Sydenham High Classics

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

[Wendy Shearer Storyteller @WCShearer]

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

[Sydenham High Classics @SydClassics]

A great time with 70 of our wonderful Year 8 Classics students today exploring the Roman galleries @MuseumofLondon @SydenhamHigh

[MTGS Classics @MTGS_Classics]

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?

[Classics@Cambridge @CamClassics]

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: https://t.co/qbzPFpVD7j

[SCS @scsclassics]

Updated with new data and a richer environment, users can explore all 640,000 square meters of Pompeii’s urban... https://t.co/LA1iF2RZKx

[Sydenham High Classics @SydClassics]

Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London https://t.co/vFICkBvd6K

[JACTGreekSummerSch @JACTGreek]

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'?

[Sydenham High Art @SydHighArt]

Making masks! Syd scholars Socrates programme! Applying art skills to a theatre project! @SydHighArt @SydenhamHigh

[Zoe Jervier Hewitt @zoejerv]

@SydClassics @efLDN @SydenhamHigh Thank you for hosting me - look forward to seeing the future founders born at Sydenham High! 🙂

[Sydenham High Classics @SydClassics]

Thanku @zoejerv @efLDN for an inspirational #Socrates lecture on finding ur Edge & being fearless with ur ideas! #fearnothing @SydenhamHigh

[Caroline Lawrence @CarolineLawrenc]

Excellent new #TedEd talk about Virgil's Aeneid... perfect for schools! https://t.co/bPkRh4jrob #Virgil #Vergil #Aeneas #Troy #Rome #Aeneas

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

I wrote about the late antique context of Dune - & Lord of the Rings, & Asimov's Foundation - here: https://t.co/t53adHEd9F

[Classics Faculty Library @CFLcam]

New scientific research into the acoustic experience at Epidaurus: https://t.co/HQltzkD80Z

[SCS @scsclassics]

For the first time in four decades the public will be able to enter the top levels of the Colosseum.... https://t.co/OqvcrcS08c

[In Our Time @BBCInOurTime]

Without Constantine, how would Christianity have fared? Would the Empire have lasted til 1453? https://t.co/IzQtxo6p5F (9.30pm, shorter rpt)

[Sydenham High Classics @SydClassics]

Already looking 4ward to the next #Socrates lecture @SydenhamHigh on 14 Nov @matthewclifford frm @efLDN! Calling all intrepid entrepreneurs!

[Sydenham High School GDST #fearnothing @SydenhamHigh]

#SocratesProgramme Lecture No2 on forensic science & digital crime with Dr Nutter @ucl : over 90 students listening intently

[Sydenham High Classics @SydClassics]

Another fascinating lecture for Socrates Programme @SydenhamHigh on digital forensics with B.Nutter from Met Police & UCL & 90+ students!

[BBC Somerset @bbcsomerset]

The Roman coins discovered by a bulldozer driver.

The 3335 coins unearthed at @YeovilRec are on display at @SomersetMuseum.