Trinity College Dublin Classics

For the programme of speakers: www.tcd.ie/classics/ass...
And more on Boris’ research which is funded by the IRC-SFI Pathway Programme (Taighde Eireann - Research Ireland): www.tcd.ie/classics/peo...
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👏 Warmest congratulations to our colleague Boris Kayachev on a very successful workshop, co-organised with Anna Chahoud, on ‘Poetry, Prosody and Pragmatics: Linguistic insights from/on verse in Indo-European traditions’, June 19-20 in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. 1/2

Why do you think you have potential? On living in the shadow of Aristotle, crises, and the events that define you — Hestia Blog Here’s a telling difference between history and anthropology that reveals something odd about your understanding of your own life and its possibilities, and in the process, also exposes some of the Cl...

We are delighted to share our latest Hestia blog by our colleague Ashley Clements - he asks us ‘Why do you think you have potential? On living in the shadow of Aristotle, crises, and the events that define you’. Enjoy!
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Why is there so much Latin in Ulysses? The language, the way it was taught and references to Latin literature are constants throughout James Joyce's work

As we celebrate Bloomsday, TCD Classics researcher Alastair Daly writes about ‘Why is there so much Latin in Ulysses?’ for RTE Brainstorm
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YouTube video by Ancient Rome Live Oldest public museum- Capitoline Museums!

(689) Oldest public museum- Capitoline Museums! - YouTube
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Preserving Purity: Atticism and the Power of Linguistic Norms in Antiquity — Hestia Blog From the Oxford comma to split infinitives, debates over language usage are anything but new. We are often told that certain forms are wrong—don’t say ain’t, never end a sentence with a preposition,...

We are delighted to share our latest Hestia blog from Brian Cluyse, one of our Classics research students, on the topic "Preserving Purity: Atticism and the power of linguistic norms in antiquity".
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We were delighted to collaborate with you! Some images from the first day in Trinity.

YouTube video by Department of Antiquities Cyprus "Skammata" Documentary - Official Trailer

Interweaving archival material from excavations with captivating personal testimonies, Skammata presents momentous events that marked Cypriot archaeology, before and after the tragic summer of 1974.’
Trailer: youtu.be/BJGNA5194zQ 3/3

‘Fifty years after the coup d’etat and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, foreign and Cypriot archaeologists along with retired staff members of the Department of Antiquities, evoke their personal memories, as they reflect on the collective trauma of war and its consequences on Cypriot archaeology. 2/3

Poster for the film Skammata

📣 The first public showing in Ireland of the unique documentary 'Skammata', produced by the Cypriot Department of Antiquities and directed by Danae Stylianou.
All welcome
📍Trinity Arts Building, Room 2041A: Jonathan Swift Theatre
🗓️ 29 May 2025, 19.00-20.30
The film includes English subtitles. 1/3

Poster advertising keynote lecture by Prof Charlotte Roueché 'Words, Places & Texts' on Monday 26 May (Emmet Theatre, TCD) at 12.30.

We have two fantastic keynote lectures lined up as part of our Digital Epigraphy Workshop (few places left: www.eventbrite.ie/e/epidoc-and...)!
The first is by Prof Charlotte Roueché (King's College London) on Mon 26 May at 12.30 hosted by @tcdclassics.bsky.social All welcome - no booking required!

1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea where fierce rivalries, power struggles, and
a war of words shaped the future of Christianity. With Dr. Rebecca Usherwood TCD, Kieran O’Mahony Milltown Institute and Diarmaid MacCulloch Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. 2/2

🎧 Our colleague Rebecca Usherwood discussing the Nicene creed on RTE 1 ‘Our Divine Sparks’ with Dearbhail McDonald. 1/2
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📣 Our last research seminar of this term in our very stimulating Subaltern Scripts series.
April 9 2025 at 5.30 pm (by Zoom)
Candida Moss (University of Birmingham)
Stenographic Escape: Textual Accommodations and Shorthand
Please register here to join: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📣 Our next TCD Classics research seminar
🗓️ March 26 2025 @ 5.30 pm (in person only in the Classics seminar room)
Andrew Laird (Brown University)
‘From Roman Letters to Aztec Writing: Latin Grammar and Alphabetization in a Colonial World’
All welcome

📣TCD Classics Research Seminar
🗓️ Wednesday March 12, 2025 @ 17.30 (please note this in person only)
Ella Kirch (Christ’s College, Cambridge University)
‘They Write Fast, but Have No Intellect’: Shorthand and Its Victims in the Later Roman World”
All welcome!

Ancient Paintings of Wine Harvesting Discovered in Villa Cuomo, Italy - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists have uncovered ancient paintings in Villa Cuomo, Italy, depicting Roman wine harvesting linked to Dionysus rituals.

Ancient Paintings of Wine Harvesting Discovered in Villa Cuomo, Italy.

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Trinity College Dublin Classics Dept. Research Seminar - 'Subaltern Scripts'. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the mee... (in person and Zoom) Edith Hall (Durham University) "Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens"

The in-person seminars will take place in the TCD Classics Seminar room (Arts Building, B6002)

Please use this link to register for the series tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Contact kahanea@tcd.ie with any enquiries

📣🗓️ TCD Classics research seminar, double bill
Wed 19 Feb 2025 @5.30 pm (hybrid)
Yuan He (TCD)
Reconsidering Josephus' Relationship with His Readers in Bellum Judaicum 1.1-16
&
Samantha Sink (TCD)
Where to Draw the Line? Conceptual Boundary Lines and Theoretical Practices in Eratosthenes’

Our students learning Modern Greek enjoying the Greek tradition of cutting the Vasilopita (New Year’s cake) - organised by their teacher Aimilia Kirtsiou.

In Memoriam: Michael Longley (1939-2025) — Hestia Blog On behalf of the TCD Department of Classics we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Michael Longley, one of our Department’s most illustrious alumni . May he rest in p...

We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Michael Longley, one of our Department’s most illustrious alumni. May he rest in peace.
We publish this piece, kindly written by Prof Stephen Harrison, in Michael’s memory.
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Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens Work that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more

Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens | Greece | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Trinity College Dublin Classics Dept. Research Seminar - 'Subaltern Scripts'. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the mee... (in person and Zoom) Edith Hall (Durham University) "Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens"

2/2 Please use this link to register for the series
tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📣🗓️ 5 February 2025 (in person and Zoom) @ 17.30
We are delighted to welcome
Edith Hall (Durham University)
‘Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens.’
Please join us for this term’s research seminar series which is on the theme of Subaltern Scripts. 1/2

Rare Roman Gold Coins Worth $322,000 Found in Luxembourg A hoard of Roman coins dating from the Fourth century and covering the reign of nine emperors has been found in northern Luxembourg

Our colleague Rebecca Usherwood talking to Newsweek about the significance of this spectacular find of late Roman gold coins.
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📣 Please join us for this term’s research seminar series which is on the theme of Subaltern Scripts.
Weds @ 17.30 pm
Full details below. All welcome!
Please use this link to register for the series
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