Redborne School
Classics Department
STUDENT ARTICLES
How Percy made me love Classics
Chloe (yr13)
Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.
If you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe what-ever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life. Being a half-blood is dangerous. It’s scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.
If you’re a normal kid, reading this because you think it’s fiction, great. Read on. I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened.
Next article coming soon!
Your name here (yr??)
If you are a Redborne Classics student, GCSE or A-level, and you want your work to appear here, all you have to do is write an article of 200 words or more (with pictures!) and send it to Mr Dobson. Your article could be about pretty much any Classical topic, for instance:
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a school Classics trip
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a lesson that caught your imagination
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a visiting lecturer
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a TV programme or film
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an exhibition you've been to
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a play review
These are just suggestions, though - surprise me!
The Male Gaze and the Ancient Nude
Naomi (yr13)
Laura Mulvey introduced the concept of ‘the male gaze’ in relation to visual arts being structured around a masculine viewer. It has created a world where everything is seen from a heterosexual man’s perspective – women being the primary victims of this mentality.
John Berger, Ways of Seeing, defines ‘the male gaze’ as, “Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” This arrangement of viewership is presented in Lely’s Venus (Aphrodite), “a Hellenistic marble statue of the crouching Venus type.”[1] Aphrodite could be seen as vulnerable and attempting to cover...
Slave labour - you get what you pay for
Erin and Jamie (yr13)
The hypocaust was a feat of domestic engineering by the inhabitants of Rome. For a society who believed that the sun was driven across the sky by a chariot, they had a surprisingly great grip on physics. (Much better than a group of year 12’s anyway!) Our group was tasked with building a miniature version; and I think you can probably work out how well that went. In our defence, Rome wasn’t built in a day, let alone half an hour.
A hypocaust is a hollow space under the floor of a building, into which hot air was directed. The hot air is spread around due to various flues and tunnels. This meant...
