²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Classics Society Reception and Dinner, Saturday 25 January 2025
The ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Classics Society invites you, and guest, to its annual reception and dinner on Saturday 25 January 2025.
The evening will begin with a pre-dinner talk at 6.00pm in the McGregor Matthews room, followed by a drinks reception at 6.45pm in the Founder’s Library and a three-course dinner in Hall at 7.15pm.
The Society is delighted to confirm that the guest speaker will be Professor Llewelyn Morgan, Fellow of Brasenose ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford. Professor Morgan who will speak on “Some Greek and Latin from the Fin de Siècle.â€
This dinner is one of the main times in the year when students have the opportunity to meet and talk with Old Members, to share their experiences of Classics at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ.
Dress code is lounge suits or equivalent.
The cost of the dinner is £80.00 per person. You can book your place securely via the . As part of the checkout process there will be an opportunity to let us know if you have any special dietary requirements or allergens, and also to request a parking space, if needed.
Please RSVP by Wednesday 15 January 2025 to confirm your place.
About the speaker:
Professor Llewelyn Morgan is a Fellow of Brasenose ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford, where he has taught since 1997. After studying in Oxford, and obtaining his PhD in Cambridge, he worked both in Pennsylvania and in the Republic of Ireland, before returning to Oxford. Professor Morgan specialises in Latin literature and has published works on a wide range of Roman authors, including his contributions to Oxford’s Very Short Introduction series, on Ovid and Horace. Aside from Roman literature, he has wider interests including Afghanistan, and Latin literature of the modern period, and he will be speaking on various aspects of a late-nineteenth-century Latin-language newspaper.
Thank you for your support
Whether or not you are able to attend the dinner, contributions to the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Classics Society would be greatly appreciated and will be used to help subsidise the cost of the dinner for students, to cover the expenses for guest speakers invited by the Society and help to subsidise the annual ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Classics reading trip to Euboea for those that would otherwise not be able to participate. We greatly appreciate any support you can offer and, if you wish to make a gift, please complete the .
We are extremely grateful to those Old Members who currently contribute; thank you for your continued support.
Kind regards,
Miranda Thomas
President of the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Classics Society
