‘I hope more people begin to see that Classics is much more than preserving the past, it is about shaping the future.’ In this blog, UG student Lilliana Mitchell discusses the concept of Applied Classics, focusing…
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…
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…
In this blog, UG student Lilliana Mitchell discusses her journey as an Applied Classicist and the podcast she designed to bring ancient and modern women into informative, supportive dialogue with each other. When I…
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…
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…
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…
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…