Stunned that is the Catalogue of Ships they found

I have just learned that Petrarch, having 'discovered' the sole surviving complete mss of Catullus and Cicero Ad Atticum in Verona, then sat on them - and refused all requests for these manuscripts to be either circulated or copied. Then he died. At which point they could have disappeared. Really.

She was Editor of the Journal of Roman Studies, 1985-1990, President of the Roman Society, 1995-1998, and an Hon. Vice-President of the Roman Society.

It is with great sadness that the Roman Society has learned of the death of Professor Dame Averil Cameron, DBE, FBA, FSA. Professor of Ancient History (1978-89) and of Late Antique and Byzantine History (1989-1994) at King's College London, and then Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1994-2010).

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Heading to Salt Lake City to speak at ‘The Buried Library: Herculaneum Papyri and AI’ conference. Programme in the QR code below. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

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Gosh. Thanks for warning

👏 Very many congratulations to Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, who has been awarded the Gulbenkian Professorship in the Humanities!

💥 As part of this visiting professorship, Prof. Holmes-Henderson will spend part of next academic year at the University of Lisbon.

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💥 Congratulations to Prof. Edith Hall who last weekend received the International Hellenic Prize in Athens

🎭 Prof. Hall won the prize for her book 'Facing down the Furies', in which she turns to Greek Tragedies to seek wisdom in understanding the damage caused by suicide

🤩 Congratulations to our Classics researchers on winning the Outstanding Team Quality Award- Learner Facing at the annual national Outstanding Achievement Awards.

👉 The team, led by Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, won the award for the project they have delivered in prisons.

How v v interesting. At base he was A Contrarian. Finely tuned to say the opposite of what you expected. But I only knew Harry in his 60s.

Oh no. Sorry. Email Nick Lowe: he will know what the problem is

If copied and pasted from a Word doc, the Word doc sometimes contains enough coding to make the message too large for the server. So you may have to type it in manually…

Although to nitpick (how could I not?), I’m not sure “liberal centrist” is how I remember HD Jocelyn

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💥 Congratulations to Dr Giulia Bonasio, whose new collection of 'Perspectives on Wisdom' is published today!

👉 This volume explores the nature of wisdom by fostering a dialogue among different areas of ancient and contemporary philosophy .

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💥 Join us for our second masterclass this term from @camne.bsky.social

🏫 Prof. Andrew Meadows (Oxford), on Lycian coinage networks

📅 1:15pm, Thurs 19 Feb

📍 Dawson Building (Archaeology) D210

🎓 Want to find out about our MA Classics programme?

💥 Watch our new video from Prof. Ioannis Ziogas, Director of Taught MA Programmes, to learn more

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💥 Congratulations to Dr Erica Bexley, who has published a new novice reader to the Pseudo-Seneca's 'Octavia'!

👉 This companion volume combines detailed literary analysis with historical, cultural and theatrical knowledge.

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✍️ Call For participants! '(dh)2: Training the Next Generation of Digital Classicists'

📅 Mon 18 May

📚 Essential training on how to design, pitch, and write a successful postdoc project in Digital Classics

🔗 Learn more here: digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/

👏 ICYMI: Prof. Edith Hall and Prof. Arlene Holes-Henderson started the year in Manchester, training prison educators in the delivery of Aristotle’s ethics.

The picture is a screenshot of the abstract for a newly published book-chapter, titled "The 2nd/3rd Sg. Endings of the Future Passive Imperative in Latin".

Have you ever felt the urgent need to think more about the Latin future passive imperative? Probably not -- but this is in any case out now (and open-access)!

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31 January is also the deadline for applications to the Hugh Last and General funds. These support the undertaking, completion or publication of work that relates to any of the general scholarly purposes of the Roman Society.

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💥 Join us for this week's research seminar!

🏫 Martina Russo (La Sapienza) "Tiberius sagacissimus: A Reading of Tacitus’s Ann. 2.37-38"

📅 1pm, Weds 21 Jan

📍 CL108 / hybrid on Teams: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e2e27b...

Now available: Sidonius Apollinaris: Selected Letters
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💥 Congratulations to Dr Ilaria Bucci who, along with Prof. Rubina Raja and Dr Olympia Bobou, has written artefact features for the past four issues of 'Current World Archaeology'

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✨ We are so excited that 2026 will see us lead our first departmental study trip to Greece!

🎓 Alumni, find out more and learn how you can help support this fantastic new initiative: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

🏛️ L2 students, keep an eye on your e-mails for an info session coming very soon!

Our new online course: 'The Idea of Decline: Make Rome Great Again?' starts Wednesday 14th January!

This course looks at the idea of decline in the ancient world as a concept whose resonances echo right down to the present day.

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