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Not to be missed - our next research seminar with Prof. Anna Foka on “Reimagining Pausanias: Digital Methodologies for Ancient Cultural Geographies”, 12 March 2026 17:15-18:30 UK time, online only. All welcome!
TODAY: research seminar with Dr David Tandy on ‘Stumbling toward some new answers to old questions about Hesiod’, from 17:15 UK time online and on campus. All very welcome to attend!
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Prof. Anna Foka on “Reimagining Pausanias: Digital Methodologies for Ancient Cultural Geographies”, 12 March, 17:15-18:30 UK time, online only research seminar. All welcome to attend! Joining instructions in the thread.
For more on the Digital Periegesis project: nodegoat.abm.uu.se/viewer.p/5/4...
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Thursday: our next research seminar with Dr David Tandy on ‘Stumbling toward some new answers to old questions about Hesiod’, 5 March from 17:15 UK time online and on campus. All very welcome to attend!
Online joining instructions in the thread below. On campus venue: Michael Sadler 1.01.
Entries close soon for 'Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026' for Key Stage 3 students. This is a FREE outreach competition, which has run for over 70 years at Leeds! Entries close on 2 March. Find more information on the competition website: accessandoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/arts-and-hum...
Today: Our next research seminar (online only) with Dr Sara De Martin (Université de Lille, Institute of Classical Studies) on “Maxims and the Masses in the Empire: Some Intellectual Perspectives, and the Case of Mime" - please see below for details!
📣Registration now open for 'Rhetoric, drama and their critics: a symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath'!
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Our next seminar will be led by Dr Sara De Martin (Université de Lille, Institute of Classical Studies) on “Maxims and the Masses in the Empire: Some Intellectual Perspectives, and the Case of Mime". Join us on 26 February from 17:15 UK time online via Teams. All are welcome! Teams hyperlink below.
Today at 17:15 UK time: Travanti Tate on "Plato as Sociologist: eros and philia in the Symposium." Please see the thread below for details, including how to join online
Check out this piece co-written by Dr Samuel Gartland on 'The Trouble with Aristophanes' for the Antigone Journal:
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Today we remember our former colleague Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby whose funeral takes place this afternoon at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium.
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Photos of the Parkinson Building flag flying at half mast kindly provided by Dr Katherine Backler
I've just updated my 'Complete Guide to Essays in Ancient Greek Studies' for my @leedsclassics.bsky.social Greek Art and Society students, so I thought it was a good time to share it more widely! Please feel free to use or adapt it if you need to!
#ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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Travanti Tate is a Leeds distance learning doctoral candidate, living and working in the USA (where he's teaching part-time in Butte-Glenn Community College). We are very happy to be able to host this talk in hybrid form.
On campus venue: Michael Sadler 1.01, University of Leeds
Join us for our first research seminar of 2026 with Travanti Tate on "Plato as Sociologist: eros and philia in the Symposium."
Thursday 19 February 17:15 UK time in-person in Michael Sadler 1.01, and online via Teams (link in thread). All are very welcome to attend!
A tribute to Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby by Emma Stafford, Professor of Greek Culture:
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The funeral for our former colleague Professor Robert Maltby will take place at 14.30 on Thursday 12 February at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium (ME13 9HY).
For those unable to attend, the ceremony will be live-streamed:
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New MA in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social - now open for applications for a September 2026 start!
For more information and to apply, please visit:
courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...
For more information, please visit the competition website:
artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-subjects...
You can also access and download the Teacher Handbook here: artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
The competition is aimed at Key Stage 3 students and is a great opportunity to introduce Classics to school students already familiar with English, History and Drama, highlighting the links to their current subjects and developing their oracy/public speaking skills in an exciting way.
This FREE outreach Classics competition has run for over 70 years at the University of Leeds, and is a celebration of Classics, Reading and Performance.
Our 'Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026' is still open for Key Stage 3 students to enter! Entries will close on 2nd March 2026.
artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-subjects...