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Classics Reading Groups

 

The Classics Program at the ANU supports three reading groups: two Greek groups (one Homer group and one Greek drama group) and a Latin group.

WHAT HAPPENS AT EACH MEETING?

Members of each group come from Classics staff, staff from other areas on the campus, current students, former students, and a substantial number of people from the wider community who are interested in reading the great classical texts in the original languages. At each meeting about 100 lines of text are read in the original, translated, and discussed. Members of the group are allocated short passages, which they will prepare in advance and read and translate at the meeting.

WHEN DO THE GROUPS MEET?

Each group meets once a fortnight for one hour in the Classics Centre, on the ANU campus. The meeting times are as follows:

1. The Homer reading group: alternate Fridays at 12.30
2. The Latin reading group: alternate Fridays at 12.00
3. The Greek drama reading group: alternate Tuesdays (the same week as Homer) at 4.00.

WHAT ARE THE GROUPS READING AT THE MOMENT?

1. The Homer Reading Group is currently reading the Homeric hymn to Demeter.
2. The Latin Reading Group is reading Book 3 of Virgil's Georgics.
3. The Drama Reading Group is reading Aristophanes' Birds.

Would you like to join one of these groups? You would be most welcome! You may wish to come and listen and observe before you play an active role. Or you may wish to plunge right in.

Contact details: for a contact within the Classics Program email Elizabeth.Minchin@anu.edu.au (ph. 6125 5106).

Otherwise, contact Felicity Fullagar for information regarding the Homer and Latin groups: Felicity@alphalink.com.au; and Mineke Peerboom for information regarding the drama group ( Peerboom@grapevine.net.au ).