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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the next Money and Medals Network online talks is tomorrow, 12.30-1.30pm BST! Wendy Scott, from the British Museum, will be talking about Identifying Late SaxonN Pennies, 978-1066. Sign up below! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Look whom we met in Maynooth, at the Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC): Christopher Farrell, co-editor of the Brill Companion to the Reception of Xenophon. The book is one of the highlights on our display table. www.degruyterbrill.com/.../isbn/978... brill.com/display/titl...

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De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

☘️ Maynooth, here we come! If you'll be at the Celtic Conference in Classics too: stop by the De Gruyter Brill booth, have a chat with our editors Mirjam and Carlo, and discover our latest publications. The newest Brill’s Companions will be there too! 📚 #CCC2026

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Mairi Gkikaki @greeknumismatics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@ancient-tokens.bsky.social #numismatics #tokens A whole website dedicated to the tokens (anc. gr. symbola) of Classical Athens and anything related to it .... tokensofathens.com Happy to hear your comments!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We are offering two great initiatives for humanities and social sciences researchers interested in applying to Horizon Europe. On 1st June we are holding an ERC Reading Day where you can read previously successful ERC grant proposals from a selection of 50 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/eur...

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Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I had a great time presenting at the @ca2026.bsky.social in Manchester this past weekend. It is always a wonderful place to meet new people while reconnecting with others. Hopefully until next year in London. #CA2026

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Maynooth Classics @muclassics.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Tempus fugit. And like that, #CCC2026 is almost upon us. @muahi.bsky.social, July 14-17 We shall try to follow our wonderful hosts @ucoimbra.bsky.social, though we cannot promise Coimbra sunshine. Details of #CCC2026 - 28 specialist panels and 350+ participants - at: cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io

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CCC 2026 at Maynooth Uni.

Host site for the 2026 Celtic Conference in Classics, at Maynooth University

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Maynooth Classics @muclassics.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

📣The registration page for the 2026 Celtic Conference in Classics is now live! shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap... Explore the 2026 Conference webpage here⬇️ cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io

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The Edward Worth Library, Dublin @edwardworthlib.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Worth Library's Research Fellowships for 2026 have just been advertised. Find out more at edwardworthlibrary.ie/research-fel... Please repost! @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @cerl-community.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @harvard.edu

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UCD School of Classics @ucdclassics.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Fantastic opportunity to take up!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Syllogos - Herodotus Journal Vol. 4 (2025) journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/sy... #openaccesss @herodotushelpline.bsky.social @janhaywood.bsky.social

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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 27/12/2025

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

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Xeirographa

A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

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UCD School of Classics @ucdclassics.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Funding from the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens to support research trips to Greece for students doing an undergraduate, MA or PhD thesis! Up to four bursaries, each of a value of €1000 are available for 2026! www.iihsa.ie/news/ason-ob... Closing date of January 23rd 2026

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Jason O’Brien Travel Bursaries & Greek Irish Society Travel Bursary 2026 — IIHSA

The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens (IIHSA) invites applications by students from Irish universities for the 2026 travel bursaries to Greece. Up to four bursaries are available to the va...

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Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

WE'RE HIRING!!! universityvacancies.com/university-c...

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Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🏛️ Join us at UCD next academic year to take our MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology. Expert teaching and supervision from across our Schools of Archaeology and Classics. Work first hand with ancient materials in our Classical Museum.📝 Registration opens in January. tinyurl.com/34r5w8pn

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Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Made some beautiful soap coins for the opening of the Numismatische Sammlung Heidelberg #ancientnumismatics #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesly

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

One object at the #BritishMuseum that never fails to enthrall people is this Achaemenid Persian gold model chariot, part of the Oxus Treasure. I love the guy sitting sideways on a bench wearing a kandys coat. Zoom in for the details! 🏺 1/ 5th-4th c. BCE, Tajikistan. 📸 me

Model of a gold chariot drawn by four horses abreast. At the front of the cab are two diagonal bracing struts with a head of the Egyptian god Bes at the intersection. The two large wheels each have nine spokes, and the running surfaces are studded with small pellets to represent the bulbous heads of large stud-like nails which in the full-size original would have secured a tyre and felloe-sheathing of bronze. The main human figure in the cab is seated on a bench; he wears a long robe reaching to the ankles, the sleeves of which appear to be empty like those of the kandys (a three-quarter length leather or thick wool Persian coat). On his head is a hood or cap, around the front of which is a flat strip of gold, resembling a fillet, and around his neck is a gold wire torc. The driver wears a similar cap without a fillet, a short girded tunic and a wire torc; his legs are also formed of wires. The two human figures are fixed to the chariot by wires.

The chariot is pulled via a pair of draught-poles fixed to four horses under a single four-bay yoke. On the yoke, above each horse, is a large loop, representing the terrets, through which the wire reins pass; alternating with these loops were originally four crescentic fan-shaped yoke ornaments. The chariot is pulled via a pair of draught-poles fixed to four horses under a single four-bay yoke. On the yoke, above each horse, is a large loop, representing the terrets, through which the wire reins pass; alternating with these loops were originally four crescentic fan-shaped yoke ornaments. The bits have large rings at the sides as rein attachments, and each animal has duplicate representations of the neck-strap and backing-element, the former with a pendant tassel, punched into the metal. Only nine of the original sixteen legs of the horses survive.

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UCD School of Classics @ucdclassics.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Why not have a listen to one of our Access Classics podcasts? Spend your lunch time learning all about Pompeii! soundcloud.com/user-8472535...

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Listen to Pompeii by AccessClassics #np on #SoundCloud

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever 🌸🍂 In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers! brill.com/display/titl... #EarlyModern

Book cover with a dark green floral patterned background. Title: “Everlasting Flowers between the Pages: The Making of Seventeenth-Century Florilegia” by Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen, published by Brill in the series “Emergence of Natural History 9.” The cover illustration shows several varieties of red and pink anemones, taken from Franciscus de Geest’s Jardin de rares et curieux fleurs, second half of the seventeenth century (Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA).

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CA 2026 @ca2026.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

📢Announcing the hosts of #CA2026 @manchester.ac.uk @manmetuni.bsky.social The CA Conference brings together everyone with an interest in the ancient world, from across the 🌎. See you in Manchester! We are delighted to be opening the call for Contributions from now until 15 September- link in bio.

The Classical Association are delighted to announce the hosts for the 2026 CA Conference: The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. The Conference will take place on the 10th to the 12th of April 2026. The call for papers is now open until September 2025. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

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CA 2026 @ca2026.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

✨We are excited to announce our new President - Michael Wood, Professor of Public History @manchester.ac.uk. He will be delivering his keynote address for us at the CA conference on Saturday 11 April! Read more about Michael’s work here: classicalassociation.org/governance/c... #CA2026

The Classical Association are excited to announce Michael Wood as their new honorary president. He will be delivering his keynote lecture on Saturday 11 April at the annual CA conference 2026. The conference will be hosted by The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.

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Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I had a wonderful time presenting at my first conference. Including brilliant talks, fantastic weather, great food, and meeting lovely people. I hope to be back next year! #CA2025 @cascotland.bsky.social

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Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Very excited to present on Herodotus' Flying Snakes at the Classical Association Conference in St. Andrews!

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Nora White @ndefaoite.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Last chance to sign up for this free, hands-on, introductory workshop utilising digital tools to record ancient & medieval inscriptions - happening next Monday to Wednesday! @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie

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Herodotus Helpline @herodotushelpline.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Newly published on the Herodotus Helpline website: Jessica Priestley offers a rich response to the question 'What is the origin of the tenuous claim that Herodotus may have died in Pella as the guest of King Archelaus I of Macedonia?' herodotushelpline.org/what-is-the-... #Herodotus #AsktheHelpline

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How to spell Herodotus?

Answer by Christine Plastow Hello! You’ve reached the Herodotus Helpline. I hear you’re encountering problems with how to spell the name ‘Herodotus’. Don’t worry, I’ll be happy to help. Please try …

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British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The background to monetary production was explored through a trip to the mining district of Lavrion. Thanks to @ancient-tokens.bsky.social Clare Rowan and Mairi Gkikaki for leading the course and to all the participants who joined us!

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British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The biannual BSA course in Greek numismatics was held in March 2025. Students learnt about all aspects of ancient Greek coinage, enjoying the use of the coin collection of the BSA, as well as the coin collections housed in ASCSA, the Agora, the Numismatic Museum and the Bank of Greece.

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UCD School of Classics @ucdclassics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The UCD Classical Society Inaugural Lecture is mere days away! Join us this Friday at 7pm in the UCD Village for a fantastic lecture by Prof. Rebecca Sweetman! A reception will follow. All welcome! Click below to register. @UCDALUMNI www.eventbrite.ie/e/ucd-classi...

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UCD Classical Society Inaugural Lecture

Prof. Rebecca Sweetman, "Women Travellers in the Mediterranean: Irish and British Women and their Late Antique Predecessors"

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Herodotus Helpline @herodotushelpline.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Herodotus Helpline's YouTube channel includes more than 100 research talks hosted over the last five years. Just click subscribe to stay up-to-date as talks from the spring/summer 2025 series are added! www.youtube.com/HerodotusHel... @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

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Herodotus Helpline

Specialist talks on all aspects of Herodotus and his world, readings from Herodotus' Histories, quirky videos, and much more to come from the Herodotus Helpline. To 'Ask the Helpline' a question on an...

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Herodotus Helpline @herodotushelpline.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The Herodotus Helpline is delighted to share details of its spring/summer 2025 edition of talks! All talks are freely open to everybody. Just register at herodotushelpline@gmail.com #Herodotus @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

Programme of talks for the April-June 2025 Herodotus Helpline series:
2 April Tom Harrison (British Museum)
Divinity and History – 25 years on

30 April Ian Oliver (Regis)
Audiences of Herodotus

14 May Round-table: Teaching Herodotus

28 May Matteo Zaccarini (Bologna/Ravenna)
Herodotus’ women

11 June Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford)
Herodotus in Context – 25 years on

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British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Numismatics Course 2025 For the past two weeks, the participants of this year's course have been led through a chronological survey of Greek coinage. Thank you to course directors Claire Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social and Mairi Gkikaki!

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Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I am giving my first academic paper based on my MA thesis at Durham! Feel free to attend online or in-person www.eventbrite.ie/e/herodotus-...

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Herodotus and the Persians

Herodotus’ Persians: Cambyses’ Paranomia and the Ends of the World (Classical Association of Ireland Dublin Branch Lecture)

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

#ResearchTraining The ICS are offering two free, online semi-intensive courses in #Phoenician from 15 April - 26 April. Elementary level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Applications close on 22 March

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Intermediate Phoenician and Punic – Inscriptions

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Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

HYBRID SEMINAR 🔮 Mad, Blind, Stupid: Lucan’s Traumatic Future 🔮 📅 Wed. March 5 📍 UCD Newman E115 & Online 🔗 Register: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Lucan’s Pharsalia explores prophecy through oracles, witches & philosophers. This talk considers trauma theory, prophecy & death. 🎤 Oisin Parsons (UCD)

Painted image of the imagined Oracle of Delphi

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Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Come work with us! 🚨 Job Opportunity: Ad Astra Fellow @UCD School of Classics / School of Art History and Cultural Policy !!! 🚨 CORRECTED APPLICATION DEADLINE - March 3!! 📍 Specializing in Digital Technologies & Antiquity 💼 Salary: €62,855–€99,533 👉 Apply now: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

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Digital Humanities Research Hub @dh-researchhub.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Our colleagues at the School of Advanced Study have put together an amazing dataset that maps the the UK’s diverse arts & humanities research ecosystems! www.humanities.org.uk/map 🗺️ Want to be on the map? Get in touch: mapping@sas.ac.uk

A person is a suit writing on a world map with the words "Mapping the Arts and Humanities in the United Kingdom" written across the map. There is a URL for humanities.org.uk in the bottom right corner.

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Conor Trainor @drconortrainor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

📢 ONLINE UCD CLASSICS SEMINAR 🚢 🔎 Roman Crews: The Faceless Force of the First Punic War 📅 Wed, Feb 12 | 3 PM (Dublin) 🎤 Dr. Daniela Dantas (University of Lisbon) - Discover the untold story of the rowers, sailors, and warriors who shaped history! Register now: ucd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Naval scene from an ancient fresco involving two Roman ships beside each other.

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