Proposals are invited for papers on the history, practice and/or future of prison teaching of material related to ancient worlds, including those of Greece and Rome, and especially of ancient philosophy. Selected papers will be delivered at a hybrid international conference to be held at the University of Durham on March 5th-6th 2026, convened by Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Edith Hall.

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Join KCL lecturer Dr Lindsay Allen for a lecture focussed on the Classical Civilisation A Level module ‘Invention of the Barbarian’. A Q&A session will follow the talk. There will also be a brief introduction to studying Classics at KCL preceding the lecture.

Plato’s most brilliant student and perhaps the most significant intellectual in world history, Aristotle of Stageira built on the doctrines he had studied at the Academy but also radically disagreed with them.

The founder of Athens’ second great university, the Lyceum, did not believe there was any perfect, ideal world that transcended human ability to see, touch, smell and hear it, and…