Durham Classics and Ancient History

💥 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new collection of 'Perspectives on Wisdom' is published today!

👉 This volume explores the nature of wisdom by fostering a dialogue among different areas of ancient and contemporary philosophy .

🔗 Learn more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

💥 Join us for our second masterclass this term from @camne.bsky.social

🏫 Prof. Andrew Meadows (Oxford), on Lycian coinage networks

📅 1:15pm, Thurs 19 Feb

📍 Dawson Building (Archaeology) D210

💥 Conference taking place next week!

🎵 One-day workshop on 'Ancient Music and Metre' organised by the Durham International Centre for Theatre Studies

📅 20 Feb 2026

🔗 Full programme here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates (online discussion led by Gabriel Bodard and @carolinebarron.bsky.social), Friday 20th February 2026 at 14:00–15:30 GMT
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✨ Prof. Edith Hall, Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson and the ACE project need your help!

🏛️ We need to fundraise £20k to bring the 'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life' course to at least eight more prisons in 2026-27

🔗 Learn more and donate on the project GoFundMe page: www.justgiving.com/campaign/ace...

🎓 Want to find out about our MA Classics programme?

💥 Watch our new video from Prof. Ioannis Ziogas, Director of Taught MA Programmes, to learn more

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?si=cyz...

👉 And see full details of our postgraduate provision here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Katherine Backler (Leeds), as part of our series on 'Writing from the Margins: Decolonising Ancient Authorship'

📅 1pm, Weds 11 Feb

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/98b466...

Want to support teaching of ancient ethics in prisons? Here's a blog with a link to JustGiving. £10 buys course material for 4 prisoners. @durhamclassics.bsky.social edithorial.blogspot.com/2026/02/anci...

📢 Calling Classics and Ancient History alumni!

🎓 Do you identify as a First Generation Scholar? You are warmly invited to come and share your experiences at a special celebration event in the Department.

📅 Thurs 12th March @ 12pm

✉️ Please contact Dr George Gazis: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/g-a-ga...

👥 It's time to #MeetOurStaff!

💥 Learn more about the pioneering work of Dr Thea Sommerschield, whose team are using to AI to help 'predict the past'

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx7b...

💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year!

🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha"

📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb

📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw

💥 Congratulations to Dr Erica Bexley, who has published a new novice reader to the Pseudo-Seneca's 'Octavia'!

👉 This companion volume combines detailed literary analysis with historical, cultural and theatrical knowledge.

🔗 Learn more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pseudosen...

@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social is nearly 10! Come celebrate with us and a great line-up of speakers @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @alicekonig.bsky.social & Katharine Piu San Russell @durhamclassics.bsky.social. Travel bursaries available, see info in QT'd link

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

💥 Congratulations to Dr Gary Watson, whose book 'The Role of the Army in the Government of the Roman Near East, 64 BC-AD 285' has been published with Brill!

👉 Dr Watson completed his PhD at Durham in 2024, and his new book is based off his PhD thesis

🔗 Learn more: brill.com/display/titl...

✍️ Call For participants! '(dh)2: Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists'

📅 Mon 18 May

📚 Essential training on how to design, pitch, and write a successful postdoc project in Digital Classics

🔗 Learn more here: digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/

💥 Join us for our first @camne.bsky.social seminar of the year!

🏫 Prof. Grant Macaskill (Durham) "Maps and Metaphors, Networks and Rhizomes: Analytical Discourse and the Study of Local Quality in the Biblical Pseudepigrapha"

📅 1:15pm, Tues 3 Feb

📍 ER231 / hybrid on Teams: tinyurl.com/mvwtr7dw

👏 ICYMI: Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holes-Henderson started the year in Manchester, training prison educators in the delivery of Aristotle’s ethics.

✍️ Call For Papers! 'Writing from the Margins: New Approaches to Ancient Authorship '

📅 Conference: 13-15 May 2026 (CFP deadline: 30 January)

📚 Organised by Dr Erica Bexley, Dr Katherine McDonald and Dr Lucy Jackson

🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🎓 Calling recent Durham Classics and Ancient History graduates!

✨ We are seeking stories from recent graduates (2020-2025) programmes about how your experiences at Durham have helped you in your career since graduation.

👉 Please contact Dr Chris de Lisle to organise a short interview.

💥 Congratulations to Dr Andrea Giannotti whose new commented edition of Euripides' 'Children of Heracles' has been published today!

👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Martina Russo (La Sapienza) "Tiberius sagacissimus: A Reading of Tacitus’s Ann. 2.37-38"

📅 1pm, Weds 21 Jan

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e2e27b...

💥 Congratulations to Prof. Ioannis Ziogas who has published a new article on Ovid in Dictynna!

👉 This article reads the myth of Orpheus through the lens of the ancient tradition of the Lives of poets.

🔗 Read here for free, open-access: journals.openedition.org/dictynna/451...

✍️ Call For Papers! British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting

📅 Sat 18 April, 10am–5:15pm

📚 Send abstracts to Dr Chris de Lisle by 23 January

🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

💥 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson who has published a chapter in a volume on 'Working-Class People in UK Higher Education'!

👉 This chapter is on 'Classics for all: From classism to representation for working-class classicists'.

🔗 Learn more: bookstore.emerald.com/working-clas...

💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci who, along with Prof. Rubina Raja and Dr Olympia Bobou, has written artefact features for the past four issues of 'Current World Archaeology'

🔗 Learn more here: www.world-archaeology.com/issues/issue...

💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh) "William Morris: The People as Author"

📅 1pm, Weds 14 Jan

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/62a4ad...

💥 PhD application deadline this week!

📚 Study across the whole spectrum of Classics: literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, digital humanities, classics education, reception, public policy...

👉 Learn more here: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6

🏛️ Departmental research strengths: tinyurl.com/32yavda6

💥 Dr Caroline Barron (Durham) and Dr Gabriel Bodard (University of London) are organising an online are organising a ✨ free and online✨ EpiDoc workshop!

📝 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates'

📅 20 Feb, 2–3:30pm

🔗 Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

These wonderful prison educators now trained on how Aristotle can make you choose friends, make decisions, achieve potential, communicate, listen, develop virtues, curb vices, recreate constructively & find a purpose. Proud of them all @ProfArl @profarlenehh.bsky.social @durhamclassics.bsky.social

Crowd of graduates with Durham cathedral in the background

Congratulations everyone! @durhamclassics.bsky.social