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Classics Beyond Borders
This Summer, the Classical Association of Ghana hosted the 2024 conference, which was supported by the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, the University of Toronto and the Loeb Foundation....
In Memoriam: Barbara Finney
Author: Lindsey Davis We are saddened to report the death of Barbara Finney (1941-2024), former Vice President and Officer of the Classical Association. Barbara was a secondary school teacher, an examiner and a...
The East London Classics Summer School
AUTHOR: Sarah Merali-Smith Course Director Sarah reports back on this year’s ELCSS – one of several fantastic summer schools which the CA is proud to support. To find out more about our outreach activity...
Persephone’s Poets
The winners in our 2024 Poetry Competition certainly brought their A game in translation and delighted us with their creative flair for original compositions. Writers took us on an emotional rollercoaster from the...
Sapere Aude: Dare to Know
AUTHOR: Claire Woozley Read part 1 in Claire’s series here The house is hushed. Upstairs, the children have quieted, finally relenting to sleep whilst downstairs, the chores are done, and the kitchen now darkened....
Athena Society: using history to tackle misogyny in schools
AUTHOR: Laura Aitken-Burt On Monday 14th June 2021, the CA hosted a virtual event for schoolteachers, designed to provide information, and dispel myths, about presenting at a CA conference as a teacher. Devised and...
A Weekend in Warwick
This March, we headed to the University of Warwick for the 2024 CA Conference, where hundreds of delegates from across the world came to share their research, exchange ideas and build friendship and...
Wild Visions in Sheffield
In January, thanks to a grant from the Classical Association and organisation from Sarah Fryer (Sheffield High School for Girls) and Gina Johnson (High Storrs School), the Sheffield and District CA branch held...
Nabataean Coins: A Royal Rebrand
AUTHOR: Han Parker Our Expert in Residence, Hannah Parker (@historical_han), shares some of her latest research in a CA Member exclusive by exploring the shift in the way in which Nabataean kings appeared...
Classical Texts in the KS3 English Curriculum
AUTHOR: Claire Woozley Early January in a busy, urban school and I’m lucky enough to be watching lessons centred around Simon Armitage’s earthy translation of The Odyssey. Having worked closely with our trust-wide English...
In Memory: Prof. Richard Seaford
AUTHOR: Lorem Ipsum It was with great sadness that the Association learned of the death of Richard Seaford, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Richard was President of...
Croeso i Gaerdydd: Classics past, present and future
Thanks to the vision of Danny Pucknell (Cardiff and Vale College), Laurence Totelin and Maria Fragoulaki (both School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University), former and current classicists came together in the...
Reading Ancient Schoolroom
AUTHOR: Eleanor Dickey What were Roman schools really like? Of course we know a lot about them in an abstract sense: children worked individually at their own pace, they wrote on wax tablets and...
Ancient Greek Alive – Frogs on Film!
AUTHOR: Lorem Ipsum Athens, 405 B.C. The city finds itself devoid of talented poets. Consequently, the god Dionysus, accompanied by his slave Xanthias, embarks on a journey to the Underworld to retrieve the renowned...
Celebrating in Cambridge
READ TIME: 10 MINS Our Engagement Co-ordinator Katrina Kelly reflects on CA 2023 and the range of events we enjoyed across the weekend. Devised and hosted by the CA’s Outreach Officer, a former schoolteacher...
A Special Recognition
READ TIME: 10 MINS We are delighted that our very own Outreach Officer and Chair of the Classics Development Group, Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, has been made an MBE by King Charles III for Services...
What does the CA mean to you?
READ TIME: 10 MINS 2023 marks 120 years of the Classical Association and we’re taking this opportunity to reflect upon some of our work to widen access to classical subjects over the past century:...
A brand new branch!
AUTHOR: Graham Barrett READ TIME: 10 MINS On 11 May 2023 the Classical Studies programme at the University of Lincoln was delighted to host Professor Thomas Harrison, recently appointed Keeper of the Department of Greece...
Artefacts in Action
AUTHOR: Chloe Lewis READ TIME: 10 MINS Classics teacher Chloe Lewis explains how her passion for teaching classics in interesting ways, with a focus on ancient objects, led her to start a new venture… ...
Autism Awareness Day: Myth and Reality
AUTHOR: Cora Beth Fraser READ TIME: 10 MINS This Sunday is World Autism Awareness Day, which sounds like a magical day of celebration for autistic people like me. But like everything else in life, the...
Sardis – A Classical Wonder
READ TIME: 10 MINS In our latest blog, Year 12 student Altan Mardin, who has a keen interest in archaeology, tells us all about his recent trip to Sardis. Atop the Acropolis, looking out...
