#RAC/TRAC2026 in Aarhus is coming up! Registration is open with an early bird discount until March 15: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... @theromansoc.bsky.social is also offering bursaries, check them out here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026... (Deadline 23 Feb) #AncientBlueSky

Starts tomorrow! Still time to sign up...

Britannia Vol. 56 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @sherdnerd.bsky.social @profjaneevans.bsky.social

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof. Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof. Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... 🏺

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... 🏺

Following our introductory course, A Taste of Latin, we are running a survey for people interested in taking language courses in Ancient Greek or Latin. If you think you may be interested, please complete the survey here by Friday 20 February.

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... 🏺

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... 🏺

Join us for a lecture and food tasting with renowned chef and food historian, Sally Grainger! 'Roman food, taste and perception of quality' Tues 24 February, 7-9pm, at Senate House. Event in aid of The Hellenic & Roman Library. Booking essential. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... 🏺

'Animal Offerings and Painted Walls Reveal Secrets of the Ancient Roman Cult Site Nida' www.discovermagazine.com/animal-offer...

'A Roman ship with its entire cargo of garum amphorae intact found off the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea' www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/02/a...

'Roman Lanchester Diploma is in Durham’s Museum of Archaeology' www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2581508...

We have more gladiator news! KCL's Dr John Pearce has been catching up with Professor Kathleen Coleman and Misha Glenny on In Our Time to discuss the infinitely popular subject of gladiators and their arenas across the Roman empire. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky

This Thursday (9 Feb)! 2026 Runciman lecture: 'Small Things, Big Stories: Approaching Byzantine Society through Prayer Book Manuscripts.' From prayers for silk worms to family events, Professor Claudia Rapp focuses on rural life in the Christian middle ages. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/small...

Tomorrow! Please re-skeet.

New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey. Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

@theromansoc.bsky.social is offering students a unique opportunity to do a placement and to join the 2026 summer excavations at Falerii Novi, with the BSR and the University of London @ics.bsky.social Applications are open until 28 February 2026: www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...

@hellenicsociety.bsky.social & @theromansoc.bsky.social Online Course Chris Carey Herodotus and History Wednesday 25 February, 11, 18, 25 March, 1 April, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) For more information and to book: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Which muse are you this #MosaicMonday? Mosaic of the muses from Trier, Germany. www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

'Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory'

'Long-Buried Roman House Opens After Major Restoration—With a High-Tech Twist'

Our final Medea is from Trier, Germany. Here she is in a wall painting with Jason. Thank you for following our short series of Medea images!

Another Medea, this time a wall painting from Herculaneum. #FrescoFriday www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

You ask for Medea, that's how you get Medea. Here she is in this glorious fresco from Pompeii. www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

Get your diaries - for the M.V. Taylor Lecture! Professor Barbara Borg will discuss 'Via Appia, Mile Three: Tracing Ethno-Religious Minorities in Imperial Rome' at 17.30, on Thursday 5 February. Room 349, Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU. All welcome. No booking needed.

Lasagne - lovely metaphor for stratigraphy. Context really does matter in archaeology. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎨This year, the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social smuseum in Amsterdam has opened a new exhibition on Ovid's Metamorphoses, featuring an array of paintings inspired by the ancient Roman poet. Comment your favourite artistic reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses below! 👇 #classicsforall #rijksmuseum

31 January is also the deadline for applications to the Hugh Last and General funds. These support the undertaking, completion or publication of work that relates to any of the general scholarly purposes of the Roman Society. www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize... (Please re-skeet!)

Reminder! 31 January is the deadline to apply for our Grants for the Archaeology and Art History of the Roman Empire and Roman Britain. www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize... (Please re-skeet!)

Like the cheeky gorgoneion peeking out from under her armpit

🤩Online tickets are free🤩

It's so-called 'Blue Monday' so here's a jaunty glass perfume jug that is the most cheerful image we could find by searching for 'Blue' on our IMAGO image database. (It was that or a painting of Medea.)

On 16 January in 27 BCE the senate granted the title of Augustus to Octavian, the first Roman emperor. Image of a sardonyx cameo made c.14-20 CE portraying Augustus wearing the aegis of Minerva and a sword-belt. In the British Museum. www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-... #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

'Huge Roman factory was 'hidden in plain sight'

'A66 archaeological dig set to feature on BBC's Digging for Britain'

'Detectorist sentenced – he fraudulently claimed he found national treasure and artefacts'

Postgraduate students! Scholarships are offered by the Lemmermann Foundation for students needing to conduct research in Rome on topics related to Rome and Roman culture. Application deadline: 31 March 2026. Further details and application form are available here

'Unlocking Orpheus: Cirencester museum hosts day of Roman myth and mosaic discovery' (7 Feb, 2026).

'Huge Roman villa found under popular park dubbed town's 'Pompeii'' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Archaeologists discover signs of Roman industrial hub at site in Sunderland' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society asked us to share info on their Truckell-Prize. To enter: submit an original research paper on a human or natural history topic relating to Dumfriesshire and Galloway Winning entry receives £500. dgnhas.org.uk/truckell-prize

Note the white plaster foot bottom left ... the original was found in Constantinople/Istanbul where the statues had been made and set up.

Starts tomorrow! Weekly online sessions (with recordings). More info and sign up at www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Alea iacta est. Today (or maybe tomorrow) night in 49 BCE Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

Our new online course: 'The Idea of Decline: Make Rome Great Again?' starts Wednesday 14th January! This course looks at the idea of decline in the ancient world as a concept whose resonances echo right down to the present day. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event... #AncientBluesky 🏺.