Why the classics matter

When:
October 8, 2013 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
2013-10-08T18:30:00+00:00
2013-10-08T19:30:00+00:00
Where:
UEA London
102 Middlesex Street
London, Greater London E1 7EZ
UK
Cost:
£5

'Why The Classics Matter' with Natalie HaynesNatalie Haynes used to work for a Classicist who would declaim periodically that the house of western thought has many rooms, but only one basement. And he had a point: how the ancients lived and thought and wrote informs the way we live now. So come and find out why Julius Caesar died a Freudian death, who coined the phrase ‘to paper over the cracks’, and who was the world’s first Bond villain.