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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…

Classical Coastlines

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…

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…