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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…