For teachers and advisors

Each spring we host a free Classics Texts Day aimed at 6th form students, to offer lectures relevant to their studies and to give them a taste of Classics at University. Last year we welcomed nearly 200 teachers and pupils from around the country for a programme of lectures on AS and A2 set texts and material culture, architecture, and archaeology.

Comments on last year's event included:

• "As we finish the term and start revising today's information will enable us to think with new and different perspectives in mind"
• "Thought provoking…has changed my views"
• "Erudite and fascinating!"

Please feel free to contact Professor Barbara Goff, departmental Schools Liaison Officer, for further details of future events.

Students from the Department run Minimus Latin Clubs in local primary schools.  If your school would be interested in discussing this with us, please contact Professor Barbara Goff.

We also regularly welcome A and AS level groups to the Ure Museum.

Members of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading are happy to give talks to local schools on A-level and other topics, such as those listed below.

Dr Emma Aston:

• Pits, swamps and winding tunnels: ancient oracles of the dead
• The gods in the Odyssey
• What was Greek animal sacrifice for?
• What did the Greek gods look like?

Dr David Carter:

• Aristophanes on war and women
• What did Medea do before she got to Corinth?
• Antigone: a twentieth-century success story
• How to start a Greek comedy
• Aristophanes: did he get what he deserved?
• Euripides and the power of persuasion

Dr Carter is also happy to talk specifically to any A level set texts that come from Greek tragedy or comedy

Dr Timothy Duff:

• Alexander the Great
• The Persian Wars
• The Peloponnesian War
• Plutarch's Lives

Professor Barbara Goff:

• Women in antiquity
• The classical tradition and the revived Olympics

Professor Goff is also happy to talk on any topic from tragedy

Dr Katherine Harloe:

• Homer
• Ancient Philosophy (Plato)
• Ancient Political thought
• Augustan poetry
• Classics since the Eighteenth Century

Dr Gill Knight:

• Latin love poetry
• Roman epic
• Latin letters and letter writing

Dr Peter Kruschwitz:

Dr Kruschwitz is happy to talk about any topic from Latin language and literature, including Latin inscriptions and graffiti

Dr Matthew Nicholls:

• Bread and Circuses - entertainment architecture in the Roman empire
• Virtual Rome - reconstructing Roman buildings

Dr Amy Smith:

• Fifth century Athens: Sculpture and politics
• Classical culture in a material world
• Art, myth, and politics in ancient Athens
• An Athenian Wedding
• Homeric' art in ancient Greece: the case of the Cyclops
• The Pan Painter's Lines

Dr Smith is also happy to talk about a range of topics in Greek and Roman art

Dr Phiroze Vasunia:

• Greeks and Barbarians
• Greece and Egypt
• Classics Transformed: Greek & Latin in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries (how study of the subject has changed in the last 150 years or so)