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 »
This course ran at the City Lit on Monday 28th July 2014 and was a revised version of Days 2 and 3 of the Introduction to the European Galleries in the British Museum from 2013. We surveyed Etruscan and Roman history in its days of glory and empire illustrated in the afternoon by a visit… Read more »