Manchester Classical Association

2008/9 Programme

Date: Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr Paul Holder (The John Rylands University Library)
Title: The newly discovered (and unusual) inscribed altar from Manchester
N.B.: the Manchester Museum has very generously offered to put the altar on display in the museum immediately prior to the talk, 4.30-5 p.m. More details on this soon.

Date: Wednesday 12th November 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Professor John Prag (The Manchester Museum)
Title: Faces from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae

Date: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Professor Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge)
Title: Relics and remains in an ancient Greek world full of anthropomorphic gods

Date: Friday 23rd January 2009
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Room S2.9
Annual General Meeting, followed by party.

Date: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr Patrick Finglass (University of Nottingham)
Title: Sophocles at Leiden
Joint meeting with the Hellenic Society

Date: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Mansfield Cooper Building, University of Manchester
VI Form Half-day School for Latin AS/A2-level texts

Date: Wednesday 11th March 2009
Time: 1:30pm
Venue: Stockport Grammar School
Latin and Greek Reading Competition

Date: Wednesday 18th March 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Mr Tony Wilmott (English Heritage)
Title: The Amphitheatre in Roman Britain
Joint meeting with the Roman Society

Date: Wednesday 13th May 2009
Time: 5:30pm
Speaker: Dr April Pudsey (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Family and household in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Date: Saturday 13th June 2009
Time: TBA
Venue: TBA
Day Excursion