Visualising forced migration at the Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews A haunting new art installation inspired by a Polish family’s extraordinary wartime odyssey across three continents will be unveiled on 25 May at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews. ‘Somewhere to Stay’ was created by artist Diana Forster in collaboration with the School of Classics’ Visualising…
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Congratulations to Carlos Machado
Congratulations to Carlos Machado on being awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Carlos will be working on a project with the title ‘Poverty and the end of empire: a deep history of the late antique West’. The project will study the role of poverty dynamics in the transformation of western Mediterranean societies between the Fourth and…
The Folds of Olympus
Jason König‘s book The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture was published recently by Princeton University Press. The book is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a…
Herodotus Helpline seminars: September to December 2022
The Herodotus Helpline seminar series starts again on 28 September. The series of online seminars is hosted by Professor Tom Harrison (University of St Andrews) and Dr Jan Haywood (Leicester University). The seminar is open to all. To become a member and receive regular zoom links, please join the Helpline. All sessions take place at…
Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime
Stephen Halliwell‘s major edition of the ancient treatise On the Sublime has been published by Oxford University Press. The book was first released in Italian translation in the Lorenzo Valla series, in 2021. The English version contains a new English translation of the text, and additional material in the introduction and the commentary.
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, edited by Jason König and Nicolas Wiater, was published recently by Cambridge University Press. From the publisher’s website: Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary…
Imperial War Museums £2.5m art commissioning programme will help University project reach out to Fife communities
Dr Alice König’s Visualising War project has been selected to be part of the prestigious IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, a national programme of 22 artist commissions inspired by the heritage of conflict, created in partnership with Imperial War Museums (IWM) and 14-18 NOW, the official UK arts programme for the First World War centenary….
Herodotus Helpline seminars: May – July 2022
The Herodotus Helpline is a series of online seminars hosted by Professor Tom Harrison (University of St Andrews) and Dr Jan Haywood (Leicester University). The seminar is open to all. To become a member and receive regular zoom links, please join the Helpline. All sessions take place at 6pm GMT. Schedule Follow the links to…
Visualising Peace project launches new online bibliographic resource
‘Visualising Peace’ is a ‘Vertically Integrated Project’ involving twelve undergraduate students based in different Schools at the University of St Andrews. Directed by Dr Alice König and supported by PG Mentor Jenny Oberholtzer, this project seeks to extend the work of the Visualising War project by examining how war’s aftermath, conflict resolution and peace-building are…
Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE
“Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE” edited by Myles Lavan and Clifford Ando, was published in hardback recently by OUP. From the publisher’s website: Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla’s universal grant of citizenship…
Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies
“Chaos, Cosmos and Creation in Early Greek Theogonies: An Ontological Exploration” by Olaf Almqvist, was published recently by Bloomsbury. From the publisher’s website: Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies also say…
Herodotus Helpline seminars: January – March 2022
The Herodotus Helpline is a series of online seminars hosted by Professor Tom Harrison (University of St Andrews) and Dr Jan Haywood (Open University). The seminar is open to all. To register to become a member and receive regular zoom links, please email herodotushelpline @gmail.com . All sessions take place at 6pm GMT. Schedule Follow…
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