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School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/
"Transmission, Reception and Imitation in Romanesque art and architecture"

#conference
📆 13-17 April 2026
📍 Toulouse
🔗 View details and register: thebaa.org/events/2026-...

Hosted by the British Archaeological Association.

Limited number of scholarships for students are available.
2026 Romanesque Conference: Toulouse – Transmission, Reception and Imitation in Romanesque art and architecture – British Archaeological Association
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January 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
#Seminar: "Did the Nabataeans treat their dead like dung?…"
Lucy Wadeson (St Andrews)

🗓️ 28 January, 2:15pm
📍Room SO3, Swallowgate
💻 Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in subject)

#AllWelcome
🔗 View schedule: bit.ly/cl2526s2 .
January 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
The BAA Ochs scholarship offers late stage funding to postgraduate students writing up their theses.
🔗 View details and apply: thebaa.org/scholarships...
⏰ Application deadline: 1 February 2026

#PhD #PostgraduateStudy
Ochs Scholarship – British Archaeological Association
The Ochs Scholarship was established in 1994 from a bequest by Maud Lillian Ochs, and is awarded annually by the British Archaeological Association for research projects which fall within the…
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January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
The Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast launched recently. Check out their first episode, "Xenophobic Mountains" with Alexandra Cotofana: 🔗 msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/17/x...

#MountainLandscapes @futuremountain.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
In fond remembrance of our dear friend and colleague Professor Adrian Gratwick, who left us in October 2025. He is greatly missed.

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🔗Read about Adrian: cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2026/0...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"Teaching Philosophy and Antiquity in Prisons"

#conference
📆 5 to 6 March
Hybrid event: 📍University of Durham /💻 online (email [email protected] by 2 March to request link)
🔗 View details: classicalassociation.org/events/teach...
'Teaching Philosophy and Antiquity in Prisons' (University of Durham) - The Classical Association
Edith Hall and Arlene Holmes-Henderson are delighted to share further details of the 'Teaching Philosophy and Antiquity in Prisons' international conference at Durham University on 5th-6th March…
classicalassociation.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"Law as a catalyst and remedy for civic violence in early Rome: two examples from Dionysius of Halicarnassus"
(Stefano Carlo Sala)

Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 journals.openedition.org/etudesancien...

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Law as a catalyst and remedy for civic violence in early Rome : two...
In Book 2 of the Roman Antiquities, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus praises the remarkable attitude of the early Romans towards civic violence: [the Romans] never in the course of si...
journals.openedition.org
January 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"The travels of Edward Falkener: a Victorian architect in Ottoman Anatolia "
(Sebastian Marshall)

Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S000...
THE TRAVELS OF EDWARD FALKENER: A VICTORIAN ARCHITECT IN OTTOMAN ANATOLIA | The Antiquaries Journal | Cambridge Core
THE TRAVELS OF EDWARD FALKENER: A VICTORIAN ARCHITECT IN OTTOMAN ANATOLIA
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January 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM
"Byzantine Archaeology, History and History of Art"
Postgraduate training course in Greece, hosted by the British School at Athens

📆 Course dates: 24 June to 5 July 2026
⏰ Application deadline: 8 March 2026
🔗 View details and register: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/byza...
January 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"Ted Hughes's 'Tales from Ovid': translation as a poetic dialogue with the Roman poet "
(Lorena Phillips)

Download #OpenAccess article: 🔗 research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/324005...

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January 15, 2026 at 9:02 AM
"New visions of Ancient Peace"
Inaugural #workshop hosted by the Ancient Peace Studies Network

📆 20 to 22 January 2026
📍 University of St Andrews
🔗 View programme and abstracts: apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/11/22/n...

#PeaceStudies
January 14, 2026 at 3:11 PM
"Pets as humans and humans as pets in imperial Rome"
(Sian Lewis)

Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1353/are....

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Project MUSE - Pets as Humans and Humans as Pets in Imperial Rome
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January 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
"Publishing your research in Classics and Archaeology journals"

ICS training session
📆 Wednesday, 21 January 2026, ⏰ 15:00-17:00
💻 Online via Zoom

View details and register: ics.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

In conversation with Myles Lavan, Peter Liddel, and Sarah Nooter.
Moderated by Emlyn Dodd.
ICS Training 2025-26
Comprehensive training opportunities for classical researchers, including regular labs, fellowships, workshops on digital approaches and publishing strategies
ics.sas.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by St Andrews Classics
Fancy a free drama workshop? apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/08/p... On 22nd Jan 2-4.30pm @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we are running an interactive drama workshop with theatre-makers NMT Automatics to explore the power of peace storytelling on stage. Email [email protected] to sign up!
Performing Peace
Calling all creatives! Are you an actor, producer, playwright, choreographer or composer? Whether amateur or professional, student or teacher, please join us to explore the power of peace storytell…
apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
"Pausanias' haptic geography: bodies and landscapes in the Periegesis "
(Jason König)

Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1525/ca.2...

#travelogues #AncientLandscapes
January 13, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Congratulations to Emma Buckley and Alice König upon their recent promotions to Professor! 🎉
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January 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"'Parapēgmata' and 'poleis': astrometeorological calendars in the Hellenistic city"
(Ruben Post)

Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S007...

#AncientEnvironment
Parapēgmata and poleis: astrometeorological calendars in the Hellenistic city | The Journal of Hellenic Studies | Cambridge Core
Parapēgmata and poleis: astrometeorological calendars in the Hellenistic city
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January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
"Pagan idols and Christian anxieties in medieval Troy narratives"
(A. Sophie Schoess)

In "Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives: Vol. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia 24"

Download #OpenAccess chapter: 🔗 doi.org/10.33063/fv2...
Pagan Idols and Christian Anxieties in Medieval Troy Narratives | Uppsala Scholarly Books
A. Sophie Schoess is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests include late antique epic poetry, Greek and Latin intertextuality, the relationship between image and…
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January 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"Chameleonic Paideia: immigrant experience and the 'Acceptable Other' in Heliodorus' 'Aethiopica"
(Anna Coopey)

Download #OpenAccess pdf: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/315046...

#Heliodorus
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December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology is a new annual competition open to all worldwide. Entrants are invited to provide the best edition, translation and commentary of a modern literary work composed in Ancient Greek or Latin.

Details and how to enter 🔗
The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology
A NEW PRIZE For new scholarship.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Beyond Pentelikon: imported white marbles in Athenian sculptural workshops of the Roman period"
(Y Maniatis, B Martens, D Tambakopoulos)

Read #OpenAccess article🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

#archaeometry #archaeology #ArtHistory
Beyond Pentelikon: Imported white marbles in Athenian sculptural workshops of the Roman period
This article presents the results of a provenance study of the marbles used for 58 sculptures from the excavations of the Athenian Agora (Greece), inc…
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December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Between prosopography and historiography: the intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC) "
(Stefano Carlo Sala)

Download #OpenAccess conference contribution🔗 doi.org/10.62336/uni...
#prosopography #historiography
Between prosopography and historiography: The intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC)
(2025). Between prosopography and historiography: The intervention in the senate on the dies postriduani (389 BC) . Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10446/305028
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December 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"A unique federal fiscal and legal institution from early Hellenistic Achaia"
(Ruben Post)

Download #OpenAccess chapter: 🔗 doi.org/10.7788/9783...

#AncientGreekLaw
A unique federal fiscal and legal institution from Early Hellenistic Achaia | Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht / Legal Unity and Pluralism
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December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"A gymnasion assemblage lost at sea? The statues from the Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered"
(Brian Martens)

Read #OpenAccess article: 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S006...
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM