Tutor information
Michael Duigan
Michael Duigan teaches ancient history and art history at a number of colleges including the City Lit in London and London University Birkbeck College. His thesis at the Courtauld Institute is on the artist in classical Greece. He has offered courses on the ancient world to OUDCE for a number of years.
Courses
Fascinating stories with their intriguing mix of strangeness and familiarity. What could they possibly mean? Why were they created? How can we explain their power to inspire writers, dramatists and painters for millennia?
The extraordinary lives of the rulers of Imperial Rome and the actions of their wives. History gives vivid accounts of the often scandalous but always fascinating events in the lives of these emperors. Can we distinguish between ‘fact’ and propaganda?