Miss Victoria Greenhalgh in the Classics Department gave an entertaining and informative academic enrichment lecture after school on Thursday 3rd March 2016, entitled ‘Women behaving badly in Ancient Greece: did it pay to push the boundaries?’.

The academic enrichment lecture was well attended by girls from a range of year groups from LIV upwards, who were all inspired by Miss Greenhalgh’s account of three women, Aspasia, Neaera and Phryne, who were thought to have to transgressed the social norms of ancient Greek culture. The way in which such women were perceived by the men around them and presented in contemporary and subsequent literature and art was explored in a thought-provoking way and the lively questions posed at the end allowed the girls to make links with culture today.