Edinburgh Classics

Department of Classics at University of Edinburgh -- we've been here since 1583 in one shape or another

[Edinburgh Classics @EdinClassics]

The Department's deadline for expressions of interest by applicants for MSCA (Marie Curie) postdoctoral fellowships is 1 June. Selected applications are given considerable support and we were remarkably successful in the last round. Details here https://t.co/5NABfDC5YH

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Many congratulations to @GavinKellyLatin and the team on the production of this mighty brace of tomes. A 200-page bibliography, in small print, serves as a strong indicator that it is not here to mess about...

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

You can find the contents here. There's a lot of it... (3/3) https://t.co/SVi7qL9FOD

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

Here is the programme, with contact details. Please come, even if only for a bit or for a drink at the end. (2/3)

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

Do please come to the launch of The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature in Edinburgh on 20 April. A colloquium runs from 13.30 to 18.00 in Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building (programme on next slide); also online -- just write to one of the editors (1/3)

[JLAIBS @jlaibs]

We are delighted to inform you that Issue 1 of JLAIBS Vol. 5 is now out!

It features 5 exciting articles by Margaret Mullett (freely accessible for 1 month), Richard Hobbs and Sabine Klein, Nik Matheou, Cameron Barnes, and Ofer Pogorelsky.

@EdinClassics
https://t.co/mFWM19W6Ux

[Yannis Stouraitis @YStouraitis]

New issue is out: @jlaibs 5/1 (2026).

Check out for Margaret Mullett's article which is freely accessible for one month!

@EdinburghUP @EdinUniCAHSSres @EdinClassics @SPBSUK

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

The Last Historians of Rome project is holding an afternoon conference on Livy in Late Antiquity at the University of Nottingham, on Wednesday 18 March. Write to George Woudhuysen (details on poster) if you want to attend in person or online. Will be great to see you there!

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

Should you be in Warsaw next week, do come along!

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

I have published a letter from the 17th-century classicist Johann Georg Graevius to his French colleague Adrien de Valois on the blog of the Last Historians of Rome project. It shows how Graevius procured annotations by Friedrich Lindenbrog for Valois' Ammianus edition... +

[Edinburgh Classics @EdinClassics]

Many congratulations to our colleague Jesse Hill!
https://t.co/h6asS8vcbM

[Edinburgh Classics @EdinClassics]

Many congratulations to our colleague Jesse Hill!
https://t.co/h6asS8vcbM

[Josef Nicholson @JosefN453]

Great to present a paper at @EdinClassics yesterday evening!

[JLAIBS @jlaibs]

The second issue of JLAIBS 4 (2025) is now available, featuring a number of exciting articles by Dimiter Angelov, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Aliya Abdukadir Ali and Anne-Laurence Caudano.

@EdinburghUP @EdinClassics

https://t.co/dPkaS46Stx

[Edinburgh Classics @EdinClassics]

News from the Last Historians of Rome project!

[Gavin Kelly @GavinKellyLatin]

First blogpost of the year, on 'Translating Ammianus Marcellinus. Book 14'! Three examples of progress in translation.👇

[Antonio Iacoviello @jakoviello]

@EdinClassics Thank you! Edinburgh is the best alma mater I could hope for

[Edinburgh Classics @EdinClassics]

Remarkable double whammy by our alumnus Antonio Iacoviello! Congratulations!

[Antonio Iacoviello @jakoviello]

Delighted to share I’ve been awarded both a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
My project explores crowns in ancient Greece as material agents and symbols across multiple domains. Can’t wait to get started!

[Antonio Iacoviello @jakoviello]

Delighted to share I’ve been awarded both a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
My project explores crowns in ancient Greece as material agents and symbols across multiple domains. Can’t wait to get started!

[Peter Candy @Pete_Candy]

A dramatisation of ecce romani! What a wonderful idea

[James Warren @JIWarren]

Sextus est puer molestus... raeda in fossam cadit etc. etc.