Dr Christine Spillane
Part-time tutor in Classics
Christine graduated from the University of Reading where she undertook research into imagery in Virgil’s Aeneid. Her doctoral thesis with the Open University examined Late Antique and Mediaeval illuminated manuscripts of the Aeneid. She is an experienced teacher of both secondary school students and adults. She seeks to inspire her students with a similar enthusiasm for the Classical world as she holds herself, not least by encouraging her students to look at artefacts in museums and by organising visits to the Classical world.
Courses Taught
- Did the Romans wear false teeth?
- Improve your Latin
- Reading classical Latin
- Reading classical Latin (December 2010)
- Reading classical Latin (February 2011)
- Reading Classical Latin: Cupid and Psyche
- Reading classical Latin: Horace and Cicero (April 2011)
- Reading Classical Latin: Juvenal and Livy
- Reading Classical Latin: Lucretius and Tacitus
- Reading Classical Latin: Ovid and Cicero
- Reading Classical Latin: Plautus and Sallust
- Reading Classical Latin: Suetonius and Virgil
- Reading Classical Latin: Tacitus and Virgil
- Virgil's Aeneid: from Cumae to Latium
Qualifications
- PhD, Open University
- M.Phil, University of Reading
- BA, University of Reading
Associations and memberships
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
The London Association of Classical Teachers
The Virgil Society
The Classical Association
The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
The British School at Rome
The Ramblers' Association
