PUPILS from Hexham’s Queen Elizabeth High School carried off a clutch of prizes in the annual two-county Classical Association Recitation contest.

Nearly 100 youngsters from all over Northumberland and Durham displayed their skills at declaiming the words of great classical writers like Virgil and Cicero, and English translations of Greek playwrights such as Euripides.   more »

The History Today site offers a time-line that makes clear some interesting simultaneities (if that's a word). The above link should bring up the Fifth Century B.C. Sure enough, there is the building of the Parthenon, but what was going on in Africa at the same time?   more »