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Department of Classics at University of Edinburgh -- we've been here since 1583 in one shape or another
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Joined May 2018
Remarkable double whammy by our alumnus Antonio Iacoviello! Congratulations!.
Delighted to share I’ve been awarded both a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. My project explores crowns in ancient Greece as material agents and symbols across multiple domains. Can’t wait to get started!
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RT @jakoviello: Delighted to share I’ve been awarded both a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fello….
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A quick plug for the Fringe: for the next week, the Hopkins School in New Haven is performing a dramatisation of the Latin textbook Ecce Romani, starting today at 10! They'll be very glad to see Latin fans in the audience (& meet them after). Details here
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while Dr Justin Stover (@OxGTLC) has been promoted to Professor of Medieval Latin. Another Latinist, Dr Janja Soldo, has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Finally, Dr Alex Imrie @AlexImrie23 has been promoted to Teaching Fellow in Acnient History. Congratulations to all!.
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August brings a number of promotions in the Department. Two of these are to personal chairs: Dr Benedikt Eckhardt, who has stood down from his role as Head of Department after three years' service, becomes Professor of the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World. .
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Congratulations to all of our students who graduated today!.
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(Session 6). This panel features our graduate students Rory Paterson, Murdo Homewood, Beatrice Bersani, Veronica Fiscella, and Clara Lazzoni. Finally session 7 (Sunday late morning) includes Jesse Hill on Ennius in a panel on Republican Latin poetry chaired by Donncha O'Rourke.
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Mirko Canevaro speaks in the International Class and Classics panel and Theodore Hill speaks in the Philosophy panel on Divine emotions. Then first thing on Sunday morning, there is an all-Edinburgh panel on Ways of Seeing in Later Latin Literature +.
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. Law and literature panel. In Session 4 (Saturday late morning), our alumna Stavroula Valtadorou speakes in the Tragedy panel on Euripides' Skyrians. In Session 5 Alice Rae returns in the modern poetry panel to talk on reception in Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, while . .
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In Session 3, on Saturday morniing. Alice Rae is speaking in the 'Contemporary Popular' panel n Gladiator II; Consuelo Martino is speaking on Classical reception in the fascist period in Italy; and Pablo Rojas is speaking in Clementia in Neronian Rome in the . .
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Many other Edinburgh speakers,as you would expect: in Session 1 the panel on Classics and Class in Scotland includes talks by Lilah Grace Canevaro and Alex Imrie, while Sisi Xie is speaking in the Roman epigraphy panel. .
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If you are in St Andrews for the Classical Association, don't miss tonight's keynote lecture by our Professor of the History of Late Antiquity, Lucy Grig: "Not so hidden transcripts: protest and its literature in the ancient world" +.
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Meet Professor Grig, Professor Halliwell, and Dr Hauser…
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RT @ConsMW: In a world constantly changing, I will speak about historical manipulation and continuity in my recent work on Fascist Latin te….
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RT @UoNClassics: 📢We are hiring!.Our Department is hiring an Assistant Professor of #romanhistory. This is a full-time research & teaching….
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The Department of Classics and Archaeology seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Roman History from 1 September 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter).We are delighted to offer this exciting...
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RT @AntigoneJournal: After all the imperial and cultural bravura of previous centuries, the Roman Empire of the 3rd century AD has suffered….
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FLETCHER ERSKINE On an era that needs revisiting
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RT @YStouraitis: Forthcoming workshop on „Byzantine authorial manuscripts“ at the @edinburghuniv on June18-19, organised by Niels Gaul. @Ed….
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Prof. Lucy Grig has taken over as Editor-in-chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary!
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It is a real honour—and more than a little daunting—to take over from Tim Whitmarsh as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. The first edition of the Dictionary appeared more than three...
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