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Ships and sailing techniques and naval warfare in the Ancient World. What is the course about? A general look at ships and sailing techniques in the Ancient World and how vessels were used in warfare. What topics will we cover? We shall look at the strategies used by navies in the ancient world and specifically… Read more »
- Posted on: March 27, 2021
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- Also tagged Agrippa, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Naval Warfare, Ancient Rome, Augustus, Battle of Actium, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Syracuse, European History, Naval Warfare, Triremes, Xerxes
This tag: Antony and Cleopatra
A quarter of Shakespeare’s major works were based on stories from the Classical World and have influenced our view of the Classical World ever since. What is the course about? We shall examine the plays inspired by myths and history from Ancient Greece and Rome. We shall be looking at the plots of these briefly… Read more »
- Posted on: February 5, 2021
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- Also tagged A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Art History, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Greek Myths, Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Troy
This tag: Antony and Cleopatra
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, Ancient Rome, 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