“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

Save the dates! The Centre for Late Antique Studies begins an exciting schedule of seminars on 11 March, with papers from Timothy Greenwood and Becca Grose. 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4cexztV

Congratulations to Devon Keesee, whose poster ‘The Melanes Monolith: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of a Colossal Architectural Block on Naxos’ was awarded First Runner Up at the recent Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, held in January in San Francisco. 🔗 bit.ly/4qTS03T

CA/Harrow School – Coutts Lecture in Classics: “Pompeii: In Conversation with Dr Sophie Hay & Professor Tom Harrison” 💻 Free #webinar. 📆 3 March, at 5pm. 🔗 View details and sign up: classicalassociation.org/events/ca-ha...

St Andrews is amongst the leading universities in the world for research and teaching in the arts and humanities, coming 35th in the Arts and Humanities World University Rankings 2026, published by Times Higher. Read more...👇 https://ow.ly/CEcT50YacAZ #EverToExcel

#Seminar: "Roman Stoneworkers and their Gods: Cult at the Quarry-Face and Beyond" Ben Russell (Edinburgh) 🗓️ 11 February, 2:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/cl2526s2 .

Applications for the next cohort of the Europaeum Scholars Programme are open. This is a two‑year, fully funded policy and leadership programme for outstanding doctoral students across the Europaeum network 🔗 View details and apply: bit.ly/4aaYjc7 ⏰ Application deadline: 15 March 2026 at 23:59 GMT.

Starting in the village of Tithorea, follow the less used eastern route to Liakoura, the highest summit of Parnassos. mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/01/31/p... #MountainCulture #MountainLandscapes

“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

Seminar: "Martin Bernal’s notions of Semitism: subjects of history in Black Athena" Mathura Umachandran (Exeter) 🗓️ 6 February, 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/cl2526s2 #AllWelcome

Explore a route up to the archaeological site known as the ‘Pyre of Herakles’ on the southern slopes of Mount Oiti (Oita in antiquity), on a beautifully constructed and well signposted path. 🔗 mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/01/24/o... #Mountains #MountainCulture

In the second episode of the @futuremountain.bsky.social podcast, Jonathan Pitches and Jason König interview Simone Kenyon about her work as a practice researcher, performer, artist and producer. 🔗 msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/01/28/i... #MountainLandscapes #MountainCulture

“Queerly Something's Changed: Reimaginings of Dionysus Through Modern Psycho-Social and Queer Theory” Lynaea Pace (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 29 January,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) #AllWelcome

The BAA's Jill Franklin Fellowship offers an opportunity to spend a month in Rome pursuing research into Romanesque architecture and allied arts. View full details including eligibility and how to apply: 🔗 thebaa.org/scholarships... ⏰ Application deadline: 31 January 2026

"Transmission, Reception and Imitation in Romanesque art and architecture" #conference 📆 13-17 April 2026 📍 Toulouse 🔗 View details and register: thebaa.org/events/2026-... Hosted by the British Archaeological Association. Limited number of scholarships for students are available.

#Seminar: "Did the Nabataeans treat their dead like dung?…" Lucy Wadeson (St Andrews) 🗓️ 28 January, 2:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/cl2526s2 .

The BAA Ochs scholarship offers late stage funding to postgraduate students writing up their theses. 🔗 View details and apply: thebaa.org/scholarships... ⏰ Application deadline: 1 February 2026 #PhD #PostgraduateStudy

The Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast launched recently. Check out their first episode, "Xenophobic Mountains" with Alexandra Cotofana: 🔗 msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/17/x... #MountainLandscapes @futuremountain.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

In fond remembrance of our dear friend and colleague Professor Adrian Gratwick, who left us in October 2025. He is greatly missed. .. 🔗Read about Adrian: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2026/0... (pdf)

"Teaching Philosophy and Antiquity in Prisons" #conference 📆 5 to 6 March Hybrid event: 📍University of Durham /💻 online (email [email protected] by 2 March to request link) 🔗 View details: classicalassociation.org/events/teach...

"Law as a catalyst and remedy for civic violence in early Rome: two examples from Dionysius of Halicarnassus" (Stefano Carlo Sala) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 journals.openedition.org/etudesancien... .

"The travels of Edward Falkener: a Victorian architect in Ottoman Anatolia " (Sebastian Marshall) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

"Byzantine Archaeology, History and History of Art" Postgraduate training course in Greece, hosted by the British School at Athens 📆 Course dates: 24 June to 5 July 2026 ⏰ Application deadline: 8 March 2026 🔗 View details and register: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/byza...

"Ted Hughes's 'Tales from Ovid': translation as a poetic dialogue with the Roman poet " (Lorena Phillips) Download #OpenAccess article: 🔗 research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/324005... .

"New visions of Ancient Peace" Inaugural #workshop hosted by the Ancient Peace Studies Network 📆 20 to 22 January 2026 📍 University of St Andrews 🔗 View programme and abstracts: apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/22/n... #PeaceStudies

"Pets as humans and humans as pets in imperial Rome" (Sian Lewis) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1353/are.... .

"Publishing your research in Classics and Archaeology journals" ICS training session 📆 Wednesday, 21 January 2026, ⏰ 15:00-17:00 💻 Online via Zoom View details and register: ics.sas.ac.uk/study-traini... In conversation with Myles Lavan, Peter Liddel, and Sarah Nooter. Moderated by Emlyn Dodd.

Fancy a free drama workshop? apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p... On 22nd Jan 2-4.30pm @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we are running an interactive drama workshop with theatre-makers NMT Automatics to explore the power of peace storytelling on stage. Email [email protected] to sign up!

"Pausanias' haptic geography: bodies and landscapes in the Periegesis " (Jason König) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1525/ca.2... #travelogues #AncientLandscapes

Congratulations to Emma Buckley and Alice König upon their recent promotions to Professor! 🎉 standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/c...

"'Parapēgmata' and 'poleis': astrometeorological calendars in the Hellenistic city" (Ruben Post) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S007... #AncientEnvironment

"Pagan idols and Christian anxieties in medieval Troy narratives" (A. Sophie Schoess) In "Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives: Vol. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 24" Download #OpenAccess chapter: 🔗 doi.org/10.33063/fv2...

"Numidia and Rome" (Thomas Biggs) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bics... #AncientHistory

"Chameleonic Paideia: immigrant experience and the 'Acceptable Other' in Heliodorus' 'Aethiopica" (Anna Coopey) Download #OpenAccess pdf: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/315046... #Heliodorus

The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology is a new annual competition open to all worldwide. Entrants are invited to provide the best edition, translation and commentary of a modern literary work composed in Ancient Greek or Latin. Details and how to enter 🔗

"Beyond Pentelikon: imported white marbles in Athenian sculptural workshops of the Roman period" (Y Maniatis, B Martens, D Tambakopoulos) Read #OpenAccess article🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #archaeometry #archaeology #ArtHistory

"Between prosopography and historiography: the intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC) " (Stefano Carlo Sala) Download #OpenAccess conference contribution🔗 doi.org/10.62336/uni... #prosopography #historiography

"A unique federal fiscal and legal institution from early Hellenistic Achaia" (Ruben Post) Download #OpenAccess chapter: 🔗 doi.org/10.7788/9783... #AncientGreekLaw

"A gymnasion assemblage lost at sea? The statues from the Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered" (Brian Martens) Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S006...

Ancient Peace Studies Network: inaugural workshop 📆 20 to 22 January 2026 📍 University of St Andrews 🔗https://apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/#:~:text=Inaugural%20workshop To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected]. #PeaceStudies

Scottish Student Archaeology Society #Conference, 21-22 Feb 2026. #CallForPapers: open to #students, #graduates & #EarlyCareerResearchers. Any topic welcome! Send title & abstract to [email protected] Questions? Contact @archsoc_uoa on instagram, or email [email protected] #SSASC26

"Land and Power in the Later Roman World" #Conference 📆 29 June to 1 July 2026 📍 Tübingen View #CallForPapers: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/landloyalty/... #CFP deadline: 11 January 2026

Happy Holidays! We hope you all enjoy the winter break. The School of Classics buildings are closing today, 19 December 2025. The buildings will reopen on Monday 5 January 2026.

Stroll through the meadows of Mount #Kallidromos, in the footsteps of the Persians at the Battle of #Thermopylae: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/13/k... #Mountains #MountainCulture

"Publishing your research in Classics and Archaeology journals" ICS training session 📆 Wednesday, 21 January 2026, ⏰ 15:00-17:00 💻 Online via Zoom View details and register: ics.sas.ac.uk/study-traini... In conversation with Myles Lavan, Peter Liddel, and Sarah Nooter. Moderated by Emlyn Dodd.

And here it is! After many recommendations that she come on as a guest, @sarahebond.bsky.social stopped by to talk about her book Strike and labor in Roman Antiquity. Apologies for the somewhat esoteric Roanoke talk, but Roanoke is the best for a reason! classicalantiquitypod.com/2025/12/15/s...

Explore a route over the wooded slopes of Mount Kithairon on to the summit ridge, with amazing views south to the Gulf of Corinth, and north over the plains of Boiotia. mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/06/k... #Mountains #MountainCulture

Congratulations to students from Bertha Park High School, who graduated from the #STALOS programme last week. 🎉 stalos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/s... #LearningLatin #Congratulations #Graduation

Booking is now open for the Company of Wolves’ production of 'The Bacchae', 9th and 10th March 2026, Studio Theatre (Edinburgh). 👉 Get tickets: www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/the-ba...

Cynthia Marti discusses the archaeological evidence for a sanctuary on the Agios Antonios peak of Olympus. She describes a route to the summit that requires less technical skill than the one most travellers take. mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/29/o... #MountainCulture #Mountains