Durham Classics and Ancient History
@durhamclassics.bsky.social
Website and contact details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/classics-ancient-history/
🎓 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/...
💥 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/...
February 10, 2026 at 8:01 AM
🎓 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/...
💥 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...
🏫 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...
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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...
🏫 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...
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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...
February 7, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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...
🎓 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...
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 AM
📢 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...
🎓 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...
💥 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...
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 AM
👥 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...
💥 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
🏫 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
February 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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
🏫 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...
👉 This companion volume combines detailed literary analysis with historical, cultural and theatrical knowledge.
🔗 Learn more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pseudosen...
February 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM
💥 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...
👉 This companion volume combines detailed literary analysis with historical, cultural and theatrical knowledge.
🔗 Learn more: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pseudosen...
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@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 🏺
#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
You're all invited to the WCC UK's birthday! @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social
wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c...
wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c...
Celebrating Women in Classics: Ten Years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK - WCC-UK
As part of the Women’s Classical Committee’s tenth anniversary celebrations, we invite you to join us for a lively round table discussion and Q&A on the theme of ‘Celebrating Women in Classics’ on 22n...
wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk
January 30, 2026 at 9:50 AM
@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 🏺
#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...
👉 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...
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
💥 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...
👉 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/
📅 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/
January 27, 2026 at 8:01 AM
✍️ 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/
📅 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
🏫 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
January 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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
🏫 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.
January 23, 2026 at 8:01 AM
👏 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/...
📅 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/...
January 22, 2026 at 8:01 AM
✍️ 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/...
📅 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.
✨ 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.
January 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM
🎓 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.
✨ 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.
👉 The book also contains an introduction by Prof. Andrea Capra.
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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.
👉 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...
🏫 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...
January 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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...
🏫 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...
👉 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...
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
💥 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...
👉 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/...
📅 Sat 18 April, 10am–5:15pm
📚 Send abstracts to Dr Chris de Lisle by 23 January
🔗 Learn more here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
✍️ 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/...
📅 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...
👉 This chapter is on 'Classics for all: From classism to representation for working-class classicists'.
🔗 Learn more: bookstore.emerald.com/working-clas...
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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...
👉 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...
🔗 Learn more here: www.world-archaeology.com/issues/issue...
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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...
🔗 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...
🏫 Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh) "William Morris: The People as Author"
📅 1pm, Weds 14 Jan
📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/62a4ad...
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
💥 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...
🏫 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
📚 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
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
💥 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
📚 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/...
📝 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates'
📅 20 Feb, 2–3:30pm
🔗 Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 AM
💥 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/...
📝 'Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates'
📅 20 Feb, 2–3:30pm
🔗 Learn more and sign up here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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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
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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
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Congratulations everyone! @durhamclassics.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Congratulations everyone! @durhamclassics.bsky.social