📣🗓️ Feb 18, 2026 @ 5.30 pm Andrzej Chankowski (Poitiers) Torch Races in Athens of the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE: Religious Rite, Civic Ideology, Educational Institution TCD Classics Seminar room (Arts Building, B6002) & Zoom - tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/91006615011 Contact kahanea@tcd.ie with any enquiries.
We are delighted to share our full schedule of research seminars this term. Please do join us in person in our Classics seminar room or over Zoom.
We are looking forward to meeting prospective students and their families next Saturday 29th November at the Trinity Open Day. You can meet us (and our lovely students) at our stand in the Dining Hall, and hear our Classics talk at 11.50 am in the Emmet Theatre, Arts Building.
Warmest congratulations to our TCD student Anna Sofia Scheele shown here receiving her certificate as Regional Winner of the Classical Studies & Archaeology category of the Global Undergraduate Awards, at the GUA summit in Dublin. 👏🎉
📣📣 TCD Classics research seminar, online Wed November 19, 2025 @ 5.30 pm Gregory Anderson (Ohio State University) ‘Athens in a World of Many Worlds: Comparative History Reimagined.’ Join us online, register tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262 @osuhistory.bsky.social
Our next TCD Classics Research seminar (hybrid) November 5, 2025 @ 5.30 pm Maria Mili (University of Glasgow) 'Who was the Thessalian goddess Ennodia? Variations in the Thessalian Pantheon.' All welcome: Classics Seminar Room (B6002) or online Zoom link: tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262
📣 TCD Classics Research Seminar October 15, 2025, 5.30 pm Amy O’Keeffe (TCD) Heads or Tales: Cranial Modification in Ancient Cyprus & Mia Pancotti (TCD) Breaking and Regathering Alphabetic Ensembles: the Materiality of Reading in Classical Greece Hybrid: Arts B6002 & tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262
We are delighted to start our TCD Classics Research Seminar series next week. All welcome - join us in person in B6002 or online (link below) Oct 1, 2025 Cilian O’Hogan (University of Toronto) Fifth-foot spondees in later Latin poetry Zoom link for series: tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262
📣🗓️ TCD Classics Research Seminar programme for the coming term - Michaelmas 2025. All welcome.
We are delighted to offer extramural classes in modern Greek for both beginners and post-beginners. 🇬🇷 Find out more and register: histories-humanities.tcd.ie/shortcourses #moderngreek
👏 Warmest congratulations to our colleague Boris Kayachev on a very successful workshop, co-organised with Anna Chahoud, on ‘Poetry, Prosody and Pragmatics: Linguistic insights from/on verse in Indo-European traditions’, June 19-20 in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. 1/2
We are delighted to share our latest Hestia blog by our colleague Ashley Clements - he asks us ‘Why do you think you have potential? On living in the shadow of Aristotle, crises, and the events that define you’. Enjoy! hestia-blog.squarespace.com/blog/why-do-...
Why do you think you have potential? On living in the shadow of Aristotle, crises, and the events that define you — Hestia Blog
Here’s a telling difference between history and anthropology that reveals something odd about your understanding of your own life and its possibilities, and in the process, also exposes some of the Cl...
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As we celebrate Bloomsday, TCD Classics researcher Alastair Daly writes about ‘Why is there so much Latin in Ulysses?’ for RTE Brainstorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why is there so much Latin in Ulysses?
The language, the way it was taught and references to Latin literature are constants throughout James Joyce's work
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(689) Oldest public museum- Capitoline Museums! - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMHI...
Oldest public museum- Capitoline Museums!
YouTube video by Ancient Rome Live
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We are delighted to share our latest Hestia blog from Brian Cluyse, one of our Classics research students, on the topic "Preserving Purity: Atticism and the power of linguistic norms in antiquity". hestia-blog.squarespace.com/blog/preserv...
Preserving Purity: Atticism and the Power of Linguistic Norms in Antiquity — Hestia Blog
From the Oxford comma to split infinitives, debates over language usage are anything but new. We are often told that certain forms are wrong—don’t say ain’t, never end a sentence with a preposition,...
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📣 The first public showing in Ireland of the unique documentary 'Skammata', produced by the Cypriot Department of Antiquities and directed by Danae Stylianou. All welcome 📍Trinity Arts Building, Room 2041A: Jonathan Swift Theatre 🗓️ 29 May 2025, 19.00-20.30 The film includes English subtitles. 1/3
We have two fantastic keynote lectures lined up as part of our Digital Epigraphy Workshop (few places left: www.eventbrite.ie/e/epidoc-and...)! The first is by Prof Charlotte Roueché (King's College London) on Mon 26 May at 12.30 hosted by @tcdclassics.bsky.social All welcome - no booking required!
🎧 Our colleague Rebecca Usherwood discussing the Nicene creed on RTE 1 ‘Our Divine Sparks’ with Dearbhail McDonald. 1/2 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
📣 Our last research seminar of this term in our very stimulating Subaltern Scripts series. April 9 2025 at 5.30 pm (by Zoom) Candida Moss (University of Birmingham) Stenographic Escape: Textual Accommodations and Shorthand Please register here to join: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📣 Our next TCD Classics research seminar 🗓️ March 26 2025 @ 5.30 pm (in person only in the Classics seminar room) Andrew Laird (Brown University) ‘From Roman Letters to Aztec Writing: Latin Grammar and Alphabetization in a Colonial World’ All welcome
📣TCD Classics Research Seminar 🗓️ Wednesday March 12, 2025 @ 17.30 (please note this in person only) Ella Kirch (Christ’s College, Cambridge University) ‘They Write Fast, but Have No Intellect’: Shorthand and Its Victims in the Later Roman World” All welcome!
Ancient Paintings of Wine Harvesting Discovered in Villa Cuomo, Italy. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekreporter.com/2025/03/07/a...
Ancient Paintings of Wine Harvesting Discovered in Villa Cuomo, Italy - GreekReporter.com
Archaeologists have uncovered ancient paintings in Villa Cuomo, Italy, depicting Roman wine harvesting linked to Dionysus rituals.
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📣🗓️ TCD Classics research seminar, double bill Wed 19 Feb 2025 @5.30 pm (hybrid) Yuan He (TCD) Reconsidering Josephus' Relationship with His Readers in Bellum Judaicum 1.1-16 & Samantha Sink (TCD) Where to Draw the Line? Conceptual Boundary Lines and Theoretical Practices in Eratosthenes’
Our students learning Modern Greek enjoying the Greek tradition of cutting the Vasilopita (New Year’s cake) - organised by their teacher Aimilia Kirtsiou.
We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Michael Longley, one of our Department’s most illustrious alumni. May he rest in peace. We publish this piece, kindly written by Prof Stephen Harrison, in Michael’s memory. hestia-blog.squarespace.com/blog/in-memo...
In Memoriam: Michael Longley (1939-2025) — Hestia Blog
On behalf of the TCD Department of Classics we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family of Michael Longley, one of our Department’s most illustrious alumni . May he rest in p...
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Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens | Greece | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens
Work that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
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📣🗓️ 5 February 2025 (in person and Zoom) @ 17.30 We are delighted to welcome Edith Hall (Durham University) ‘Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens.’ Please join us for this term’s research seminar series which is on the theme of Subaltern Scripts. 1/2
Our colleague Rebecca Usherwood talking to Newsweek about the significance of this spectacular find of late Roman gold coins. www.newsweek.com/rare-roman-g...
Rare Roman Gold Coins Worth $322,000 Found in Luxembourg
A hoard of Roman coins dating from the Fourth century and covering the reign of nine emperors has been found in northern Luxembourg
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📣 Please join us for this term’s research seminar series which is on the theme of Subaltern Scripts. Weds @ 17.30 pm Full details below. All welcome! Please use this link to register for the series tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
