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Flower Gatherers: Re-imagining the Minoans

 

Few civilisations have been as enshrouded in mystery and imbued by imagination as the Minoans. They wrote in a language no one has yet managed to decipher. In a world long associated with warriors and violent battles, their murals depict peaceful, beautiful…

Gaudeamus Igitur! Irish curricular changes

The long-awaited changes to Ireland’s national curriculum and assessment of Ancient Greek and Latin have now been finalised.

Blog post by Aryn Penn, 28/4/2025.

A guiding principle of these curricular changes was to try and capture the enriching, interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional classroom experience…

Classicists take ‘ancient philosophical wisdom’ into English jails

Inmates in several prisons given chance to study ethics and rhetoric ‘to inform contemporary life’ and skills

Sculpture of Aristotle

A classical education, once the preserve of Eton, Oxbridge and the likes of Boris Johnson, is being made available to inmates…