Dr Janet Watson

Janet Watson holds a PhD in Classics, and has a special interest in the Homeric epics. She has been teaching in higher and continuing education for more than twenty-five years. She currently teaches at Newcastle University in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology.

Janet has extensive experience in teaching classical Greek language and literature, and is a keen advocate of the Reading Greek methodology, whereby students are introduced to grammar and syntax through carefully graded reading passages adapted from original sources, progressing to original texts. This approach enables students not only to learn the language, but also to acquire an understanding of the culture in which it flourished.