Classics Wellbeing Journal
An ancient guide to modern dilemmas Undergraduate students Reece Harriott and Astrea Pulcinelli TrIossi were part of the 2025 Modern Classics cohort, and designed the following Applied Classics podcast project to…
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Combatting Alt-Right Radicalisation through Classics
Undergraduate students Isabelle Meadows-Gibb, Kate Nolting and George Simmons were part of the 2025 Modern Classics cohort. They designed the following Applied Classics podcast project to reclaim ancient sources from…
Environmental Literacy via Ancient Myths
Undergraduate students Emily Dale, Cole Lum and Eleanor Shorten were part of the 2025 Modern Classics cohort, and designed the following Applied Classics podcast project to enhance environmental literacy amongst young…
Mythogyny
Undergraduate students Emma Brown, Helena Chowdhury-Westlake and Lilliana Mitchell were part of the 2025 Modern Classics cohort, and designed the following Applied Classics podcast project to bring ancient and modern…
The Hospes Project
In 2022, a group of three students, Chloe Dabbs, India Goodman and Anna Pilgrim, developed The Hospes Project. The project uses the power of storytelling and the ‘draw’ of Classical antiquity to raise awareness about…
The Visualising War and Peace podcast
In April 2021, Alice König and Nicolas Wiater set up the Visualising War and Peace podcast. Stemming from their research into discourses of war and peace in antiquity, this outreach project was designed to involve more…
Staging War Stories
How and why do we dramatize war? What are audiences expecting when they watch representations of war on stage and screen? And what impact do dramatizations of war have on how people experience, understand and even…
Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us
During the Summer of 2019, professional theatre company NMT Automatics visited St Andrews University. They were developing their new show, Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us, in collaboration with The Centre for the Public…
From Achilles to Afghanistan
In 2017, University of St Andrews staff Alice König and Nicolas Wiater founded the Visualising War project. Working from antiquity to the present day, they explore the ways in which war stories in different media have…
Women, War and Displacement in Antiquity
Undergraduate Research Assistant Holly Axford has been researching ancient narratives of displacement. In this blog, she writes about the representation of women displaced by war in Ancient Greek epic and tragedy. ‘By…