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Sydenham High Classics @SydClassics

Classics Department at Sydenham High School. Passionate about all things ancient.

Joined July 2015
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Wendy Shearer Storyteller@WCShearer
6 Nov 2019
Lands of shadows, nightmares, eternal bliss. Just a few of the stories imagined with Y7 in our Greek Mythology day @SydenhamHigh @sfs_uk #mythology #edutwitter #storytelling
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A great time with 70 of our wonderful Year 8 Classics students today exploring the Roman galleries @MuseumofLondon @SydenhamHigh
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MTGS Classics@MTGS_Classics
13 Dec 2017
Excited for the new series 'Troy: Fall of a City' in the new year, a joint BBC-Netflix big budget epic! How will it compare to the 2004 Brad Pitt Hollywood blockbuster?
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Classics@Cambridge@CamClassics
13 Dec 2017
The triennial Cambridge Greek Play for 2019 has been announced! Sophocles' 'Oedipus at Colonus' directed by @danielkgoldman #cambridgegreekplay #classicsatcambridge #theatre #sophocles #oedipus Read more here: classics.cam.ac.uk/news/the-…
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SCS@scsclassics
4 Dec 2017
Updated with new data and a richer environment, users can explore all 640,000 square meters of Pompeii’s urban... fb.me/EZFy23Vk
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Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London theguardian.com/science/2017…

Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

Visitors to new museum will uncover mystery cult of Mithras the bull slayer in multi-sensory experience

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JACTGreekSummerSch@JACTGreek
24 Nov 2017
One of many aspects of 'usefulness' of classical languages is our continuing linguistic dependence on them: here, words with #Latin roots in orange and #Greek roots in yellow. Is better linguistic understanding/ability really a 'waste of time'?
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Sydenham High Art@SydHighArt
23 Nov 2017
Making masks! Syd scholars Socrates programme! Applying art skills to a theatre project! @SydHighArt @SydenhamHigh
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Zoe Jervier Hewitt@zoejerv
14 Nov 2017
Replying to @SydClassics @efLDN @SydenhamHigh
Thank you for hosting me - look forward to seeing the future founders born at Sydenham High! 🙂
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Thanku @zoejerv @efLDN for an inspirational #Socrates lecture on finding ur Edge & being fearless with ur ideas! #fearnothing @SydenhamHigh
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Caroline Lawrence@CarolineLawrenc
19 Oct 2017
Excellent new #TedEd talk about Virgil's Aeneid... perfect for schools! goo.gl/PEyaUc #Virgil #Vergil #Aeneas #Troy #Rome #Aeneas
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Tom Holland
@holland_tom
17 Oct 2017
I wrote about the late antique context of Dune - & Lord of the Rings, & Asimov's Foundation - here: theguardian.com/books/2012/m…

The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam

Rome's collapse inspired many gripping tales, from Gibbon's history to Dune and Battlestar Galactica. The story of Arthur's Camelot has its origins in this era of political convulsion, as does a...

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Classics Faculty Library@CFLcam
17 Oct 2017
New scientific research into the acoustic experience at Epidaurus: theguardian.com/science/2017…
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SCS@scsclassics
10 Oct 2017
For the first time in four decades the public will be able to enter the top levels of the Colosseum.... fb.me/Ci8na0oo

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In Our Time@BBCInOurTime
5 Oct 2017
Without Constantine, how would Christianity have fared? Would the Empire have lasted til 1453? bbc.in/2y3HxLz (9.30pm, shorter rpt)
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Already looking 4ward to the next #Socrates lecture @SydenhamHigh on 14 Nov @matthewclifford frm @efLDN! Calling all intrepid entrepreneurs!
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Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing@SydenhamHigh
4 Oct 2017
#SocratesProgramme Lecture No2 on forensic science & digital crime with Dr Nutter @ucl : over 90 students listening intently
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Another fascinating lecture for Socrates Programme @SydenhamHigh on digital forensics with B.Nutter from Met Police & UCL & 90 students!
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BBC Somerset
@bbcsomerset
2 Oct 2017
The Roman coins discovered by a bulldozer driver. The 3335 coins unearthed at @YeovilRec are on display at @SomersetMuseum.
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