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... 🏺

One of our students wrote this petition, which we plan to present at the meeting on Friday: https://www.change.org/p/save-liberal-arts-at-agnes-scott #SignThePetition #Petition #LiberalArts #SaveClassics #EducationMatters #SupportHumanities #StudentVoices #ClassicsCommunity #FacultyVote

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

Olives have been essential to life in Italy for far longer than we thought! In a new article for @theconversationnz.bsky.social, @emlynkd.bsky.social explores the history of olive cultivation and olive oil production from the Neolithic to the Roman period: https://bit.ly/3M5OSTs @ics.bsky.social

Interesting article by A. Hardwick on teaching the Iliad in translation at undergraduate level. Freely available in The Journal of Classics Teaching: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Rethinking ancient religion / Repenser la religion antique : Prof. Jitse Dijkstra shares insights with CAC grad students / partage ses perspectives avec les étudiants diplômés de l'ACC. #ClassicalStudies #ÉtudesClassiques #uOttawa

Rethinking ancient religion / Repenser la religion antique : Prof. Jitse Dijkstra shares insights with CAC grad students / partage ses perspectives avec les étudiants diplômés de l'ACC. #ClassicalStudies #ÉtudesClassiques #uOttawa

Every subscription to LUP Open Planning helps to support #OpenAccess to the latest content for scholars worldwide. Helping to build a more inclusive research community 🌍 Subscribe or recommend today: bit.ly/LUPOpenPlanning #AcademicSky #UrbanPlanning

Calling all Early Career Academics, on Weds 11 Feb at 10am we will be hosting an online Researcher Training: Applying for Postdoctoral and Early-Career Fellowships and Funding ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Medievalist & historian of race @profcwhit.bsky.social discusses NPS' removal of plaques documenting slavery in Philly 🔔 Then, the ceramics of Roberto Lugo, a new DH project on the artifacts of refugees, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more

Tomorrow! Please re-skeet.

Fully funded PhD scholarships in Ancient History www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2026/02...

We have published our first article of 2026, titled "Brief note on the use of third person singular imperatives in Late Antique and Byzantine literary epistolography" by Valentina Barrile. Link: www.newclassicists.com/individual-a... #classics#ancientliterature#ancientstudies#byzantine

Register now for upcoming Mycenaean Seminar: Weds 11 Feb, 3.30pm Room 261 & Online: shorturl.at/F4Yx7 Michael F Lane (Maryland) will speak about: Recent discoveries in the Kopaic Basin, northern Boeotia, in the context of prehistoric land and water management in central and northern Greece

On Thursday 29 January, students in the Museum studies seminar (#uOttawa) were treated to a tour of the National Capital Commission's archaeological lab. Thanks to archaeologists Monica Maika and Bob Clark for the hands-on tour. @ncc-ccn.gc.ca #Ottawa #NationalCapitalCommission #archaeology

“The Eternal Slave: Receptions of Robots in the Age of AI” Emily Bedford (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 5 February,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) View abstract: 🔗 standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/s... #AllWelcome

European Journal of Archaeology Vol. 29, No. 1 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @zenakamash.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome the award-winning novelist and storyteller Elif Shafak to Senate House this evening for the 2026 National Humanities Lecture. The lecture begins at 6pm UK time and will be live streamed. We will share the link later today. More details 👉 https://bit.ly/3KgvXEB

Our latest article is now online! The title is "Roman Imperialistic Strategies in North Africa: 2nd Century BC to 1st Century AD " by Christian Nana Andoh. Happy Reading! #classics #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky www.newclassicists.com/individual-a...

Check out our complete Virtual Conference 2025 schedule, jam-packed with amazing presentations on Healthcare and Medicine in Antiquity! July 20th & July 21st, 2025 Register here: www.saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conf...

"'Tumultus Iudaicus': the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene" Caroline Barron (Durham) #Seminar 🗓️ 16 April ⏰ 2.15pm (UK time) 📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject) #AllWelcome

New issue of American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 94, No. 4 (2024) www.pdcnet.org/collection-a... Kinds of Intentionality and Kinds of Approaches to Intentionality @elenabaltuta.bsky.social @hlage.bsky.social

🎉Master Class: ‘Beyond the Archives: Trekking Through Ruins and Forgotten Temples’ Led by Dr. Carla Ionescu 🗓Tuesday, April 15th @ 2pm ET ➡️youtube.com/@SaveAncientStudiesAlliance

📌 STARTING TOMORROW! Mark your calendar to join SASA’s 5th Birthday Bash Fundraiser! 🗓 April 5th - 15th, 2025 ➡️RSVP NOW: saveancientstudies.org/events 🥳To continue the progress we have made into our 5th year, we set our goal for this campaign at $5,000. See the full lineup list below!

A perky sea bull with an equally perky pomegranate lurking above him. He was (and maybe still is?*) swimming around Venus in one of the fabulous Frampton mosaics. From Samuel Lysons, Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae, 1813-1817, I.III, pl. IV. * a quest for @durotrigesdig.bsky.social ! #MosaicMonday

After last week's Deer-or-Donkey #MosaicMonday debacle we are leaning in with a Juno-or-Venus mosaic from Bignor Roman villa. #TeamVenus #TeamJuno www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

Our latest article is now online! The title is "Erotic Rational Madness in the Hippolytus and the Phaedrus" by Evaggelos Katsarelis. Happy Reading! #classics #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky www.newclassicists.com/individual-a...