🎉 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new book was published over the summer! 📚 'The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics' shows that understanding the philosophical proposal of the EE is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle’s ethics. 🔗 academic.oup.com/book/60082

Shout out for our pop-up exhibition 'Women of Romano-British Archaeology' on display in the Hellenic and Roman Library at Senate House in London curated by Dr Tatiana Ivleva. the-past.com/feature/expa... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

🎉 Happy new (academic) year, and welcome to three new colleagues! 💻 We are joined today by Dr Chiara Palladino and Dr Thea Sommerschield, both as Assistant Professors in Digital Humanities and the Ancient Greek World. 👩🏫 Dr Ilaria Bucci joined us back in May as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.

A new initiative from our colleagues in Thessaloniki - Aristotle to get Alexander to focus on his studies, finally. www.iefimerida.gr/english/univ... #ancient #classics

The latest installment of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is finally in print. From "reus" to "robustus".

Today's new arrival, and it's hot stuff!

My latest contribution to the ever-growing field (or patch, more like) of Moretum Studies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1170 pages. Mostly in German. That I now have to read and review. Wish me luck

In aula ingenti memoriae meae. Forme di autobiografia nella letteratura tardolatina go.shr.lc/3UsuPiI #freeaccess

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org. I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Exciting post today! (Open-access version of Ester's and my chapter: works.hcommons.org/records/sd1t...) #AncientBluesky 🏺

Starts 9th July!! New online course: Ancient Rome in 50 Monuments, by Dr Paul Roberts. Each Wednesday from 9th July to 6th August 2025, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

New online course!! Ancient Rome in 50 Monuments, by Dr Paul Roberts. Each Wednesday from 9th July to 6th August 2025, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

New online course!! Ancient Rome in 50 Monuments, by Dr Paul Roberts. Each Wednesday from 9th July to 6th August 2025, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky #Romans🏺

New online course!! Ancient Rome in 50 Monuments, by Dr Paul Roberts. Each Wednesday from 9th July to 6th August 2025, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #Romans🏺

I fear my discussion with Roy Gibson and young Raph Cormack (a relation) at Hexham next Friday is sold out (there MAY be returns) tinyurl.com/562prnfn. We'll be talking about emperors and 20th century holymen,fakirs, occultists (& the connections??). You can get the book anyway tinyurl.com/44f3h86m

@hellenicsociety.bsky.social & Roman Society Online Course Susan Deacy Myth and Mythology 14, 21, 28 May, 4 and 11 June, 6-7.30 What is mythology? When does classical myth begin? When does it end? Why are its characters such a source of fascination? www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Starts on Wednesday! New 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy Weekly sessions, starting 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... (Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

www.propylaeum.de/themen/sidon... The partner and successor website of sidonapol.org. News and What’s up? remain here on the original website. Bibliographies, Aftermath and Publications have moved to the Propylaeum Platform.

Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters in the Green & Yellows, forthcoming in December. www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

📚 Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'! 🖼️ This book follows a 2021–4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron

Course outline: Wed 14 May - Myth and mythology Wed 21 May - Myth and the gods Wed 28 May - Myth and folktale Wed 4 June - Myth and the city Wed 11 June - Myth and 'us' Each week will include recommended reading which, where possible, will be made available online.

Register now for our 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... (Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Both winners receive a prize of £100 each, and complimentary membership of the Roman Society for a year.

Amelia's dissertation was entitled ‘The power to mark the multitude of fishes that travel in the water’: Integrating visual and material sources with Oppian’s Halieutica', and Naomi's ‘Creating Complexity: Paratextuality and Intertextuality in the Works of Ausonius’

We are delighted to announce that this years' MA dissertation prize received an exceptionally high quality of entrants, and we have decided to award it jointly. Our congratulations to to Amelia Reeves at the University of Durham and to Naomi Norden at the University of Cambridge.

💥 Meet our staff! The latest in our occasional video series has just launched 👩‍🏫 Learn more about @katherinemcdon.bsky.social and her award-winning research on ancient linguistics, multilingualism, bilingualism and mobility. 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Still on our #TeamVenus-theme. This #FrescoFriday offering is a depiction of Venus and Amor from Pompeii.

On Professors of Latin at Liverpool… just published: … www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

🖊️ Save the date! 👩‍🏫 Prof. Lynette Mitchell (Exeter) will deliver this year's PJ Rhodes Memorial lecture, "Travel and change impart new vigour to the mind': constitutional thinking in early Greece" 📅 5 pm, 30 April 🏛️ Prior's Hall, Durham Cathedral 👉 RSVP: [email protected]

💥 We're very excited about the amazing discovery of a brand new Mycenaean tholos tomb on Hadrian's Wall! 🔗 Read more here: tinyurl.com/ye9bjs9m

New 5-week course 'The Origins of Rome' by Professor Tim Cornell Starts Wednesday 2 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) with online recordings available. More information and registration at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Image: 'Aeneas fleeing from Troy' painted by Pompeo Batoni.

Hello Northumberland friends. Having a debate about different sorts of history with my son on 23 May in Hexham. I fully expect to be taken down to size. Conflict to be moderated by Roy Gibson. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5n7aarsn

New 5-week course 'The Origins of Rome' by Professor Tim Cornell Starts Wednesday 2 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) with online recordings available. More information and registration at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Image: 'Aeneas fleeing from Troy' painted by Pompeo Batoni

New 5-week course 'The Origins of Rome' by Professor Tim Cornell Starts Wednesday 2 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) with online recordings available. More information and registration at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Image: 'Aeneas fleeing from Troy' painted by Pompeo Batoni

Please read and circulate this letter from CUCD and various learned societies in defence of Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/03/11/o...

New 5-week course 'The Origins of Rome' by Professor Tim Cornell. Starts Wednesday 2 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) with online recordings available. More information and registration at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Image: 'Aeneas fleeing from Troy' painted by Pompeo Batoni

🎉 We are ranked 9th in the world for Classics, in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025! 💥 Our academic excellence and impact is reflected in our global rankings and this is a true credit to the outstanding teaching and research carried out at @durham-university.bsky.social

New 5-week course 'The Origins of Rome' by Professor Tim Cornell Starts Wednesday 2 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) with online recordings available. More information and registration at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Image: 'Aeneas fleeing from Troy' painted by Pompeo Batoni

Hellenic Society & Roman Society Online Course 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available Professor Tim Cornell: The Origins of Rome Session 1. Wednesday 2 April. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

DfE blog on the support available for Latin in state schools educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/teac... #classics

We invite our friends and followers to an evening of lectures on Paestum. Tuesday 25 March, 2025 at 5.30pm Speakers will include Dr Tiziana D'Angelo, Dr Kathryn Lomas, and Professor Christopher Smith. Joint event with Hellenic Society. Programme at:

@hellenicsociety.bsky.social is holding an evening of lectures on Paestum on Tuesday 25 March by Dr Tiziana D’Angelo, Prof. Christopher Smith and Dr Kathryn Lomas. No booking required. The lectures will not be live-streamed but will be available to watch afterwards on the Society's YouTube channel.

Teachers! Bursaries of up to £100 for teachers to attend a Latin language course at a Summer School. Deadline 31 May 2025. www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize... #Classics #Teachers #Latin (Image By Dr. Marcus Gossler - CC BY-SA 3.0)

Apparently pancakes were a thing in Ancient Rome (we just looked it up - if in doubt, try Galen). But probably bread like this was more commonly eaten. www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

New Knights commentary in the Orange series www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

🎉 Congratulations to Giulia Bernardini, who has passed her viva with a thesis entitled 'Plato and Comedy. Plato’s Relationship with Fourth Century Comedy and the Impact on the Development of the Comic Genre'. 👨‍🏫 Thank you to examiners Prof. Charalampopoulos (Patas) and Dr George Gazis.

NYT catches up on August date for 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/s...