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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...
Maximum Classics
AUTHOR: Charlie Andrew, Director, CIC READ TIME: 10 MINS Latin and Greek for English vocabulary – an inclusive approach for all students and teachers Based on my experience of teaching Classical languages, one...
Around the UK in eighty days!
It’s been a busy start to the new academic year as CA branches across England and Wales have welcomed audiences to a variety of events this autumn – from podcaster Tristan Hughes’ visit...
Antigone: The Musical
AUTHOR: Marina McCready I first came across the Antigone story in a drama class in Year 9 and it stuck with me all the way to university, when I had an opportunity to study...
The Interwoven Roots of Plants and Greek Myths
AUTHOR: Dr Lorna Robinson Like many other people, the not-too-distant lockdowns created a space and stillness in my life which nature began to fill. From starting to recognise more of the little birds that...
Springtime in Swansea …
Author: Katrina Kelly Swansea University was the wonderful host of the 2022 CA Conference when hundreds (a classis of classicists?) flocked to the seaside to enjoy a weekend of papers, panels, pop-up discussions and plenty...
Introducing Vocabulous
AUTHOR: Lucy Huelin Vocabulous is an exciting new resource that aims to improve students’ English vocabulary by teaching Latin and Greek root word patterns in KS2/KS3 English lessons. Moreover, there is a significant “word gap”...
The CA Returns to Swansea
AUTHOR: Mai Musié In April 2022 the prestigious annual Classical Association conference took place at Swansea University. The conference was due to take place there in 2020, which would have been rather fitting as...
