This time, the activities of the Festival of Antiquity will focus on exploring the role of animals in ancient cultures (language, inscriptions etc.). The festival will take place in the form of interactive (music, epigraphy, cultural history) and language workshops.
I. INTERACTIVE CULTURAL-CIVILISATION WORKSHOPS (Faculty of Arts and/or Foerster Garden by the Faculty of Arts)
– Ancient Cuisine (between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.; for secondary school students)
– Lessons in Emona (between 9 am and 3 pm; for primary school students)
– Touch Ancient Emona (between 9 am and 3 pm; suitable for all participants)
– Walking tour of Emona (between 9 am and 3 pm; suitable for all participants)
– Let’s Get To Know the Lapidarium: Roman Everyday Life Through the Prism of Ancient Stone Monuments at the National Museum of Slovenia (between 9 am and 3 pm; suitable for primary school children)
II. LANGUAGE WORKSHOPS (Latin, Ancient Greek and Modern Greek, between 9 am and 3 pm; suitable for pupils of grades 6 to 9 of primary school and for secondary school students; Faculty of Arts)
– Hiper! Super! (Did you know that you use Ancient Greek and Latin every day?)
– Latine loqui amo Ave. Quomodo vales?
– Veni, vidi novi! Language Workshop for Secondary School
– Colloquia Latina
III. CULTURAL-CIVILISATION WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES (Faculty of Arts)
– Wrath, Goddess, Sing – Homer’s Iliad Once and Now (from 9.00 to 15.00; suitable for all participants)
– Winnie ille Pu – the unexpected bestseller by Alexander Lenard
– Ancient Mythology: “A picture Tells a Thousand Words” (from 9 am to 3 pm; suitable for all participants)
Coordinator: Sonja Weiss, PhD, Faculty of Arts
Participating researchers from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Classics: Andreja Inkret, PhD, Jelena Isak Kres, David Movrin, PhD, Nataša Gaši, Anja Ragolič, PhD.
External partners: the Vespesjan Cultural Association, the Herodotus Institute, Slovenian School Museum, National Museum of Slovenia, Museums and Galleries of Ljubljana, Institute of Archaeology ZRC SAZU, external researchers
For more information on the events, see the Antiquity Festival programme.
