2023/2024

“The Greeks and the search for beauty: 1 – Architecture” – Professor J. Ribeiro Ferreira (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

“The Greeks and the search for beauty: 2 – Sculpture” – Professor J. Ribeiro Ferreira (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

“The Greeks and the search for beauty: 3 – Painting” – Professor J. Ribeiro Ferreira (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

“Did you know you speak Greek every day?” – Professor M. Fátima Silva (Duration: approximately 1 hour, exposition and debate)

• Synopsis: The aim is to explore a range of semantic fields in young people’s everyday lives.
• Target audience: students across diverse levels in basic and secondary schooling, from the 5^th to the 12^th grade

“Science did not begin today...” – Professor M. Fátima Silva (Duration: around 1 hour, exposition and debate)

• Synopsis: The aim is to generally outline the development of biology at the Lyceum. This is accomplished through the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus on zoology and botany: gathering information, methodology, theory, and practice, as well as establishing a scientific vocabulary.
• Target audience: students across diverse levels in basic and secondary schooling, from the 5^th to the 12^th grade

“The Classical Languages: common heritage of European culture” – Professor Nair Castro Soares (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

“Did you know you speak Latin every day?” – Professor Nair Castro Soares (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

“Metaphors with legs and trees with voice” – Professor M. Céu Fialho (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

“Love is a fire that burns and always has” – Professor M. Céu Fialho (Duração: approximately 1 hour)

“Origins of threatre (particularly Graeco-Latin tragedies and comedies)” – Professor Delfim Leão and Professor José Luís Brandão (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: A brief review of Greek and Latin theatre – genres, performance spaces, main authors, and dramatisation (by students) of short texts during the session.
• Target audience: 9^th grade students and above

“Mythological depictions in the Aeneid and the Lusiads” – Professor Delfim Leão and Professor José Luís Brandão (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: Generic overview of mythology – main gods and their characteristics – and its function in Virgil’s Aeneid, keeping in mind its application in the Lusiads. May serve as an introduction to Camões and his magnum opus.
• Target audience: 9^th grade students and above

“The games of classical Antiquity: playing, learning, competing, and showcasing” – Professor Carmen Soares (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: Presentation of domestic and public games in Greek and Roman cultures.
• Target audience: 9th grade students and above (eventually, other audiences too)

“Food and healthy living in classical Antiquity” – Professor Carmen Soares (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: Presentation of healthy living practices related with food and physical exercise in classical Antiquity.
• Target audience: 9th grade students and above (eventually, other audiences too)

“The contribution of classical languages for the mastery of the Portuguese language” – Professor António Rebelo (Duration: between 30 and 60 minutes [as required])

• Synopsis: How does knowing classical languages contribute to the correct use of the Portuguese language? The aim is to answer this question, from the analysis of orthoepy and phonetics to semantics and proper vocabulary use, going over syntax and morphology.
• Target audience: 9th grade students and above.

“Europe speaks Latin and Greek” – Professor António Rebelo (Duration: between 30 and 60 minutes [as required])

• Synopsis: The aim is to explore the importance of Greek and Latin to the most relevant European languages, as well as their evolutionary differences.
• Target audience: 9th grade students and above.

“Classical gods and heroes in everyday Portuguese language” – Professor Susana Marques and Professor Cláudia Cravo (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: The aim is to reveal to students the hidden meanings of everyday idioms related to Graeco-Latin deities and heroes, taking them to a world that is the embryo of their own culture.
• Target audience: students from the 5^th to the 12^th grade

“The Rome of the Caesars: from fiction to reality” – Professor José Luís Brandão (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: Analysis of the historical-biographical tradition surrounding the Roman emperors (especially the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties): the realities and distorted news that determined the image we have of certain emperors (such as Caligula or Nero) and the Roman elites in general.
• Target audience: secondary school students (though this may be adapted to the 3^rd cycle)

“A refugee arrives in Europe. Aeneas, a hero to the West” – Professor Carlota Miranda Urbano (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: Once upon a time, a refugee from the Trojan War fled to Italy, sowing the seeds for the Roman world we all inherited.

• Target audience: students in 9^th grade and secondary education

“Latini sumus. Latin in our everyday life” – Professor Paula Barata Dias (Duration: 45 - 90 minutes [with practical component])

• Synopsis: The Roman language, Latin, is the foundation of our language, Portuguese. Even without studying Latin, we all know and use its words, idioms, and proverbs on the daily thanks to their integration in everyday communication. In this presentation, we will travel through time, starting from what we know of Portuguese today and heading towards its origins in Latin culture and language, which are far more accessible than we may think.
• Target audience: 9^th grade students

“Undoing Babel: the classical languages in the European languages” – Professor Paula Barata Dias (Duration: 45 - 90 minutes [with practical component])

• Synopsis: There is considerable linguistic diversity in Europe: so many countries, each with its language as a heritage to be nationally defended in a Europe with a thousand voices. A treasure, to be sure, but also a reality with its own set of challenges! Speaking two languages apart from one’s mother tongue is an imposed objective for the basic education of every European citizen. In this presentation, we propose a strategy to overcome the general resistance in basic education to learning foreign languages: after all, they are either siblings or cousins of each other. Through the identification of their Graeco-Latin matrixes, it is possible to establish parallels, family ties. These, in turn, bring the languages closer, do away with the fear of the unknown, and thus reveal the seductive linguistic landscape that we share as Europeans.
• Target audience: 7^th to 9^th grade students

“Monsters and beasties. The classic and the fantastic” – Professor Paula Barata Dias (Duration: 45 - 90 minutes)

• Synopsis: Possible worlds, the supernatural, the monstrous, and the fantastic have captivated human imagination and creativity from time immemorial: through stories to either frighten and amuse or educate and reflect. Extraordinary beings dominate our literature and imagery because they capture our attention and stimulate our curiosity, in addition to inviting us to ponder on the limits of our humanity, what it is made of, and its relationship with the world around us. In this lecture, we aim to showcase the universality of some successful fantastic models, which are currently present in literature, cinema, videogames, and comics. These models draw from a creative universe that was conceived in the ancient world. Hybrid beings, superheroes, great villains, where do they come from?
• Target audience: 2^nd and 3^rd cycle students (though it is best to have separate sessions for each cycle)

“The liberal arts in Rome” – Professor Paulo Sérgio Ferreira (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: It is true that the concepts of trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic) and quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music) are relatively late and that the Romans came to consider painting and sculpture among the liberal arts. However, the subjects that would make up the trivium and quadrivium were already grouped together by earlier authors. There were even those who considered philosophy the liberal art par excellence or, in other words, the one that made man truly free.
• Target audience: 7^th to 12^th grade students

“Slaves in Rome” – Professor Paulo Sérgio Ferreira (Duration: approximately 1 hour)

• Synopsis: A reflection on the origins of slavery, its sources, the slaves’ harsh lives and punishments, their freedom and integration in Roman society, and the vocabulary linked with slavery we use without knowing its origins.
• Target audience: 7^th to 12^th grade students

“Contributions to the individual reading project” – Professor Fátima Ferreira

• Synopsis: Presentation of reading suggestions based on classical works or those inspired by them, according to the students’ age. The suggestions allow for the alignment of the proposed works with the Portuguese curriculum, as well as an expansion of the students’ reading horizons. It is intended for the students to come into contact with diverse authors and themes, through conceptual schemes and character and spatial highlights, allowing for some moments of reading of previously selected excerpts.
• Target audience: 2^nd cycle, 3^rd cycle, and secondary education students (in separate sessions)

Note: according to the discretion of the professor responsible for the session with the School(s) that may solicit the lecture, it is possible some of these sessions happen online.

enactments of Classical Theatre in archaeological and monumental sites (such as Conímbriga, the Machado de Castro Museum, Odrinhas, Braga, Penalva do Castelo).

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which enacts Graeco-Latin plays and frequently breathes life into workshops on Classical Culture.

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in the aftermath of a European project started in 2014, it took place in May, 2024.

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