This tag: Ancient Greece
I run a tour at the British Museum inspired by the Olympic Games which covers the origin of the Ancient Olympics and what events were covered in those games. We can discuss how modern games differ from and are similar to their ancient cousins. The tour also covers some of the games not at Olympia… Read more »
- Posted on: July 26, 2019
- Featured in British Museum Eyeopener Tours, History, History features
- Also tagged Achilles, Ancient History, Ancient Olympics, Ancient Rome, Ancient Sport, British Museum, Etruscans, European History, Greek Myths, Olympic Games, Sport History, Troy
This tag: Ancient Greece
This was a one day course originally run at the Queen’s House and National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on 22 July 2017. What is the course about? Ever since the Renaissance artists in Western Europe had been discovering the beauty and majesty of statues and other works of art from the worlds of Ancient Greece… Read more »
- Posted on: May 11, 2019
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- Also tagged Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Art in the C17th, Art in the C18th, British Art, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Enlightenment, European History, Greenwich, Inigo Jones, Joshua Reynolds, National Maritime Museum, Queen's House
This tag: Ancient Greece
This course ran at the City Lit and the British Museum on Saturday 15th October 2016. I also ran it as a three day course between Saturday 3rd and Saturday 17th November 2018. During the pandemic I ran the course twice online over three evenings: 15th, 22nd and 29th January 2021 and 16th, 23rd and 30th… Read more »
- Posted on: November 24, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, British Museum, Colossus of Rhodes, European History, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Pharos of Alexandria, Pyramids, Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Wonders of the World and the British Museum, Temple of Artemis, Zeus