A Visit to Athens

Just before Christmas I was lucky enough to go on a research trip to Greece, where I spent a happy couple of weeks in various museum workrooms. Naturally I also managed to get in some sightseeing around Athens (helped by the fact that Greek museums are only open for work until 3pm), so I thought … Continue reading →

Turner’s Classical Landscapes

Hello all, and happy Christmas from all of us in the graduate common room in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. Actually I haven’t consulted my fellow postgrads, but I assume they wish you a happy Christmas and are not indulging in Scroogeish disdain and bah-humbuging. I happen to know that some of my archaeologist … Continue reading →

Have yourself a Roman little Christmas

It’s that time of year again. The time when classicists all over the world, after one two many glasses of holiday libation and desperate to prove that they’re really just as important as their cousin who makes six figures as a hedge fund manager thank you very much, grab the ears of unwilling members of … Continue reading →

A Very Present Past

“You started it!” “We did not start it!” “Yes you did, you invaded Poland!” A line to clinch any argument. But also a line from a scene which reflects on the power that history has to influence present-day relationships. Indeed, history has always played a prominent part in contemporary arguments and humans have always fought … Continue reading →

The Grand Tourist

Never let it be said that Res Gerendae refuses to address real-world issues and provide practical careers-oriented advice, confining itself to the ivory tower of Classical academia: today, I want to share with you some of my own personal experiences in the Big Wide World of Work. Those of you who have no interest in … Continue reading →

War and Strife in Ancient Philosophy: Graduate Philosophy Conference

On the 27-28th March, the Faculty of Classics will be hosting its fifth annual graduate conference in Ancient Philosophy. The theme of this year’s conference will be War and Strife in Ancient Philosophy. Continue reading →

Classics in South Africa: a personal view from somebody who didn’t know anything about it before going there and still doesn’t know very much

I’ve recently returned from a conference at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. A lot of people in Cambridge clearly regarded this as a rather dubious trip. The way people said ‘You’re going to a conference in SOUTH AFRICA?’, rather reminded me of the ‘A Tiger! In Africa?’ scene from Monty Python’s Meaning of … Continue reading →