The Cold War Classics project explores the ways in which ancient Greco-Roman culture was selectively interpreted, appropriated or suppressed to advance political agendas and bolster Cold War narratives. Through the focusing lens of engagements with the relatively stable referent of Greco-Roman antiquity, we ask how ideologies (dominant and countercultural) manifested in the cultural sphere in the…
Workshop hosted by the project “Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World” in association with the Centre for Late Antique Studies. Co-organised by Nicola Holm (Warsaw), Carlos Machado (St Andrews) and Becca Grose (St Andrews). Confirmed contributors: Deanna Cunningham, Nicola Holm, Anna Kelley, Shannon McMillan. Please email [email protected] with any…
Speaker: Lluís Jerez i Bertolín (Birmingham) Seminar hosted by the project “Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World”, in association with the Centre for Late Antique Studies. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email [email protected],…
Event to be rescheduled. The Visualising War and Peace project is organising a series of online consultations plus an in-person workshop in 2025 to explore current practice and future opportunities in the teaching of ancient war and peace, across primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors. Join the WORKSHOP on 30 April to 2 May: Via…
Two-day conference PROGRAMME **Thursday 15 May** 2-2.45pm: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi ‘Elpis in Plato’s Laws’ 2.45 – 3.30pm: Antony Hatzistavrou ‘Why should good law rule in the Laws?’ 3.30 – 4pm: Coffee/tea 4-4.45pm: Alex Long ‘Preludes, customs and Gorgias’ challenge to the lawgiver’ 4.45-6pm (keynote): Melissa Lane ‘Situating the Roles of Lawgivers in the Laws’ **Friday…
This is a School of Classics Event. **Abstracts** Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are transforming the study of ancient languages, enabling tasks such as digitisation, restoration, and decipherment. But can these AI tools go further, and be used to advance historical knowledge? In this talk, I explore how Ithaca, a machine learning model for restoring…
This is a School of Classics Event. **Abstract** The outbreaks of violence amongst the Jewish communities of ancient Alexandria, Cyrene, Cyprus and Mesopotamia are a unique moment in the history of Roman-Jewish interactions in antiquity. Sandwiched between the First Jewish Revolt of 66-70 CE, which saw the siege and destruction of the Great Temple of…
‘Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province’: Nero’s liberation of Greece revisited. **Abstract** This paper focuses on a well-known yet seldomly discussed episode in the history of Roman Greece – Nero’s grant of freedom and tax-immunity to the province of Achaia in 67 CE. Looking at a selection of literary, numismatic, and…
This is a School of Classics Event. **Abstract** This paper turns a critical eye on the naming of enslaved people in ancient Italy, using Latin, Etruscan and Oscan evidence. It has long been recognised that the predominance of ‘Greek’ names among Italian slaves does not necessarily indicate the origins of individual slaves, though the tendency…
Annual lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies **Abstract** Although climate change seems to have speeded up in the last few years, it still runs at a speed that is not easy to encompass in the standard narrative times of most literary forms. Disasters can be a way of imaginatively conceiving environmental problems at…