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Promoting Classics through Ancient Philosophy

Promoting Classics through Philosophy

By David Whitney, Teacher and Writer, Delphi Philosophy

One day after school, one of the grandparents of a girl in my class called me over to look at something on his phone. It was a photo of the girl at home, reading with every sign…

Writing in the Ancient World: Free Teaching Materials from the CREWS Team at Cambridge

Writing in the Ancient World

By Dr Philippa Steele, Senior Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Principal Investigator of the ‘Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems’ project

The CREWS project at Cambridge University (Contexts of and Relations…

Changes to OCR Ancient History GCSE

Alexander the Great

OCR have announced changes to the Ancient History GCSE syllabus in response to the disruption caused by coronavirus. Students will now be examined on both period studies (The Persian Empire, the Foundations of Rome), and a single depth study (from a choice of six). Each…