Another two jobs in the department! three-year postdocs on the project Class in Ancient Greek Democracy (funded by UK Research and Innovation following the award of an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to Mirko Canevaro. Contact Mirko or David Lewis. Details👇 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Today! but NB that the venue has changed to the Adam House Basement Theatre

Not sure how many folks still use this platform, but I hope you will share notice of a new scheme designed to spur interest in Classics in the state sector, with help from friends at Glasgow Academy. Places in N5 Latin, Higher and Adv Higher Classical Studies classes available!

The sublime opening "Hymn to Venus" of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura recast as a Homeric hymn to Aphrodite by the teenage HAJ Munro when a schoolboy at Shrewsbury in the 1830s.

The first PhD student I have ever supervised who submitted in less than three years (and remarkable for other reasons too).

The programme for the Classical Association conference hosted by St Andrews Classics is out: on 11 July our brilliant colleague Prof. Lucy Grig is giving one of the keynote lectures ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/keynote-speake…

Now for our latest books give-away: 38 Classics books to be raffled off for free. Just RT this message, follow us, and we will make the draw on Monday 9 June. 1st name gets 20 books, 2nd 12, 3rd 6. Open to all, good luck! (Will post details and photos of each book this evening.)

Poignant memorial service today Peterhouse Cambridge for famed Sinologist Dr Michael Loewe (1922-2025), followed by presentation Heffers Bookshop for his last book, published in May by Bloomsbury Academic, which I co-edited with Prof Michael Nylan (UC Berkeley)

August brings a number of promotions in the Department. Two of these are to personal chairs: Dr Benedikt Eckhardt, who has stood down from his role as Head of Department after three years' service, becomes Professor of the History of the Ancient Mediterranean World...

while Dr Justin Stover (Transmission of the Latin Classics) has been promoted to Professor of Medieval Latin. Another Latinist, Dr Janja Soldo, has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Finally, Dr Alex Imrie Alex Imrie has been promoted to Teaching Fellow in Acnient History. Congratulations to all!

A quick plug for the Fringe: for the next week, the Hopkins School in New Haven is performing a dramatisation of the Latin textbook Ecce Romani, starting today at 10! They'll be very glad to see Latin fans in the audience (& meet them after). Details here edfringe.com/tickets/whats-…

First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation.👇

Armand D'Angour I had a go at this a few years back into Glaswegian. Very hard to do without sounding homophobic (which I’m not - I was very pleased with Furi-arse etc though).

brilliant translation of Catullus 16