'Divers Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Sunken Port in Asini'

Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest. A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Joint course with @theRomanSoc #ClassicsBluesky

'1,600-Year-Old Byzantine-Era Samaritan Villa Discovered in Central Israel' greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

'Archaeologists in Albania have uncovered a large Roman burial chamber dating back to the 3rd–4th century AD.'

'The Top-5 Poems Inspired by Ancient Greece'. greekreporter.com/2025/09/07/t... Subjective. What would your choices be?

Starts next Wednesday! (17th September)

The National Museums Collection Centre have asked us to help them share their event. They're looking for people with experience of wearing, making or using regional dress in Greece to join them for a morning in Edinburgh on Tuesday 28 October.

Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest. A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Joint course with @theRomanSoc #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest. A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Joint course with @theRomanSoc #ClassicsBluesky

'Ancient Mieza Gymnasium Excavations Reveal Links to Philip II and Alexander the Great' greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/01/m... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest. A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... Joint course with @theRomanSoc #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

'Enlisting the Sick and Dead: Biological Warfare in Antiquity' www.haaretz.com/archaeology/...

Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest. A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available. More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

The wonderful Prof. Brian McGing's (of @tcdclassics.bsky.social)very recent talk to the @hellenicsociety.bsky.social on new fragments of Euripides. Presentations by Lyndsay Coo and Patrick Finglass can also be found at: www.youtube.com/@HellenicSoc... #ancient #classics #tragedy

COLOUR, TEXTURE AND SOUND: EXPERIENCING THE ANCIENT WORLD organised by The Classical Collections Network, in partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Great North Museum: Hancock Friday 19 September 2025 @hellenicsociety.bsky.social

@hellenicsociety.bsky.social GRANTS Guidelines and applications forms for: - Grants to Institutions, Schools, Summer Schools and Individuals (deadline 1 October 2025) - Regional Conference Grants (1 November 2025) - Undergraduate Essay Competition (7 January 2026) www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/

'Ancient Greek art on display in Shanghai'

'Review: They Weave with String that Suffocates, University of East London'

'One problem with making an Assassin's Creed game in Ancient Greece, says Ubisoft, is that there just weren't enough tall buildings for a 'climbing frame game' #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.pcgamer.com/games/assass...

'Can’t work out without music? Neither could the ancient Greeks and Romans'

'New Acropolis Museum Program Explores Water’s Role in Ancient Greece' greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/15/a...

Paestum is a MUST if you're doing the Amalfi coast. Might be my fave ancient site.

'Oh mighty Zeus! The Hercules musical is awful - review'

Dr Tiziana D’Angelo, Director of the Archaeological Park of Paestum and Velia discusses Poseidonia, a city of temples: architecture, cult and society in a recently- discovered Western Greek sanctuary (full length talk). youtu.be/XHw5uVLqbDU?... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

'The women of Greek tragedy speak' observer.co.uk/culture/book... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

'Review - Roots of The Republic by Tim Whitmarsh' literaryreview.co.uk/roots-of-the... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

🎶 Can music transform our understanding of classical myths? Dr @emilypillinger.bsky.social's research gives voice to the unheard character of Penelope from Homer's Odyssey by using contemporary musical performances to share ancient myths with modern audiences 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlig...

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) and recordings will be available. Information and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

'‘Six Women in Greek Tragedy’ returns for Athens summer shows with exhibition'

'Researchers Uncover Ancient Aegean Coastline in Groundbreaking Study'

'Getty Villa to Reopen June 27 After Palisades Fire Closure - After months of recovery from the Palisades Fire, the Getty Villa reopens June 27 with a new exhibition on Mycenaean Greece'

'Greek inscription and mosaic floors uncovered at ancient city of Olympos' neoskosmos.com/en/2025/06/2... #ClassicsBluesky

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 🏺

'From Hadestown to Hercules: ancient myths are the gods’ gift to musicals'

'Archaeologists unearth Roman-era sarcophagus showing Greek gods in drinking contest' www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

On #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour two vases showing the seamy side of domestic slavery in classical Athens and reminding us who had to supply some of those lovely ceramics when their dissipated owners needed them

Combined Classics Library Bursaries closing soon! In partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Roman Society, the ICS is offering small grants (up to £300) to assist unfunded scholars to visit the Combined Classics Library this summer. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4kL2GP1

Don't miss Vindices, a Latin Play, free entry and open to all. Tomorrow Friday 13/06 at 8pm and Saturday 14/06 at 3pm, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles. #theatre #performance #latin #play #reception

Runciman Award Ceremony: an evening dedicated to good books, Anglo-Hellenic friendship relations, and an incisive lecture by Prof. Elias Papaioannou, on ‘Uprootedness, Human Capital, and Anatolia Imprints’ 18.00, 13 June 2025, Great Hall, King’s Strand Campus.

Last chance to see our students electrifying Elektra!! Some tickets still available for today's matinee and evening performances. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek...

Our AGM and Colloquium: Euripides and the new fragmentary papyrus is at 2.30pm on Saturday 21 June, 2025, Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. No booking needed. www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/news/events

'Getty Exhibition Explores the Splendors of Mycenaean Greece'

'Dr. Ella Hawkins Reimagines Ancient Artifacts and Prized Objects as Edible Replicas'

'Stella Sorotou’s Poetic and Artistic Tribute to Lord Byron: A Journey Through Art, Literature, and Education'

'Rituals: Gifts for the Gods – Major ancient Greek exhibition opens in Melbourne CBD'

'Solar architecture choreographs light and shadow across an ancient Macedonian tomb'

Our AGM and Colloquium: Euripides and the new fragmentary papyrus is at 2.30pm on Saturday 21 June, 2025, Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. No booking needed. www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/news/events

Have you got the KCL Greek Play in your diary? Our students are staging 'Elektra - A Throne Restored' and it's going to be BRILLIANT. 📆10 to 12 June 2025 at Greenwood Theatre, Guy’s Campus, London. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek...

Sometimes the impact that research can have is direct and extraordinary. This is a remarkable outcome for those who were adopted abroad from Greece from 1948-1975, and thanks in part to the work of KCL Professor Gonda Van Steen. www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1267...

In the light of recent news from Cardiff University it seems timely to re-post this letter championing the work of colleagues in Ancient History and Religion from CUCD, CA, FIEC, @ics.bsky.social @theromansoc.bsky.social @hellenicsociety.bsky.social Update at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...