Odyssey Britannia
In 2020, a team of three students – Kate Moran, Reese Waters, and Katie O’Hare – developed Odyssey Britannia, a virtual travel guide to Roman Britain. Developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was designed with two…
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Roman Rumours
In 2020, a team of four students – Finn Murphy, Josephine McEvoy, Nicolette Irving and Zoe Morris – developed the Roman Rumours project. Its aim is to provide lessons in digital literacy for high school students by…
The Frontinus Project
In 2020, a team of three students – Henry Bennett, Henry Kirk and William Laird – developed The Frontinus Project. Its aim is to spark discussion of a pressing modern issue, the supply of clean water to communities,…
Climate and Classics: Deforestation
In 2020, a team of four students – Erin Limmack, Eleanor Pain, Ellis Williams and Taylor Williams – developed the following project. Its aim is to get young people thinking and talking about a contemporary…
Reception and Application in Classical Studies
While studying ‘Classics and the Modern World’, I have come to see modern responses to Classics as falling into two overlapping but different categories: reception and application. By ‘reception’, I mean how the…
Ancient migration narratives
When we look back to the ancient world, it is important that we are not doing so just to avoid looking around. I agree with Dan-el Padilla Peralta that looking to antiquity can be productive in creating a cycle in…
Classics for the Masses: learning for society and ensuring diversity
My perception and understanding of Classics are inextricably linked with its complicated history and reputation. For centuries, an education in Classics was exclusive to the upper classes and therefore limited to…
The potential for Classics to teach us about ourselves
As a fourth year who is nearing the end of his time reading Classics at St Andrews, the module ‘Classics in the Modern World’ was a course that I thought would neatly ‘sign off’ my degree. However, I was wrong in…
Applying ancient materials to modern contexts
For much of its history, the discipline of Classics has been ‘inherently resistant to change, especially progressive change’. The very name of Classics ‘implies that the significance of the subject is undisputed and…
Distance and proximity to the Ancient World
Distance and proximity is something that has always appealed to me about Classics: Roman imperialism is both two thousand years away and right under my feet, Greek tragedy relates a world of exposure and incest now…