Red figure vase showing a torch race

📣🗓️ 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.

Find out about us and our undergraduate programmes on our website: www.tcd.ie/classics/und...
or listen to some short talks: www.tcd.ie/openday/unde...

Poster for degree in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at Trinity College Dublin

Campanile at Trinity College Dublin

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

For the programme of speakers: www.tcd.ie/classics/ass...
And more on Boris’ research which is funded by the IRC-SFI Pathway Programme (Taighde Eireann - Research Ireland): www.tcd.ie/classics/peo...
@researchireland.ie 2/2

👏 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

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...

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 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

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...

(689) Oldest public museum- Capitoline Museums! - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMHI...

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,...

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...

We were delighted to collaborate with you! Some images from the first day in Trinity.

Interweaving archival material from excavations with captivating personal testimonies, Skammata presents momentous events that marked Cypriot archaeology, before and after the tragic summer of 1974.’
Trailer: youtu.be/BJGNA5194zQ 3/3

‘Fifty years after the coup d’etat and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, foreign and Cypriot archaeologists along with retired staff members of the Department of Antiquities, evoke their personal memories, as they reflect on the collective trauma of war and its consequences on Cypriot archaeology. 2/3

Poster for the film Skammata

📣 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

Poster advertising keynote lecture by Prof Charlotte Roueché 'Words, Places & Texts' on Monday 26 May (Emmet Theatre, TCD) at 12.30.

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!

1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea where fierce rivalries, power struggles, and
a war of words shaped the future of Christianity. With Dr. Rebecca Usherwood TCD, Kieran O’Mahony Milltown Institute and Diarmaid MacCulloch Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. 2/2

🎧 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 - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists have uncovered ancient paintings in Villa Cuomo, Italy, depicting Roman wine harvesting linked to Dionysus rituals.

Ancient Paintings of Wine Harvesting Discovered in Villa Cuomo, Italy.

🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

greekreporter.com/2025/03/07/a...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Trinity College Dublin Classics Dept. Research Seminar - 'Subaltern Scripts'. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the mee... (in person and Zoom) Edith Hall (Durham University) "Classical Greeks Scripting Slavery in Two Lead Letters from Berezan and Athens"

The in-person seminars will take place in the TCD Classics Seminar room (Arts Building, B6002)

Please use this link to register for the series tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Contact kahanea@tcd.ie with any enquiries

📣🗓️ 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’