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Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh -- around since 1583 in one form or another

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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Message for Edinburgh students planning to take beginner's Latin or Greek this year. (Not just first years -- you can do this in any year of your degree).
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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
You can find the contents here. There's a lot of it... (3/3) assets.cambridge.org/97811084/763...
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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Here is the programme, with contact details. Please come, even if only for a bit or for a drink at the end. (2/3)
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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
News from the Last Historians of Rome project!
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Lucy Grig @lucygrig.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Newish news: blog.oup.com/2025/05/from...
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From the new Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary
It is a real honour—and more than a little daunting—to take over from Tim Whitmarsh as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary. The first edition of the Dictionary appeared more than three ...
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The Hellenic Society @hellenicsociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
'Latin Literature in Late Antiquity, with Gavin Kelly' - podcast discussing issues in Greek literature also. 🏺
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Latin Literature in Late Antiquity, with Gavin Kelly - Medievalists.net
A conversation with Gavin Kelly about the corpus of Latin literature from antiquity down to the present, where we discuss the reasons why most scholars focus on the period before 200 AD, why late…
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Gavin Kelly @gavinkellylatin.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I was interviewed on Anthony Kaldellis' podcast Byzantium and Friends on Latin literature, esp. in late antiquity, and the periods we cut it up into. There's a bit about Greek literature too: byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/135-latin-...
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135. Latin literature in late antiquity, with Gavin Kelly | Byzantium & Friends
A conversation with Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) about the corpus of Latin literature from antiquity down to the present, where we discuss the reasons why most scholars focus on the period be...
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Last public talk of the semester tonight! 5.10pm on 27 November in the Meadows LT, Dr Antony Lee (National Museum of Scotland), addresses the CAS (Edinburgh and South East centre) on "Whose gods are they anyway? Romano-British religion and museum displays".
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
At 5.10pm today, Wednesday 20 November, in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Dr Jutta Stroszeck (DAI Athens) gives a Charles Gordon Mackay lecture: About the discovery of Paian’s Oracle in the Athenian Kerameikos. Do come... and also to the sequel tomorrow:
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Double bill seminar this afternoon at 2.10pm in Chrystal McMillan Seminar room 5: Roberta Leotta on Embodied experiences and jealousy metaphors in Latin and Yolanda Panou on Representations of filicide on the tragic stage. All most welcome! Contact Janja Soldo for a Teams link.
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Today, Wednesday 22 November, Catharine Edwards (@CatharineEdwa) from Birkbeck University will speak to the seminar on 'Breathing freely: mind, body and personal identity in Seneca’s philosophical writing' (Meadows LT, 5.10pm). Contact Janja Soldo if you want a Teams link.
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Departmental Research seminar meets today, Wednesday 15 November. Martin Henig (Oxford) will speak on 'Tiberius Claudius Togidubnus, Rex Magnus Britanniae, a client king and his achievements in the first century AD'. 5.10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre; all welcome; for Teams link write to Janja Soldo.
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Edinburgh Classics @edinclassics.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Today's Classics research seminar (Wed. 8 November): at 5.10pm in Meadows Lecture Theatre, Ingvar Brandvik Mæhle (Bergen): 'Patronage, exploitation and honour in Archaic Athens'. In person only this time. He'll also give a seminar Thursday afternoon -- contact Mirko Canevaro for details.
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Tim Whitmarsh @twhittermarsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Fancy a Friday-night treat? Douglas Cairns' brand new article on emotions in classical literature — a tour de force — is now free on the Oxford Classical Dictionary website. We're planning to follow up with a linked series on individual emotions. oxfordre.com/classics/dis...
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