WAKEFIELD WHERE GIRLS HAVE EACH OTHER The Classics Department outside the classroom, 2019-20 Coronavirus has done its best to scupper the travel plans of many in 2020, but all was not lost for the Classics Department in 2020. In January our enthusiastic senior students travelled down to University of Warwick for the annual Ancient Drama Festival. Not only is this an opportunity for our Sixth Form students to see their undergraduate counterparts perform ancient plays - this year Sophocles’ Oedipus the King - but their knowledge and interests are stretched by academics offering something beyond the scope of A Level speciďŹ cations. While Professor Michael Scott made fascinating connections between Greek Tragedy and Athenian Democracy by linking Oedipus with Pericles, the most novel insights were probably provided by a survey of the role of sphinxes in the ancient Greek world. At the same time, I was extremely grateful for our ever-enthusiastic student leaders for their help in introducing Year 5 students to the delights of Classics, especially aspects of the life in Pompeii and Herculaneum. We were delighted by the creativity of our visitors in making their own household gods before they were spell-bound and shocked in equal measure by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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