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 Costas Panayotakis For some years now I have been conducting research on farcical and rather uncouth Latin comedies conventionally called “Atellane plays” (in Latin, fabulae Atellanae), the scripted incarnation of which is now known to us only through the “fragments” (or, more precisely, literary citations) of plays composed by the playwrights Novius, Pomponius, Mummius,… Continue reading
by Adrastos Omissi My surname has always been something of a mystery to me. From as young as I can remember, I was very aware that it was odd – I learnt at an early age that it always had to be spelled out, and I have known the NATO phonetic letter for ‘s’ (Sierra)… 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 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
“Gorgoneion head” (Caitlyn Eldridge, MSc Ancient Cultures, 2024) Interested in recreating ancient art pieces into different mediums, Caitlyn is a recreating a gorgoneion head painted onto a vase into a cross stitch, while also explaining what and why the gorgoneion head was used for. “Siren Odyssey” (Felix Lee, MRes Classics, 2024) Intrigued by the disturbing… Continue reading
The New Library of Alexandria is a creative colloquium founded by and created for postgraduate Classics students at the University of Glasgow. The group aims to create and engage in personal creative projects anchored in the ancient world. This allows its members to interact with history in new ways and expand their skill sets. Like… Continue reading
by Erin Littler (Hons student) In late 2023, I was fortunate enough to be awarded the Kenmure Prize in Classics (founded in 1976 in memory of the Reverend Vera Kenmure, first woman minister of the Congregational Union of Scotland). This gave me the opportunity to travel abroad and view classical sites, which I have previously… Continue reading
