Tuesday 22nd January

Tuesday 5th February

Monday 11th February

Monday 25th February

Monday 4th March

Monday 18th March

Monday 25th March

Tuesday 2 April – Thursday 4th April

June

July

Monday 19th August – Friday 23rd August

Introduction to Latin Course

Theatre Visit: Euripides’ Trojan Women

Lecture: Professor Martin Goodman (Wolfson College, Oxford) - “Titus and Berenice and the Destruction of Jerusalem”

Lecture: Dr Armand D’Angour (Jesus College, Oxford) - “The Joy of Sex: The Pleasure of Latin (and Greek) Love Poetry”

Lecture: Dr Sarah Cohen (Magdalen College, Oxford) - “Criminals, Foreigners, Founders: Stories about the Origins of the Roman People.”

Lecture: Professor Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck College, University of London)- “Model Roman wives”

Lecture: Dr Peter Thonemann (Wadham College, Oxford) - ‘Why Ancient Greek Men Are Always Naked’

Drucker Easter Study Skills School

British Museum Study Day

BSix Rome Tour

Wadham Classics Summer School

BSix College

UCL

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Birkbeck/British Museum

Rome

Wadham College, Oxford

The East End Classics Centre

Academic Calendar 2013

Aspire Study Achieve

MARTIN GOODMANProfessor Goodman is a Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford University. His research interests are primarily in the political, social and religious history of the Jews in the Roman Empire. He has focussed in particular on the relation-ship of the Jews to the wider Roman world in which they lived.

ARMAND D’ANGOURDr D’Angour is a tutor in Classics at Oxford University. Before entering academia, Dr D’Angour pursued a career as a cellist and as a businessman. He has written articles on ancient language, literature and culture, and has a particular interest in Greek music and metre. He was com-missioned by Major Boris Johnson to pen a Latin ode to the 2012 Olympics.

SARAH COHENDr. Sarah Cohen is a lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford; she has also taught in Canada and the United States. Her research is focused on the relationship between Roman criminal law and the social and cultural history of Rome. She is currently working on a book about exile in the early Roman empire, and has published articles on the development of Roman criminal law and on the role of exile in Cicero’s writings.

PETER THONEMANNPeter Thonemann teaches ancient history and archaeology at Wadham College, Oxford. He writes regularly on Greek and Roman history for the Times Literary Supplement, and is the author (with Simon Price) of The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (Penguin, 2010).”

CATHARINE EDWARDSCatharine Edwards is Professor of Classics & Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research to date has engaged with various areas of scholarship, including cultural identities in ancient Rome and modern responses to Roman antiq-uity. Her current research projects include an edition of selected letters of Seneca and she will be presenting a three-part series on Roman imperial women on BBC4 in March 2013.

Speaker Bios

For more information, please contact Ed Durbin edurbin@bsix.ac.uk