UPDATE: All PowerPoint slides from the lecture day are now available under the “CAI-T lecture day 2025” tab.

The UCD School of Classics and the Access Classics team are delighted to announce that UCD will host the the annual CAIT lecture day for Leaving Certificate Classical Studies students this year, on Saturday, 5 April! UCD School of Classics lecturers will give talks based on topics from the Leaving Certificate curriculum, allowing students to expand and consolidate their knowledge, as well as enjoy a day on the beautiful UCD campus! The lectures will take place in Theatre M of the Newman Building. The provisional schedule is as follows (click on the image above for a pdf of the schedule):

10:00 Welcome
10:05 – 10:35 Greek and Roman funerary practices (Dr Bridget Martin)
10:40 – 11:10 Gods and Humans: Morality and Living Well in Plato’s Crito  (Dr Christopher Farrell)
11:15 – 11:45 Judging them by their enemies: Alexander & the Persians; Caesar & the Gauls (Assoc. Prof. Philip De Souza)
11:50 –12:40 Lunch
***As most restaurants and cafes on campus are closed on Saturdays, please make sure to bring a packed lunch. Vending machines available in the building.***
12:45 – 13:15 Greek Tragedy: The Dionysia (Dr Suzanne Lynch)
13:20 – 13:50 The Failure of Aeneas in Aeneid 2 (Dr Martin Brady)
13:55 – 14:25 “The same night awaits us all”: Death in Horace’s Odes (Dr  George Prekas)