Call for applications: Non-stipendiary Early Career Research Associates (ECRAs) Deadline Wednesday 20 May Each position is tenable for up to three years and is open to UK-based researchers in any field of classical studies. Full details: ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/fello...

Apply for one of four Master’s scholarships for the 2026/27 academic year at SAS. These scholarships will be awarded to exceptional students who are active in British Muslim communities and keen to build bridges with all parts of British society. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4s1djjD

Combined Classics Library Bursaries In partnership with @hellenicsociety.bsky.social and @theromansoc.bsky.social, the Institute of Classical Studies is running a small grants scheme (up to £300) to assist unfunded scholars who wish to visit the Library in summer 2026. ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...

New online courses! We will be running FOUR new courses online, starting from 6 May: Jan Haywood: Divination in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds Five weeks: Wednesday 6, 13, 20, 27 May, 3 June, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) + recordings www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events

🎁📖🏺 GIVEAWAY! 🏺📖🎁 We've run the rule over Curtis Dozier's excellent "The White Pedestal" and to celebrate, we have a copy to give away. To win it, have a read of the article and follow the instructions at the end... www.workingclassicists.com/zine/book-re...

Des archéologues affirment avoir identifié Alexandrie sur le Tigre buff.ly/YAAmbLa #Antiquité #AlexandreLeGrand #archéologie #HistoireAnciennet

The latest ICS newsletter is here with news and announcements, updates on blogs, events, and publications: mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news... Receive future editions by subscribing here: mailchi.mp/sas/ics-news...

New Tusculan Disputations OCT edition by Robert Kaster. Out May 2026. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Eurasian Studies Vol. 23 Nos. 1-2 (2025) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

SAS's Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Claire Gorrara, speaks about the incredible connections with non-governmental organisations you'll access through studying the School of Advanced Study. Find out more: sas.ac.uk/postgraduate-study

Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities: Big Data, Scribes, and the “Paris Bible” / David Joseph Wrisley & @estellegvl.bsky.social www.arc-humanities.org/978180270243... #openaccesss @archumanities.bsky.social

Classics #seminars hosted by the University of Turin 📆 27 March at 3 to 5pm CET 📍 11 Palazzo Nuovo 💻️ Online: bit.ly/4sUtmR6 Thomas Biggs (University of St Andrews) "Camilla and Chloreus in Vergil’s Aeneid" Elena Giusti (Cambridge University) "La voce di Didone"

"The five articles included in this collection concentrate on politics, education, and performance as three interconnected areas of the text's reception" The latest BICS, ed. Maria Fragoulaki & Neville Morley, explores "Doing things with Thucydides" academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...

Our latest article is titled "A Feminist Rereading of Desire in the Odyssey’s Calypso Episode", by Alexandra Meghji. Now available to read on our website. Link in the bio! #classics#Odysseyr#ancientliterature#ancientstudies

Register now for the final PGWiP Seminar of Spring Term Fri 27 March, 5pm Sebastian Zellner (Freie Universität Berlin) will present The bars and chords of Clio - ἁρμονία, σύνθησις and Ancient Historiography ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! This week, ancient Judaism expert Mika Ahuvia discusses angels in Late Antiquity. Then, South Asian graffiti in the Valley of the Kings, religion in Sinners, cultural heritage damage in Iran & Lebanon, new ancient journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more 😇

"Manumission in the Roman world and the Americas" Myles Lavan (St Andrews) Online #Lecture 📆 26 March at 18.00 Athens time (16.00 UK time) 🔗 To watch and participate in discussion, register: bit.ly/3PM4pZR

Greetings one and all! Bursary applications are now open for 2026, find out more here: www.trac.org.uk/bursary-appl...

Glad to see media is finally catching on to something our field has been arguing for like... over half a century? At least my esteemed colleague @jmharland.bsky.social is getting the recognition he deserves!

#EpigraphyTuesday The Cippus Perusinus is a stone tablet (cippus) discovered on the hill of San Marco, near Perugia, #Italy, in 1822. The tablet bears 46 lines of incised #Etruscan text, about 130 words - 3rd or 2nd century BC. (See Alt. For more) #Archaeology #History #writing

Thrilled that Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic is now published: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... @awaws.org @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social @resaustrales.bsky.social @acrsn.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womensclasscaucus.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

We have published our first review article of 2026, "Homer Iliad I-XII: A text and translation for students & Homer Iliad XIII-XXIV: A text and translation for students. Coventry: Machaira." by Wayne Rimmer. Link: www.newclassicists.com/individual-a... #classics#ancientliterature#ancientstudies

#EFAevents #SemMod 📅 04/03 - 11h30 EET 📜 Comment peut-on être Syrien ? Espaces de référence, appartenances et mobilités dans le Bilal al-Sham au temps des premières révolutions arabes (1920-1936) 🗣️ Leyla DAKHLI | CNRS / CHS 📌 @efathenes.bsky.social | sur inscription 👉 www.efa.gr/events/semmo...

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures Fri 13 Mar, 12pm shorturl.at/jzAg8 Understandings of old age & the role of the old in society vary widely across time & cultures. This event launches a new initiative to enable comparisons & discussions between scholars of pre-modern cultures in Europe & China.

''Exceptionally rare' Roman lead blocks found on farmland' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check out the SASA Intro Guides project to get basic overviews of general and complex topics available Intro Guides: Greek Sculptures Greek Vases Greek Funerary Sculpture Athenian White-ground Lekythoi Mesopotamian Religion Check out our Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides

Save the date! Join us for five inaugural lectures by our colleagues who were recently made professor: Prof Emma Buckley, Prof Alice König, Prof Myles Lavan, Prof Alex Long, and Prof Carlos Machado. ⏰️ 1 April 2026 at 4pm. 📍 Buchanan lecture theatre, St Andrews. #AllWelcome #InauguralLecture

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

Have you developed a new methodological technique for doing #archaeology? Or maybe you're applying a method for the first time? 🏺 Submit a methods paper to Antiquity and get your research in front of a global audience 🔗 antiquity.ac.uk/submit

“Matrilineality, Materialism, and Minoans...” Christopher Anaforian (St Andrews), Emily Strba (Edinburgh) STARR #Seminar, 📆 26 February,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) 🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/4aNAYOc #AllWelcome

You're invited: Women’s Day Roundtable Femicide and Gender Violence in Ancient Rome: Evidence from Epigraphy and Roman Art Marina Lo Blundo in conversation with Kelsey Madden 🗓 11 March 2026 | ⏰ 18:00 – 19:30 | 📍 Hybrid | Free in person 💻 Register to watch online: bsr.ac.uk/womens-day-r...

The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 115 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @darcytuttle.bsky.social @profyarrow.bsky.social

Starts tomorrow! Still time to sign up...

#RAC/TRAC2026 in Aarhus is coming up! Registration is open with an early bird discount until March 15: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... @theromansoc.bsky.social is also offering bursaries, check them out here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline 23 Feb) #AncientBlueSky

Classical Association Conference, Manchester, April 2026 buff.ly/P7hrWby #Classics #AncientHistory #Archaeology

“Ancient environmental studies: interdisciplinary approaches” Online #workshop, 📆 9 March,⏰10am to 1pm GMT 🔗 View details and register: bit.ly/4cuOdWf The 3 hour workshop introduces ancient environmental studies through archaeology, palaeoenvironmental data, and ecocriticism.

Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes Vol. 98, No. 1 (2024) shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-... @cairninfo.bsky.social

“Lesbian and Juventius: From Romanticised Ancient Muse to Blasè Contemporary Ex-Lover” Raven Jane Adilene (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 19 February,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) #AllWelcome

Looking forward to giving the Peter Sadler #Archaeology Lecture at the University of Kent this week, talking about our excavations at Falerii Novi 🏛️ 🏺 Thanks to Luke Lavan for the kind invitation to present before we head back into the field this summer.

Want everyone to be able to read your exciting research? We have agreements with tons of institutions to make publishing #OpenAccess research completely FREE! Find out how you can publish OA with us: www.cambridge.org/core/service... & Submit an article: antiquity.ac.uk/submit

New review before Valentine's Day! A. Everett Beek shows some love for "Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei: Specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici" by Ria Berg (L’Erma di Bretschneider 2023)

'Women and Power' with classicist Mary Beard (speaker) and musicians Nardus Williams (soprano) and Elizabeth Kenny (archlute, theorbo) at Wigmore Hall 

Antiquity Vol. 100, No. 409 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sarahkerr.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @royvanbeek.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @waltros.bsky.social

The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is looking to strengthen and extend the networks and scholarly expertise available to the journal by establishing an Emerging Editors Board. Read about it here: academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof. Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England. buff.ly/vkhP2OB #AncientRome #AncientBritain #Archaeology #AncientHistory #AncientBluesky

📕 Review / Compte rendu John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of #Antiquity, @princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024. par Laurent Capdetrey (@ubmontaigne.bsky.social) 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

“Actually Romantic: The Topos of Love in Byron’s Don Juan in Comparison with the Classical Epics ” Clara Leonora Burbank (Erlangen-Nurnberg) STARR #Seminar, 📆 11 February,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) #AllWelcome

Dear friends and colleagues, we are happy to announce that bookings are now open for RAC/TRAC 2026. See you in Aarhus! Register here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof. Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... 🏺