The Ontario Classical Association (OCA) was founded in 1944 with

Eric A. Havelock Eric Alfred Havelock (; 3 June 1903 – 4 April 1988) was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States. He was a professor at the University of Toronto and was active in the Canadian socialist movement du ...

as its first president. The association promotes the study of

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through

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s, and colloquia for members. Its membership consists primarily of university and secondary school classics teachers, as well as students and amateurs. The group's second president was

Reginald Seeley Reginald Sidney Kingsley Seeley (1908 – 12 July 1957) was an Anglican Dean of Ontario and Provost of Trinity College, Toronto. He was born in India, the son of G. H. Seeley, Archdeacon of Rangoon and educated at Marlborough College and Christ's C ...

, who would go on to become the first president of the

Classical Association of Canada The Classical Association of Canada (CAC) (french: La Société canadienne des études classiques (SCEC)) is a national, nonprofit organization with the aim of advancing the study of the civilizations of the Greek and Roman worlds in their Mediter ...

in 1947. The OCA was the original publisher of ''

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'', and it was edited at the time by Mary White.

References

External links

Official website
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