Educational Materials

Below are some fun projects to bring ancient history to life! I’ve created kids activity sheets and colouring books using classical art and cartoons. These are free for home and educational use with attribution. If you would like custom materials created for your school, museum or study, please get in touch via the contact me tab.

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Marble Trade Networks in the Roman Empire

In the Roman period, access to building and decorative materials were accessible to wealthy Romans from all the reaches of their empire. To find out how this worked, download the activity sheets below! They are free to use and share, so I hope you enjoy!

Marble Trade in Roman Empire Download

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Example Activity Sheets

Here are some examples of public outreach activity sheets I have made for public outreach programmes at Roman Aeclanum, Italy and Ilfracombe Museum’s free to download. New activity sheets will be uploaded regularly, with exclusive activity packages available on my Patreon for personal or educational use.

Women at Work in the Roman Empire

You can download the newest activity sheets of Roman women in work here:

Roman Women in Work Activity Sheets click here!

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Classical Cartoon Colouring Books

During this period of the Covid-19 lockdown I wanted to use the sketches I’ve made during my travels and turn them into something that could entertain and educate kids and adults. There are several volumes available for PDF download on my blog post ArchaeoArtist’s Classical Cartoons. Please feel free to download and share.

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Vita Romana: life along the Via Appia

As part of public engagement for the Aeclanum project, I created a comic book depicting daily life in the region. The comic highlights classical architecture and clothing, and demonstrates the daily routine in the town. To read about my experiences on the dig and why public engagement with archeology is important, visit my blog post about Aeclanum.

Download a copy below!

Vita Romana at the Baths of Aeclanum click here!

Getting ready for the day

Getting ready for the day

Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity - Two Friends Talk History

In this episode of Two Friends Talk History, Zofia interviews Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews, and founder of the Visualising War and Peace Project, Dr Alice König. In this interview, Zofia asks Alice about ideas of representing war in antiquity, and if concepts like a ‘peace movement’ was possible in a period of Roman Imperium. We discuss the absences in war narratives, and war’s impacts on women and children, and then turn our attention to the podcast series that Dr König and Dr Nicolas Wiater, launched in 2021, the Visualising War and Peace podcast. The Visualsing War and Peace podcast has over 60 episodes and seeks to present listeners with cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on how war and peace were visualised in the past and how new narratives these established frameworks are seeking to disrupt the ways we talk about, teach and reproduce conflicts.We also discuss the upcoming exhibition Alice has organised with the artist, Diana Forster, opening May 25th at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews, 'Somewhere to Stay’. The exhibition focuses on the forced migration experienced by Diana's mother, a young Polish woman, during WWII.To hear Diana's episodes, you can listen to Art and War with Diana Forster or Visualising Forced Migration Through History.We also discussed the upcoming exhibition collaboration with Hugh Kinsella Cunningham, titled 'Picturing Peace in the Congo'. you can find more information linked here. You can get in touch with Dr Konig at the University of St Andrews and her work on the Visualising War and Peace project here. Alice is also on Twitter @KonigAlice or @VisualisingWar. You can also follow the project on Facebook and Instagram, and there is an excellent blog series that you can follow through the project website/blog. For links to show topics:On the appropriation of Classics topics/symbols etc by alt-right groups, helpful scholarship can be read here on Pharos' website: https://pharos.vassarspaces.net/To get in touch and find out more about Two Friends Talk History:Find us on InstagramSupport us through Patreon Buy our merch on RedbubbleExplore more resources and topics about the ancient world on ArchaeoArtistMusic by the wonderfully talented Chris SharplesImage credits: cover illustration by Zofia GuertinIf you'd like to get in touch, email at twofriendstalkhistory@gmail.com.

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