Discover Ancient Civilisations - Online Courses
Delve into stories of classics and the ancient world, learn the languages and explore their cultures. Courses are available on weekdays, evenings and weekends.
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- Art and iconography on the ancient proto-Silk RoadCourse start date: Mon 29 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Hugo CookCome and discover how art and iconography were used to share thoughts and ideas between very far-off cultures.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 - From mythical heroines to the emperor's subjects: epistolography in the Roman EmpireCourse start date: Tue 30 Jan 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiFind out more about epistolography (letter writing) as a literary genre in the Roman world.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - The Odyssey reading group (in translation)
Course start date: Wed 31 Jan 2024 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Justin MurrayHomer’s epic tale of Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War may now be over 2,500 years old but it still has much to tell us about the Ancient Greek world that is still relevant today. Explore this great work in translation.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Ancient cities St. Paul knewCourse start date: Thu 1 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael BloomfieldDiscover eight intriguing ancient cities, amazing places to visit today, but raw and turbulent in their Graeco-Roman heyday.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £135.00 Concession £110.00 - Interactions between the Mediterranean world and Anglo-Saxon EnglandCourse start date: Fri 2 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Stephen PollingtonThis talk will explore some of the connections which maintained the Anglo-Saxons' feeling that Rome was part of their heritage.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Connections and trading between the ancient Mediterranean and AsiaCourse start date: Fri 2 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Roberta MarinThis talk will explore the different commercial routes that crisscrossed the vast area between Central Asia, the Mediterranean basin and the Arabian Peninsula.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00 - Connections in the ancient Mediterranean worldCourse start date: Sat 3 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
A day of lectures about the connections that existed around the Mediterranean in the ancient world. Anyone with a love of the history is welcome. No previous knowledge required.Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00 - Deciphering the Rosetta StoneCourse start date: Sat 10 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Hugo Cook200 years after one of history’s most famous puzzles was deciphered, tour around the British Museum’s new Decipherment exhibition and learn how the mystery of Hieroglyphs was unravelled with the Rosetta Stone, with other archaeological clues, and with a bit of genius.Full fee £59.00 - Art of ancient Central AsiaCourse start date: Sat 24 Feb 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberta MarinDiscover the establishment and the development of Islamic art in Central Asia. - Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul: the story of an iconic cityCourse start date: Sat 23 Mar 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Roberta MarinDiscover the multilayered history of the city from the origins to the end of the Ottoman Empire.Full fee £59.00 - Everyday Life in the Roman EmpireCourse start date: Thu 18 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbAn opportunity to find about how daily life was for ordinary people in the Roman Empire.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 - The Coming of the Sea Peoples: The Trojan War in the context of Mycenaean Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze AgeCourse start date: Thu 18 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Sean GabbThe Late Bronze Age is a story of collapse, from New Kingdom Egyptian to Hittite Anatolia, from the Assyrian Empire to Babylonian turmoil. Mycenaean Greece is a part of this and the Coming of the Sea Peoples is a terror that echoes through the pages of history. Come learn about how the world as we knew it ended!
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £169.00 Senior fee £169.00 Concession £110.00 - Isis, Mithras and Christ: iconography and mythologyCourse start date: Wed 24 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael BloomfieldAn introduction to the history, essential beliefs, mythology, and iconography, of three influential religions
of the Graeco-Roman world: Isis, the mystery cult devoted to Mithras and Christ.Full fee £199.00 - Ancient Greek drama: an introductionCourse start date: Tue 30 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Maria ContosHave a taste of exploring the ancient Athenian stage, and how they still speak to us about the challenges we face today.Full fee £49.00 - Tales of transformation: Ovid’s MetamorphosesCourse start date: Tue 7 May 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Nikoletta ManiotiSo many works of arts refer, in one way or another, to Ovid's Metamorphoses. In this course, you'll become familiar with some of the most memorable stories in this masterpiece and begin to understand why its stories are - and have been - so universally fascinating and influential.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £89.00
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