This tag: Ancient Rome
Great Voyages from Greek and Roman Myths – Jason, Odysseus and Aeneas A detailed examination of the voyages and their fantastical encounters relating them to reality. This course was run at the National Maritime Museum on Sunday 28th January 2018. It was repeated at the City Lit on Saturday 18th January 2020 and then online… Read more »
- Posted on: January 22, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Aeneas, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Argonauts, Circe, Dido, Greek Myths, Homer, Jason, Maritime Greenwich, Medea, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, National Maritime Museum, Odysseus, Polyphemus, Roman Myths, Scylla and Charybdis, Virgil
This tag: Ancient Rome
Shakespeare and the Classical World This course was held at the City Lit on Saturday 11th November 2017. It was repeated online during the pandemic over three Friday evenings on 5th, 12th and 19th February 2021. A quarter of Shakespeare’s major works were based on stories from the Classical World and have influenced our view… Read more »
- Posted on: November 7, 2017
- Featured in History, Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Also tagged A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Achilles, Actium, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Antony and Cleopatra, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Celtic History, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, European History, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Ovid, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Classical World, Shakespeare400, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Troy, Two Noble Kinsmen, Venus and Adonis
This tag: Ancient Rome
This was a one day course run as a collaboration between the City Lit and the National Maritime Museum at the Queen’s House in Greenwich on Saturday 22nd July 2017. The course was inspired by the new hang of artworks in the Queen’s House and in particular the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of his friend Captain… Read more »
- Posted on: July 21, 2017
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Achilles, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, British Kings and Queens, British Museum, Enlightenment, European History, Free British Museum Tour, Greenwich, Influence of Classical Art, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Queen's House, Tour of the British Museum, Tour of the Queen's House, Troy