Trinity College Dublin Classics

22/07/2026

'Did Christopher Nolan get The Odyssey right? We ask some Irish Classicists.'
A good read with thoughts from Ashley Clements and Alastair Daly (both TCD Classics) and Evelien Bracke (Maynooth Classics).
https://www.thejournal.ie/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-homer-poem-classicists-7105544-Jul2026/?utm_source=shortlink

22/07/2026

And some more great images of our TCD participation in the Celtic Classics Conference recently hosted at Maynooth.
A session on 'Late Antique Microhistories' was co-organised by our colleague Rebecca Usherwood in collaboration with Nicola Holm (University of Warsaw). Congratulations to all!

21/07/2026

More news from the recent Celtic Classics conference organised by our colleagues at Maynooth.
👏 Congratulations to our TCD Classics colleagues who ran a panel on ‘Receptions of Homeric Scholarship in Antiquity' - organised by Lisa Doyle, Alexandra Mandela and Martine Cuypers. Other TCD speakers included Boris Kayachev and and Miguel Ângelo Andriolo Mangini.
They report that the panel was a great success and welcomed scholars from across the globe (U.S., U.K., Italy, Greece, Germany and Switzerland).
Ancient Classics Maynooth

17/07/2026

More Odyssey related posts!
🎧 RTE 1 Arena’s Rick O’Shea is joined by Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College Dublin who tells us how to read Homer's epic as Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens today in cinemas.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22629439/

17/07/2026

What a fabulous insight from our colleagues in the Chester Beatty into the reuse of papyrus - with some lines from Homer’s Odyssey.

17/07/2026

Warmest congratulations to our colleagues in Classics at Maynooth for organising a very successful and stimulating Celtic Classics conference this week.
Many TCD Classics staff, researchers (and alumni) spoke across numerous panels. Here are the speakers in the Roman Poetry and Philosophy panel, organised by Monica Gale (TCD) and Leah O’Hearn (Maynooth) - and with a plenary lecture by Monica on ‘Between philosophical action and lyric passion: desire, agency and the divine in Catullus, Cicero and Lucretius’. The panel also included talks from TCD researchers Nicolò Campodonico and Francesca Vitali, and alumni George Prekas and Donncha O'Rourke. Ancient Classics Maynooth

15/07/2026

📣 We are delighted to share our latest TCD Classics Hestia blog which was published yesterday to mark exactly 150 years since James Henry died.

'Trinity Polymath James Henry Died 150 Years Ago Today on 14 July 1876' written by Justin Tackett who will be joining Trinity in the Spring 2027 as a Hub Fellow.
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute TCD Alumni

A dispatch from the Library Company of Philadelphia Poetic giants populated nineteenth-century Dublin. Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, Felicia Hemans, Gerard Manley Hopkins — the list goes on. But woven into the same fabric was an eccentric polymath who remains one of Trinity’s best-kept secr...

13/07/2026

From Homer to Hollywood. Listen in to our colleague Alastair Daly on The Business, RTE Radio 1, talking about the enduring legacy of Homer's Odyssey ahead of the release of Nolan's Hollywood film.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22628949/

Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute TCD Alumni

02/07/2026

We are delighted to share the latest essay in our TCD Classics HESTIA blog. Many thanks to our postgraduate researcher Facundo Peirano Corrigedor for writing this wonderful piece on 'Gellius and his precedecessor, Borges'. Enjoy and please share on!
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute Research Ireland Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin

El propio Jorge Luis Borges, tal y como lo pude ser Aulo Gelio, es un vehículo no sólo para la lectura de sus propios textos, sino para la invitación a la lectura de autores acaso recónditos … (García Jurado 2000: 183) [1] . Jorge Luis Borges himself, just as Aulus Gellius could be, is a vehi...

27/06/2026

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New Heritage Project Launch!

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