St Andrews Classics

Join us next week for the CLAS seminar, on Wednesday 25 March at 4pm. Rob Cioffi (Bard College) will be speaking about Hermopolis Magna (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. To get the Teams meeting link, email Sophie Schoess (ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Anna Kelley (ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk)

The lecture is hosted by the ERC-funded project "SLaVEgents: enslaved persons in the making of societies and cultures in Western Eurasia and Northern Africa, 1000 BCE - 300 CE". 🔗 Read about the project and view their #OpenAccess publications: ims.forth.gr/en/project/vie… .

"Manumission in the Roman world and the Americas" Myles Lavan (St Andrews) Online #Lecture 📆 26 March at 18.00 Athens time (16.00 UK time) 🔗 To watch and participate in discussion, register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Retrace Odysseus’ footsteps to the centre of the Peloponnese, as far from the sea as you can get. 🔗 mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/03/14/pro… #MountainCulture

Retrace Odysseus’ footsteps to the centre of the Peloponnese, as far from the sea as you can get. 🔗 mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/03/14/pro… #MountainCulture

“Rubbish… It’s Just A Story About Rabbits” Charlotte Glynn (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 19 March,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) 🔗 View abstract: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/sta… #AllWelcome

"Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world" #Workshop 📆 18 May 2026 📍 Room S11, Swallowgate, St Andrews 🔗 View programme: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/pea… To register: email classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk by 1 May 2026 if you plan to attend, noting any dietary requirements.

📢 New podcast! Our guest today is Dr Florence Gaub, Director of the Research Division at the @NATO Defense College in Rome. We discuss current threats, 'future shock', and the role of speculative fiction in futures thinking: buzzsprout.com/1717787/episod…

Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Caroline Schaumann about her work on mountaineering history. 🔗msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/03/11/pea… #Mountains #Mountaineering #History

"Homeric Narrative Patterns in Plato’s Republic" Liz Scharffenberger Classics #seminar 🗓️ 18 March 2:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome 🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/4kJl9MQ .

Congratulations to Sarah Prince, who successfully defended her PhD thesis "More than Dutifulness: Pietas as a Social and Political Concept in the Roman Republic (509 - 27 BCE)". standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/con…

Dr Ruben Post explains why his research in to understanding catastrophic natural events from the ancient world, can prepare populations of the the future: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/1ic5… .

Get lost with Edward Dodwell on Mount Lykaion in 1806, looking out for bandits and worse along the way... 🔗 mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/03/07/lyk… #MountainCulture #TravelWriting

“A Long Time Ago and Far Far Away: A STARR Wars Story” Thomas Phillips (St Andrews) STARR #Seminar, 📆 12 March,⏰6pm In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link) 🔗 View abstract: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/sta… #AllWelcome

“Artistic Agonism. Statius, Silius Italicus, and Lucan’s Legacy” Lorenzo Severin Postgraduate Work-in-progress #seminar 🗓️ 13 March 5pm Hybrid event - advanced booking essential 🔗ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev… Hosted by the Institute of Classical Studies

CLAS work-in-progress #seminars #tomorrow, 11 March at 3pm! Hybrid event: room s11 Swallowgate, St Andrews/Teams. To get meeting link, email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk and ack20@st-andrews.ac.uk. View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/lat…

“Up the Garden Path: Inscribing Ovid and Reading Reception in the Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay” Jo Paul SACRA Annual #Lecture 🗓️ 13 March 4:15pm 📍Room SO3, Swallowgate 💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject) #AllWelcome

Want to join us for your postgraduate studies? Meet us at a visiting day: st-andrews.ac.uk/study/meet-us/… #StAndrews

"Imaginative Landscapes And Otherworlds 2026: The Alterity Of Deserts And Arid Environments" Online #Conference 📆 13 June 2026 ⏰️ #CallForPapers deadline: 20 April 2026. 🔗 View #CFP: cfplist.com/CFP/46848 #ClassicalReception

Mount #Ithome reaches 800 metres above sea level. Explore a route from the village of Mavromati to the summit plateau, and enjoy the views over the site of ancient Messene. 🔗 mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/02/28/ith… MountainCulture #MountainLandscapes #Zeus