded by a lecture at 6 p.m.
Sixth form Classicists, all Greek students and interested 4th and 5th formers
www.lfgd.co.uk 

Tuesday – Thursday 12-14 February (during half term)
Play: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, performed in English. 7.30 p.m. at the Bloomsbury Theatre, University College, London.
Sixth form Classicists and interested 4th and 5th formers
www.lfgd.co.uk 

Thursday 14 February (during half term)
Workshop / lecture: Chris Vervain: Mask and Chorus in Ancient Greek Theatre. 1.15 p.m. at The Studio, Bloomsbury Theatre (see above)
Sixth form Classicists, interested 4th and 5th formers and Sixth form Theatre Studies students
www.lfgd.co.uk 

Saturday 23 February
Play: Cloudcuckooland, based on Aristophanes’ comedy Birds. 12 midday at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith.
1st years
www.onassis.ox.ac.uk 

Thursday 28 February
Lecture: Dr. Richard Hawley: The Evil Inside: Women in Greek Tragedy. 6.30 p.m. at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum.
Sixth form Classicists, interested 4th and 5th formers and Sixth form Theatre Studies students
www.lfgd.co.uk 

Friday 7 March
1st year reading competition: Classics Society, Room 26, 1.15 p.m.  Open to all 1st years – come and support your friends!  Prizes to be won.
1st years 

Tuesday 11 March
Lecture: Bob Cowan, Balliol College, Oxford: Hoodies in Togas and Consuls with Pitchforks: How the Romans learned to stop worrying and love the countryside.  4.30 p.m. at HAMPTON SCHOOL LECTURE THEATRE.
4th and 5th year Latin students (this lecture is specifically aimed at those doing the Town and Country set texts from the Cambridge Latin Anthology); also Sixth form Classicists and Classicists from local schools 

* Saturday 15 March
1st and 2nd year Classics Society excursion: The British Museum, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
1st and 2nd years 

Finally….

There are five national or international Classical competitions you can enter this term.  Two are essay-writing, one is poetry translation, one is mythology and one is art.  For more details of all of these, pick up our separate Competition pages, certamina, available from your Classics teacher. 

If you hear of anything else Classical going on, please let us know……thanks!