Jeffrey Murray

Human Nature, Human Goods by Tom Angier A ground-breaking theory of human nature and its relevance to ethics, bringing ancient ideas into dialogue with cutting-edge science and philosophy. 📘 cup.org/42RD8st

Yesterday's honours workshop on medieval and renaissance manuscripts of works by Classical authors (with a focus on Valerius Maximus) in the Grey Collection at the National Library of South Africa.

Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!

Today marks the five year anniversary of the Jagger Fire. Join us for a guided tour of the Jagger Reading Room which features an exhibition on the ongoing recovery. Bookings essential - tours run on weekdays between 20 April and 15 May. Book here: bit.ly/41HSqzm

JOB | Teacher of Classics, Kamuzu Academy, Malawi theclassicslibrary.com/job-teacher-of…

Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada: classicscrossroads.com

We are very sorry to announce that former Warden, Professor Dame Averil Cameron, died yesterday. The College flag will be flown at half-mast and the following notice has been posted on our website: keble.ox.ac.uk/news/professor…

Excited to announce the call for papers for the 4th International Classics Conference in Ghana, hosted by the Classical Association of Ghana. Click the link for further details: classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-4…

On Tuesday, Jakub Filonik (Silesia) will be giving a research seminar. All welcome!

🔔CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🔔 Applications for the STIAS fellowship for the second semester of 2027 are now open. DEADLINE: 30 April 2026. See poster for details. #CallForApplications #AcademicOpportunities #STIASFellowship

Stephen Heyworth (Oxford) will give a talk next week titled ‘Making Sense of the Archaic Roman Calendar’. All welcome!

There will be a Classics seminar on 26 February. John Hilton (UFS) will give a talk titled ‘Heliodorus of Emesa, Alchemist’. Do come along!

Jan 29 online London (4.30pm UK) Institute of Classics Studies Ancient History seminar (Civil War): Obert Mlambo (Rhodes University) The Roman Revolution at a Distance of Time and Space: A view from postcolonial Zimbabwe sas.ac.uk/news-events/ev… Link email katie.boulton@sas.ac.uk

@edithmayhall The middle one has my vote.

It's choose the cover time again. My 'biography' of Medea, for which I looked at every single ancient source, researched forensic psychology and visited every site to try to come up with a coherent narrative, comes out this year. My editor likes the green one. Please help choose!

Fresh from winning a 2025 National University Teaching Award, Associate Professor George Hull speaks about his teaching philosophy, influences and innovation in the classroom. Read more: qr.link/5L9r2u

Well done @GeorgeHullUCT ! news.uct.ac.za/article/-2025-…

Recently published and free to read! POMPEIUS THE SILENT IN VALERIUS MAXIMUS’ FACTA ET DICTA MEMORABILIA 6.2 by Viola Periti (University of Liverpool) | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3KVQ0bI

@Robin_C_Douglas @wmarybeard @AntigoneJournal @ArmandDAngour @DrFrancisYoung @miserabiliter @andrewsillett @ShoniBLD @red_loeb @BijanOmrani @ProfEricAdler @theo_nash @GeorgyKantor Via one of the attendees at Haarhoff’s Annual Virgil Lectures in Johannesburg, Virgil even spoke in German! And yes, the Wiseman piece is gold. I believe (I could be wrong) that new letters are being added to the Jackson Knight collection at Exeter’s special collections.

This will be of interest to classics people @wmarybeard @AntigoneJournal @ArmandDAngour @DrFrancisYoung @miserabiliter @andrewsillett @ShoniBLD @red_loeb @BijanOmrani @ProfEricAdler @theo_nash @GeorgyKantor

SPIRITUALISM AND TWO CLASSICAL SCHOLARS Or, how an ancient Greek philosopher appeared to a South African academic and the bestselling English translation of the Aeneid was assisted by Virgil's ghost. robindouglas.org/2025/12/16/spi…

@AntigoneJournal @davverista I’ve managed to trace some of the translators and others involved, scholars from Durham, Oxford, Cambridge, and Germany contributed.

@davverista No, I believe they are largely anonymous and have never seen the light of day.

TIL that Cecil Rhodes was so obsessed with Gibbon's Decline and Fall, but so devoid of Latin and Greek, that he spent £8,000 (now £1m?) having all of the secondary texts that Gibbon quoted translated into English just for him. The project was abandoned at the Church Fathers.

@bobbyShafto10 @GavinKellyLatin @davverista @abwinkler999 @AntigoneJournal Picture of current anarchy attached.

@GavinKellyLatin @davverista @abwinkler999 @AntigoneJournal will they be able to finish before SA descends into complete anarchy?