A Hellenic Tour: Travels with Pausanias
Follow the footsteps of numerous Romans to “visit” the must-see sights of ancient Greece, according to a second-century travel guide!
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About this event
Travel books were A Thing in the ancient world. Long before Rough Guides/Lonely Planets/101 Things To Do Before You Die listicles and social media “bucket lists”, the Greeks and Romans were eagerly travelling, armed with guide books and must-see itineraries.
One of the most fascinating of these comes to us courtesy of a delightfully enthusiastic Greek, Pausanias. By his time (C2 AD), Rome ruled the world, and his native country was a political and economic backwater. But it still had cultural capital, as wealthy Romans well knew - masses of it in fact!
No Roman “gap year” was complete without a visit to Greece…which meant visitors from all over the Roman world: Europeans, Africans, Asians… They just needed to know what to see.
There’s only so much time… as ever! And that’s where Pausanias stepped in. Let’s follow his guidebook, and have fun exploring ancient Greece at a key moment in the Roman Empire!
No preparation or reading is required.
No exams, no homework - just entertaining, informative, and accessible learning for pleasure.
You can join us 'live' via Zoom and/or watch recordings of the lectures on demand.
Delivery:
A 5-hour lecture-based course, delivered via 2 x 2½-hour sessions on consecutive Saturdays:
Saturday 6 September, 10:30-13:00, UK time
Saturday 13 September, 10:30-13:00, UK time
The course will be delivered via 2 live Zoom sessions, and include opportunity for questions and discussion.
Recordings of the lecture elements of each session (with discussion elements edited out for GDPR reasons) will also be available – posted within 48 hours of each session, and available on demand for 2 weeks thereafter.
Frequently asked questions
No problem! We record all of our courses. Recordings are usually posted within 48 hours of broadcast, and available for 2 weeks thereafter (officially. Let us know if you'd like them to be available beyond that). NB Recordings are shorter than the live sessions, but all lecture content is included.
Absolutely! We take Q&As before a 10-minute break at approx. half-time, and there's also time at the end of each session. Sometimes we have very lively Q&A sessions, and sometimes there's just a screen of happy faces. Either's fine by us, and it's not compulsory to join in if you don't want to.
Don't worry! Our recordings just show the slides, plus Robert in a little window. To comply with data privacy (& any squeamishness!), we edit out all personal details - i.e. pre-session chats and Q&A sections - and retain all the actual content.
Good question! We've set up a YouTube channel, with snippets from previous courses, to help you to work that out. You'll find them from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNz_GwYH-g
We’re new to Eventbrite, so I know that I may not have thought of everything you might like to ask. Do please email me at robert@wrighthistory.uk and we'll take it from there!
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