A PROFESSOR of classics from a top London university visited Thomas Hardye School to help students with a study day.
Fifty sixth form students of the Dorchester school’s classics department welcomed Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King’s College, London, for a study day for their Classical Civilisation A-level in the Melvin Library.
Prof Hall gave illustrated talks on Aeschylus’ tragedy Persians, and on the leading female characters in Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey.
Students welcomed the opportunity to ask questions relating to their revision for A-level exams in a few weeks and Prof Hall said she was impressed by the level of their engagement with their studies in the increasingly popular subject.
Prof Hall told students she was a fan of Thomas Hardy a descendant of Thomas Hardye after who the school is named.
She said she was keen to return to Dorchester soon in order to visit the settings of Hardy’s books, including the Mayor of Casterbridge.
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