🎭 Hybrid conference: 'Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance Culture' 📅 22 / 23 April 🔗 Learn more and register: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🎉 We've made it to the end of term! 🥳 Congratulations to all staff and students for your many achievements over the recent weeks, we are so proud of you! 🤗 Have a restful break, everyone, and we'll see you back here soon. 🌸 Flowers in Messene, snapped by Prof. Polly Low

🔎 Upcoming workshop 'Working with Manuscripts from the Mediterranean World ' 📅 26 / 27 March 🔗 Learn more and register: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

@durhamclassics.bsky.social and the Durham Centre for Classical Reception is now accepting submissions for their 3rd annal international prize for a doctoral thesis in Classical Reception Studies! Find more information below: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

👏 Very many congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, who has been awarded the Gulbenkian Professorship in the Humanities! 💥 As part of this visiting professorship, Prof. Holmes-Henderson will spend part of next academic year at the University of Lisbon. 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Professor @edithmayhall.bsky.social from our @durhamclassics.bsky.social is transforming how people connect with the ancient world, bringing Classics to new audiences and championing Classics education for all. Discover her passion for inclusive classics education👉https://bit.ly/4lxh7Yl

🔎 Hybrid conference: 'Comparing Cyprus and Sicily: Scientific approaches' 📅 26 / 27 March 🔗 Learn more and register: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Stella Alekou (Ioannina) "The Aesthetics of Ovidian Violence and the Limits of Narrative" 📅 1pm, Weds 18 Mar 📍 CL007 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/139f1e...

💡 What will you study with us at MA level? 👉 A fascinating range of elective modules in Classics and across the Arts and Humanities faculty await you here at Durham! 🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who last weekend received the International Hellenic Prize in Athens 🎭 Prof. Hall won the prize for her book 'Facing down the Furies', in which she turns to Greek Tragedies to seek wisdom in understanding the damage caused by suicide

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson who spoke last week the Globe Theatre in Stockton-on-Tees during an event organised by ASSIST women's network. 👉 The event brought together businesspeople, entrepreneurs and researchers to focus on this year's IWD #GivetoGain theme.

🤩 Congratulations to our Classics researchers on winning the Outstanding Team Quality Award- Learner Facing at the annual national Outstanding Achievement Awards. 👉 The team, led by Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, won the award for the project they have delivered in prisons.

💥 Congratulations to Dr Jacob Lollar, who has been awarded a University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship for 2026. 👉 Dr Lollar will use the fellowship to examine two early modern Syriac manuscripts at the Library's Hunter manuscript collections. 🔗 shorturl.at/IsUYi

💥 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and the Attic Inscriptions Online team as new content arrives online! 👉 AIO launches 112 inscriptions, including all remaining letters of Roman emperors, inscriptions & graffiti connected with the Roman Agora, milestones and dedications. 🔗 shorturl.at/vL6xx

💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci, who has published a chapter in a new volume on 'Serving the Gods'! 👉 ‘Religious Lives in the Small Sanctuaries of Hatra: Identities and Practices in Temple III through Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence’. 🔗 www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_9143.a...

International students: ready for something extraordinary? Study at Durham – University of the Year 2026 – in one of Britain’s happiest places to live. 💜 Applications 2026 open now 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #DurhamUniversity #TransformativeHumanities

💥 Postdoc opportunity! 👉 We are currently advertising for six Addison Wheeler fellows, who will complete novel and ambitious research over 36 months. 📅 Identify a mentor and apply by 9 March 🔗 Learn more: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

🎆 Celebrate ten years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK 👉 Join for a special celebration event in London on 22 April: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c... 🤩 Featuring our very own Katharine Russell on the impact of retellings of Classical myth on the study of Classical Civ in schools

🔊 Dr George Gazis recently appeared on the 'Life of Letters' podcast, talking about 'What Ancient Greece and Extinct Scripts Tell Us' 👉 In this episode Dr Gazis explores the history and evolution of writing systems. 🔗 Listen here: the-life-of-letters.castos.com/episodes/evo...

💥 Join us for a public lecture on Classical Architecture in North East England, hosted by The Durham Centre for Classical Reception 🏫 Dr Michael Johnson (Northumbria), "Classical town halls in the North East" 📅 6:00pm, Thurs 5 March 📍 7 Owengate

💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci, who along with Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja has published a new volume on 'Nurturing the Elite: Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography' 🔗 Learn more: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Ilaria Bucci (Durham) "Inscribing Devotion: Memory practices and patterns of mobility in the sacred landscape of Hatra (Iraq)" 📅 1pm, Weds 25 Feb 📍 ER108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/57dc27...

🚀 Happy International Lego Classicism Day! 🧩 Dr Michael Loy had a great time when he visited pupils from Star of the Sea Primary School at their Lego Club. 💡 Years 5 and 6 are currently preparing for the national Innovation Project, and this year's theme is all about problem solving in archaeology

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Joe Watson (Warwick) "When Sappho met Lydia" 📅 1pm, Weds 18 Feb 📍 ER155 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8af981...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new collection of 'Perspectives on Wisdom' is published today! 👉 This volume explores the nature of wisdom by fostering a dialogue among different areas of ancient and contemporary philosophy . 🔗 Learn more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

💥 Join us for our second masterclass this term from @camne.bsky.social 🏫 Prof. Andrew Meadows (Oxford), on Lycian coinage networks 📅 1:15pm, Thurs 19 Feb 📍 Dawson Building (Archaeology) D210

💥 Conference taking place next week! 🎵 One-day workshop on 'Ancient Music and Metre' organised by the Durham International Centre for Theatre Studies 📅 20 Feb 2026 🔗 Full programme here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates (online discussion led by Gabriel Bodard and @carolinebarron.bsky.social), Friday 20th February 2026 at 14:00–15:30 GMT ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

✨ Prof. Edith Hall, Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson and the ACE project need your help! 🏛️ We need to fundraise £20k to bring the 'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life' course to at least eight more prisons in 2026-27 🔗 Learn more and donate on the project GoFundMe page: www.justgiving.com/campaign/ace...

🎓 Want to find out about our MA Classics programme? 💥 Watch our new video from Prof. Ioannis Ziogas, Director of Taught MA Programmes, to learn more 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?si=cyz... 👉 And see full details of our postgraduate provision here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Katherine Backler (Leeds), as part of our series on 'Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship' 📅 1pm, Weds 11 Feb 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/98b466...

Want to support teaching of ancient ethics in prisons? Here's a blog with a link to JustGiving. £10 buys course material for 4 prisoners. @durhamclassics.bsky.social edithorial.blogspot.com/2026/02/anci...

📢 Calling Classics and Ancient History alumni! 🎓 Do you identify as a First Generation Scholar? You are warmly invited to come and share your experiences at a special celebration event in the Department. 📅 Thurs 12th March @ 12pm ✉️ Please contact Dr George Gazis: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/g-a-ga...

👥 It's time to #MeetOurStaff! 💥 Learn more about the pioneering work of Dr Thea Sommerschield, whose team are using to AI to help 'predict the past' 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx7b...

💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year! 🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha" 📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb 📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw

💥 Congratulations to Dr Erica Bexley, who has published a new novice reader to the Pseudo-Seneca's 'Octavia'! 👉 This companion volume combines detailed literary analysis with historical, cultural and theatrical knowledge. 🔗 Learn more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pseudosen...

@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social is nearly 10! Come celebrate with us and a great line-up of speakers @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @alicekonig.bsky.social & Katharine Piu San Russell @durhamclassics.bsky.social. Travel bursaries available, see info in QT'd link #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

💥 Congratulations to Dr Gary Watson, whose book 'The Role of the Army in the Government of the Roman Near East, 64 BC-AD 285' has been published with Brill! 👉 Dr Watson completed his PhD at Durham in 2024, and his new book is based off his PhD thesis 🔗 Learn more: brill.com/display/titl...

✍️ Call For participants! '(dh)2: Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists' 📅 Mon 18 May 📚 Essential training on how to design, pitch, and write a successful postdoc project in Digital Classics 🔗 Learn more here: digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/

💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year! 🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha" 📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb 📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw

👏 ICYMI: Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holes-Henderson started the year in Manchester, training prison educators in the delivery of Aristotle’s ethics.

✍️ Call For Papers! 'Writing from the Margins: New Approaches to Ancient Authorship ' 📅 Conference: 13-15 May 2026 (CFP deadline: 30 January) 📚 Organised by Dr Erica Bexley, Dr Katherine McDonald and Dr Lucy Jackson 🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🎓 Calling recent Durham Classics and Ancient History graduates! ✨ We are seeking stories from recent graduates (2020-2025) programmes about how your experiences at Durham have helped you in your career since graduation. 👉 Please contact Dr Chris de Lisle to organise a short interview.

💥 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti whose new commented edition of Euripides' 'Children of Heracles' has been published today! 👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Martina Russo (La Sapienza) "Tiberius sagacissimus: A Reading of Tacitus’s Ann. 2.37-38" 📅 1pm, Weds 21 Jan 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e2e27b...

💥 Congratulations to Prof. Ioannis Ziogas who has published a new article on Ovid in Dictynna! 👉 This article reads the myth of Orpheus through the lens of the ancient tradition of the Lives of poets. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: journals.openedition.org/dictynna/451...

✍️ Call For Papers! British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting 📅 Sat 18 April, 10am–5:15pm 📚 Send abstracts to Dr Chris de Lisle by 23 January 🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson who has published a chapter in a volume on 'Working-Class People in UK Higher Education'! 👉 This chapter is on 'Classics for all: From classism to representation for working-class classicists'. 🔗 Learn more: bookstore.emerald.com/working-clas...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci who, along with Prof. Rubina Raja and Dr Olympia Bobou, has written artefact features for the past four issues of 'Current World Archaeology' 🔗 Learn more here: www.world-archaeology.com/issues/issue...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh) "William Morris: The People as Author" 📅 1pm, Weds 14 Jan 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/62a4ad...