📣 'Rhetoric, drama and their critics: a symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath, late emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leeds' - register now to avoid disappointment! Register here: store.leeds.ac.uk/product-cata... For more information: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r...

Prof. Tougher's joint Classics - @leedsims.bsky.social public lecture on eunuchs in Constantinople

For the 4th annual Classics- @leedsims.bsky.social joint event, we're very excited to welcome Prof. Shaun Tougher (Cardiff) to give a public (hybrid) lecture next week: 'Sex and the City: the Eunuchs of Constantinople'. Details in the quoted tweet. #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #blueskyclassics

TODAY - our next research seminar with Dr Stuart McKie on "Curse tablets and demons: a sense of the weird". All welcome! Please see thread below for further details, online joining instructions and in person venue.

Leeds IMS and @leedsclassics.bsky.social welcome Shaun Tougher for a public lecture: Sex and the City: the Eunuchs of Constantinople. Thursday 26 March at 5.30 pm. Hybrid. All welcome. To attend online register at forms.office.com/e/CcFcJyAnTZ #medievalsky #constantinople #byzantium #eastrome

Dr Stuart McKie on "Curse tablets and demons: a sense of the weird" - join us for our next research seminar on Thursday 19 March 2026, 17:15-18:30 UK time. All very welcome to attend in person or online! Joining instructions and in person venue in the thread!

Not to be missed - our next research seminar with Prof. Anna Foka on “Reimagining Pausanias: Digital Methodologies for Ancient Cultural Geographies”, 12 March 2026 17:15-18:30 UK time, online only. All welcome!

TODAY: research seminar with Dr David Tandy on ‘Stumbling toward some new answers to old questions about Hesiod’, from 17:15 UK time online and on campus. All very welcome to attend!

Discover your next steps to postgraduate study at our Masters Discovery Fair on Wednesday 11 March: 🧑‍💼 Explore career support and opportunities 💰 Get funding advice 💬 Speak to academic staff 🏙️ Learn about life as a postgraduate student at Leeds Find out more 👇 https://bit.ly/4s6w5GX

Prof. Anna Foka on “Reimagining Pausanias: Digital Methodologies for Ancient Cultural Geographies”, 12 March, 17:15-18:30 UK time, online only research seminar. All welcome to attend! Joining instructions in the thread. For more on the Digital Periegesis project: nodegoat.abm.uu.se/viewer.p/5/4...

Thursday: our next research seminar with Dr David Tandy on ‘Stumbling toward some new answers to old questions about Hesiod’, 5 March from 17:15 UK time online and on campus. All very welcome to attend! Online joining instructions in the thread below. On campus venue: Michael Sadler 1.01.

Entries close soon for 'Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026' for Key Stage 3 students. This is a FREE outreach competition, which has run for over 70 years at Leeds! Entries close on 2 March. Find more information on the competition website: accessandoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/arts-and-hum...

Today: Our next research seminar (online only) with Dr Sara De Martin (Université de Lille, Institute of Classical Studies) on “Maxims and the Masses in the Empire: Some Intellectual Perspectives, and the Case of Mime" - please see below for details!

📣Registration now open for 'Rhetoric, drama and their critics: a symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath'! Please register via the University of Leeds Store page: store.leeds.ac.uk/product-cata... For more information, please visit the conference webpage: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r...

Our next seminar will be led by Dr Sara De Martin (Université de Lille, Institute of Classical Studies) on “Maxims and the Masses in the Empire: Some Intellectual Perspectives, and the Case of Mime". Join us on 26 February from 17:15 UK time online via Teams. All are welcome! Teams hyperlink below.

Today at 17:15 UK time: Travanti Tate on "Plato as Sociologist: eros and philia in the Symposium." Please see the thread below for details, including how to join online

Check out this piece co-written by Dr Samuel Gartland on 'The Trouble with Aristophanes' for the Antigone Journal: antigonejournal.com/2026/02/trou...

Today we remember our former colleague Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby whose funeral takes place this afternoon at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium. secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/home/obituar... Photos of the Parkinson Building flag flying at half mast kindly provided by Dr Katherine Backler

I've just updated my 'Complete Guide to Essays in Ancient Greek Studies' for my @leedsclassics.bsky.social Greek Art and Society students, so I thought it was a good time to share it more widely! Please feel free to use or adapt it if you need to! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Join us for our first research seminar of 2026 with Travanti Tate on "Plato as Sociologist: eros and philia in the Symposium." Thursday 19 February 17:15 UK time in-person in Michael Sadler 1.01, and online via Teams (link in thread). All are very welcome to attend!

A tribute to Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby by Emma Stafford, Professor of Greek Culture: secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/home/obituar...

The funeral for our former colleague Professor Robert Maltby will take place at 14.30 on Thursday 12 February at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium (ME13 9HY). For those unable to attend, the ceremony will be live-streamed: watch.obitus.com Username: boca7967 Password: 596427

New MA in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social - now open for applications for a September 2026 start! For more information and to apply, please visit: courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

Our 'Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026' is still open for Key Stage 3 students to enter! Entries will close on 2nd March 2026. artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-subjects...

We were deeply saddened to learn that our former colleague Robert Maltby died last week. Having taught at Leeds since 1989, Robert was Professor of Latin Philology by the time he took early retirement in 2013 and though he moved away from Leeds, he stayed in touch.

Prof. Stafford has been to the West End again! This piece on the new Paddington musical came out in The Conversation yesterday. You can also read a longer version, with more pictures, on the CAWCRS research blog (leedscawcrs.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...). theconversation.com/paddington-t...

Our research seminars will resume in Semester 2. See thread below for a sneak peak of the schedule... 19 Feb.: Travanti Tate (Leeds PhD Candidate) - title TBC 26 Feb.: Dr Sara De Martin (Université de Lille, ICS). "Maxims and the Masses in the Empire: Some Intellectual Perspectives." [online]

Looking for an MA in Classics and Ancient History? Look no further! We are very excited about the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, now open for applications for a September 2026 start. For more information and to apply, please visit: courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

We're delighted to be welcoming back our former colleague Dr Emilio Zucchetti today for our final research seminar of 2025! All very welcome to attend in person or online - full details below...

The JACT Latin Summer School 2026 (Harrogate, 19 July - 1 August) is open for applications from anyone interested in starting or improving their Latin. Leeds students have thoroughly enjoyed the experience in previous years! For more information and to apply: www.latincamp.co.uk

Our final Centre for Ancient World & Classical Reception Studies seminar of 2025 is this Thursday! All very welcome to attend in person or online. Details below.

For our next seminar Dr Emilio Zucchetti (Royal Holloway) will speak to us on "‘As Gramsci Said’: Latin, Hegemony, and the Politics of Classical Education in Contemporary Italy." Thurs 4 December, 17:15-18:30 UK time, in-person in Michael Sadler 1.01, and online via Teams. All welcome to attend!

A blog post by my excellent PhD supervisee @irvlewis.bsky.social!

Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026 has officially opened! Entries close on 2 March 2026. This is a FREE outreach competition aimed at Key Stage 3 students, which has run for over 70 years at Leeds! Find more information on the competition website: artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-subjects...

Next week, PGR Shakeel Ahmed will be in Verona giving a paper on 'Mr Inferior: “What’s a big deal if they call you faggot?” Do the fictitious, bold, and unashamed characters and vulgar language of Old Comedy offer a glimpse of a queer reality?'. Check out the full conference programme below!

A week today - Dr David Lewis (Edinburgh) will join us to speak on 'Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Slave Trade', Thursday 20 November, 17:15-18:30 UK time (online and on campus - details in the thread below). All welcome to attend!

TODAY: 'Writing the Past with Caroline Lawrence: how images shaped Pantheon.' All are very welcome to our first Centre for Ancient World and Classical Reception Studies Roundtable of 2025/26! Please see the thread below for details.

'Writing the Past with Caroline Lawrence: how images shaped Pantheon.' All are very welcome to our first Centre for Ancient World and Classical Reception Studies Roundtable of 2025/26! Details and registration links below.

Find out more about Postgraduate Study at Leeds at the Virtual Open Day on 29 November. Great timing, given the recent launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History! courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

Today! - Dr Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool) will be speaking to us about 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time. The talk will be hybrid (online joining instructions below). All very welcome to attend!

Would you like to see coins with hundreds of years form the University of Leeds Special Collections? This talk on coins, power and languages, by Dr Sam Gartland from Classics, is for you! Very limited spaces. Book here: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-... #leedscityoflanguages

This is a @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social event not to be missed! Very limited places so that you get the chance to have a close look at the artefacts! Book before it's too late! @leedsclassics.bsky.social

New MA in Classics and Ancient History at Leeds - we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new MA in Classics and Ancient History, *now recruiting* for September 2026! For more information and to apply, please visit: courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

A week today! On 30 October, we will welcome Dr Elaine Sanderson (Liverpool) for our second research seminar of the year on 'Re-Making Memories: Reading Trauma and Recovery in Cicero’s Civil War Letters', 17:15-18:30 UK time. The talk will be hybrid (online joining instructions below). All welcome!

🚨 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

Missed out October Open Days? Find out more about our Classics and Ancient History undergraduate courses: youtu.be/WEXe-BJxgyw?...

Today - our first research seminar of the academic year under the aegis of the Leeds Centre for Ancient World & Classical Reception Studies with Dr Simon Glenn. All very welcome! Details in the thread below...

Call for Papers: RAC/TRAC 2026 - Water Cultures Beyond Roman Italy Our own Dr Henry Clarke and Dr Giacomo Savani are organising a panel on Water Cultures Beyond Roman Italy at the next joined Roman Archaeology and Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, in May 2026...

This Thursday! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. All very welcome to attend online or in person!