William Sterling
Past Events
December 2022
British Museum Highlights – Around The World In 70 Minutes
These tours of the British Museum last 70 minutes and take in up to 12 highlights from the museum's vast collection. They are at 11:30 am and 2:00 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The tours cover both main floors of the museum plus some of the side rooms and examine objects from Africa, Europe, Asia, America and the Pacific from many different eras. We work on a four week rota and mine are on a Sunday. The dates for…
Find out more »The Queen’s House Greenwich
This tour was devised for a course entitled “Gods and Heroes: the influence of the Classical World on art in the C17th & C18th” at the Queen’s House in 2017 as the Queen’s House itself is the first neo-classical building in Britain and many of the objects displayed in it demonstrate the influence of the Classical World. This virtual tour takes advantage of images from when the Queen’s House was furnished to recreate how it looked in the Seventeenth Century…
Find out more »June 2024
Women in Ancient Greece
Using literary sources and the British Museum, as well as other artefacts, we compare and contrast the attitude of Ancient Greeks to women in society, as figures in mythology, and as goddesses. The contrasting roles of women in Ancient Greece from other ancient societies and the difference in class. The numerous female goddesses will be examined and how their attributes reflected the view of men. These goddesses will include Athene, Hera, Aphrodite, Artemis, Hestia and Demeter along with some of…
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