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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…