Classics

In the Classics Department at St Augustine’s Priory we encourage our students to use the ancient world, in all its variety, as a springboard for exploring and understanding our own similarly complex and diverse world.  Whether you are interested in languages, literature, art or politics, the Classical World profoundly influenced western civilization, and to study its works is to discover a lot of what makes us who we are.

Depending on the talents and interests of the student, each girl has the opportunity to study Classical Civilisation throughout her time with us in the Seniors. Our pupils can follow classical civilisation at GCSE and A Level. From sculpture to vase painting, from history and culture of classical Athens to the archaeology of the Mycenaean  Bronze Age, and from Greek drama to the epics of Homer and Virgil in translation, our pupils are truly preparing themselves for life!