I first ran a course at the City Lit on this on 12 February 2012 ready for the Olympics coming to London. I also run private tours on the same subject at the British Museum and ran several during the Olympics. In 2015 the joint City Lit/UCL/British Museum annual Classics Day on Saturday 7th March… Read more »
The 2015 City Lit Classics Day is entitled “Portraiture and the representation of the body in the Classical World.” Speakers are from the City Lit, University College London and the British Museum. Topics covered include “Appearances of the body in Roman literature”, “Physical representations of heroism and death in the Iliad”, “Greek images of beautification… Read more »
How did the Romans and Ancient Greeks entertain themselves? This course will look at the ways in which Greeks and Romans found entertainment: through theatre and Music, Sports and Games, and Drinking Parties. The Contrasting attitudes of the Greeks and Romans to the theatre as well as some of the plots of surviving plays. Although… Read more »