Month: March 2017

School pupil visit to our Department in March 2017

On the 16th March, we had our annual Classics Schools’ day. Pupils from four local schools attended the day and took part in workshops and talks by our academic staff as well as an object handling session at the Egypt centre. Pupils from Castle School in Pembrokeshire reflect on their experience: Swansea University We arrived…Continue Reading School pupil visit to our Department in March 2017

My experience at the British School at Athens Summer School 2016

Guest blog post by Minette Matthews, 2nd Year Ancient History Student Every year the British School at Athens offers an intensive 3 week summer course for undergraduate students interested in Ancient Greek history. On this course, students are taught by 3 specialists in Greek Ancient history – one of them being Dr. Chryssanthi Papadopoulou, the Assistant…Continue Reading My experience at the British School at Athens Summer School 2016

Nero and History: A Clash of Interest

  By Oscar Brierley, 2nd Year Classical Civilisation Student Student Interest Research           The Remorse of Nero, J. W. Waterhouse. 1878. A depiction of Nero lamenting after the assassination of his mother Agrippina in AD59, notoriously by his own command.   I was first introduced to the intricacies of Nero’s reign of…Continue Reading Nero and History: A Clash of Interest

Reflecting on the definition of ‘cultural heritage’

I took Dr Heather Hunter-Crawley’s Greek and Roman Art and Architecture module last year and was taken on an art historical journey, studying the progression of art from Bronze Age Greece to the Byzantine era. One of the ways in which this module was brilliant was the way in which the students were taught how to…Continue Reading Reflecting on the definition of ‘cultural heritage’