Collectors at the British Museum
This course was due to run at the City Lit but did not take place in the end. One of the collectors involved was Charles Townley. Slides below refer to some of his collection in the museum. Townley
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Roman Women
The Lives and Importance of women in Republican and Imperial Ancient Rome and Roman Britain including the importance of the worship of goddesses. This course was run at the City Lit and British Museum on Saturday 2nd March 2019. It covered the contrasting roles of women in different parts of Roman society in the Republic…
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Sport in the Classical World
I run a tour at the British Museum inspired by the Olympic Games which covers the origin of the Ancient Olympics and what events were covered in those games. We can discuss how modern games differ from and are similar to their ancient cousins. The tour also covers some of the games not at Olympia…
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Great Sea Battles from the Classical World
Great Sea Battles from the Classical World – Salamis, Syracuse and Actium A general look at ships and sailing techniques in the Ancient World and how vessels were used in warfare. This course was run at the National Maritime Museum on Sunday 25th March 2018. We looked at the strategies used by navies in…
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An introduction to the Etruscan and Roman galleries at the British Museum
This course ran at the City Lit and the British Museum on Monday 27th July 2015. We had some background to Etruscan and Roman myths and history in the morning and a two hour tour of the museum in the afternoon. The handouts included Archaic Etruscan alphabet gods The Twelve Cities Roman timeline 2015
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Etruscan and Roman Mythology
This course ran at the City Lit on Monday 28th July 2014 and was a revised version of Days 2 and 3 of the Introduction to the European Galleries in the British Museum from 2013. We surveyed Etruscan and Roman history in its days of glory and empire illustrated in the afternoon by a visit…
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The Portland Vase: its place in Roman History
This topic was day two of a five part introduction to the European Galleries of the British Museum run at the City Lit and the Museum on 24 July 2013. I hope to re-run the course in summer 2014. We surveyed Roman history in its days of glory and empire illustrated by key artefacts including…
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The Trojan War
The Trojan War in History, Art and Literature at the City Lit was held on Sunday 27 January 2013. I expanded this into a tree day course on Saturdays 7th, 21st and 28th October 2017. We examined the causes, progress and aftermath of this famous war using the art and literature of Ancient Greece and later….
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The Etruscans: An Introduction
This course was being run by the City Lit on Saturday 13th April 2013, Saturday 29th April 2017, Sunday 27th October 2019 and as an online course via Zoom on Sundays 5th and 12th December 2021. During the pandemic lockdown I also gave this as an online course on Sunday 25th October 2020. On Saturday…
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Greek Heroes
This course was run at the City Lit on 19 November 2011 as a follow up to the course on the Trojan War. Below are the notes I made to run the course. I repeated the course on Saturday 21st June 2014 with some further handouts. Heracles handout Plays on the Heroes gods For those…
