We’d like to draw your attention to Coin Stories, an event that is part of the SGSAH training series for Classics and Archaeology. While the event is particularly relevant for those in Classics and Archaeology, it is open to a wider audience, including anyone interested in numismatics, history, material culture, or museum curation. Date: Monday 31 March 2024, 2.00-4.30pm… Continue reading
by Dr Alex A. Antoniou (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/alexantoniou/#biography) I have recently been awarded a RSE Small Research Grant. The project, entitled ‘Imperialism and Emperor Worship: Local Responses to the Emperor’s Divinity’, will run from March–December 2025. This project seeks to challenge the paradigms by which the worship of the Roman emperor (as well as his deified predecessors… Continue reading
Professor Isabel Ruffell and I have been teaching an Honours and Postgraduate course called Ancient Technology in Context ever since I arrived at Glasgow, back in the autumn of 2016. Last semester, we taught the fifth (!) iteration of it, and for the final session before the Christmas break, I thought I would try something… Continue reading
By Adrastos Omissi Earlier this year I went to see in the cinema what is unquestionably my favourite movie ever made, The Matrix. Despite the fact that I was confident at the age of eighteen that I had already seen the film at least one hundred times, whenever it makes an appearance in theatres –… Continue reading
by Professor Catherine Steel The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae has been at work since 1893 to create the most detailed and comprehensive dictionary of classical Latin in existence (it has got as far as resurgo). It is an extraordinary treasure trove of information about Latin, and the entries can stimulate all sorts of ideas about the Latin… Continue reading
Catherine Rae is one of our fantastic recent graduate from our MSc in Classics and Ancient History. One of the things she did during her time at Glasgow was volunteer to work on the coin collection in the Hunterian Museum. She has now started a Classics blog and one of her posts is on coins.… Continue reading
By Elise Benton, MSc Classics & Ancient History 2024 When I first heard of the Roman Mobilities course during the fall semester, I thought it sounded interesting. I mean, a class about how the Roman Empire moved throughout Eurasia and how it changed and adapted in different ways, what’s not to love? Then learning that… Continue reading
By Alex Antoniou I am an ongoing collaborator with the ISicily Project, directed by Prof. Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford), which seeks to digitise in open-access the entire corpus of inscriptions from ancient Sicily. In the summers of 2022 and 2023, I worked with Jonathan to catalogue and conduct autopsy on all of the inscriptions from… Continue reading
By Lisa Hau This summer I went to Greece with my family. There is nothing in itself unusual in that; as a classicist who works on ancient Greek literature and history, I take my family there almost every year. This year, however, we didn’t go to Athens or the Peloponnese like we normally do, but… Continue reading
“Dracchae” (Alice Mantese, MSc Classics & Ancient History, 2024) With their background in Theatre making and a love for the Classics, Alice decided to focus their project on the queer themes of Euripides’ Bacchae by readapting the play for a Drag-inspired performance, with the aim of making the story more accessible to a modern audience… Continue reading
