Resources
Welcome to our Schools and Outreach Resource Hub. Designed for secondary teachers, students, and classical educators, this page offers tools to support learning in the classroom and beyond. Explore our curriculum support materials, set text guides, educational video series, and educational journals.
A-Level Set-Text Latin Commentaries
University-level insights into the texts, supporting students' understanding and analysis. Also invaluable for teaching the texts as part of Class Civ.
Authored and edited by Ingo Gildenhard, this two-volume set offers a comprehensive study of Book 4 of Virgil's Aeneid, exploring the tragic relationship between Aeneas and Dido against the backdrop of divine intervention and imperial destiny. The first volume functions as a student-friendly edition of the Latin text, featuring study questions, vocabulary aids, and a detailed line-by-line commentary accompanied by rich visual material. The companion volume, Teaching Dido, expands upon the text with introductory essays and key scholarly articles that examine the poem's literary artistry, poetics, historiography, and themes of empire, religion, and racecraft. Together, the pair bridges foundational language learning with advanced critical scholarship for students and teachers of Latin at A-Level and university levels.
Classics in the wider Curriculum
Our "Classics Shorts" videos, and accompanying teacher resources, feature Professor Mary Beard and celebrity guests exploring contemporary classroom themes through a classical lens.
Our Ancient Science webinars are accessible, cross-curricular sessions exploring how ancient Greeks and Romans investigated, measured, and understood the natural world. This series aims to challenge students to think critically across both humanities and STEM disciplines.
Classics in English Literature
Plato and Shakespeare is a guide showing how the cultural language of Platonic love informs Shakespeare’s sonnets, this material aims to introduce students to the pervasiveness of the language of Classics, and to enrich study of the module, ‘Love through the Ages’ , component of English A level.
Finding Antiquity in Great Expectations is a guide for GCSE English Literature students who want to find out more about the Classical background and allusions in their set texts.
Finding Antiquity in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a guide for GCSE English Literature students who want to find out more about the Classical background and allusions in their set texts.
Journals
JCT is a journal with a long history rooted in classics education, evolving from earlier publications like Latin Teaching. It focuses on sharing practical, data-backed teaching methods and experiences from educators at all levels—both in the UK and globally. Additionally, it serves as a central hub for news, reviews, and classroom resources in classics.
Many Cambridge classicists write not only for fellow scholars but also for the general public. They are among the editors and frequent contributors to Omnibus, the journal produced twice a year by the Classical Association and aimed at sixth-formers. Every issue contains a dozen or so short articles on aspects of Classics, written by those who teach in universities.
Cambridge Papers in Classics Education is an open-access, editorially reviewed journal dedicated to classics teaching and ancient languages pedagogy. Born out of a collaboration between the Faculty of Classics and the Faculty of Education, it bridges the gap between academic research and real-world classroom practice. The publication serves as a permanent repository for insights from faculty-hosted pedagogy conferences while offering PGCE students a platform to share innovative classroom research alongside established international experts.
