If you want to get involved with your local branch of the Classical Association here are the people to contact and details of some of their forthcoming events.

BANGOR AND NORTH WALES 30 members
Pres/Treas/Sec: Mr J. Ellis Jones, 2 Fronheulog, Sling, Tregarth, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 4RD. Tel: 01248 600 281; e-mail: john@ellisjones.freeserve.co.uk.
2008: 17 Jan: Dr. Matthew Fitzjohn, 'Greek houses from the Iron Age to the Classical Period'; 24 Jan: Prof David Langslow, 'Latin and the Romance languages'; 7 Feb: play-reading: Menander, The Girl from Samos; 21 Feb: Mrs Patricia Reid, 'Treading the boards: Memories of student Classical productions at Bangor'; 28 Feb: play-reading: Plautus, Menaechmi; 6 March: Mr J Ellis Jones, 'Mycenaean citadels in Greece'; 13 March: Prof Tim Miles, 'ideas of immortality in Plato and Lucretius'; 8 April: play-reading: Terence, Girl from Andria; 17 April: play-reading: Seneca, Oedipus; 24 April: Mr Richard J Stanley, 'Ancient Greece and China: Their highest cultures compared'; 8 May: Site visit and AGM.

BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLANDS 45 members, 16 schools
Chair: Prof. D. Costa, Treas/Sec: Michael Townsend, 47 Ulverley Green Road, Solihull, B92 8BQ. Tel: 0121 706 9308.

BRISTOL 15 members, 8 schools
Treas: Gill Greef; Sec: Sally Knights, 80 Park Grove, Henleaze, Bristol, BS9 4NZ. Tel: 0117 962 3391; e-mail: sally@knightshome.fsnet.co.uk / Sue Pontin, 24 Manor Park, Redland, Bristol, BS6 7HH. Tel: 0117 973 2105, e-mail: suepontin@googlemail.com.

CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT
Pres: Barrie Fleet; Chair: Martin Donnelly; Treas: Steven Hunt; Sec: Mrs Marian Cleaver, 18 High Street, Histon, Cambridge, CB4 9JD. Tel: 01223 232 897; e-mail: marian@cleaversonline.co.uk.
2008: 24 Jan: Senioir reading competition; (tba): Dr Neil Hopkinson, 'Lucan'; Feb (tba): Dr Rosanna Omitowoju 'Greek myth and myth-use'; March (tba): junior reading competition; June (tba): The annual open lecture, Dr. Caroline Vout, 'The Samos Kouros'; TBA: INSET afternoon.

CARDIFF AND DISTRICT 27 members
Pres: Prof. John Percival; Treas: Dr Louis Rawlings; Sec: Dr Ruth Westgate, School of History & Archaeology, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU. Tel: 029 2087 6105; e-mail: westgater@cardiff.ac.uk.
2008: 4th February, Prof. Greg Woolf, 'Religious creativity in the Roman provinces'; 17th March, Dr. Julia Hillner, 'Aristocratic patronage in Late Antique Rome'.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE 4 schools
Pres: Ms Rachel Thomas; Sec: Mr Michael Bull, Dean Close School, Shelburne Road, Cheltenham, GL51 6HE. E-mail: mjbull@gmail.com.
2008: 12 May: Dr Efi Spentzou, 'The New Achilles'

GUILDFORD 100 members, 67schools
Chair: Mrs Glenda Sewell; Treas: Mr Ian Parker; Sec: Mrs Sheila Conway, 1 Frogmore Road, Blackwater, Camberley, Surrey, GU17 0NR. Tel: 01252 875 940; e-mail: b.conway@virgin.net.
2008: 24 Jan: Latin and Greek Reading Competition; 13 March: GCSE Conference: Prof Roland Mayer on Pliny; 13 May: Prof. Helen King, 'Why are centaurs blokes? Gendering mythical beasts'; 26 June: Staff Development Course; 10 July: AGM

HULL AND DISTRICT 36 members, 2 schools
Pres: Miss Jane Fineron; Treas: Mrs Gwen Staveley; Sec: Miss Margaret Nicholson, 17 Sycamore Court, Park Grove, Hull, HU5 2UL. Tel: 01482 470 119; e-mail: m.nicholson@hull.ac.uk.
2008: 17 Jan: Dr Judith Spicksley, Slavery in the Ancient World; 14 Feb: Prof Martin Millett 'Archaeological Survey of Roman Towns in Italy: Some Recent Results; 13 March: Prof Christopher Wilson, 'The Idea of Music (Mousike) in Ancient Greece; 16 May: Annual Dinner

LAMPETER AND MID WALES 1 school
Sec: Meriel Jones, Dept of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter, SA48 7ED. E-mail: meriel.jones@lamp.ac.uk.

LEEDS AND DISTRICT c. 30 members
Pres: Dr Emma Stafford; Chair: Mr Lionel Scott, Treas: Prof. Malcolm Heath, Sec: Dr Steven Green, Dept of Classics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. Tel: 0113 343 3540; e-mail: s.j.green@leeds.ac.uk. Schools Scretary: Wilf O'Neill. Website: www.classicsnet.plus.com/ladca.htm.
2008: 23 Jan: Prof Stephen Todd, 'Putting the Hype into the New Hypereides'; 5 March: Dr Karim Arafat, 'Pausanias in context'; Classical Civilisation Day (schools); 11 March: Schools' Reading Competition; 8 May: Dr Ika Willis, 'Science Fiction and the Romans'; AGM.

LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND
Chair: Prof. Graham Shipley; Sec: Eleanor Cowan, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE2 7RH. Tel: 0116 252 2640; E-mail: erc5@le.ac.uk.
25 November: Joint with Dorothy Buchan Memorial Trust and SPHS, Dr Mary Harlow, 'Dressing to impress: Roman female dress - rhetoric and reality'.

LONDON (AND LACT) 45 members, 20 schools
Pres: Prof. Tim Cornell; Treas: Mrs A.K. Matthews; Sec: Miss Nesta C.L. Phillips, 3 Waveney Mansions, 66 Fairhazel Gardens, London, NW6 3SN. Tel: 020 7328 0728; Assistant Sec: Miss Rosemary Jeffreys, tel: 020 7837 9980.
2008: 13 Feb: Prof Simon Goldhill, Prof Edith Hall, 'The Two Electras'; 3 March: GCSE Meeting; 5 March: Reading Competition; 24 April: AGM; mid-May: Ludi Scaenici.

MANCHESTER & DISTRICT 60 members, 65 schools
Pres: Mr A. Whitehead; Chair: Prof. S. Todd; Treas: Mr J. Jones; Sec: Dr April Pudsey, e-mail: april.pudsey@manchester.ac.uk. Website: www.manchesterca.org.uk
2008: 18 Jan: AGM; 6 Feb: Prof John Prag, ' Who was who in the Bronze Age: faces, DNA and kinship at Mycenae and elsewhere'; 7 March: Prof Robin Osborne, 'Death drama and the law in Classical Athens'; 7 May: Dr Barbara Graziosi, 'Family dynamics in Iliad VI'

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE 47 members, 6 schools
Chair: Fr. Anthony Dykes; Treas: Mr Richard Wallace; Sec: Mr Stephen Clifford, Kalathos, Cherry Tree Lane, Woore, Shropshire, CW3 9SR. Tel: 01630 647 765; e-mail: northstaffsca@yahoo.co.uk; www.geocities.com/northstaffsca/.
2008: 16 Jan: Members' social event; 19 Feb: play-reading of Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 11 March: Prof Alan Sommerstein, 'Lysistrata the Warrior' (with the Hellenic Society); 10 May: trip to St. Albans; 22 May: Dr Trevor Fear, 'Age Cannot Wither Her, Nor Custom Stale / Her Infinite Variety: the Changing Faces of Cleopatra'.

NORTHUMBERLAND & DURHAM 141 members
Treas: Mr Mike Smith; Sec: Dr Eleanor O Kell, Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Durham, 38 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EU. Tel: 0191 334 1668; e-mail: e.r.okell@dur.ac.uk.

NOTTINGHAM 26 members, 4 affiliated schools
Chair: Prof. A. Sommerstein; Treas: Dr D. Lee; Sec: Ms Hilary Walters, 16 Dunster Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 6JF. Tel: 0115 923 2528; e-mail: hilary.walters@ntlworld.com.
2008: 5 March: EMACT Reading Competition; 11 March: Dr Jonathan Prag, 'Fighting for the Provinces: Republican Auxiliaries'; 18 June: AGM, Prof Roderick Beaton, 'Literature and the imagined Community: the Making of modern Greece 1800s - 1970s'

OXFORD 55 members
Treas: Dr Mark Pobjoy; Sec: Dr Bruno Currie, Oriel College, Oxford, OX1 4EW. Tel: 01865 276 510; e-mail: bruno.currie@oriel.ox.ac.uk.
2008: 1 Feb: Latin GCSE morning; 7 Feb: Latin A Level Conference; 17 March: Reading Competition.

READING 60 members, 10 schools
Pres: Mrs A. Thornton; Chair: Mrs M. Giddings; Treas: Dr A. Thornton, Sec: Mrs Margaret Griffiths-Eyton, 4 Alison Close, Burghfield Common, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 3QP. E-mail: mihge@tiscali.co.uk.
2008: 23 Jan: Dr Matthew Leigh, 'Roman poetry and the Roman calendar'; 27 Feb: Mr John Davie, 'Shakespeare and the Classics'; March (date tbc): Sixth Form Conference; 15 April: Dr Barbara Goff, 'Improvising on the Athenian Stage: women and ritual in tragedy'; 21 May: Dr Nick Lowe, 'The end of the Odyssey'; 11 June: AGM; Dr Emma Aston, 'How was Metamorphosis depicted in Ancient Greek art?'.

SALISBURY & DISTRICT 6 members, 9 schools
Chair: Stephen Plaister; Treas: William Lockett; Sec: Nicholas Bray, 19 Wainalong Road, Salisbury Wiltshire, SP1 1LJ. Tel: 01722 330 419; e-mail: a101645@hotmail.com.
2008: 22 Jan: Mr John Davie, 'Poetry and Politics in Augustan Rome'; 11March: Reading Competition; 17 March: Workshop for year 12 students on University Classics Courses; 4 June: AGM; 20 June: Homeric Feast and Storytelling.

SHEFFIELD & DISTRICT 4 schools
Pres: Mr J .Wade; Treas: Mr V. Knowles; Sec: Mrs J. Blockeel, Sheffield High School, Rutland Park, Sheffield, S10 2PE.

SOUTHAMPTON 48 members, 6 schools
Pres: Prof. Brian Sparkes, Treas: Jenny Wright; Sec: Elizabeth Pickett, St James' Vicarage, Elizabeth Close, Southampton, SO30 3LT. Tel: 023 8047 2180; e-mail: lizpickett@ukonline.co.uk. Website: www.southamptonca.org.uk.
2008: 1st February, Dr. Scott Scullion, The Classics Outreach Programme; 28th February, Mr. Tom Holland, 'The Persian invasion of Greece and the end of history'; 7th March, Latin and Greek reading competition for schools; 8th May, Dr. Zahra Newby, Myth and Violence in Roman Art; 5th July, Prandium

SUSSEX/SACT
Sec: Ben Jourdain, Eastbourne College, Old Wish Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JX. E-mail: hbjourdain@eastbourne-college.co.uk.
2008: 6 March: Sixth Form Conference; 13 March: Reading Competition

SOUTH-WEST 117 members, 25 schools
Pres: Prof. T.P. Wiseman; Chair: Dr Daniel Ogden; Treas: Prof. S. Mitchell; Sec: Ms Becky Symonds, Blundells School, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 4DN. Tel: 01884 252 543; e-mail: res@blundells.org.
2008: 15th January, Dr. Eleanor Dickey, 'How to say "please" in Latin'; 5th February, Dr. John Morgan, 'A lost masterpiece: "The Wonders Beyond Thule" of Antonius Diogenes', Dr. Karen Nì-Mheallaigh, 'Pseudo-documentary fiction in the Greek and Roman world'; 13th May, Dr. Peter van Nuffelen, 'Pagan monotheism in the Roman Empire'

TAYSIDE 17 schools
Pres: David Cleland; Chair: Roger Rees; Treas: Andrew Lang; Sec: Andy McKellar, Dundee High School, Euclid Crescent, Dundee, DD1 1HU. Tel: 01382 227 072; e-mail: saamckellar@dundeehigh.dundeecity.sch.uk.
2008: 12 March: Highers Conference; 18 June: Recitation Competition.

ALLIED ASSOCIATIONS

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND (founded 1902)
Chair: Prof. D.L. Cairns; Treas: Mr A. Hood; Sec: Dr C. Panayotakis, Department of Classics, The University, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. E-mail: c.panayotakis@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk

EDINBURGH & SOUTH-EAST CENTRE (founded 1922)
Pres: Mr C. Strachan; Treas: Dr D.H. Glass; Sec: Dr Gavin Kelly, Classics Dept, Edinburgh University, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JX. E-mail: gavin.kelly@ed.ac.uk.

GLASGOW & SOUTH-WEST CENTRE (founded 1921; reconstituted 1972)
Treas: Mrs M. Wade; Sec: Dr Susan Milligan, 39 Cecil Street (flat 3/1), Glasgow, G12 8RN. Tel: 0141 334 2807; e-mail: susan@writtenword.co.uk.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF OTAGO (founded 1922): 47 members
Pres: Dr A. Allan; Sec: Mr. John Walsh, c/o Dept of Classics, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. E-mail: waljo180@student.otago.ac.nz.