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Humanising Migration Debates via Classics

In this blog, UG student Reece Harriott reflects on what ancient literary representations of migration can offer as we try to improve the quality of debate around modern migration and enhance the empathy and humanity…

Classics and Race

In this blog, UG student Emily Dale discusses the misappropriation of Classical antiquity to support modern racist ideologies and what we, as Classical scholars, can do to address this. When one thinks of Classical…

Ancient and Modern Life Lessons

For my final semester at St Andrews, I took Dr König’s module, Applied Classics: Interventions and Applications, abandoning Greek and Latin translations and diving into Classics in a way I had never done before. In…

Ancient Stimuli for Contemporary Reflections

In this blog, UG student Astrea Pulcinelli Triossi reflects on her learning journey in Applied Classics. June 2025 While browsing through the module booklet in preparation for my final academic year, I was struck by…

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…

Combatting Alt-Right Radicalisation through Classics

Undergraduate students Isabelle Meadows-Gibb, Kate Nolting and George Simons were part of the 2025 Modern Classics cohort. They designed the following Applied Classics podcast project to reclaim ancient sources from…