Daily Routine and Programme

8.00 – 8.45 BREAKFAST 5.00 – 6.00  Session 3
9.00 – 10.00 Session 1 5.00 – 6.15 Time for Private Study
10.00 – 11.40 Time for Private Study 6.15 – 7.00 SUPPER
11.40 – 12.40 Session 2 7.15 – 8.15 Evening Lecture
12.40 – 1.30 LUNCH 10.15 Curfew (15-16s)
1.45 – 2.30 Grammar Clinics (optional) 10.30 Curfew (17s)
2.30 – 5.00 Time for Private Study 11.00 QUIET IN HOUSES

 2019 Daily Variations – Clinics, Trips and Speakers

(Click here for more information on the 2019 speakers – the 2020 programme speaker details will be on here very soon.)

Mon July 20th
  5.40pm Welcome session / group allocation then supper
  7.00-8.00pm Introductory teaching session – in classrooms
  8.00pm Welcome party
Tues July 21st
  1.30pm Clinic: purpose / indirect command      Advanced Clinic: tackling tough texts
  7.15pm Dr. Anthony Bowen, Jesus College, Cambridge –  The Sound of Latin
Wed July 22nd
  1.30pm Clinic: fearing clauses     Advanced Clinic: scansion (elegiacs)
  7.15pm Quiz Night!
Thurs July 23rd
  1.30pm Basic Clinic: result clauses      Advanced Clinic: tackling Ovid unseens
  7.15pm Prof. Matthew Leigh, St. Anne’s College, Oxford – Forms of Heroism in Aeneid 11
Fri July 24th
  1.30pm Clinic: conditional clauses     Advanced Clinic: gerunds and gerundives
  7.15pm Prof. Costas Panayotakis, Glasgow University – Dinner at Trimalchio’s – Literary Allusions and Historical Characters
Sat July 25th
  11.00pm Session start time for all groups
  12.40pm Talk for everyone going on the Wales trip tomorrow
  1.20pm Lunch for all those staying on site over the weekend
Sun July 26th
  9.00am Breakfast and packed lunch collection
  9.30am Coach for Caerleon and Caerwent (return c.5.30pm)
  7.15pm Dr. Ben Kane (novelist) – The Life of the Roman Legionary
Mon July 27th
  1.30pm Clinic: participles (+ abl. abs.)      Advanced Clinic: miscellaneous uses of the subjunctive
  7.15pm Dr. Shelley Hales, Bristol University – Presenting Emperors through Roman Art
Tues July 28th
  1.30pm Clinic: indirect statements      Advanced: extended oratio obliqua
  7.15pm Mr. Stephen Bird, Head of Heritage Services, Bath –  The Baths and Temple of Aquae Sulis
Wed July 29th
  2.00pm Trip to Bath – time in the city during the day then visit to the Roman site in the evening
  All pm Hellenic Book Service
Thurs July 30th
  All day Hellenic Book Service
  1.00/4.00pm Roman Cookery Lesson (costs a little extra but then you eat it!) – Limited Places
  1.30pm Basic Clinic: gerunds and gerundives     Advanced Clinic: key constructions – English into Latin
  7.15pm Dr. Elena Theodorakopoulos, Birmingham University – Catullus on Love, Poetry and Friendship
Fri July 31st
  All morning Hellenic Book Service
  1.30pm Basic Clinic: introduction to lit. crit.    Advanced Clinic: key constructions – English into Latin
  7.30pm Staff production of a Plautus Play followed by Fancy Dress Party (big prizes!!)
Sat August 1st
  9.00am Normal teaching session (wind-up of texts if necessary or an unseen!)
  10.00am Supervised cleaning, tidying and packing in houses
  11.00am Back to classes for questionnaires / certificates
  11.30am Plenary session in lecture room
  12.00pm End of Latin Camp! 
  12.30pm Coach departs for Bath Spa station (should arrive by 2.00pm)