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  • Autumn 2025
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • Rome and its Enemies – Rise
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece Shostakovich Chamber Music: Private Conversations
    • Isaiah 40-66
    • Visions of the End: Ragnarok and Armageddon
  • Ancient World
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
  • World Archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
  • Art History
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
  • History other than Ancient History
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
  • Literature
    • Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece Shostakovich Chamber Music: Private Conversations
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    • Visions of the End: Ragnarok and Armageddon
    • Isaiah 40-66
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
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  • Latest Blog Post: Ancient Olympia in the Autumn?
  • Autumn 2025
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • Rome and its Enemies – Rise
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece Shostakovich Chamber Music: Private Conversations
    • Isaiah 40-66
    • Visions of the End: Ragnarok and Armageddon
  • Ancient World
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
  • World Archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
  • Art History
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
  • History other than Ancient History
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
  • Literature
    • Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece Shostakovich Chamber Music: Private Conversations
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    • Visions of the End: Ragnarok and Armageddon
    • Isaiah 40-66
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar September to December 2025
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Ancient Olympia
20 September 2025
Ancient Olympia
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Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto
29 September 2025
Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto
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Latin Prose Composition
30 September 2025
Latin Prose Compostion
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Silkroad: When does it all Start?
02 October 2025
Silkroad: When does it all start?
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City of Rome. 650-1527
02 October 2025
Ciy of Rome, 650-1527
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Our Programme
  • Autumn 2025
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • Rome and its Enemies – Rise
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
    • Summer Novel Discussion Group
    • Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece Shostakovich Chamber Music: Private Conversations
    • Isaiah 40-66
    • Visions of the End: Ragnarok and Armageddon
  • Ancient World
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
  • World Archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: WHEN DOES IT ALL START? The beginnings of long-distance trade
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
  • Art History
    • The city of Rome between antiquity and the sack of Rome
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
  • History other than Ancient History
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND PLINY THE ELDER
  • Literature
    • Novel Discussion Group 2025/6
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece Shostakovich Chamber Music: Private Conversations
  • Theology and Religious Studies
    • Visions of the End: Ragnarok and Armageddon
    • Isaiah 40-66
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar September to December 2025
  • Buy Courses Online
  • My account
  • Latest Blog Post: Ancient Olympia in the Autumn?

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