CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND
CANI would like to express our thanks to the staff and students of both Dalriada and Lumen Christi College. These are the kind of events for which CANI was originally formed, and with so many enthusiastic pupils attending and asking questions, it is clear that interest in the ancient world is alive and thriving in Northern Ireland. CANI kicked off its 2017 public programme on 16 March with ‘Narrative Experience in Xenophon’s Anabasis’ by Dr Rosie Harman of UCL. Dr Harman showed how Xenophon justified everything the Greeks did or proposed to do during the ‘March of the 10,000’ in terms of superiority over the alien inhabitants of the Persian Empire, all the while presenting the story in almost diametrically
May 2017 opposed terms – an ‘easy’ triumphal journey or a harrowing tale of survival against all odds. On 6 April, CANI hosted a talk on ‘Greek Percussion’ by Dr Katerina Kolotourou. A historian, linguist, field-archaeologist, and an accomplished pianist, Dr Kolotorou called upon literary sources and fragmentary sculptural evidence to demonstrate the sistrum, tympanon and kithara in the prominent roles required of them by the classical Greek musical ear. CANI’s 2016/17 programme will be completed with a talk by Dr Peter Crawford on ‘Who Was Constantius II?’ on 8 June at Queen’s University. Everyone is welcome, not just for the talk but for summer drinks afterwards! And then, due to popular demand, CANI will also be hosting not only a second public reading of the epic poetry of Homer, this time the Odyssey in the Ulster Museum on 17 June from 10am (complete with a range of activities provided by Greek Myth Comix), but also another Belfast Summer School in Latin and Classical Greek from 3-7 July. Please contact Helen McVeigh at belfastsummerschool@gmail.com for information about taking part in the latter and classicalassociationni@hotmail.com for all other inquiries about CANI events. Dr Peter Crawford
The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
Belfast summer school In latin and classical greek
Summer Language Courses with the Classical Association of Ireland
Monday 3rd – Friday 7th July 2017 at the Open University in Northern Ireland, 110 Victoria Street, Belfast
Classes for beginners and post-beginners in Latin and Classical Greek
Language courses in Ancient Greek and Latin (Beginners and Intermediate), organised by the Classical Association of Ireland, will take place in University College Dublin, 6-16 June, 2017. • 3 classes per day (15 hours of class per week). • The courses are open to all persons over 16 years of age. • Fees: €300.00 (full-time students and pensioners €150.00).
Open to over 18s — Non-residential summer school Optional sessions on Classical Roman and Greek culture PLACES ALLOCATED ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS For an application form, email belfastsummerschool@gmail.com. The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 2nd June 2017.
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Registration forms can be obtained from the CAI website: classicalassociation.ie or from Dr Cosetta Cadau, School of Classics, University College Dublin, Dublin 4: cosetta.cadau@ucd.ie.