Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol

02/10/2025

Dear all,

Bristol's Classics & Ancient History will no longer use this Facebook account, but you can still find us in Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/bristol_clah/🙌🙌🙌

25/09/2025

Excellent opportunity for UoB students and for event proposals from UoB staff and PGRs!

📢 CALL FOR BIDS OPEN 📢

Deadline: October 27th

The IGRCT is accepting applications for travel bursaries from UoB students and for event proposals from UoB staff and PGRs. Please see our website for more information: https://igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/funding/

More information:

Travel bursaries: https://uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-igrct/EY2D_hSbNtpCpjMO3gPhcvUBIlRHNudYQs4hUYK4NPkmQA
Event proposals: https://uob.sharepoint.com/:w:/t/grp-igrct/EcMGBqkj1LNBqStLPWULcloB3FT4BDImlbxuTf6ZsbifYg

16/09/2025

Book launch announcement!

The IGRCT is holding a book launch lecture and reception for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by our wonderful colleague Dr Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and Prof. Edith Hall. The event is open to all, and will consist of a talk by Prof. Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway), followed by a drinks reception.

📣 IMPORTANT! EVENT TIME CHANGE 📣
The book launch will now take place between 5PM and 7PM.

The IGRCT is holding a book launch lecture and reception for the volume "Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature", edited by Bristol CLAH colleague Dr Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and Prof. Edith Hall (Durham). The event is open to all, and will consist of a talk by Prof. Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway), followed by a drinks reception.

🎟️ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theinstituteofgreeceromeandtheclassicaltradition/1855373
⏰5PM-7PM, October 8th.
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol. BS8 1SS.

The volume fuses three concepts and associated approaches to ancient literature that have never been applied together at the same time: ideas of time, grammatical tense, and literary genre, thus providing a significant new approach to ancient Greek literature by throwing fresh light on one of its most important preoccupations.

06/09/2024

Did you ever think we need more Euripides in your life? Well good news! The first edition of a new Euripides papyrus fragment has now been published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik and the proceedings of the conference held at the Center for Hellenic Studies will be coming out shortly, featuring the work of two of our colleagues, Prof Patrick Finglass and Dr Lyndsay Coo!

Find out more:

On June 13 and 14, 2024, the Center for Hellenic Studies hosted 15 scholars from across the globe to compare their research on one of the most significant discoveries in Greek tragedy in nearly 60 years.

18/07/2024

We are enormously proud of our Chair of Ancient History, Professor Esther Eidinow, who has been elected Fellow to the British Academy. Warm congratulations, Esther! 😍

06/06/2024

*Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler* by Professor Mario Telò (UC Berkeley) has just been published in our colleague Laura Jansen's series, Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. Huge congratulations to Mario on his important book, which includes an interview with Butler. The book also marks the 10th monograph in this series! 🥳
Bloomsbury Academic Mario Telò

03/06/2024

Don’t miss the upcoming performances of our students’ incredible version of Sophocles’ Antigone, which is on this week!

24/05/2024

Job opportunity at Bristol Classics & Ancient History! For further details, please see here:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=347336&jobTitle=Lecturer%20in%20Classics%20and%20Ancient%20History

19/04/2024

COMING UP: on 9th May Professor Helen King (The Open University) will deliver a talk titled "Roman Women: The Power of the Body".

Register for this event here: https://buff.ly/3JnBmWb

In the Classical world, women’s bodies were sometimes imagined to be very different from those of men, but could also be seen as similar in their composition even if not quite as good as male bodies. In either case, the materials of the female body were thought to hold special powers. In this talk I shall consider the basic theories put forward in medical writings about the body, and then consider the different ways in which both magic and medicine suggested that women's bodies were powerful. I shall focus on milk and blood as important fluids and shall revisit stories in which even the sight of the naked female body could stop men – or insects! – in their tracks.

Entry is FREE for CA members and university and school students. Non-members will be asked to contribute £5 on the night. Arrival and refreshments from 6:45pm.

Professor Helen King (The Open University) will give a talk for the Bristol Classical Associations’s 2023-2024 speaker series.

18/04/2024

THIS THURSDAY (April 18th, 5pm) come down to the Peel Lecture Theatre to hear Professor Stephanie McCarter talk about her recent translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' (Penguin 2022) - the first female translation of the epic into English in 60+ years!

Upcoming Event!
⏰5pm, 18th April
📍Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol

THIS THURSDAY (April 18th, 5pm) come down to the Peel Lecture Theatre to hear Professor Stephanie McCarter talk about her recent translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' (Penguin 2022) - the first female translation of the epic into English in 60+ years!

All welcome! A free wine reception will follow the lecture.

Book here and don't miss out on this exciting event!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theinstituteofgreeceromeandtheclassicaltradition/1202347

12/03/2024

Don’t forget to join us today for our research seminar in the hums research space at 3.30: Dr. Hannah-Marie Chidwick will be speaking on: ‘Alcohol (mis)use as disabling in the Roman army.’

07/03/2024

Coming soon: We will be hosting an exciting roundtable discussion about the past, present, and future of ancient satire on the 20th March with Andy Zaltzman and Rosie Holt! Limited availability for tickets (which are free) so book now:

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