The Hellenic Society
@hellenicsociety.bsky.social
Founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art & archaeology in Ancient, Byzantine & Modern periods. Publishes JHS, AR & ARGO.
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk
New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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February 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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February 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
🏺
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
🏺
New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
🏺
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
🏺
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
New! ‘Herodotus and History’ course with Professor Chris Carey.
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
🏺
Join Prof Carey from Wednesday 25th February to find out about one of the most fascinating writers of the ancient world! Five, weekly online sessions with recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
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'Rare 'Smiling Medusa' Unearthed in Ancient City Founded by Greek Queen Amastris'
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January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
'Rare 'Smiling Medusa' Unearthed in Ancient City Founded by Greek Queen Amastris'
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#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
For #MosaicMonday we spotted a colourful Greek key pattern meandering along on this pavement from the Mausoleum of Galla at Ravenna.
Image is from IMAGO image library @theromansoc.bsky.social
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#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image is from IMAGO image library @theromansoc.bsky.social
www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...
#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺
January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
For #MosaicMonday we spotted a colourful Greek key pattern meandering along on this pavement from the Mausoleum of Galla at Ravenna.
Image is from IMAGO image library @theromansoc.bsky.social
www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...
#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image is from IMAGO image library @theromansoc.bsky.social
www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...
#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺
'Rediscovering Saint Nicholas: Uncovering the Origins of Santa and His Legacy at a Byzantine Church in Turkey' 🏺
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December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
'Rediscovering Saint Nicholas: Uncovering the Origins of Santa and His Legacy at a Byzantine Church in Turkey' 🏺
greekcitytimes.com/2025/12/03/s...
greekcitytimes.com/2025/12/03/s...
'Ancient Greeks Engineered a Divine Light Show Inside the Parthenon, Oxford Study Reveals' 🏺
greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/p...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
'Ancient Greeks Engineered a Divine Light Show Inside the Parthenon, Oxford Study Reveals' 🏺
greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/p...
greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/p...
Autumn Lecture: 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri', by Professor Richard Janko
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Autumn Lecture: 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri', by Professor Richard Janko
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
20 November, 6pm, Room G7, Senate House, London.
Come and join us - no booking needed! We will film the lecture and put it on our YouTube channel too. www.youtube.com/user/Helleni...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
The 'Plato's Academy' mosaic from the villa of T. Siminius Stephanus at Pompeii. #MosaicMonday. (Image from our sibling society @theRomanSoc IMAGO database www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...)
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The 'Plato's Academy' mosaic from the villa of T. Siminius Stephanus at Pompeii. #MosaicMonday. (Image from our sibling society @theRomanSoc IMAGO database www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...)
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
New term diaries! Our Autumn Lecture will be on Thursday 20 December, at 6pm
Room G7, South Block, Senate House, London. Professor Richard Janko will discuss 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri'.
In-person event. All welcome. No booking required.
(Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercula...)
Room G7, South Block, Senate House, London. Professor Richard Janko will discuss 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri'.
In-person event. All welcome. No booking required.
(Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercula...)
October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
New term diaries! Our Autumn Lecture will be on Thursday 20 December, at 6pm
Room G7, South Block, Senate House, London. Professor Richard Janko will discuss 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri'.
In-person event. All welcome. No booking required.
(Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercula...)
Room G7, South Block, Senate House, London. Professor Richard Janko will discuss 'Deciphering the Herculaneum papyri'.
In-person event. All welcome. No booking required.
(Image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercula...)
'Dion Restoration Project Protects Zeus’ Ancient Sanctuary'
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#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
October 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
'Dion Restoration Project Protects Zeus’ Ancient Sanctuary'
greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/14/d...
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
We're pleased to share this call for papers for this online conference 'Language in Crisis, Crisis in Language, Language on Crisis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From Antiquity to Modern Times' [1/2]
October 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We're pleased to share this call for papers for this online conference 'Language in Crisis, Crisis in Language, Language on Crisis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives From Antiquity to Modern Times' [1/2]
New Euripides content just dropped (uploaded?) on our YouTube channel!
Dr Rebecca Laemmle, ‘Last Things in the latest Euripides’ is now online - as is Prof. Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’ ...
www.youtube.com/@HellenicSociety1879
Dr Rebecca Laemmle, ‘Last Things in the latest Euripides’ is now online - as is Prof. Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’ ...
www.youtube.com/@HellenicSociety1879
September 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New Euripides content just dropped (uploaded?) on our YouTube channel!
Dr Rebecca Laemmle, ‘Last Things in the latest Euripides’ is now online - as is Prof. Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’ ...
www.youtube.com/@HellenicSociety1879
Dr Rebecca Laemmle, ‘Last Things in the latest Euripides’ is now online - as is Prof. Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’ ...
www.youtube.com/@HellenicSociety1879
'Acropolis Project Reveals Prehistoric Mycenaean Wall to the Public for the First Time'
greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
'Acropolis Project Reveals Prehistoric Mycenaean Wall to the Public for the First Time'
greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...
greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...
Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky
September 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky
The National Museums Collection Centre have asked us to help them share their event. They're looking for people with experience of wearing, making or using regional dress in Greece to join them for a morning in Edinburgh on Tuesday 28 October.
September 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The National Museums Collection Centre have asked us to help them share their event. They're looking for people with experience of wearing, making or using regional dress in Greece to join them for a morning in Edinburgh on Tuesday 28 October.
Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
September 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
September 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Starts 17th September! Our new online course 'Roman Coinage in Britain' with Dr Peter Guest.
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
A 5-week course, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available.
More info and booking at: www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
Joint course with @theRomanSoc
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
'New Acropolis Museum Program Explores Water’s Role in Ancient Greece'
greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/15/a...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
'New Acropolis Museum Program Explores Water’s Role in Ancient Greece'
greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/15/a...
greekcitytimes.com/2025/07/15/a...
Our AGM and Colloquium: Euripides and the new fragmentary papyrus is at 2.30pm on
Saturday 21 June, 2025, Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
No booking needed.
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/news/events
Saturday 21 June, 2025, Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
No booking needed.
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/news/events
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Our AGM and Colloquium: Euripides and the new fragmentary papyrus is at 2.30pm on
Saturday 21 June, 2025, Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
No booking needed.
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/news/events
Saturday 21 June, 2025, Room G22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
No booking needed.
www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/news/events
Are you an unfunded scholar who needs to visit the Hellenic and Roman Library for research this summer? We have grants that can help. See:
ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...
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ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...
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May 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Are you an unfunded scholar who needs to visit the Hellenic and Roman Library for research this summer? We have grants that can help. See:
ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
@joliheroics.bsky.social
ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/grant...
🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
@joliheroics.bsky.social
'“What Would the World Be Without You, Greece?” – The Germans and Poseidon’s Gurgling Laughter'
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May 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
'“What Would the World Be Without You, Greece?” – The Germans and Poseidon’s Gurgling Laughter'
greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...
Starts Wed 14 May! 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. 🏺 www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
May 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Starts Wed 14 May! 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. 🏺 www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Starts Wed 14 May! 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Starts Wed 14 May! 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy! Weekly sessions, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available. www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Register now for our 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy!
Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
April 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Register now for our 'Myth and Mythology' online course by Professor Susan Deacy!
Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Weekly sessions, starting Wed 14 May, 6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings available.
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...
(Getty Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)