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30-second ancient Rome
A blog post from Dr Matthew Nicholls I’m delighted to announce the publication of ‘30-second ancient Rome’, a compact guide to fifty of the most important topics and people in ancient Roman history....
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Experiencing Ancient Education: the Reading ancient schoolroom
A blog post from Eleanor Dickey. Above: A Roman relief from Trier showing part of an ancient school, and Below: Reading’s Emma Aston modelling a costume based on that relief. On November 19th the...
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Enthusiasm for ‘Experiencing Ancient Education’ pours in from participants
Participants in Reading’s ‘Experiencing Ancient Education’ event, at which we re-created a Roman schoolroom and invited local children to experience the type of exercises done in ancient schools, have...
View ArticleReading research features in The Spectator
The Christmas issue of The Spectator features a discussion of new research from the Reading Classics department, on how Latin was taught in antiquity. See...
View ArticlePublication of Europe’s oldest children’s book completed at Reading
The recent publication of the Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana volume II, by Reading Classicist Eleanor Dickey, completes the work begun with her 2012 volume and makes available for the...
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Dr Nicholls awarded a BA Rising Star Engagement Award.
Post from Dr Nicholls I am delighted to have been awarded a British Academy ‘Rising Star’ Engagement Award (BARSEA). The BARSEA scheme is intended to allow humanities researchers at a relatively early...
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Welcome to our new Fulbright scholar
Reading Classics extends an enthusiastic welcome to Bill Beck, who will be joining us for the 2015-16 academic year. Currently finishing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Bill...
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Visiting Roma Christiana
There is no contest: Rome is now by far my favourite city. With its ancient monuments and plethora of excavated ruins, juxtaposed with new buildings, expensive cars and tourists on Segways, Rome is an...
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Reading Ancient Schoolroom returns on 27th and 28th January
Our wildly popular ‘Experiencing Ancient Education’ event, run last year as part of the Being Human festival, returns this year as a stand-alone event on 27th and 28th January. Staff and students are...
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Reading Ancient Schoolroom
The Reading Ancient Schoolroom welcomed more than 100 participants to campus on 27th and 28th January. Groups from Farnborough Hill School, Leweston School, St Gabriels School, and Langley Academy, as...
View ArticleClassics Summer Schools
By Rachael Hopley, Finalist, BA Classics Being a classics student you are really spoilt for choice when it comes to summer schools. There are opportunities to brush up on your ancient language skills...
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30-second ancient Rome
A blog post from Dr Matthew Nicholls I’m delighted to announce the publication of ‘30-second ancient Rome’, a compact guide to fifty of the most important topics and people in ancient Roman history....
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Revolutions and Classics workshop
‘Revolutions and Classics’, a one-day workshop at University College London, Friday July 22nd 2016. Researchers in classical reception are increasingly intrigued by the political significances of...
View ArticleThe legacy of ancient Greek politics, from Antigone to Xenophon (OUP Blog)
“This piece first appeared on the OUPblog April 14th 2016”. By Barbara Goff and Miriam Leonard April 14th 2016 What do the pamphlets of the English Civil War, imperial theorists of the eighteenth...
View ArticleRevolutions and Classics
Revolutions and Classics, hosted by The Classical Reception Studies Network and the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network with the support of the UCL Department of Greek and Latin and the...
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Clytemnestra in your living room? Greek Tragedy on the Small Screen
It’s not often that the ancient Greek adulteress and murderer graces the cover of the Radio Times – still less often does she wear a costume that combines Minoan art with Doctor Who. But Diana Rigg’s...
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Reading Classicist publishes a book in Dutch
Professor Eleanor Dickey’s book ‘Stories of Daily Life in the Roman World’ has been published — in Dutch! This book focusses on a subset of the ancient Latin-learning materials she published in...
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Interaction in Imperial Greek Literature Workshop
This September, the University of Reading hosted a workshop, which showcased postgraduate research on the theme of interaction in imperial Greek literature. The workshop resulted from informal...
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Professor Amy Smith gives prestigious Trendall Lecture
C.W Götzloff, Antiquities by a Balcony Overlooking the Gulf of Naples, 1826 This term Professor Amy C. Smith is one of 18 international scholars (and 3 Classicists) selected as to be a Visiting...
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Latin mottos and a pioneering astrophysicist
When I ventured up to the observatory at Mt. Stromlo, a veritable jewel in the crown of the Australian National University (where I’m currently a Visiting Researcher) little did I expect to find...
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