The Hippolytus Initiative
In 2022, a group of two students, Emily Speed and Duncan Tarboton, created the Hippolytus Initiative. The project aims to start conversations using ancient source material and texts to confront uncomfortable truths…
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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…
Misogyny, Myth and Modern Classics
Lily Talbot is a third-year student in the School of Classics, taking our Classics for the Modern World module. In this blog, she discusses some of the ways in which ancient myths and literature have been harnessed by…
Classical Coastlines
In 2022, a group of three students, Caitlin Brown, Kristoffer Naas and Lily Talbot, developed the Classical Coastlines Project. The project uses ancient case studies in dialogue with modern ones to raise awareness of…
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…
Experiences of Migration in Classical Antiquity
Undergraduate Research Assistant Holly Axford has been researching ancient narratives of displacement. In this blog she writes about ancient attitudes to supplication and hospitality, and how class and gender impacted…