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 »
The British Museum holds astonishing artefacts which colour our understanding of Medieval society. We offer an overview of the period in the morning and study key artefacts, including the Sutton Hoo Ship burial and Lewis chessmen in the Museum in the afternoon. The British Museum dates the start of the Middle Ages from the acceptance… Read more »