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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 10h

"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

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 11h

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

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SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · 1d

⭐ Free PhD training event ⭐

➡️ Coding Literacy for Historians in the Age of AI
📅 17-18 Oct
📍 St Andrews
👥 For PhD students at Scottish HEIs

🔗 Details & registration: spatialhistory.net/info/coding....

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 1d

Roger Rees will be giving a talk at the Godolphin and Latymer Ancient World Breakfast Club on Friday 10 October:
"Awkwardnesses and ineptitudes: Ted Hughes in correspondence for Shakespeare’s Ovid"

About the G&L Ancient World Breakfast Club: www.godolphinandlatymer.com/partnerships... .

Ancient World Breakfast Club - Godolphin and Latymer

The Ancient World Breakfast Club was established as a weekly lecture series to promote the study of the ancient world among members of the wider community.

www.godolphinandlatymer.com

St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is giving a talk to the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh tomorrow, 7 October, entitled "From Banff to Basra: Robert Wilson in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in the 1820s". View abstract: tinyurl.com/banff2basra

Our next meeting

The 2025/6 session of the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh (SHSE) will commence on Tuesday 7 October, 17:10 in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School. Alexia Petsalis-Diomi…

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 2d

"The Transformation of the author in the 'Letter of Aristeas'"
Max Leventhal (Edinburgh)

#seminar
🗓️ 10 October, ⏰4.15pm
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

#Allwelcome #ClassicsBluesky

St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 2d

"Adomnán mac Ronáin, Mu’awiya ibn Abi Sufyan and a Tale of Two Synods?"
Alex Woolf (St Andrews)

#seminar
📆8 October ⏰4pm
📍Hybrid: Room S4 Swallowgate/Teams

👉For meeting link email [email protected]

#AllWelcome

Hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Studies, St Andrews

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 5d

Join us for the STARR #seminar next Thursday:

“Dr Pentagram Meets Homer in Dublin”, Robin Fodor (St Andrews)

📆 9 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome

St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 6d

NWCC Social
📆9 October ⏰1-2pm 📍Room S4 - ground floor, Swallowgate (School of Classics, St Andrews)
Join the St Andrews NWCC for their first meeting of the academic year! We look forward to seeing faces old and new. Register (free):
forms.office.com/e/XNmBM3jvpC

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 7d

"The Fife Pilgrim Way"
Walk the season in this special journey from Craigtoun to St Andrews Cathedral.

📆Wednesday 8 October, ⏰2pm
📍Craigtoun Cafe, Craigtoun Country Park, St Andrews, KY16 8NX.

Free event, limited numbers - email [email protected] to book a place.

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 8d

Professionalising your PhD, 📆8 October, ⏰1-2:30pm, 💻online discussion.

🔗View details and register:
st-andrews.startuptree.co/event/s/oS2g...

Part of Innovation Week, 6 - 10 October 2025.

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 8d

"Divine Summits: The Cultural Lives of Mediterranean Mountains"
#Exhibition, 📆 30 September to 16 November, 📍 Research Studio, Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews

#ClassicsBluesky #Mountains #ClassicalReception

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 9d

"Buying Ancient Estates: Archaeology and foreign land ownership in nineteenth-century Greece"
Sebastian Marshall

#Seminar
🗓️ 1 October, ⏰ 2.15pm (UK time)
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

#AllWelcome

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 11d

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for the Mountains of Greece conference, 22-24 October 2025, in Athens!

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Register for online attendance: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Conference programme

Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 12d

Save the dates! The Centre for Late Antique Studies has put together their Autumn #seminar series, and identified other events around St Andrews that might be of interest to members. View schedule 🔗 late-antiquity.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/

#ClassicsBluesky

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 13d

Join us for the STARR #seminar next Thursday:

“‘Awkwardnesses and Ineptitudes’: …” (Roger Rees)
“Hughes’ Legacy and the New Ovidean Wave” (Lorena Phillips):

📆 2 October,⏰6pm
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 18d

New post on Mount Artemision--specially recommended for Pausanias fans!

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/20/a...

Artemisio

Scramble up into the territory of Artemis on Mount Artemisio.

mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 15d

"Marble Statuettes of the Roman Period", a new Agora blue volume by Brian Martens was published by the ASCSA this summer.

🔗Read more about the #book and Brian's research: www.ascsa.edu.gr/news/newsDet...

#ClassicsBluesky

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 16d

"A journey to hell..."
Speaker: Milena Melfi (Oxford)

#Seminar
🗓️ 26 September
⏰ 4.15pm (UK time)
📍 hybrid: room SO3, Swallowgate/Teams (email [email protected], and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject)

🔗Seminar schedule: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 19d

Join us for the STARR #seminar next Thursday:

"Reading Poetry as if it Mattered: Classical Reception in Ancient Philosophy"
Speaker: Stefano Parrinello (St Andrews)

📆 25 November,⏰6pm BST
In person: 📍Room S11, Swallowgate
Online: 💻 MS Teams. (email [email protected] for link)

#AllWelcome

St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 20d

The School of Classics welcomes applications for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme 2026. Send preliminary applications to [email protected] by 3 November 2025 at 5pm. 🔗 View details and apply: standrewsclassics.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/l... #Funding #ClassicsBluesky

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 21d

#Tomorrow, 18 September, Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis will present on Wilson’s travels in Greece and Mesopotamia, at the #workshop 'Robert Wilson: Amateur, Antiquarian, Imperialist’ www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e... .

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 21d

Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is using the journal transcribed by Kasia in her research. She's giving a talk to the Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh on 7 October: ‘From Banff to Basra: Robert Wilson in the footsteps of Alexander the Great in the 1820s’ tinyurl.com/banff2basra

Our next meeting

Our first talk of the 2025/6 session will take place on 7th October at 5.10pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) will talk to us about ‘From Banff to Basra: Rober…

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 21d

Kasia Middleton describes her experience of transcribing the travel diaries of Robert Wilson, a Scottish physician and Grand Tourist of the nineteenth century, and what she took from the experience, both professionally and personally: sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/16/r...

#ClassicalReception

Robert Wilson’s Travels Transcribed – St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity

By Kasia Middleton

sacra.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 22d

"Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future"

#Conference
📆22 to 24 October
📍the British School at Athens and 💻online
🔗View programme and register: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mount...

#ClassicsBluesky

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