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...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Michael Loy, who has a new publication in the 'Journal of Hellenic Studies'! 👉 Dr Loy models the production rates for black- and red-figure pottery, in the Classical Athenian Kerameikos. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/S007...

📣 Calling all KS2 school teachers! 💥 Fantastic three-day FREE virtual workshops and activities on Hadrian's Wall, organised by the Great North Museum. Learn about the Roman North East from your own classroom! 📅 25/26/27 November 🔗 Learn more: www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/greatnorthmu...

CPF: the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR Group online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) is on the 27th of Nov. We welcome proposals on any topic within the remit of the group - an ideal place to test out a chapter, article idea or presentation. forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC... Please share!

🏛️ Join us for this term's research seminar series 🔗 See the termcard here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... 💥 Our research theme this year is 'Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship'

🎆 Happy new (academic) year, and a very warm welcome to all arriving for Induction Week! 🏫 Here, some of our academic staff enjoying a meal before the term's teaching begins. 🎉 We are looking forward to seeing all students soon and to lots of exciting research events & collaborations this year.

🎆 Happy new (academic) year, and a very warm welcome to all arriving for Induction Week! 🏫 Here, some of our academic staff enjoying a meal before the term's teaching begins. 🎉 We are looking forward to seeing all students soon and to lots of exciting research events & collaborations this year.

Our building at @durhamclassics.bsky.social is looking much smarter after repairs this summer - but we kind of miss our purple front door!

💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'! 👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....

💥Welcome back for another academic year, and welcome to some new faces in our Learning & Teaching team! 🎉 We are joined this year by Kate Buckley (Department Manager), Zoe Rickelton (Learning and Teaching Manager) and Alex Walton (Learning and Teaching Administrator) 🎆 Have a great year, everyone!

💥Welcome back for another academic year, and welcome to some new faces in our Learning & Teaching team! 🎉 We are joined this year by Kate Buckley (Department Manager), Zoe Rickelton (Learning and Teaching Manager) and Alex Walton (Learning and Teaching Administrator) 🎆 Have a great year, everyone!

💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online! 👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina. 🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team! 🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF

💥 Publication of 107 new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online! 👉 New entries include all votives of artisans and workers, and boundary stones of the Athenian empire on Aigina. 🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team! 🔗 buff.ly/4Bgd7gF

🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery! 👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades 📅 Open until early spring 🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz

🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery! 👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades 📅 Open until early spring 🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz

📣 Calling all students, alumni and friends of the department! 💥 We are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us and stay in touch with our global Durham Classics network. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/durh...

📣 Calling all students, alumni and friends of the department! 💥 We are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us and stay in touch with our global Durham Classics network. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/durh...

💥 Join us for a special lecture, organised by @camne.bsky.social! 👩🏫 Dr Rachel Phillips ( @britschoolathens.bsky.social ), "Curating the Dead: Body and Image in Early Mycenaean Burials ” 📅 4pm, Thurs 18th Sept 🔗 TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre: buff.ly/2SCBkK0

💥 Join us for a special lecture, organised by @camne.bsky.social! 👩🏫 Dr Rachel Phillips ( @britschoolathens.bsky.social ), "Curating the Dead: Body and Image in Early Mycenaean Burials ” 📅 4pm, Thurs 18th Sept 🔗 TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre: buff.ly/2SCBkK0

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new book was published over the summer! 📚 'The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics' shows that understanding the philosophical proposal of the EE is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle’s ethics. 🔗 academic.oup.com/book/60082

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new book was published over the summer! 📚 'The Unity of the Virtues in the Eudemian Ethics' shows that understanding the philosophical proposal of the EE is fundamental for a full picture of Aristotle’s ethics. 🔗 academic.oup.com/book/60082