Theme: Revealing the Ancient World
From discoveries at Must Farm Bronze Age settlement to fieldwork at Crossrail’s new Liverpool Street station, find out what we are learning about the Ancient World.
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John Dryden: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias
The Restoration playwright Dryden reinvents this oft-recounted classical myth with brilliant comic invention and a moving sense of human lives turned awry by forces they cannot resist.
John Dryden: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias
The Restoration playwright Dryden reinvents this oft-recounted classical myth with brilliant comic invention and a moving sense of human lives turned awry by forces they cannot resist.
John Dryden: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias
The Restoration playwright Dryden reinvents this oft-recounted classical myth with brilliant comic invention and a moving sense of human lives turned awry by forces they cannot resist.
John Dryden: Amphitryon; Or, The Two Sosias
The Restoration playwright Dryden reinvents this oft-recounted classical myth with brilliant comic invention and a moving sense of human lives turned awry by forces they cannot resist.
Learning Latin the Ancient Way
What was it like to learn a foreign language 2,000 years ago? What did the Romans teach learners about life and manners in Rome? Did they learn grammar? Why did they give beginners bilingual texts?
Women Classical Scholars in and Since the Renaissance
Learn about the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Edith Hall, editor of Women Classical Scholars, explains how these women faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions. Nevertheless they continued to teach, edit, translate and analyse the texts left to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Discoveries at Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement
A recent 10-month excavation by Cambridge Archaeological Unit, funded by Historic England and Forterra, provided a rare window back in time to a Bronze Age stilted settlement in the Cambridgeshire fens. The settlement consisted of several roundhouses supported on piles above a river channel, surrounded by a high wooden palisade. The effects of a catastrophic fire that destroyed the settlement 3000 years ago, combined with waterlogged burial conditions, have led to the survival of several roundhouses and hundreds of unique artefacts.
Aldborough: Exploring a buried Roman town
Beneath the picturesque North Yorkshire village of Aldborough, lie buried the remains of a major Roman town. Isurium Brigantum was once the capital of the tribe of the Brigantes who occupied much of northern Britain. Excavations in the 19th century revealed elements of its plan and a number of impressive mosaics, but our understanding of it has remained limited because of the later village. Learn about some exciting new insights into the site's history.
The Emperor Hadrian (reigned AD 117-138) and His Travels
Join historian Anthony Birley as he discusses Hadrian’s travels and his passion for hellenic (Greek) culture. Learn how Hadrian sought to give the Greek-speaking parts of the Empire renewed self-confidence, with Athens the centre of a new ‘Panhellenic League’.
