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"The Statues from the #Antikythera Shipwreck, 125 Years Later"
Brian Martens offers a new interpretation of the origin and destination of this massive haul of ancient art. 👉https://tinyurl.com/antikythera-shipwreck
#Archaeology #ClassicsBluesky
In this latest post, Jason König discusses Mytikas, the highest summit of Olympus. He looks at some of the ways in which the gods of Olympus descend from the summit in the 'Iliad' – some more painful than others!
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#MountainCulture
⭐ Free PhD training event ⭐
➡️ Coding Literacy for Historians in the Age of AI
📅 17-18 Oct
📍 St Andrews
👥 For PhD students at Scottish HEIs
🔗 Details & registration: spatialhistory.net/info/coding....
Roger Rees will be giving a talk at the Godolphin and Latymer Ancient World Breakfast Club on Friday 10 October:
"Awkwardnesses and ineptitudes: Ted Hughes in correspondence for Shakespeare’s Ovid"
About the G&L Ancient World Breakfast Club: www.godolphinandlatymer.com/partnerships... .
Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is giving a talk to the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh tomorrow, 7 October, entitled "From Banff to Basra: Robert Wilson in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in the 1820s". View abstract: tinyurl.com/banff2basra
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"The Transformation of the author in the 'Letter of Aristeas'"
Max Leventhal (Edinburgh)
#seminar
🗓️ 10 October, ⏰4.15pm
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
#Allwelcome #ClassicsBluesky
"Adomnán mac Ronáin, Mu’awiya ibn Abi Sufyan and a Tale of Two Synods?"
Alex Woolf (St Andrews)
#seminar
📆8 October ⏰4pm
📍Hybrid: Room S4 Swallowgate/Teams
👉For meeting link email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome
Hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Studies, St Andrews
Join us for the STARR #seminar next Thursday:
“Dr Pentagram Meets Homer in Dublin”, Robin Fodor (St Andrews)
📆 9 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
St Andrews - NWCC Social 9 October 2025 at 1-2pm , Room S4 - ground floor, Swallowgate The St Andrews Network for Working-Class Classicists is having its first meeting of the academic year! We look forward to seeing faces old and new. There will be tea, coffee, and food. If you have any questions, or if you are interested in the discourse of socio-economic inequality and Classics, please sign up to the event! https://forms.office.com/e/XNmBM3jvpC
NWCC Social
📆9 October ⏰1-2pm 📍Room S4 - ground floor, Swallowgate (School of Classics, St Andrews)
Join the St Andrews NWCC for their first meeting of the academic year! We look forward to seeing faces old and new. Register (free):
forms.office.com/e/XNmBM3jvpC
"The Fife Pilgrim Way"
Walk the season in this special journey from Craigtoun to St Andrews Cathedral.
📆Wednesday 8 October, ⏰2pm
📍Craigtoun Cafe, Craigtoun Country Park, St Andrews, KY16 8NX.
Free event, limited numbers - email aipd@st-andrews.ac.uk to book a place.
Professionalising your PhD, 📆8 October, ⏰1-2:30pm, 💻online discussion.
🔗View details and register:
st-andrews.startuptree.co/event/s/oS2g...
Part of Innovation Week, 6 - 10 October 2025.
"Divine Summits: The Cultural Lives of Mediterranean Mountains"
#Exhibition, 📆 30 September to 16 November, 📍 Research Studio, Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews
#ClassicsBluesky #Mountains #ClassicalReception
"Buying Ancient Estates: Archaeology and foreign land ownership in nineteenth-century Greece"
Sebastian Marshall
#Seminar
🗓️ 1 October, ⏰ 2.15pm (UK time)
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
#AllWelcome
Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for the Mountains of Greece conference, 22-24 October 2025, in Athens!
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...
Register for online attendance: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Save the dates! The Centre for Late Antique Studies has put together their Autumn #seminar series, and identified other events around St Andrews that might be of interest to members. View schedule 🔗 late-antiquity.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/
#ClassicsBluesky
Join us for the STARR #seminar next Thursday:
“‘Awkwardnesses and Ineptitudes’: …” (Roger Rees)
“Hughes’ Legacy and the New Ovidean Wave” (Lorena Phillips):
📆 2 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
New post on Mount Artemision--specially recommended for Pausanias fans!
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/20/a...
"Marble Statuettes of the Roman Period", a new Agora blue volume by Brian Martens was published by the ASCSA this summer.
🔗Read more about the #book and Brian's research: www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/newsDet...
#ClassicsBluesky
"A journey to hell..."
Speaker: Milena Melfi (Oxford)
#Seminar
🗓️ 26 September
⏰ 4.15pm (UK time)
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
🔗Seminar schedule: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
Join us for the STARR #seminar next Thursday:
"Reading Poetry as if it Mattered: Classical Reception in Ancient Philosophy"
Speaker: Stefano Parrinello (St Andrews)
📆 25 November,⏰6pm BST
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
The School of Classics welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme 2026. Send preliminary applications to classicsdor@st-andrews.ac.uk by 3 November 2025 at 5pm. 🔗 View details and apply: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/l... #Funding #ClassicsBluesky
18.09.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0#Tomorrow, 18 September, Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis will present on Wilson’s travels in Greece and Mesopotamia, at the #workshop 'Robert Wilson: Amateur, Antiquarian, Imperialist’ www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e... .
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Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is using the journal transcribed by Kasia in her research. She's giving a talk to the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh on 7 October: ‘From Banff to Basra: Robert Wilson in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in the 1820s’ tinyurl.com/banff2basra
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Kasia Middleton describes her experience of transcribing the travel diaries of Robert Wilson, a Scottish physician and Grand Tourist of the nineteenth century, and what she took from the experience, both professionally and personally: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/16/r...
#ClassicalReception
"Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future"
#Conference
📆22 to 24 October
📍the British School at Athens and 💻online
🔗View programme and register: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mount...
#ClassicsBluesky
Join us for our first research #seminar this semester:
"Cassandra and the agency of hope..."
Emily Pillinger and Rowan Gard
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏰ 4.15pm (UK time)
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
Talitha Kearey will be giving a paper entitled "Suetonius’s Scholars and the Lives of Books" at the ‘The Living Bookshelf: The Ancient Library in Text’ conference taking place tomorrow and Sunday at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. classicalassociation.org/events/corpu...
#ClassicsBluesky
Join us for the first STARR #seminar of the semester!
"Points of Puncture - Donald Kagan on Spartan foreign policy in the Peloponnesian War"
Speaker: Aaron Pocock (Glasgow).
📆 18 November,⏰6pm BST.
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for the link)
Save the dates! Our research #seminar series starts on Friday 19 September, with a workshop hosted by Emily Pillinger and Rowan Gard (KCL).
🔗 View the seminar schedule: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
#ClassicsBluesky
Appel à contribution – La réception de la Grèce ancienne en Europe par le dialogue entre textes et images dans et hors du livre (XIVe-XVIe s.) / The reception of ancient Greece in Europe through the dialogue between texts et images inside and outside the book (14th-16th c.)
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