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School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
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"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
about 10 hours ago
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"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"
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1 day ago
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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.
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#MountainsOfGreece
#MountainHistory
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"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
3 days ago
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"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:
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4 days ago
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Sarah Broadie Memorial
#Lecture
,
#today
in
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at 5:30pm.
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5 days ago
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"First thoughts on pastoral names" Gail Trimble (Oxford) Classics
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🗓️ 17 April 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email
[email protected]
, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
🔗 View schedule:
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5 days ago
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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
6 days ago
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:
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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
8 days ago
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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
8 days ago
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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
9 days ago
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"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
10 days ago
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"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.
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11 days ago
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Just published: Volume 3 of 'The Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis', edited by Konstantinos Zachos, featuring a chapter by Brian Martens. 🔗
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THE VICTORY MONUMENT OF AUGUSTUS AT NICOPOLIS | The Tropaeum of the Sea Battle of Actium (vol. III)
The publication devoted to the Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis – The Tropaeum of the Sea Battle of Actium is completed with the release of the third volume, bringing to conclusion a…
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16 days ago
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Taste the wine of Dionysus and fight against the centaurs with Herakles in the oak forests of Foloi...
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#MountainCulture
#MountainsOfGreece
17 days ago
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#Today
at 4pm!
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18 days ago
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"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:
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18 days ago
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Calling final year
#students
! Have your say in the National Student Survey: 🔗
www.thestudentsurvey.com
NSS is open until 30 April
#YourViewsYourNSS
#NSS2026
#StudentVoice
19 days ago
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"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:
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19 days ago
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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
22 days ago
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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
23 days ago
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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
24 days ago
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"'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
25 days ago
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Classics
#seminars
hosted by the University of Turin 📆 27 March at 3 to 5pm CET 📍 11 Palazzo Nuovo 💻️ Online:
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Thomas Biggs (University of St Andrews) "Camilla and Chloreus in Vergil’s Aeneid" Elena Giusti (Cambridge University) "La voce di Didone"
26 days ago
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"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:
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"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
26 days ago
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"Care and Indifference in Ancient Philosophy" Graduate
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📆 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
27 days ago
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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
28 days ago
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"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:
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about 1 month ago
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Retrace Odysseus’ footsteps to the centre of the Peloponnese, as far from the sea as you can get. 🔗
bit.ly/4bhKBWH
#MountainCulture
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“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:
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about 1 month ago
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"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.
about 1 month ago
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Visualising War and Peace
about 1 month ago
📢 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:
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Speculative Fiction: NATO 2099 - Visualising War and Peace
In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome. A security expert and futurist, she has held key positions such as deputy dir...
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/episodes/18811320
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Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Caroline Schaumann about her work on mountaineering history. 🔗https://bit.ly/4dnTBea
#Mountains
#Mountaineering
#History
about 1 month ago
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"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:
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about 1 month ago
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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)".
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about 1 month ago
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Dr Ruben Post explains why his research in to understanding catastrophic natural events from the ancient world, can prepare populations of the the future:
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SGSAH
about 2 months ago
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:
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Get lost with Edward Dodwell on Mount Lykaion in 1806, looking out for bandits and worse along the way... 🔗
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#MountainCulture
#TravelWriting
about 1 month ago
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APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama)
about 1 month ago
📣📣❗❗Call for Papers deadline 20th March!! For more information go to the APGRD website. Please email all enquiries to:
[email protected]
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“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
about 1 month ago
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The Europaeum
about 1 month ago
❗ 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.
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“Artistic Agonism. Statius, Silius Italicus, and Lucan’s Legacy” Lorenzo Severin Postgraduate Work-in-progress
#seminar
🗓️ 13 March 5pm Hybrid event - advanced booking essential 🔗
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Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies
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Artistic Agonism. Statius, Silius Italicus, and Lucan’s Legacy
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about 1 month ago
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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...
about 1 month ago
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“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
about 1 month ago
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Want to join us for your postgraduate studies? Meet us at a visiting day:
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#StAndrews
about 1 month ago
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"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
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CFP: Imaginative Landscapes and Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity of Deserts and Arid Environments
Event Date: 2026-06-13 | Abstract Due: 2026-04-20
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about 1 month ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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The Classics Library
about 2 months ago
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...
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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 in the UK is an exciting enrichment opportunity for students, and there is nothing quite like seeing places and...
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