iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 15h

✨ Call for papers! 👉 Language and Labour in the Ancient World 📅 📍 15–16 April 2027 ⏰ Submit by Saturday 31st October 2026 🔗 Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

087

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 29/09/2026

New funding from The Polonsky Foundation will support a two-year project exploring the learning and teaching of ancient Greek in UK schools, led by @profarlenehh.bsky.social. The funding was announced during a recent visit @britschoolathens.bsky.social. #DUResearch @durhamclassics.bsky.social

023

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Raising a glass to the students matriculating at Castle today, but also celebrating 5 years in Durham 🎉 and 20 years since I started university 😮😮. @durhamclassics.bsky.social

Students and staff in black academic gowns processing through the front gate of University College, Durham.

Students celebrate in the foreground. In the background is Castle college and a banner reading "Floreat Castellum"

0151

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and volunteers from College Year in Athens, for the publication of new inscriptions on AIO! 👉 New: funerary stelai, lekythoi, trapezai, and kioniskoi on display on the Kolonos Agoraios west of the Athenian Agora. 🔗 www.atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypub...

010

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎉 Durham’s Centre for Classics Education, Research and EngagementS (CERES) has secured £60,500 for two projects supporting the future of Classics Education across the UK. 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

030

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🕯️ Readers of the Guardian might have spotted Prof. Edith Hall's very moving obituary for her friend and mentor Prof. Pat Easterling. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

020

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎆 Happy new (academic) year! 💫 Some of our academic staff got together earlier this week to enjoy lunch and catch up after the summer. 🤩 We're all ready to meet new and returning students now - can't wait to teach you all!

021

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌟 We're number one! 🚀 In the recent Times University UK rankings, Durham has been ranked as #1 in the country for Classics and Ancient History - a fantastic result! 🔗 Check out the full league table here: www.thetimes.com/uk-universit...

040

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, whose new book "Medea. A life" has recently been published with Yale University Press! 📖 Edith explores the possibility that Medea could be based on a historical figure who migrated to Greece in the late Bronze Age. 🔗 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

060

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

👩‍🏫 Justine Wolfenden and Anna Judson headed to the Institute of Classical Studies in London last week, to present at the conference 'Teaching Ancient Languages in Universities: Innovations in Module Design, Instruction and Assessment' 💫 Their paper was entitled 'Applying Language Learning at Durham'

020

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚀 Congratulations to former Durham PhD Giulia De Cesaris (2020), who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project 'PeripaTOs – Recasting Aristotelianism'! 👏 The project proposes to study the Peripatetic school (from Theophrastus to Critolaus). 🔗 shorturl.at/45tUM

092

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🤩 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson! 📚 *Three* books on Classics, Education and Policy launched at a parliamentary reception hosted by Baroness Young of Old Scone in the House of Lords. 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

020

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Caitlin Spencer-Knapp, who has passed her PhD viva (without corrections!) 👉 Caitlin's thesis was entitled 'Pliny and Seneca: Community, Location and Leisure' 👏 With thanks to Prof. Roy Gibson as supervisor, and to Prof. Peter Heslin and Dr Janja Soldo (Edinburgh) as examiners.

050

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Delighted and honoured that my latest #PolariCatullus versions are out in the latest edition of @PoemsforPOI. So bona to vada! #ClassicalReception #QueerClassics

133

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

✨ Joining us in September? Now is the perfect time to #MeetTheStaff. 👉 Dr Katherine McDonald explains what makes our Postgraduate Teaching for MA students so unique. 🔗 Learn more on our website under 'information for offerholders': www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

010

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 08/09/2026

Why do Classics matter today? Durham's @profarlenehh.bsky.social co-hosted a House of Lords parliamentary reception celebrating the Humanities, launching three books and marking 75 years of A-Level Ancient History. Discover more 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... #DUInspire #DUResearch

1115

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

👏 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall, whose review of Jessica Clarke's 'A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre' recently appeared in the Times Literary Supplement! 🔗 www.the-tls.com/classics/the...

010

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

✨ Joining us in Sept? Now is the perfect time to #MeetTheStaff. 👉 Dr Giulia Bonasio is looking forward to teaching students who will take the module 'Ancient Philosophy and the Pursuit of Wisdom'. 🔗 Learn more on our website under 'information for offerholders': www.durham.ac.uk/.../undergra...

020

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🎉 The latest issue of 'Ostraka' is now online, the student journal run by our Classics Society! 👏 Congratulations to Indya Burke and her team on this fantastic publication. 🔗 www.ostrakajournal.co.uk/_files/ugd/f...

031

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✨ Joining us in September? Now is the perfect time to #MeetTheStaff. 👉 Dr Thea Sommerschield will be teaching you all our incoming students for 'Introduction to the Greek World'. 🔗 Learn more on our website under 'information for offerholders': www.durham.ac.uk/.../undergra...

030

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

⛵ Still not recovered from Odyssey-mania? No, neither have we! 🎙️ Dr George Gazis appeared on the 'Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan' podcast to discuss the poem behind Nolan's new tour de force. 🔗 www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

010

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

✨ Joining us in September? Now is the perfect time to #MeetTheStaff. 👉 Dr Chris de Lisle tells us about language teaching in the department. 🔗 Learn more on our website under 'information for offer holders': www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

030

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

👏 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose review of Rosa Andújar's 'Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy' recently appeared in the Times Literary Supplement! 🔗 www.the-tls.com/classics/gre...

010

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to all students receiving their A Level results today! 🎓 To those students holding offers from Durham Classics that are now confirmed - welcome! 👀 Keep checking back to this account in coming weeks. We'll give you lots of handy information about the Department before you join us.

050

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 12/08/2026

What do ginkgo trees and the humanities have in common?🍃🤔 The answer from @profarlenehh.bsky.social of @durhamclassics.bsky.social is part of a theme running through her new book, Humanities Forward. Read more here: ➡️ brnw.ch/21x4uqY @livunipress.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social

042

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🐴 Have we all seen 'The Odyssey'? 📣 Catch up with thoughts & comments by members of our department past & present! 👉 Dr Lucy Jackson: shorturl.at/WbwiI 👉 Prof. Edith Hall: shorturl.at/5FyuP 👉 Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson: www.facebook.com/share/v/1VYq... 👉 Dr Peter Swallow MP: shorturl.at/YtMCR

041

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Thea Sommerschield, who is part of a Google DeepMind team that has produced new AI-powered research tool designed to analyse ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. 🔗 Learn more: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

040

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🇬🇷 What a great time we had on our L2 study trip to Greece! 🏛️ Our students visited the Parthenon, Acropolis Museum, Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae and other sites and museums. Well done to all for surviving the July heat! 👏 Thank you to our trip leaders Dr Erica Bexley and Dr Michael Loy

091

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

💥 Congratulations to Dr Jacob Lollar, who has a new publication in the journal 'Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies'! 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/gr...

030

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, whose new book is published today: "Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century" 📖 This book brings together practitioners who have developed responses to the challenges facing the Humanities. 🔗 sl1nk.com/6zscd60

041

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 27/07/2026

📢'Don't let Christopher Nolan's #Odyssey be the end of your journey with Classics.'📢 @profarlenehh.bsky.social of @durhamclassics.bsky.social on the 'spectacular' rise of Classics in schools & her passion for widening access to these ancient stories. #DUinspire #DUresearch

051

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chris de Lisle and team, for the publication of new inscriptions on Attic Inscriptions Online! 👉 New: all decrees of the deme Teithras, Acharnais, as well as Athenian inscriptions relating to Roman emperors and the imperial cult 🔗 www.atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypub...

131

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

💥 Congratulations to Dr Michael Loy, who has a new publication in the journal 'Past and Present'! 👉 Dr Loy uses Agent-Based Modelling to argue that the early Greek economy became more organised much earlier than is generally thought. 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1093/past...

040

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🔎 Upcoming conference: The Domestic Dimension of Religious Conflict in the Ancient Mediterranean 📅📍 12–14 August | Bishop’s Dining Room, University College, Durham 🤝 Organised by Dr Karl Dahm and funded by the Leverhulme Trust 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

031

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Jacob Lollar, whose new book has recently been published: "Thekla in Syriac. The Acts of Thekla and Its Reception in Syriac Traditions" 🔗 www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/thek...

0113

Reposted by Durham Classics and Ancient History

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New on advance access: "Institutionalization and Market Integration in the Archaic Greek Economy: Modelling Overseas Trade from the Distribution Pattern of Samian Transport Amphoras" by Michael Loy (@durhamclassics.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

001

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🎉 We are very excited that Dr Candace Livingston (Anderson University) will join us for 9 months from September, having won a Fulbright-Durham University Scholar Award. 👉 Read the full announcement here: fulbright.org.uk/our-communit...

040

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🔎 Upcoming conference: Epigraphy, material culture, and social and religious history of the Roman Near East 📅📍 14 July | CL108, 38 North Bailey 🤝 Organised by Prof. Ted Kaizer and Dr Ilaria Bucci for @camne.bsky.social 🔗 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

040

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart, whose new book is published today: "A Grecian Lad: A.E. Housman & the Classics" 📖 This is the first book to bring together A.E. Housman's poetry and scholarship, revealing the deep connections between the two. 🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/grecian-l...

020

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Polly Low! 👏 Robin Waterfield's new translation of Thucydides, for which Prof. Low wrote an introduction, has just been shortlisted for the International Hellenic Prize 🤞 Fingers crossed for the next stage of the competition!

030

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Karl Dahm, who will start a position in September as Associate Lecturer at the University of Saint Andrews! 👉 Karl has been Leverhulme Early Career Fellow here in the department, working on the role of the Roman family and household in late antique church conflicts

050

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our academic staff members who have just been promoted! 👉 Dr Chris de Lisle to Associate Professor 👉 Dr Anna Judson to Associate Professor 👉 Prof. Phil Horky to Band 2 Professor 👉 Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson to Band 2 Professor 👏 Wonderful news, and very many congratulations

1161

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🎓 Warmest congratulations to all our students graduating today! 👏 We are very proud of what you have achieved here, and we hope you have very happy memories of studying with Durham Classics 🚀 All the best for your future, and please stay in touch with us!

040

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Ed Richardson on the publication of his new book 'Alexander: God, King, Man' 👉 Some reviews and media appearances: 🔗 www.thetimes.com/culture/book... 🔗 www.thetimes.com/culture/book... 🔗 spectator.com/podcast/alex... 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

030

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🎈 A great way to celebrate the end of term! 📚 Last week we hosted a fascinating workshop on 'Fragile Networks: Connection and Disconnection', organised by @camne.bsky.social 🙏 Thank you to all speakers & participants - particularly to those who braved the heat and travelled to Durham for the day!

010

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🇫🇷 For our followers in France... ⚔️ Prof. Edith Hall has contributed an expert interview to a new documentary on the Odyssey. 🔗 See the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCQ0...

041

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🤩💼 Even more good news this week: we have been ranked 85th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, up nine places from last year, and in the world top 50 for Employer Reputation 🔗 Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/discover/qs-world-university-rankings/

010

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today, AIO publishes Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 4.7, a volume by Peter Liddel and Polly Low. The new volume is available for free here: www.atticinscriptions.com/papers/aiuk-47 and full details here: www.atticinscriptions.com/browse/bypub...

052

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🎉 Hearty congratulations to former Durham student Dr Joe Watson, who has been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Warwick University. 📖 Dr Watson's Durham PhD thesis will be published soon with Cambridge University Press. 🤩 Very many congratulations to Dr Watson!

181

Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🤩 Durham is officially the BEST place to study Classics and Ancient History in the UK! 👉 In a recent survey from Unifresher we scored 98% on academic support, 92% teaching quality and the joint-highest graduate earnings in the field at £32,000 🔗 Read more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

081