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  1. Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath

    Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath

    Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  2. Plato's Laws

    Plato's Laws

    Two-day conference PROGRAMME Thursday 15 May 2-2.45pm: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi 'Elpis in Plato's Laws' 2.45 -- 3.30pm: Antony...

  3. Teaching Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding

    Teaching Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding

    Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  4. Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    Sublimity at Colonus: from Yeats to Mahon

    Fiona Macintosh (Oxford)

    Annual lecture of the St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity. Abstract There is nothing new about turning to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus...

  5. "Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome

    "Are we not men?" Animals and stigmatising assumptions in Ancient Rome

    Jack Lennon (Leicester)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract This paper will consider the use of animal comparisons, especially those involving animals that were judged to...

  6. Learning about ancient and modern war and peace in dialogue

    Learning about ancient and modern war and peace in dialogue

    The Visualising War and Peace project is laying the foundations for a major five-year study of current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war...

  7. 'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    'Voluntarium et naturale'? Slave onomastics in ancient Italy

    Katherine McDonald (Durham)

    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...

  8. Teaching Ancient War and Peace

    Teaching Ancient War and Peace

    Setting new agenda for primary, secondary and tertiary education.

    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...

  9. Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene

    Tumultus Iudaicus: the diaspora revolts and the rebuilding of Cyrene

    Caroline Barron (Durham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstract The outbreaks of violence amongst the Jewish communities of ancient Alexandria, Cyrene, Cyprus and Mesopotamia...

  10. Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks

    Going beyond tools: Deep neural networks for ancient Greek epigraphic networks

    Thea Sommerscheid (Nottingham)

    This is a School of Classics Event. Abstracts Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are transforming the study of ancient languages, enabling tasks...

  11. 'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...

    'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece...

    Line Girdvainyte (Edinburgh)

    'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece revisited. Abstract This paper focuses on a...

  12. Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    Ovid's ecological disasters: scalar zoom and the challenges of narrative time

    Alison Sharrock (Manchester)

    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...