A brief history of ancient Greece

On the way, we will look at many of the characters who shaped Greek history and ideas – from generals and politicians to poets and playwrights, inventors and philosophers, courtesans and artists – considering, too, what it meant to be an ancient Greek and how Greek civilisation still shapes our world today.

Course programme

Friday 23 October 2015

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 Homer and the Greeks
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Saturday 24 October 2015

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Aesop and the archaic world of his Fables
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Aeschylus and Athens
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30 Herodotus and the wider world
18:00 Free
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Xenophon and his reputation
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 25 October 2015

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Plato and his other utopia
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Plutarch and the Romans
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch