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The Roman Theatre at Orange.
Copies will be available, but please bring the Penguin Classics edition, if you are able
Copies will be available, but please bring the Penguin Classics edition, if you are able.
Copies will be available of the translation in the Penguin Classics edition (Political Speeches of Cicero)
As usual we will depart by coach from Keele, about 8.30 a.m., returning late the same evening. On our outward journey, we shall visit the English Heritage site at Brougham Castle, near Penrith, which was built within the walls of the Roman fort of Brocavum. Admission is free for English and Scottish Heritage and Cadw members, so please bring cards if you have them. We will seek to raise enough money to pay for group admission for the rest, but this will depend on numbers, and we will decide on the day. Members are invited to bring packed lunches to eat at the castle site before proceeding to Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, on the Cumbrian coast. There is an extensive collection to see there, including many altar dedications.
The Museum is run by an independent trust, so again group admission will be obtained, if possible included in the advance cost of the day. There will as usual be a halt for more leisurely evening dining on the road home, at the Longland Hotel, Tewitfield, near Carnforth, where we halted on our return from our last Hadrian’s Wall visit. Those booking will be asked to choose from a menu either in the morning or in advance of the trip.
Exhibits from Senhouse Museum.
Final details of costs will be given with confirmed bookings, but these are expected to be about £25, exclusive of evening meal, depending on final costs of group entry. Further details will appear on this site before the trip.
The booking form may be downloaded here.
LECTURE: Dr Jason Konig (University of St Andrew's)
'THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND BEYOND: A LOOK AT PAST OLYMPICS IN THE LIGHT OF THE 2012 LONDON GAMES'
7.30 pm, Thursday 24 May 2012
Business Centre, Clayton Hall Business & Language College, ST5 3DN -
This talk looks at the history of the ancient Olympic games, which ran for more than 1000 years, from 776 BC to roughly AD 400. It focuses especially on some of the ancient documents which bring the experience of ancient athletes and spectators to life, gives special attention to Greek athletics in the Roman Empire (first to third centuries AD), when the Olympics were at their peak. Nearly every Greek city in that period had its own athletic festival, in many cases more than one, and prominent athletes were international stars, travelling far and wide across the Mediterranean world in pursuit of successive victories. It also looks as the connections between ancient athletics and the modern Olympic tradition, covering the use of classical tradition in the 1896 games in Athens and the 1936 games in Berlin, and more broadly at some of the similarities and differences between ancient and modern sport.
Greek A Greek Reading Group meets at a private house in Newcastle every three or four weeks, generally on a Tuesday evening. We continues to make our way through the JACT Greek Anthology, a collection that provides an introduction to Classical authors from Homer onwards. The revised date for the next meeting will be Tuesday 19 June 2012, to begin reading the Menander extract. There is now room for one or two new members. Some prior knowledge of Greek is required, but the atmosphere is relaxed and support is provided.
Latin The next meeting will be in the SCR itself, First Floor, Keele Hall, University of Keele, (not the Bar) at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday 6 June 2012. We shall continue reading the extracts from Martial's Epigrams supplied, from Book IX. LXXIV, on p.142 of the Penguin edition, "Iam parce lasso ...........". After this meeting it is expected that Martial will be complete and the group will begin reading a selection of Psalms in the Vulgate.
For further details, please contact the Hon. Secretary: Stephen Clifford, Tel: 01630-647765, email: northstaffsca@yahoo.co.uk