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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 Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Olympics, Ancient Rome, Ancient Sport, British Museum, Etruscans, European History, Greek Myths, Olympic Games, Sport History
This tag: Troy
Figureheads, Ship Badges and Silverware – Nineteenth Century Classical References in the National Maritime Museum This course was designed to delve into classical myths used in naval related items by examining some of the NMM collection of C19th objects and was run on Sunday 25th February 2018. Following on from the previous course we looked… Read more »
- Posted on: February 24, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Achilles, Ajax, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Cleopatra, European History, Greek Gods and Goddesses, Greek Myths, Greenwich, Julius Caesar, National Maritime Museum
This tag: Troy
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, 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, Two Noble Kinsmen, Venus and Adonis