Our annual Drama Day on January 25 was a huge success - over 550 visiting school students and their teachers enjoyed lectures from department members, our IAS Visiting Fellow Alastair Blanshard, and the play production team, before watching our students' production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata.

For a tweet-by-tweet account of the day from the perspective of performers, lecturers and visitors, take a look at:

https://storify.com/drmichaelcscott/warwick-classics-drama-festival-january-2016

Congratulations to all our students who worked so hard to deliver a fun and thoughtful interpretation of this riotous comedy!

From 11th January until 5th February Prof Alastair Blanshard of University of Queensland, Australia will be the IAS Visiting Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. Alastair will be participating in a number of events co-organised with different departments during his Fellowship.

For the full programme see: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/iasvisitingfellow2016/

From manuscript to printed book: Early Greek and Latin writings

A PG workshop on palaeography at the University of Warwick. You don't need a high level in Greek or Latin to join in...

Friday 4th March 2016, Renaissance Centre, Room H.4.50

Follow the link for detailed programme, speakers' bios and abstracts.

Convenor: Dr. Caroline Petit, University of Warwick

£10: register with renaissance@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Michael Scott is to be awarded Honorary Citizenship of Delphi, Greece - ΔΕΛΦΟΙ ΔΕΛΦΩΝ ΕΠΟΙΗΣΑΝ - in a ceremony in Athens on Wednesday 25th November. The ceremony will be part of a larger event to kick-start Delphi's campaign to be named the 2021 European Capital City of Culture.

Dr Scott's award is in recognition for his research and publications on Delphi as the omphalos 'the centre of the ancient world, as well as his writing and presenting of a BBC documentary about the history of the site. He will be working with the 2021 team on their campaign in the coming months.

As part of celebrations for Warwick's 50th anniversary, Michael Scott and Ben Howarth presented some of the activities of the Classics department during the royal visit of the Princess Royal. Read about it here.