@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...

💥 PhD application deadline this week! 📚 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

💥 Dr Caroline Barron (Durham) and Dr Gabriel Bodard (University of London) are organising an online are organising a ✨ free and online✨ EpiDoc workshop! 📝 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates' 📅 20 Feb, 2–3:30pm 🔗 Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

These wonderful prison educators now trained on how Aristotle can make you choose friends, make decisions, achieve potential, communicate, listen, develop virtues, curb vices, recreate constructively & find a purpose. Proud of them all @ProfArl @profarlenehh.bsky.social @durhamclassics.bsky.social

Congratulations everyone! @durhamclassics.bsky.social

Congratulations to the @durhamclassics.bsky.social students graduating today! See you there!

💥 ICYMI: our very own Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson has joined a government project exploring the key factors that influence and shape the future of childhood in the UK. 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

✍️ Call For Papers! 'The Domestic Dimension of Religious Conflict in the Ancient Mediterranean ' 📅 Conference: 12–14 August 2026 (CFP deadline: 30 January) 📚 Organised by Dr Karl Dahm and funded by The Leverhulme Trust 🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

So excited to be training prison educators in delivery of Aristotle’s Ethics with @profarlenehh.bsky.social @durhamclassics.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

✨ We are so excited that 2026 will see us lead our first departmental study trip to Greece! 🎓 Alumni, find out more and learn how you can help support this fantastic new initiative: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... 🏛️ L2 students, keep an eye on your e-mails for an info session coming very soon!

Postgraduate applications for 2026 entry are open! 🎓 Join Durham - the University of the Year 2026 - and make your mark. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #DurhamUniversity #TransformativeHumanities

🎁 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