Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Janet Watson holds a PhD in Classics, and has a special interest in the Homeric epics. She has been teaching in higher and continuing education for more than twenty-five years. She currently teaches at Newcastle University in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Janet has extensive experience in teaching classical Greek language and literature, and is a keen advocate of the Reading Greek methodology, whereby students are introduced to grammar and syntax through carefully graded reading passages adapted from original sources, progressing to original texts. This approach enables students not only to learn the language, but also to acquire an understanding of the culture in which it flourished.
The field of orality and literacy in the ancient world has been the focus of lively debate in recent years, and I have contributed papers to two international conferences in this area, and organised the third in the series (Epos and Logos: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World), which was held at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in July 1998 (papers published by Brill, 2001, see below). I am pursuing my interest in divine intervention in the Homeric poems, drawing on research undertaken for my thesis and additional work currently underway on Homer’s Odyssey.
British Epigraphy Society
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
