Here begins the blog of the Classics Department at Saffron Walden County High School. This blog is a means of sharing information, notices, and resources beyond the confines of our Twitter feed (@Classics_Swchs).
In particular, this blog is the platform for two initiatives: the Iliad advent calendar and the Twelve Days of the Aeneid. Every day between 1 December and 24 December, there will be a post about the next book of the Iliad. Then, from Christmas Day until 6 January, there will be posts about the successive books of the Aeneid. Posts about the OCR set books for A-Level Classical Civilisation and Latin will be by Year 12 and Year 13 students. Posts on the other books will be by their teachers.
This, we hope, will grow into a self-styled revision guide, but also inspire about the books that remain for us to study both for the A-Level courses and for our lifelong appreciation of the literature of the Ancient Mediterranean.
Our first background comes from the Bankes Homer and its copy of the end of Iliad 24. This papyrus, now on an A-frame in a cage inside the vault of the British Library (I myself saw it in the summer of 2003), is notable not only for its length, but also because its margins contain indications of who speaks which lines: ΕΚΑΒΗ, ΕΛΕΝΗ, and ΠΡΙΑΜΟΣ can be seen, the names of the speakers of laments for Hector. The narrator's voice is marked by a ligature of ὁ ποιητής because, in Antiquity, Homer was simply the poet.
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In particular, this blog is the platform for two initiatives: the Iliad advent calendar and the Twelve Days of the Aeneid. Every day between 1 December and 24 December, there will be a post about the next book of the Iliad. Then, from Christmas Day until 6 January, there will be posts about the successive books of the Aeneid. Posts about the OCR set books for A-Level Classical Civilisation and Latin will be by Year 12 and Year 13 students. Posts on the other books will be by their teachers.
This, we hope, will grow into a self-styled revision guide, but also inspire about the books that remain for us to study both for the A-Level courses and for our lifelong appreciation of the literature of the Ancient Mediterranean.
Our first background comes from the Bankes Homer and its copy of the end of Iliad 24. This papyrus, now on an A-frame in a cage inside the vault of the British Library (I myself saw it in the summer of 2003), is notable not only for its length, but also because its margins contain indications of who speaks which lines: ΕΚΑΒΗ, ΕΛΕΝΗ, and ΠΡΙΑΜΟΣ can be seen, the names of the speakers of laments for Hector. The narrator's voice is marked by a ligature of ὁ ποιητής because, in Antiquity, Homer was simply the poet.
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