🎁 Here's a festive gift for you: explore the whole National Theatre exhibition from Dr Lucy Jackson 'The Greeks: Radical Reinvention'...in the comfort of your own home! 📱 Download app 'Bloomberg Connects Arts & Culture' and search ’National Theatre London’ 🔗 Learn more here: tinyurl.com/44r6yf48

✍️ Here's one to chew over while you munch on your mince pies: Calls For Papers for two very exciting events happening in Durham in 2026 👉 British Epigraphy Society spring meeting: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... 👉 'Writing from the margins' conference: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🎄 We've made it to the end of term! 🎉 Congratulations to all our wonderful students and staff for your marvellous efforts and achievements this term. 🤗 Have a lovely break and we'll see everyone back in January, when we get to do it all over again...

💥 Join us next week for a research seminar from the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy 👨🏫 Prof. Hallvard Fossheim (Bergen), "Why Saïs Matters: Plato on the Past" 📅 11:30am, 17 December: CL007 👉 Read the lecture abstract here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

📢 Save the date! 🎵 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/...

💥 Join us next week for a conference co-organised by our own Dr Karl Dahm & Dr Jacob Lollar and Dr Sofia Puchkova (Leicester) 🏫 The ‘Other’ and ‘Empire’ in Christianity: Postcolonial Readings of Late Antique Literature 📅 16/17 December 🔗 tinyurl.com/yp6v53cb

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Steven Green (Singapore) "Turnings, Misattributions, and Cultural Hybridity: The Poetics of Translation in the Ilias Latina" 📅 1pm, Weds 10 Nov 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/668305...

💥 Join us for the Durham Centre for Classical Reception Prize Lecture! 🏫 Dr Alexander Vandewalle (Gent) "Play the Hero, or Play God Characterization of Greco-Roman Mythological Characters in Video Games" 📅 5pm, Weds 10 Dec 📍 TLC123 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/yav2u5da

🏺 Join Prof. Edith Hall and colleagues as they discuss 'The Bacchae: The Mind of Ancient Greece, Psychoanalysis and Modern British Theatre' 👉 Event organised by the Institute of Psychoanalysis 📅 31 Jan 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdeb3mnt

👨🏫 Remembering P.J. Rhodes 👉 Read Prof. Rhodes' Biographical Memoir, prepared by Prof. John Davies and Prof. Lynette Mitchell 🔗 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/59... 👉 Peter John Rhodes worked in our department from 1965 and was Professor of Ancient History between 1983 and 2005.

👥 We've only got a couple of weeks of term left, but it's never too late to #MeetOurStaff 💥 Log on to our website to see interviews with Dr Giulia Bonasio and others, as they talk about their research projects and teaching 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti, whose article 'Where are the gods? Divine presence and absence in Euripides' Children of Heracles' will soon appear in The Classical Journal! 👇 See more on the journal website. 🔗 www.press.jhu.edu/journals/cla...

🎉 We are still celebrating the recent news that Prof. Edith Hall has won the International Hellenic Prize for her acclaimed book Facing Down the Furies. 👇 Read more in our university press release 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart (Durham) "Polari Catullus" 📅 1pm, Weds 26 Nov 📍 Online only: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fbe429...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Michael Loy, who alongside Katharine Hall has a new publication in 'Internet Archaeology'! 👉 This article proposes a methodology for restoring archaeological context to pottery sherds processed in the conservation lab. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: tinyurl.com/6t8yhrjn

🏛 Thinking about getting started with Greek and Latin? Want to hone your existing language skills? 💥 Check out the JACT Greek and Latin Summer School. 📆 Registration now open for the 2026 Summer School: 15 July – 1 August. 🔗 www.durhamglss.org

💥 Join us for the Durham Centre for Classical Reception Prize Lecture! 🏫 Dr Alexander Vandewalle (Gent) "Play the Hero, or Play God Characterization of Greco-Roman Mythological Characters in Video Games" 📅 5pm, Weds 10 Dec 📍 TLC123 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/84e9bd...

Professor @edithmayhall.bsky.social, from our Department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded the 2024 International Hellenic Prize for her acclaimed book Facing Down the Furies. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... #TransformativeHumanities @durhamclassics.bsky.social

🚨 PhD scholarship alert! 👉 PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities, 8 available! 💥 3.5 years funding & full fee waiver 🔗 Full details: www.dur.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci and Prof. Ted Kaizer, who have a new article in the latest volume of 'Iraq'! 👉 This article is the publication of the first bilingual inscription from Hatra, combining Greek with Hatran Aramaic. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/irq....

Still proud to be part of the “University of the Year 2026” 🏆 Durham continues to shine - thanks to every student, staff member and alumnus who makes this community so special.💜 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Francesca Salvatori (Durham) "Pariter super aequora lata feremur. Alcyone’s transformative power in Ov. Met. 11.410-748" 📅 1pm, Weds 12 Nov 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a1f28b...

🚨 PhD scholarship alert! 👉 Edna Jenkinson Studentship in Classics, in association with St Mary's College 💥 3.5 years funding & a research and travel allowance of £1,400 🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who, along with Prof. Alison Sharrock, has published a special collection of 'Green Letters' on 'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics' 🔗 tinyurl.com/y83r95d8

💥 PhD applications are now open! 📚 Study across the whole spectrum of Classics: literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, digital humanities, classics education, reception, public policy... 👉 Learn more here: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6 🏛️ Departmental research strengths: tinyurl.com/32yavda6

🎉 Massive congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, who has won the International Hellenic Prize for her book 'Facing down the Furies' 🎭 Prof. Hall turns to Greek Tragedies to seek wisdom in understanding the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ykcparez

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Dr Annie Burman (Uppsala) "Etruscans in the Archive: modern archival collections as a source in epigraphic research" 📅 1pm, Weds 5 Nov 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5c367e...

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart, who has has published new translations of Catullus in the latest Shearsman magazine 🌈 Prof. Ingleheart has rendered the Latin into loose Polari 🔗 See the latest issue of Shearsman here: www.shearsman.com/shearsman-ma...

💥 Join us as the UKRI-funded Aristoteles Pezographos project and the Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP) host a workshop dedicated to the Atlantis story in Plato's works. 📆 5 Nov, 10am–6pm 📍 Grey College, Durham & hybrid via Teams 🔗 Full programme: tinyurl.com/c34ekkds

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, who has provided the introduction and notes to Gary Owen’s 'Iphigenia in Splott' 🎭 The text is a new student edition and is a modern retelling of Iphigenia at Aulis 📚 Pictures from the recent book launch, held at the National Theatre 🔗 tinyurl.com/aps5d2x5

Note change of location to ER147! 💥

📚 Conference CFP: Philomythia: Aristotle’s Use of Previous Literatures, 16th-17th June 2026 👉 Part of the ERC/UKRI-funded research project, "Aristoteles Pezographos: The Writing Styles of Aristotle and their Contribution to the Evolution of Greek Prose" 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/3hhcnayc

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Prof. Candida Moss (Birmingham) "Invisible Hands: Enslaved Secretaries, Shorthand, and Authorship" 📅 1pm, Weds 29 Oct 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a31f97...

Finally (but not leastly) in #TEIFriday news today: We're going to run an #EpiDoc training workshop *and* a "teach the teachers" discussion day at @durhamclassics.bsky.social in April 2026 (tba). The fabulous @carolinebarron.bsky.social @geophilologist.bsky.social and many fabulous others are hosts.

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Polly Low, who has provided the introduction and notes to Robin Waterfield's recently published new translation of Thucydides! 🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n 🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3

🚨 Calling all Latin, Greek & ClassCiv enthusiasts🚨 Please help us to spread the word & let people know that registration for the 32nd @jactdurham.bsky.social is open! We have residential & non-residential options available. We also offer bursaries for those who need them! www.durhamglss.org

This Friday (24th), starting at 2pm, we're delighted to welcome Prof. Fernando Lozano Gómez and Prof. Elena Muñiz Grijalvo for a double seminar on "Staging imperial power in the Roman empire". In person at 38 North Bailey, @durhamclassics.bsky.social; or contact us for a link to join online.

💥 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti, who has a new publication in the 'Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'! 👉 Dr Giannotti explores what purpose did the erection of a stele in a specific civic space serve. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: tinyurl.com/3mjkre4f

💥 Join us for a special lecture by our visiting scholar! 🏫 Dr Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago) "Searching for the “True” Likeness of a Caesar? Physical Appearance in Suetonius" 📅 5pm, Thurs 23 Oct 📍 CL007 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/04dd02...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 🏫 Dr Ella Kirsh (Cambridge) "Ipsissima verba? The limits of shorthand under the Roman empire" 📅 1pm, Weds 22 Oct 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/689ab4...

Thinking of studying at Durham? The University will be holding tours of the colleges, campus, and city to allow you to discover Durham for yourself on 27, 28, and 31 October! For more info and to sign up, see durhamuni.eventsair.com/2025-discove... Open to prospective undergrads and postgrads

🌳 Conference CFP: Ecocritical Approaches to Ancient Performance Culture, 22–24th April 2026 🎭 This conference will address the relationship between ancient Greek and Roman dramatic/mimetic performances and the natural world, including their reception 👉 Contact Emma Bentley and Edith Hall

📢 Are you considering Durham for undergraduate or postgraduate study? 💥 Join us for the 'Durham Live' online event to learn more about studying with us: durhamuni.eventsair.com/discover-dur... 📅 20/21 October

Incredibly honored to have been selected and to be in such wonderful company - I'm very excited to travel to Durham in December. Huge thanks to everyone involved!

💥 Congrats to Dr Alexander Vanderwalle, whose thesis has been awarded the Durham Prize in Classical Reception for 2025! 👏 CongratulatCongratsions also to Aimee Hind Scott on second place, and to Jessica Glueck, whose thesis was highly commended. 📅 Prize lecture in Durham at 5pm on 10th Dec.

🎆 Back in September our PhD students enjoyed 'Glaux', an exchange week with their Heidelberg counterparts. 👉 Research presentations, a trip to Hadrian's Wall, and lots of discussion on research and collaboration ideas. 👏 Congrats Dr Chris de Lisle on organising such a great initiative!

💥 Submit your manuscript! 👩🏫 Dr Chiara Palladino is one of the editors of the new collection 'From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East – Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications' 👉 Learn more here: www.nature.com/collections/...

🎉 Congratulations @profarlenehh.bsky.social and @edithmayhall.bsky.social on the OPEN ACCESS publication of "Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education" 🔗 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar! 👨🏫 Dr Jacob Lollar (Durham) "Tragic Riddles in the Margins: A Syriac Invocation of the Story of Oedipus" 📅 1pm, Weds 8 Oct 📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8d428d...