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School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/
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Jason König continues to explore Parnitha, following a route to the Cave of Pan. He discusses Nikagoras and Edward Dodwell, both notable visitors to the cave.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#Seminar: "Reforming Justinian’s empire: The praetorian prefect John the Cappadocian"
Giordana Franceschini (Tübingen)

🗓️ 28 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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"Classical Reception in Smosh's Comedy"
Aneirin Pendragon (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 27 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Ancient Peace Studies Network: inaugural workshop

📆 20 to 26 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View details: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...

To register interest, please contact Prof. Alice König at [email protected].
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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"Every time you walk on one of these paths you are contributing to keeping it open and in use, and that’s an act of heritage preservation in itself"

Jason König discusses Mount Parnes in antiquity, and a route to the Koromilia peak.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Congratulations to Florence Rogers who successfully defended her PhD thesis "The Mists of Ancient History: Representations of Fog in Latin Literature". standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/c...

#PhD #PhDThesis #LatinLiterature
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#Seminar: "Rome at its Core: A new history of early Rome and its republic"
Andrea Brock (St Andrews)

🗓️ 21 November, 4:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome #ClassicsBluesky
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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“Relief in the Round: Terracotta Classicism and the Homeric Friezes of Ickworth House”
Sebastian Marshall (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 20 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Deadline approaching!
Submit your PhD applications for 2026 entry by 15 November 2025.

View details including funding opportunities: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...

#PhD #PhDApplication #Scholarships #Funding
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Congratulations to Alison Hadfield who has successfully defended her #PhD thesis “In Touch with the Past: A Sensory Approach to Objects, Memory and Wellbeing”.

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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Join us for the CLAS Annual #lecture!

"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)

🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

#AllWelcome
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“The Social Texture of the Desert”
(Shannon McMillian)

Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate

Please send enquiries to [email protected] and [email protected]
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Rebecca Sweetman's new #book "The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods: Globalization, Christianization and Resilience" has been published by Cambridge University Press.

🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25

The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Explore a sunset route up Mount Hymettos, and what role the mountain plays in Greek literature and mythology.

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#mountains #MountainCulture
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#Seminar: "Classics and cyber security "
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)

🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#Seminar: "Dining like a Caesar, feasting like a tyrant…"
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)

🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"Fleets and Naval Forces of the Late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th Centuries)" by Alex Elliott, one of our #alumni, was published recently by Franz Steiner Verlag as part of the Historia - Einzelschriften monograph series.

🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...

#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Each student selected a pot, researched its history, and wrote an interpretative label for display. Congratulations to everyone involved in this outstanding exhibition!—and don’t miss it if you are in Corinth in the coming months.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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While in Greece, a group of students in Dr Martens’ module visited the temporary exhibition they curated for the Corinth Archaeological Museum. ‘A Potted History of Corinth’ explores trade and cross-cultural interactions in the city across time, from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“The Imagined Desert: Post-Classical Visions of Egypt ”
Shannon McMillan (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Setting out from Stemnitsa, head up into the secluded forests of Menalo for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/25/m...

#Mountains #MountainCulture
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Among the highlights was seeing the Parthenon without scaffolding for the first time in 20 years! The group also enjoyed guest lectures at the Agora Archives, the Pnyx, and the Corinth Excavations.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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After a rainy welcome in Athens, the skies cleared for visits to a long list of sites: Delphi, Eleusis, Corinth, Argos, Tiryns, Mycenae, Epidauros, Nemea, and more.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Students from the School of Classics have just returned from exploring the monuments and topography of Greece on a module led by Dr Brian Martens.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“Gravespotting: Classical Reception in Dundee’s Graves”
Erin Limmack (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 30 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome
October 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM