Before and after. Our students Elijah, Elise, Evie, Maya and Max started Honour Moderations a week ago last Monday. Ten three-hour papers later, they are done. Many congratulations to them all.
St Anne's Classicist Alice Braim (on the left with fellow singer Iris from St Catz) was part of a terrific a cappella concert tonight starring the Oxford Belles, Out of the Blue, and the visiting UVA Virginia Gentlemen. Congratulations to all involved!
St Anne's Classics Junior Year Abroad student Lilly Baumfeld had her mom pitch-side this morning as she helped the Oxford Women's Lacrosse second team record a memorable 9-8 win over Cambridge. Prof. Leigh and Poppit went along to offer their support.
Dear Carlos, Try following @classicsatstannes.bsky.social for some unfairly neglected and very fine dog photos.
The evidence suggests that Poppit thoroughly enjoyed St Anne's JCR welfare puppy petting this afternoon. We knew that she was distantly related to a wolf, but maybe an otter as well?
Last night brought our termly Lockdown Translations Unlocked evening of creative translations. Here are just some of those who featured. Many thanks to Dr Francesca Beretta for organising a great event and all those who contributed.
It might be helpful to ask a St Anne's tutor to interview these two villains about their role in undermining undergraduate education. Skills and understanding have to be achieved the slow way, through genuine learning and in a relationship of trust between tutor and student.
Tears for Liverpool when we thought that you had signed for PSG Femmes? Spare a thought for Exeter City who yesterday left Erling Haaland so impotent that he was substituted at the break.
🐈⬛🎅On the fifth day before Christmas, we spotted one of the College cats wearing a curiously Christmassy hat...
#ChristmasCountdown
Poppit has made it onto the St Anne's Christmas Countdown!! She is thrilled.
Maccu. A Sicilian fava bean soup of which Prof. Leigh learned in Goliarda Sapienza's 'The Art of Joy'. The name is optimistically linked to Maccus, the gourmand of Atellane farce.
We are thinking today of all at Brown University, an institution with which the Classics School has many strong and loving ties. Last night's shooting has come as a terrible shock.
Poppit the Classics School dog is getting into the festive spirit and wishes all her fans the very best.
What do you do when it's the last week of term and one of your students arrives with a very substantial helmet?
Here are just some of the teaching and research staff in the St Anne's Classics School: Dr Andy Reyes, Prof. Matthew Leigh, Dr Francesca Beretta, and Graduate Development Scholar Eve Harrington.
We took the annual St Anne's Classics School photograph today. The sun was low but at least it made an appearance. As did Poppit the dog.
It was Junior Common Room puppy petting today, so Poppit the dog went through her full beauty routine last night. Here she is after her bath but before the hairbrush struck.
In the name of embodied research, first year St Anne's students Harvey (Pentheus), Alice (Cadmus), and Hannah (Tiresias) made their own translation of Bacchae 170-370 and performed it for a select audience (Prof. Leigh). We then discussed what this revelatory experience had taught us.
One member of the St Anne's Classics School, Prof. Leigh, first visited Penbryn as a baby and has been going back for every one of the last 58 years, but he never knew about the Penbryn Spoons. Many thanks, Alison!
The new St Anne's Classics undergraduates are here and coming for their first meeting with tutors at 2.30 p.m. Our welfare assistant looks forward to assisting them in their studies.
We feel your pain. In less exalted regions of the football league, Exeter City secured a 93rd minute winner at Lincoln.
Prof. Leigh was the guest of a very full meeting of Hull Classical Association yesterday evening as he lectured on Aeneid 2. Thank you for all the excellent questions and for a really happy and stimulating time.
Wonderful to see that St Anne's Classics alumna, Miriam Kamil, is now Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University. We hope very much to have her visit us again in the near future.
classics.stanford.edu/people/miria...
Many congratulations to our former Gradual Development Scholar, Dr Laura Loporcaro, who has been awarded the Conington Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford University for 2021-2025. Laura currently hold a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ghent.
Great to see a St Anne's alumna entering on a distinguished career and with a first book to her name.
classics.columbia.edu/martina-russo
Some faces from Oscata, the very isolated home village of the great Latinist Antonio La Penna. This week Prof. Leigh was honoured to address a conference in nearby Bisaccia dedicated to Prof. La Penna's famous essay on the paradoxical portrait. Many thanks to all those who made this event possible.
The Darwin-Dohrn Stazione Zoologica and Museum in Naples contains this 1837 sketch by Darwin of the gradual separation of species of coral. To a Classicist it looks rather like a stemma illustrating the manuscript tradition of an ancient work. Lachmann's edition of Lucretius was published in 1850.
Prof. Leigh is a regular in the slow lane at Oxford University's Rosenblatt Pool. It was a surprise this morning to share the water with double Olympic champion Adam Peaty. This was about as close as he will come to seeing the serpents cutting across the sea towards Laocoon.
Poppit the dog has just had her first ever visit to the groomer. Feel free to reassure her that her beauty is undiminished.
Many thanks to Dr Emily Hayes for a wonderful supper last night for new friends and old. Pictured: Dr Katz, Alec Tiller, Maximus Ankrah, Prof. Leigh. Alec and Maximus are visiting St Anne's from Virginia Military Institute. Maximus got his name after his father saw a certain Russell Crowe movie.
