"The Audiences of Quintus of Smyrna’s 'Posthomerica' " Vincent Tomasso (Trinity College Connecticut) CLAS #Seminar 📆 22 April,⏰4pm Online: 💻 MS Teams. (to get link email [email protected] and [email protected]) #AllWelcome

"Memory and historiography of the crises of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300-900)" #Workshop next week: 📆 23 April 2026, 📍 Lyon. Carlos Machado (University of St Andrews) will be speaking on "The memory of the past in the reaction to environmental crisis" bit.ly/3OqNFas

In the lastest podcast, Jason König interviews Molly Greene about her research on the history of the Pindus mountains in Ottoman Greece, from 1400-1821. bit.ly/4mwVHLD #MountainsOfGreece #MountainHistory

"Collaborations With Antiquity: Medieval and Early Modern" SACRA #workshop 📆 6-7 May 2026 In person:📍Room S4, Swallowgate,School of Classics, St Andrews. #AllWelcome Event is free. Booking essential. To attend: email [email protected] by 29 April. 🔗 View programme: bit.ly/3OFafw4

"From the (Trojan) Horse’s Mouth: Trojans as Mythical Founders in Medieval Europe" Barney Young (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 16 April,⏰6pm In person:📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online:💻Teams (email [email protected] for link) 🔗 View abstract: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/s... .

Sarah Broadie Memorial #Lecture, #today in #StAndrews at 5:30pm.

"First thoughts on pastoral names" Gail Trimble (Oxford) Classics #seminar 🗓️ 17 April 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4kJl9MQ .

Today and tomorrow! Join online if you can't get to the event in person. Link and programme for the event are on the APGRD's website: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...

We're inviting applications for two Associate Lecturers (education focused) in Ancient History and Archaeology, to start on 1 September 2026. One post will be for two years, and the other for one year. We're holding two information sessions on 21 April. 🔗 Get session links: bit.ly/4sZ5AUx

CLAS work-in-progress #seminars #NextWeek: 📆 15 April at 3pm. 📍 room s11 Swallowgate, St Andrews. ℹ️ Enquiries? email [email protected] and [email protected]. View details: bit.ly/4sqZf38 #ClassicsBluesky #LateAntiquity

Introducing the ‘#Mountains of Greece’ series within the Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures #podcast project: In the first episode "Paths of Greece", Jason König interviews Fivos Tsaravopoulos, founder and manager of Paths of Greece. 🔗https://bit.ly/3Qe4PbL #MountainLandscapes

"Plato on forgetting and re-understanding" Gábor Betegh (Cambridge) Sarah Broadie Memorial #Lecture: 🗓️ 14 April 5:30pm 📍School III, St Salvator's Quad, #StAndrews ❔️Email enquiries to [email protected] #AllWelcome #ClassicsBluesky

"The Fabric of Hellenism: Hellenic Culture and Civic Identity in the Imperial Greek World", editedy by Ewen Bowie and Calum Maciver, was published last week. It features chapters by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and Jason König. bit.ly/48hE508

Just published: Volume 3 of 'The Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis', edited by Konstantinos Zachos, featuring a chapter by Brian Martens. 🔗

Taste the wine of Dionysus and fight against the centaurs with Herakles in the oak forests of Foloi... bit.ly/41EB8mA #MountainCulture #MountainsOfGreece

#Today at 4pm!

"Courting Classical Education: The Not-So-Secret Economies of Dark Academia " Toni Andres (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 2 April,⏰6pm In person:📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online:💻 Teams (email [email protected] for link) 🔗 View abstract: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/s...

Calling final year #students! Have your say in the National Student Survey: 🔗 www.thestudentsurvey.com NSS is open until 30 April #YourViewsYourNSS #NSS2026 #StudentVoice

"Forms of the Flesh: Autochthonous Origins in Late Antiquity" Daniel Hanigan (Cambridge) Classics #seminar 🗓️ 3 April 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4kJl9MQ

Jason König and Jonathan Pitches interview Harriet and Rob Fraser about their environmental art and research practice. 🔗https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/03/25/somewhere-nowhere #Mountains #MountainLandscapes

Join us next week 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

Replicate the wandering of Rhea, the mother of Zeus, on your way up to the summit of Mount Alesion. 🔗https://bit.ly/4rPQgZ0 #MountainCulture #MountainsOfGreece

"'Reproduction and Birth in Beauty': Platonic Themes in the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" Brady Thomson (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 26 March,⏰6pm In person:📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online:💻 Teams (email [email protected] for link) 🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/3PUQhgX

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"

"Hidden in Theory: Rhetoric and the Ethics of Concealment " Giulia Maltagliati (Cambridge) Classics #seminar 🗓️ 27 March 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4kJl9MQ .

"Some Odor of Frankincense: Law, Narrative, and an Unpublished Illustrated Papyrus (BNF Suppl. gr. 1294)" Rob Cioffi (Bard College) CLAS #Seminar 📆 25 March,⏰4pm Online: 💻 MS Teams. (to get link email [email protected] and [email protected]) #AllWelcome

"Care and Indifference in Ancient Philosophy" Graduate #conference 📆 5 to 6 May 2026 📍 Room SO3 Swallowgate, School of Classics, University of St Andrews 🔗 View programme: bit.ly/4brcpYP To register, email [email protected] by 20 April if you plan to attend, noting any dietary requirements

A Chinese translation of Stephen Halliwell's The Aesthetics of Mimesis was published recently. Translated by Wang Jiawen and Zhang Chenxi, the volume is part of the "Classics and Civilization" series. 🔗https://bit.ly/476Iwug #book

"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

Retrace Odysseus’ footsteps to the centre of the Peloponnese, as far from the sea as you can get. 🔗 bit.ly/4bhKBWH #MountainCulture

“Rubbish… It’s Just A Story About Rabbits: Anthropomorphic Compromises and the Mythmaking of Richard Adams’ Watership Down” Charlotte Glynn STARR Seminar, 📆 19 March,⏰6pm In person: 📍Rm S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) 🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/3NJ7IAq

"Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world" #Workshop 📆 18 May 2026 📍 Room S11, Swallowgate, St Andrews 🔗 View programme: bit.ly/40oykcX To register: email [email protected] by 1 May 2026 if you plan to attend, noting any dietary requirements.

📢 New podcast! Our guest today is Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. We discuss current threats, 'future shock', and the role of speculative fiction in futures thinking: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Caroline Schaumann about her work on mountaineering history. 🔗https://bit.ly/4dnTBea #Mountains #Mountaineering #History

"Homeric Narrative Patterns in Plato’s 'Republic' " Liz Scharffenberger (Columbia) Classics #seminar 🗓️ 18 March 2:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4kJl9MQ .

Congratulations to Sarah Prince, who successfully defended her PhD thesis "More than Dutifulness: Pietas as a Social and Political Concept in the Roman Republic (509 - 27 BCE)". bit.ly/4lgZfB3

Dr Ruben Post explains why his research in to understanding catastrophic natural events from the ancient world, can prepare populations of the the future: bit.ly/4szBuGI .

Are you a doctoral researcher in Arts & Humanities in Scotland? Apply to showcase your research at our 2026 Research Showcase. ✨ ✔ Up to £1000 funding ✔ Creative formats welcome ✔ Open to all PhDs at SGSAH member institutions Apply by 27th March ⏳ 🔗 Full details: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Get lost with Edward Dodwell on Mount Lykaion in 1806, looking out for bandits and worse along the way... 🔗 bit.ly/40R5amL #MountainCulture #TravelWriting

📣📣❗❗Call for Papers deadline 20th March!! For more information go to the APGRD website. Please email all enquiries to: [email protected]

“A Long Time Ago and Far Far Away: A STARR Wars Story” Thomas Phillips (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 12 March,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link) 🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/40p3JMe #AllWelcome

❗ Final week for applications to the new Future Leaders of Europe: The Europaeum Scholars' Programme (tinyurl.com/4fdbk43m). ❗ Deadline for receipt of applications and reference letters: Sunday 15 March 2026, 11.59pm GMT / 00.59 CET.

“Artistic Agonism. Statius, Silius Italicus, and Lucan’s Legacy” Lorenzo Severin Postgraduate Work-in-progress #seminar 🗓️ 13 March 5pm Hybrid event - advanced booking essential 🔗 bit.ly/47pkpXN Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies

CLAS work-in-progress #seminars #tomorrow, 11 March at 3pm! Hybrid event: room s11 Swallowgate, St Andrews/Teams. To get meeting link, email [email protected] and [email protected]. View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l...

“Up the Garden Path: Inscribing Ovid and Reading Reception in the Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay” Jo Paul (Open University) SACRA Annual #Lecture 🗓️ 13 March 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome

Want to join us for your postgraduate studies? Meet us at a visiting day: bit.ly/4aQmcpQ #StAndrews

"Imaginative Landscapes And Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity Of Deserts And Arid Environments" Online #Conference 📆 13 June 2026 ⏰️ #CallForPapers deadline: 20 April 2026. 🔗 View #CFP: bit.ly/4s3Mpc1 #ClassicalReception

Mount Ithome reaches 800 metres above sea level. Explore a route from the village of Mavromati to the summit plateau, and enjoy the views over the site of ancient Messene. 🔗 bit.ly/4rQmNiH #MountainCulture #MountainLandscapes

Want to join us for your #undergraduate studies? Meet us at a visiting day! Bookings for 15 April open today: 🔗 bit.ly/40dB9gV #StAndrews #VisitingDay

Classics for All FREE Online CPD: Running Classics Trips for Primary and Secondary Schools Monday, 9th March 20264–5pm, Online Running school trips both abroad and...