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Classics at the University of Cape Town.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined March 2011
Classics event next month: Alan Ross (Ohio State) will give a talk titled ‘In Praise of Constantius: Greek Rhetoric and Roman Power in Fourth-Century Constantinople’. Date: Tuesday 11th November Time: 17h00 Venue: P.D. Hahn Building, LT 1 All welcome!
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Looking forward to today’s talk!
Next week: Kristian Kanstrup Christensen (Stellenbosch) will give a talk titled ‘The Later Roman Empire: Rulers and Rhetoricians’. Date: Wednesday 15th October 2025 Time: 17h00 Venue: Beattie 106 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception. ALL WELCOME!
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Next week: Kristian Kanstrup Christensen (Stellenbosch) will give a talk titled ‘The Later Roman Empire: Rulers and Rhetoricians’. Date: Wednesday 15th October 2025 Time: 17h00 Venue: Beattie 106 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception. ALL WELCOME!
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Today!
Next week: Clive Chandler (Cape Town) Is Self-Esteem a ‘Thing’ for the Epicurean Philosophers? Date: Wednesday 8th October Time: 17h00 Venue: Beattie 115 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception upstairs.
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Next week: Clive Chandler (Cape Town) Is Self-Esteem a ‘Thing’ for the Epicurean Philosophers? Date: Wednesday 8th October Time: 17h00 Venue: Beattie 115 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception upstairs.
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Excited for our PG workshop next week! Tuesday 30 September 17h00 in B106
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Today! 👇
Classics talk later this month: Helen Lenahan (KwaZulu-Natal) will give a talk titled ‘The Cyborg of the Muses: Towards a Posthumanist Reading of Hellenistic Poetry’. Date/time: Tuesday 23rd September @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 114
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Classics talk later this month: Helen Lenahan (KwaZulu-Natal) will give a talk titled ‘The Cyborg of the Muses: Towards a Posthumanist Reading of Hellenistic Poetry’. Date/time: Tuesday 23rd September @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 114
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This is today! 👇
Classics seminar next month: Professor Roman Roth (Cape Town) Cicero: The Statesman and the Municipia Date/time: Thursday 4th September @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 114 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception in the Lady Welensky Memorial Staff Common Room.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: In 1949, the first inaugural lecture at UCT was given. H.C. Baldry, Professor of Classics, delivered a lecture on “The Classics in the Modern World”.
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Truly honoured to deliver Awards to graduates of Classics, School of Languages & Literatures, University of Cape Town! A wonderful beacon of Hellenistic studies, under the inspired stewardship of Professor Clive Chandler.
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Classics seminar next month: Professor Roman Roth (Cape Town) Cicero: The Statesman and the Municipia Date/time: Thursday 4th September @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 114 The talk will be followed by a drinks reception in the Lady Welensky Memorial Staff Common Room.
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A snapshot of the UCT Classics syllabus 100 years ago in 1925. Bradley's Arnold has enjoyed serious staying power...
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PSSA comes to @UCT_news, 23–25 January 2026. Inquiries and abstracts in all areas of philosophy to: PSSA2026@gmail.com Abstracts due 15 July 2025. @UCT_Research
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#PSSA2026
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Popes and papal names being all the rage, this may be a suitable moment to recall that back in the 60s/70s, the two Professors of Classics at the University of Cape Town were named Pope and Paap.
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Today!
Next month: Prof. Richard Whitaker (UCT) will give a talk about his forthcoming book 'African Pastoral', discussing both his versions of Virgil’s Eclogues and the relationships between these and images by William Kentridge. 7th May @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 106
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Next month: Prof. Richard Whitaker (UCT) will give a talk about his forthcoming book 'African Pastoral', discussing both his versions of Virgil’s Eclogues and the relationships between these and images by William Kentridge. 7th May @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 106
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Come and say “Hello” at the Classics stand! 👋🏼 🏛️🏺
The day is almost here! The annual UCT Open Day will take place on Saturday, 12 April 2025, from 10:00 to 15:00 and will run across three locations – upper, middle and health sciences campuses. The UCT Open Day programme is a perfect opportunity to gain firsthand insight into
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This is tomorrow!
Classics talk next month: Professor Roman Roth (Cape Town) will present a paper titled ‘Living on the Edge: Predation and Pelagic Precariousness on Italian Delos (167-69 BCE)’. All welcome! Thursday 10th April @ 17h00 Venue: Beattie 115
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