Kathryn M - Tutor in Rondebosch

I am a researcher at UCT, with fifteen years of teaching experience in languages, ancient history, and classical mythology. My students have ranged from primary school children, to postgraduates, to adults simply wanting to learn more about a subject they are interested in. With a D. Phil in Classical Philology from Oxford, I can teach Latin and Ancient Greek, ancient literature (think Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the philosophy of Plato, the histories of Thucydides and Tacitus, the love poetry of Ovid, and more), the history of English, historical linguistics (how languages have changed over time), general linguistics (phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology), and sociolinguistics (how language use is determined by the people who speak it). I can also teach ancient history, mostly focusing on the Greeks and Romans (for example, the rise of democracy, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar), but am also researching ancient North Africa, and have a special interest in the Aegean Bronze Age (the Hittite empire, the historical Greece behind the myths). Sessions can easily be tailored to students' interests: teaching should inspire enthusiasm, and be entertaining as well as educational.