New Classicists Journal

We have published our first review article of 2026, "Homer Iliad I-XII: A text and translation for students
& Homer Iliad XIII-XXIV: A text and translation for students. Coventry: Machaira." by Wayne Rimmer.
Link: www.newclassicists.com/individual-a...

#classics#ancientliterature#ancientstudies

#EFAevents #SemMod
📅 04/03 - 11h30 EET
📜 Comment peut-on être Syrien ? Espaces de référence, appartenances et mobilités dans le Bilal al-Sham au temps des premières révolutions arabes (1920-1936)
🗣️ Leyla DAKHLI | CNRS / CHS
📌 @efathenes.bsky.social | sur inscription
👉 www.efa.gr/events/semmo...

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Seeing Old Age in Pre-Modern Cultures
Fri 13 Mar, 12pm shorturl.at/jzAg8

Understandings of old age & the role of the old in society vary widely across time & cultures. This event launches a new initiative to enable comparisons & discussions between scholars of pre-modern cultures in Europe & China.

Rare Roman lead ingots found by metal detectorists in Ceredigion The objects, which were used to produce tools and weapons, were found on grazing land in west Wales.

''Exceptionally rare' Roman lead blocks found on farmland'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check out the SASA Intro Guides project to get basic overviews of general and complex topics
available Intro Guides:
Greek Sculptures
Greek Vases
Greek Funerary Sculpture
Athenian White-ground Lekythoi
Mesopotamian Religion
Check out our Intro Guides, here: saveancientstudies.org/intro-guides

Save the date! Join us for five inaugural lectures by our colleagues who were recently made professor: Prof Emma Buckley, Prof Alice König, Prof Myles Lavan, Prof Alex Long, and Prof Carlos Machado.

⏰️ 1 April 2026 at 4pm.
📍 Buchanan lecture theatre, St Andrews.

#AllWelcome #InauguralLecture

STUDYING CLASSICS AT UNIVERSITY - OF GODS AND WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A University Taster Day of mini lectures and interactive experiences for school students.

We have the next RHUL Studying Classics at University on 2nd July (not June, sorry!) and it's titled 'Of Gods and Women in the Ancient World'! Do pass on to any sixth formers of your acquaintance who might be interested.

Photogrammetric image of a quarry, in which a humanoid sculpture lies on its back, overlaid with the text 'Methods Papers, Antiquity'.

Have you developed a new methodological technique for doing #archaeology? Or maybe you're applying a method for the first time? 🏺

Submit a methods paper to Antiquity and get your research in front of a global audience

🔗 antiquity.ac.uk/submit

“Matrilineality, Materialism, and Minoans...”
Christopher Anaforian (St Andrews), Emily Strba (Edinburgh)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 26 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
🔗 View abstract: bit.ly/4aNAYOc

#AllWelcome

Women’s Day Roundtable | Femicide and gender violence in ancient Rome: evidence from epigraphy and Roman art - bsr.ac.uk Although historical and literary sources from the Roman age report several cases of femicide, i.e. husbands or lovers killing or having their partners killed, and although we know how restrictive and ...

You're invited: Women’s Day Roundtable
Femicide and Gender Violence in Ancient Rome: Evidence from Epigraphy and Roman Art

Marina Lo Blundo in conversation with Kelsey Madden

🗓 11 March 2026 | ⏰ 18:00 – 19:30 | 📍 Hybrid | Free in person
💻 Register to watch online: bsr.ac.uk/womens-day-r...

The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 115 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @darcytuttle.bsky.social @profyarrow.bsky.social

Starts tomorrow! Still time to sign up...

#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

Classical Association Conference, Manchester, April 2026 The University of Manchester, with the Manchester Metropolitan University, will jointly host the Classical Association Conference from 10th-12th April, 2026.  The Classical Association's Annual…

Classical Association Conference, Manchester, April 2026 buff.ly/P7hrWby #Classics #AncientHistory #Archaeology

Ancient environmental studies: interdisciplinary approaches A three-hour online workshop introducing ancient environmental studies through archaeology, palaeoenvironmental data, and ecocriticism.

“Ancient environmental studies: interdisciplinary approaches”

Online #workshop, 📆 9 March,⏰10am to 1pm GMT
🔗 View details and register: bit.ly/4cuOdWf

The 3 hour workshop introduces ancient environmental studies through archaeology, palaeoenvironmental data, and ecocriticism.

Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes Vol. 98, No. 1 (2024) shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-... @cairninfo.bsky.social

“Lesbian and Juventius: From Romanticised Ancient Muse to Blasè Contemporary Ex-Lover”
Raven Jane Adilene (St Andrews)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 19 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)

#AllWelcome

Poster advertising the Peter Sadler Archaeology Lecture, by Emlyn Dodd on Falerii Novi, hosted by the University of Kent. An image of the ancient Roman gate of Falerii Novi at left, with text on right.

Looking forward to giving the Peter Sadler #Archaeology Lecture at the University of Kent this week, talking about our excavations at Falerii Novi 🏛️ 🏺

Thanks to Luke Lavan for the kind invitation to present before we head back into the field this summer.

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Want everyone to be able to read your exciting research? We have agreements with tons of institutions to make publishing #OpenAccess research completely FREE!

Find out how you can publish OA with us: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Submit an article: antiquity.ac.uk/submit

Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei Ria Berg, Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei: Specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023). 9788891327406. Reviewed by A. Everett Beek, Case Western Reserve Un…

New review before Valentine's Day!

A. Everett Beek shows some love for "Il Mundus Muliebris a Pompei: Specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici" by Ria Berg (L’Erma di Bretschneider 2023)

'Women and Power' with classicist Mary Beard (speaker) and musicians Nardus Williams (soprano) and Elizabeth Kenny (archlute, theorbo)... Wigmore Hall's upcoming event for International Women's Day is 'Women and Power' with classicist Mary Beard (speaker) and musicians Nardus Williams (soprano) and Elizabeth Kenny (archlute, theorbo). The title 'Women and Power' originates from Mary...

'Women and Power' with classicist Mary Beard (speaker) and musicians Nardus Williams (soprano) and Elizabeth Kenny (archlute, theorbo) at Wigmore Hall 

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Antiquity Vol. 100, No. 409 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @antiquity.ac.uk @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
@sarahkerr.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @royvanbeek.bsky.social @mpdavies.bsky.social @waltros.bsky.social

Call for Emerging Editors Board Members Closing date for expressions of interest: 2 March 2026

The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is looking to strengthen and extend the networks and scholarly expertise available to the journal by establishing an Emerging Editors Board. Read about it here: academic.oup.com/bics/pages/c...

Marble bust of Herodotus. Image from Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.

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...

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England, Revealing the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Whetstone Factory Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large numbers of completed whetstones may have supplied other parts of the Roman…

Hundreds of Ancient Roman Blade Sharpeners Emerge From a Riverbank in England. buff.ly/vkhP2OB #AncientRome #AncientBritain #Archaeology #AncientHistory #AncientBluesky

Cover : Polis, A New History of the Ancien Greek City-State

📕 Review / Compte rendu

John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of #Antiquity, @princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024.

par Laurent Capdetrey (@ubmontaigne.bsky.social)

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

“Actually Romantic: The Topos of Love in Byron’s Don Juan in Comparison with the Classical Epics ”
Clara Leonora Burbank (Erlangen-Nurnberg)

STARR #Seminar, 📆 11 February,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email starrgroup@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)

#AllWelcome

Dear friends and colleagues, we are happy to announce that bookings are now open for RAC/TRAC 2026. See you in Aarhus!

Register here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

Marble bust of Herodotus. Image from Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.

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...

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Sign the Petition Save Liberal Arts at Agnes Scott

One of our students wrote this petition, which we plan to present at the meeting on Friday:
https://www.change.org/p/save-liberal-arts-at-agnes-scott

#SignThePetition #Petition #LiberalArts #SaveClassics #EducationMatters #SupportHumanities #StudentVoices #ClassicsCommunity #FacultyVote