We are delighted to announce that Dr Tracey Walters (Stony Brook University) will be giving a talk entitled: 'Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: The Representation of Greco-Roman Myth in African American Media'. Please DM us for the Zoom link. Hope to see you all there! 🌈💕🐝🌸🦆🌈

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Our Co-Academic Affairs Officer Eleanor Cliffe​ has written a summary of the talk that Professor Kaizer gave for the Society on the 8th of December, "Questions of Identity in Tadmor-Palmyra". Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/RKm5UETWOdb

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Our Editor @elelimo99 has written "A forgotten land of Italy: Molise and its Samnite and Roman past". What is your favourite (Classics-related) place? Let us know by submitting your short piece to Ostraka! link.medium.com/J684G6Yl2db

Don't miss Prof. Ingleheart's academic talk on 'Some queer versions of Catullus' for #LGBTHistoryMonth2021 TONIGHT at 18:30! To attend, please message the society and we'll send you the zoom link, or find it in our monthly email. We look forward to seeing you all there!

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Our Co-Academic Affairs Officer Sionna Hurley-O'Kelly​ has written a summary of the talk given to the Classics Society by Dr Tracey Walters on 'Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll'. Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/3ehBrSS8beb

#repost of "‘Words have no meanings in death’: Translating Catullus 101" by tate 🐋 link.medium.com/Qr0O7ZH0neb

#repost of "Aristos Achaion: examining the contemporary Achilles through his romantic relationships" by Ellie Dixon-Coyte. Have a read and enjoy! :) link.medium.com/7Tu2HVnSveb

#repost of "Softbois and Latin Elegists: The Rhetoric of Sex and Persuasion" by our Secretary Chloe Wong. Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/ueVJosgqBeb

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Our Co-Academic Affairs Officer Eleanor Cliffe​ has written a summary of Jennifer Ingleheart's talk on "Some Queer Versions of Catullus". Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/L6SqEGHFHeb

Our Academic Affairs Officer Sionna Hurley-O'Kelly​ has written a summary of Dr Kate Cook's talk, "Infanticides, Courtesans, or Noble Self-Sacrifices: What place for women in the classics and their reception?". Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/7dZr2RJNMeb

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Isabel Lewis has written "Did Edward Burne-Jones replicate or appropriate the Classical world and its ideals? Exploring the transmission of mythology in Pre-Raphaelite art." Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/V5GD9MIMVfb

Our sponsor, Classical Wisdom are running a Stoic Essay Competition and all our members are encouraged to enter! Entry is free and the First-Place prize is $500! For the chance to win, and to have your work featured in their magazine, check it out below: classicalwisdom.com/stoicism-essay…

A new poem is up on Ostraka! SophieOverton​ has written "Gilgamesh to Enkidu…". Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/3KTJPXWIfgb

Χαίρετε! You can now watch our production of Sophocles' Philoctetes here: youtube.com/watch?v=snsjmO… Enjoy!

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Eleanor Cliffe has written a summary of Dr Fögen's talk, ‘Doctors and patients in Martial’s epigrams and related texts'. Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/GJuxFaszAhb

A new piece is up on Ostraka! Sophie Overton​ has written "An LGBT+ Reinterpretation of Ovid's Icarus for the 21st Century". Give it a read and enjoy! link.medium.com/h2PKzc76Lhb

A new article is up on Ostraka by James Hua - read it and enjoy 😊 Stay tuned for more information coming soon on how you too can write for Ostraka! medium.com/ostraka-a-durh…

This awesome team is working on a fantastic project… stay tuned as more info will be posted this afternoon✨

The time has come! You can now get tickets for our production of Plato’s Symposium that will take place in Fonteyn Ballroom (DSU) on Thursday, 23rd June at 7:30pm: eventbrite.co.uk/e/platos-sympo… Hope to see many of you there!

Our production of Plato’s Symposium is happening TODAY! Come to the DSU at 7:30pm for an evening of philosophy and speeches on love✨