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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 6d

We feel your pain. In less exalted regions of the football league, Exeter City secured a 93rd minute winner at Lincoln.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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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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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 19d

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

Martina Russo — Columbia University Department of Classics

Martina Russo, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Columbia University

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Poppit the dog has just had her first ever visit to the groomer. Feel free to reassure her that her beauty is undiminished.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 2

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 2

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 2

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 2

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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Aug 1

@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.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jul 29

Four years ago, Tilly Jackson-Long came to St Anne's from Haberdashers' School for Girls, Elstree, to read for a degree in Classics. A fine and imaginative scholar, Tilly has also developed high-level skills as a lighting technician and recently started work at the Oxford Playhouse.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jul 29

Four years ago, Charlie Chadwick came to St Anne's from Hulme Grammar School in Oldham to read for a degree in Classics. He leaves us with a First and a funded place at Lincoln College, Oxford, to read for a Masters in Ancient History. We salute him.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jul 29

Three years ago Leif Findlay came to St Anne's from Brighton College to read for a degree in Classics and English. Unaffectedly erudite and intellectual, Leif leaves with a fine degree and plans for a Masters in Film Studies. We are so proud of him.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jul 29

Three years ago, Eleanor McNeill came to St Anne's from Aldenham School to read for a degree in Classics and English. She leaves us with a First and the Passmore-Edwards prize for the best marks in her subject across the university. We could not be more delighted with her achievements.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jul 20

St Anne's Classics alumna Ash Bond is now a very successful and much admired writer for children. We are so proud of her. Vol. 2 in her Peregrine Quinn series came out earlier this year.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jul 4

Professor Leigh today visited Barr's Hill School, Coventry. Serving a deprived neighbourhood with many migrant and refugee pupils, Barr's Hill has been assisted by Classics for All to introduce Classical Civilisation and some Latin. Teachers and pupils were amazing.

www.barrshill.coventry.sch.uk

Home - Barr's Hill School

www.barrshill.coventry.sch.uk

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jun 24

Nobody in the St Anne's Classics School did either. We hope that our friends in Biochemistry will support our petition to have Joe Root's late cut granted UNESCO world heritage status.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jun 22

One last scene from the Classics School's leavers' drinks: Dr Emily Hayes, Dr Ed Bispham, Dr Holly Hunt, Dr Andy Reyes, Eve Harrington. That's four doctorates and a fifth very much on the way.

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Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social · Jun 21

Junior Year Abroad students Elijah Park and Genevieve Mellott leave us for their Senior Year studies at Indiana University and Wellesley College. We will miss them very much.

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