Latin at Beaconsfield High School
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This is happening tonight (Wednesday 20th) at 8pm! A virtual tour of an incredible exhibition with an all-star team of guides! Highly recommended.
📢 Tomorrow! We’re going back to AD 79 for a tour of our 2013 Pompeii & Herculaneum exhibition over on Facebook and YouTube.
Join @bettanyhughes Peter Snow (and other guests including @wmarybeard) at 20.00 BST
Facebook: ow.ly/jNpi30qHrtp
YouTube: ow.ly/mZBc30qHrtZ
ALT A gold bracelet in the shape of a snake.
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Hello! A thread of opportunities for Year 12 A-level students in your school to take part in online to help prepare for university applications. Please do share!
The Mazi Theatre is putting on Euripides' harrowing anti-war play The Trojan Women in London from 30th June - 2nd July: eugreeka.com/the-trojan-wome…
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I get home to the news that a 3-meter marble statue of Trajan has been unearthed at Laodicea, near Pamukkale, Turkey. Looks to be in wonderful condition, even with the Parthian captive at Trajan's feet. Incredibly exciting! #roman #archaeology #Turkey #Anatolia
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Found in the school archive. Advice from 1926 about how to handle Latin exams... still very helpful today! #oldenisgolden
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Interested in taking a summer school in classical subject in July? Bookings have just opened for the Londinium Summer School, taught out of the ICS in Bloomsbury. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/londini… Adult learners can take courses for pleasure, MA credit or both!
Here's a full BBC radio programme on Ancient Greek Music:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09pl81…
Here's a fascinating little introduction to the reconstruction of Ancient Greek music (a tradition adopted by the Romans): youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0…
Princeton have started running a course which is taught exclusively in Latin, by popular request of their undergraduates! youtube.com/watch?v=BMfnw6oB…
A reinterpretation of Adele's Hello as an Ovidian exile poem! medium.com/in-medias-res/sal…
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King #Ashurbanipal’s Library contained thousands clay tablets covering everything from magic to medicine, politics to palaces.
The Library is one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made – find out why in our Curator’s blog post: ow.ly/d5mc30mDlUY
The amazing Oliver Taplin (author of The Stagecraft of Aeschylus and Greek Tragedy in Action, among other things) is speaking @blackwelloxford about his new translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia next week.
"I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria" - exhibition now on @britishmuseum britishmuseum.org/whats_on/e… youtu.be/0OZe-y5tk9Q
Explore the connections between storytelling and textile-making in women’s lives from ancient Greece to modern London through workshops and a storytelling performance at: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/special…
