INTERMEDIATE LATIN Week 2 Sunday 9th – Friday 14th August 17:00 – 19:00 Italian time (UTC+2) This ‘refresher’ online Latin course will consist of 6 x 120-minute classes which will take place between the 9th and 14th of August 2020. As we are based in Sicily, we will read a selection of passages from Cicero’s...Read More

The Covid 19 crisis has forced us to change our plans for this Summer course. Ancient Greek will go on-line for short “taster” courses from 3rd – 8th August 2020 and 9th-14th August 2020. BEGINNERS GREEK Week 1 Monday 3rd – Saturday 8th August 14:00 – 16:00 Italian time (UTC+2) INTERMEDIATE GREEK Week 1 Monday...Read More

An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites Syracuse, Sicily 13-19 October, 2019 Even a cursory look at the remaining corpus of Pindar’s victory odes leaves one in no doubt about the wealth, power, and prestige of his Sicilian patrons. Exactly a third of the odes were composed for Sicilian athletic victories and those dedicated...Read More

The Fifth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece  with special emphasis on ἀγών agōn: assembly, struggle, contest, trial, conflict, challenge, strife, witha pre-conference seminar on Empedocles’ Poem on nature and an Empedocles-themed post-conference tour The cultural and intellectual legacy of Western Greece—the coastal areas of Southern Italy and Sicily settled by Hellenes in the 8th and...Read More