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🐈⬛🎅On the fifth day before Christmas, we spotted one of the College cats wearing a curiously Christmassy hat...
#ChristmasCountdown
#ChristmasCountdown
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🐈⬛🎅On the fifth day before Christmas, we spotted one of the College cats wearing a curiously Christmassy hat...
#ChristmasCountdown
#ChristmasCountdown
Poppit has made it onto the St Anne's Christmas Countdown!! She is thrilled.
🐕On the fourth day before Christmas, Poppit (resident St Anne's Classics Mascot and Welfare Dog) was feeling festive! @classicsatstannes.bsky.social
#ChristmasCountdown
#ChristmasCountdown
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Poppit has made it onto the St Anne's Christmas Countdown!! She is thrilled.
Maccu. A Sicilian fava bean soup of which Prof. Leigh learned in Goliarda Sapienza's 'The Art of Joy'. The name is optimistically linked to Maccus, the gourmand of Atellane farce.
December 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Maccu. A Sicilian fava bean soup of which Prof. Leigh learned in Goliarda Sapienza's 'The Art of Joy'. The name is optimistically linked to Maccus, the gourmand of Atellane farce.
We are thinking today of all at Brown University, an institution with which the Classics School has many strong and loving ties. Last night's shooting has come as a terrible shock.
December 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We are thinking today of all at Brown University, an institution with which the Classics School has many strong and loving ties. Last night's shooting has come as a terrible shock.
Poppit the Classics School dog is getting into the festive spirit and wishes all her fans the very best.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Poppit the Classics School dog is getting into the festive spirit and wishes all her fans the very best.
What do you do when it's the last week of term and one of your students arrives with a very substantial helmet?
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
What do you do when it's the last week of term and one of your students arrives with a very substantial helmet?
Here are just some of the teaching and research staff in the St Anne's Classics School: Dr Andy Reyes, Prof. Matthew Leigh, Dr Francesca Beretta, and Graduate Development Scholar Eve Harrington.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here are just some of the teaching and research staff in the St Anne's Classics School: Dr Andy Reyes, Prof. Matthew Leigh, Dr Francesca Beretta, and Graduate Development Scholar Eve Harrington.
We took the annual St Anne's Classics School photograph today. The sun was low but at least it made an appearance. As did Poppit the dog.
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We took the annual St Anne's Classics School photograph today. The sun was low but at least it made an appearance. As did Poppit the dog.
It was Junior Common Room puppy petting today, so Poppit the dog went through her full beauty routine last night. Here she is after her bath but before the hairbrush struck.
November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It was Junior Common Room puppy petting today, so Poppit the dog went through her full beauty routine last night. Here she is after her bath but before the hairbrush struck.
In the name of embodied research, first year St Anne's students Harvey (Pentheus), Alice (Cadmus), and Hannah (Tiresias) made their own translation of Bacchae 170-370 and performed it for a select audience (Prof. Leigh). We then discussed what this revelatory experience had taught us.
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In the name of embodied research, first year St Anne's students Harvey (Pentheus), Alice (Cadmus), and Hannah (Tiresias) made their own translation of Bacchae 170-370 and performed it for a select audience (Prof. Leigh). We then discussed what this revelatory experience had taught us.
The new St Anne's Classics undergraduates are here and coming for their first meeting with tutors at 2.30 p.m. Our welfare assistant looks forward to assisting them in their studies.
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The new St Anne's Classics undergraduates are here and coming for their first meeting with tutors at 2.30 p.m. Our welfare assistant looks forward to assisting them in their studies.
Prof. Leigh was the guest of a very full meeting of Hull Classical Association yesterday evening as he lectured on Aeneid 2. Thank you for all the excellent questions and for a really happy and stimulating time.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Prof. Leigh was the guest of a very full meeting of Hull Classical Association yesterday evening as he lectured on Aeneid 2. Thank you for all the excellent questions and for a really happy and stimulating time.
Wonderful to see that St Anne's Classics alumna, Miriam Kamil, is now Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University. We hope very much to have her visit us again in the near future.
classics.stanford.edu/people/miria...
classics.stanford.edu/people/miria...
Miriam Kamil | Department of Classics
Miriam Kamil earned her PhD from Harvard University in 2022 and taught at Bryn Mawr and Hamilton College before joining the faculty at Stanford. She has published several articles and book chapters re...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Wonderful to see that St Anne's Classics alumna, Miriam Kamil, is now Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University. We hope very much to have her visit us again in the near future.
classics.stanford.edu/people/miria...
classics.stanford.edu/people/miria...
Many congratulations to our former Gradual Development Scholar, Dr Laura Loporcaro, who has been awarded the Conington Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University for 2021-2025. Laura currently hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ghent.
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Many congratulations to our former Gradual Development Scholar, Dr Laura Loporcaro, who has been awarded the Conington Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University for 2021-2025. Laura currently hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ghent.
Great to see a St Anne's alumna entering on a distinguished career and with a first book to her name.
classics.columbia.edu/martina-russo
classics.columbia.edu/martina-russo
Martina Russo — Columbia University Department of Classics
Martina Russo, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Columbia University
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September 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Great to see a St Anne's alumna entering on a distinguished career and with a first book to her name.
classics.columbia.edu/martina-russo
classics.columbia.edu/martina-russo
Some faces from Oscata, the very isolated home village of the great Latinist Antonio La Penna. This week Prof. Leigh was honoured to address a conference in nearby Bisaccia dedicated to Prof. La Penna's famous essay on the paradoxical portrait. Many thanks to all those who made this event possible.
September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Some faces from Oscata, the very isolated home village of the great Latinist Antonio La Penna. This week Prof. Leigh was honoured to address a conference in nearby Bisaccia dedicated to Prof. La Penna's famous essay on the paradoxical portrait. Many thanks to all those who made this event possible.
The Darwin-Dohrn Stazione Zoologica and Museum in Naples contains this 1837 sketch by Darwin of the gradual separation of species of coral. To a Classicist it looks rather like a stemma illustrating the manuscript tradition of an ancient work. Lachmann's edition of Lucretius was published in 1850.
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Darwin-Dohrn Stazione Zoologica and Museum in Naples contains this 1837 sketch by Darwin of the gradual separation of species of coral. To a Classicist it looks rather like a stemma illustrating the manuscript tradition of an ancient work. Lachmann's edition of Lucretius was published in 1850.
Prof. Leigh is a regular in the slow lane at Oxford University's Rosenblatt Pool. It was a surprise this morning to share the water with double Olympic champion Adam Peaty. This was about as close as he will come to seeing the serpents cutting across the sea towards Laocoon.
August 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Prof. Leigh is a regular in the slow lane at Oxford University's Rosenblatt Pool. It was a surprise this morning to share the water with double Olympic champion Adam Peaty. This was about as close as he will come to seeing the serpents cutting across the sea towards Laocoon.
Poppit the dog has just had her first ever visit to the groomer. Feel free to reassure her that her beauty is undiminished.
August 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Poppit the dog has just had her first ever visit to the groomer. Feel free to reassure her that her beauty is undiminished.
Many thanks to Dr Emily Hayes for a wonderful supper last night for new friends and old. Pictured: Dr Katz, Alec Tiller, Maximus Ankrah, Prof. Leigh. Alec and Maximus are visiting St Anne's from Virginia Military Institute. Maximus got his name after his father saw a certain Russell Crowe movie.
August 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Many thanks to Dr Emily Hayes for a wonderful supper last night for new friends and old. Pictured: Dr Katz, Alec Tiller, Maximus Ankrah, Prof. Leigh. Alec and Maximus are visiting St Anne's from Virginia Military Institute. Maximus got his name after his father saw a certain Russell Crowe movie.
In 2022 Mackenzie Austin came to St Anne's from Durham 6th Form Centre to read History. A great friend to the Classics School and a stalwart of the Classical Reception Reading Group, he has just taken a First and will be heading to Durham University for his Masters.
August 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In 2022 Mackenzie Austin came to St Anne's from Durham 6th Form Centre to read History. A great friend to the Classics School and a stalwart of the Classical Reception Reading Group, he has just taken a First and will be heading to Durham University for his Masters.
In October 2022 Elise Stringfellow came to St Anne's from St Olave's School in South London to study Classics and English. She has just graduated with a First and will be staying in Oxford for her Master of Studies in Classics. Next term Elise will also be playing the wife in Plautus' Menaechmi.
August 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In October 2022 Elise Stringfellow came to St Anne's from St Olave's School in South London to study Classics and English. She has just graduated with a First and will be staying in Oxford for her Master of Studies in Classics. Next term Elise will also be playing the wife in Plautus' Menaechmi.
Three years ago Isabella Hickman came to St Anne's from King Edward VI School for Girls in Handsworth to study Ancient and Modern History. She leaves us with a very fine degree and will be staying in Oxford to work at St Andrew's Church. We salute her.
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Three years ago Isabella Hickman came to St Anne's from King Edward VI School for Girls in Handsworth to study Ancient and Modern History. She leaves us with a very fine degree and will be staying in Oxford to work at St Andrew's Church. We salute her.
Three years ago, Lucy Miller came to St Anne's from Newlands Girls School in Maidenhead to read for a degree in Classics and English. She leaves us with a First and a quite astounding mark for her dissertation on Wycliffe's translation of the Book of Hebrews. We have treasured her.
August 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Three years ago, Lucy Miller came to St Anne's from Newlands Girls School in Maidenhead to read for a degree in Classics and English. She leaves us with a First and a quite astounding mark for her dissertation on Wycliffe's translation of the Book of Hebrews. We have treasured her.
@whitstillman.bsky.social was at the UPP cinema in Oxford last night for a showing of his 1990 masterpiece Metropolitan. Prof. Leigh confesses to having seen the film at least 5 times and was delighted to find himself in a packed house of Stillman devotees.
August 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
@whitstillman.bsky.social was at the UPP cinema in Oxford last night for a showing of his 1990 masterpiece Metropolitan. Prof. Leigh confesses to having seen the film at least 5 times and was delighted to find himself in a packed house of Stillman devotees.