St Andrews Classics
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Join us for the CLAS Annual #lecture!
"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)
🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
#AllWelcome
"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)
🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
#AllWelcome
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Join us for the CLAS Annual #lecture!
"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)
🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
#AllWelcome
"Mary of Egypt: Gender, sanctity and landscape"
Speaker: Leslie Brubaker (Birmingham)
🗓️ 14 November
⏰ 4.15pm
📍 Hybrid: Room SO3 Swallowgate, or Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
#AllWelcome
“The Social Texture of the Desert”
(Shannon McMillian)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Please send enquiries to sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk and em216@st-andrews.ac.uk
(Shannon McMillian)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Please send enquiries to sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk and em216@st-andrews.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“The Social Texture of the Desert”
(Shannon McMillian)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Please send enquiries to sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk and em216@st-andrews.ac.uk
(Shannon McMillian)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆12 November ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Please send enquiries to sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk and em216@st-andrews.ac.uk
Rebecca Sweetman's new #book "The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods: Globalization, Christianization and Resilience" has been published by Cambridge University Press.
🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25
The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25
The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Rebecca Sweetman's new #book "The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods: Globalization, Christianization and Resilience" has been published by Cambridge University Press.
🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25
The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
🔗 bit.ly/cyclades25
The volume is available in hardback and as an ebook.
Explore a sunset route up Mount Hymettos, and what role the mountain plays in Greek literature and mythology.
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/01/h...
#mountains #MountainCulture
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/01/h...
#mountains #MountainCulture
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Explore a sunset route up Mount Hymettos, and what role the mountain plays in Greek literature and mythology.
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/01/h...
#mountains #MountainCulture
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/01/h...
#mountains #MountainCulture
#Seminar: "Classics and cyber security "
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)
🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)
🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#Seminar: "Classics and cyber security "
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)
🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol)
🗓️ 7 November, 4:15pm
💻 Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
#Seminar: "Dining like a Caesar, feasting like a tyrant…"
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)
🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)
🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Seminar: "Dining like a Caesar, feasting like a tyrant…"
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)
🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Otago)
🗓️ 5 November, 2.15pm
📍 hybrid: Rm SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)
#AllWelcome
"Fleets and Naval Forces of the Late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th Centuries)" by Alex Elliott, one of our #alumni, was published recently by Franz Steiner Verlag as part of the Historia - Einzelschriften monograph series.
🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...
#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...
#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Fleets and Naval Forces of the Late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th Centuries)" by Alex Elliott, one of our #alumni, was published recently by Franz Steiner Verlag as part of the Historia - Einzelschriften monograph series.
🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...
#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...
#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
Each student selected a pot, researched its history, and wrote an interpretative label for display. Congratulations to everyone involved in this outstanding exhibition!—and don’t miss it if you are in Corinth in the coming months.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Each student selected a pot, researched its history, and wrote an interpretative label for display. Congratulations to everyone involved in this outstanding exhibition!—and don’t miss it if you are in Corinth in the coming months.
While in Greece, a group of students in Dr Martens’ module visited the temporary exhibition they curated for the Corinth Archaeological Museum. ‘A Potted History of Corinth’ explores trade and cross-cultural interactions in the city across time, from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
While in Greece, a group of students in Dr Martens’ module visited the temporary exhibition they curated for the Corinth Archaeological Museum. ‘A Potted History of Corinth’ explores trade and cross-cultural interactions in the city across time, from the Late Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
“The Imagined Desert: Post-Classical Visions of Egypt ”
Shannon McMillan (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
Shannon McMillan (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“The Imagined Desert: Post-Classical Visions of Egypt ”
Shannon McMillan (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
Shannon McMillan (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 6 November,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
Setting out from Stemnitsa, head up into the secluded forests of Menalo for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/25/m...
#Mountains #MountainCulture
#Mountains #MountainCulture
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Setting out from Stemnitsa, head up into the secluded forests of Menalo for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/25/m...
#Mountains #MountainCulture
#Mountains #MountainCulture
Among the highlights was seeing the Parthenon without scaffolding for the first time in 20 years! The group also enjoyed guest lectures at the Agora Archives, the Pnyx, and the Corinth Excavations.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Among the highlights was seeing the Parthenon without scaffolding for the first time in 20 years! The group also enjoyed guest lectures at the Agora Archives, the Pnyx, and the Corinth Excavations.
After a rainy welcome in Athens, the skies cleared for visits to a long list of sites: Delphi, Eleusis, Corinth, Argos, Tiryns, Mycenae, Epidauros, Nemea, and more.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
After a rainy welcome in Athens, the skies cleared for visits to a long list of sites: Delphi, Eleusis, Corinth, Argos, Tiryns, Mycenae, Epidauros, Nemea, and more.
Students from the School of Classics have just returned from exploring the monuments and topography of Greece on a module led by Dr Brian Martens.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Students from the School of Classics have just returned from exploring the monuments and topography of Greece on a module led by Dr Brian Martens.
“Gravespotting: Classical Reception in Dundee’s Graves”
Erin Limmack (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 30 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
Erin Limmack (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 30 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
October 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Gravespotting: Classical Reception in Dundee’s Graves”
Erin Limmack (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 30 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
Erin Limmack (St Andrews)
STARR #Seminar, 📆 30 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
“Have you tried switching it off and on again? Stoicism and the death of the Cosmos ”
(Stefano Parrinello)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆29 October ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky
(Stefano Parrinello)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆29 October ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Have you tried switching it off and on again? Stoicism and the death of the Cosmos ”
(Stefano Parrinello)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆29 October ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky
(Stefano Parrinello)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆29 October ⏰5:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: sp283@st-andrews.ac.uk
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky
Maria Christodoulou discusses hellebore, its uses, and how it's associated with Helikon (Paliovouna), Aghia Anna, and Antikyra.
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/18/h...
#Mountains #MountainCulture
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/18/h...
#Mountains #MountainCulture
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Maria Christodoulou discusses hellebore, its uses, and how it's associated with Helikon (Paliovouna), Aghia Anna, and Antikyra.
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/18/h...
#Mountains #MountainCulture
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/18/h...
#Mountains #MountainCulture
"Red Antiquity": Henry Stead discusses the contributions of 3 three Scottish Socialist Labour Party radicals to early 20th century Scottish socialism. scottishleftreview.scot/red-antiquity/ #ClassicalStudies
October 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Red Antiquity": Henry Stead discusses the contributions of 3 three Scottish Socialist Labour Party radicals to early 20th century Scottish socialism. scottishleftreview.scot/red-antiquity/ #ClassicalStudies
"Slavery as a feature of Roman book culture"
Speaker: Joseph Howley (Columbia)
#seminar
🗓️ 17 October ⏰4.15pm
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
🔗All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
Speaker: Joseph Howley (Columbia)
#seminar
🗓️ 17 October ⏰4.15pm
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
🔗All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
October 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Slavery as a feature of Roman book culture"
Speaker: Joseph Howley (Columbia)
#seminar
🗓️ 17 October ⏰4.15pm
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
🔗All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
Speaker: Joseph Howley (Columbia)
#seminar
🗓️ 17 October ⏰4.15pm
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk, and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)
🔗All seminars: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
“I, Civilis: ‘Roman Identity’ in Tacitus’ Batavian Revolt”
(Connor Hickey)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆15 October ⏰5pm.
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: classicspgrrep@st-andrews.ac.uk.
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky #Tacitus
(Connor Hickey)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆15 October ⏰5pm.
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: classicspgrrep@st-andrews.ac.uk.
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky #Tacitus
October 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“I, Civilis: ‘Roman Identity’ in Tacitus’ Batavian Revolt”
(Connor Hickey)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆15 October ⏰5pm.
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: classicspgrrep@st-andrews.ac.uk.
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky #Tacitus
(Connor Hickey)
Postgraduate #seminar, 📆15 October ⏰5pm.
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
Enquiries: classicspgrrep@st-andrews.ac.uk.
All postgraduate seminars:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/res...
#ClassicsBluesky #Tacitus
We're inviting applications for our doctoral programme for 2026-2027 entry! View details including funding opportunities: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...
#ClassicsBluesky #Phd #Funding #DoctoralProgramme #Scholarship
#ClassicsBluesky #Phd #Funding #DoctoralProgramme #Scholarship
October 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We're inviting applications for our doctoral programme for 2026-2027 entry! View details including funding opportunities: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/p...
#ClassicsBluesky #Phd #Funding #DoctoralProgramme #Scholarship
#ClassicsBluesky #Phd #Funding #DoctoralProgramme #Scholarship
“Othering the Mother: How Modern Adaptations of the Oresteia Build New Rifts in the House of Atreus”, Sophia Jacome (Edinburgh)
#Seminar, 📆 16 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
#Seminar, 📆 16 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Othering the Mother: How Modern Adaptations of the Oresteia Build New Rifts in the House of Atreus”, Sophia Jacome (Edinburgh)
#Seminar, 📆 16 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
#Seminar, 📆 16 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email ac400@st-andrews.ac.uk for link)
#AllWelcome
"Chromatic reverberations: the prismatic ecology of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca"
Anna Athanasopoulou (Ghent University)
CLAS #seminar
📆Wednesday 15 October ⏰4pm
📍Hybrid: Room S4 Swallowgate/Teams
👉For meeting link, email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome #lateantiquity
Anna Athanasopoulou (Ghent University)
CLAS #seminar
📆Wednesday 15 October ⏰4pm
📍Hybrid: Room S4 Swallowgate/Teams
👉For meeting link, email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome #lateantiquity
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Chromatic reverberations: the prismatic ecology of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca"
Anna Athanasopoulou (Ghent University)
CLAS #seminar
📆Wednesday 15 October ⏰4pm
📍Hybrid: Room S4 Swallowgate/Teams
👉For meeting link, email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome #lateantiquity
Anna Athanasopoulou (Ghent University)
CLAS #seminar
📆Wednesday 15 October ⏰4pm
📍Hybrid: Room S4 Swallowgate/Teams
👉For meeting link, email ass8@st-andrews.ac.uk
#AllWelcome #lateantiquity
"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
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
October 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"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
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!
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/04/o...
#MountainCulture
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/04/o...
#MountainCulture
October 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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!
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/04/o...
#MountainCulture
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/10/04/o...
#MountainCulture