By Dr Alex Antoniou On 4 Dec this year, my first monograph, Roman Priests from Republic to Empire, will be published by Oxford University Press. In a nutshell, the book challenges preconceived notions of the worth and status of Roman priests from Rome’s mythical and legendary past through to the early second century CE. Rather… Continue reading →
On Thursday 4 December at 1730 we’re holding a book launch to celebrate the publication of three recent books by colleagues in Classics. This will take place in the Humanities Research Hub in 1 University Gardens. All welcome! Antoniou, A. 2025. Roman Priests from Republic to Empire (Oxford). This book reconstructs the values, expectations and representations of… 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 →
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 →
