Classics News and Events
AI meets antiquity: Warwick ancient historian tests DeepMind’s transformative new model
Co-authoring a paper published in the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal Nature today, Alison Cooley, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, has played a key verification role in developing the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualising ancient inscriptions.
The Art of Veiled Speech, from Antiquity to Modern Times: 1st May 2025, 4pm
Latest Material Musings blog article
In February's Material Musings blog article, Noah Fenwick discusses a mosaic depicting the four seasons and its display in the Yorkshire Museum, in an article titled: 'Perspectives of Perusal: The Yorkshire Museum's Four Seasons Mosaic'.
You can read it here: here
September's Material Musings Blog Article
New for September on the Material Musings blog, Jurriaan Gouw discusses changes to Greek warfare in the 5th-4th centuries BC and the development of the Macedonian phalanx, in an article entitled 'Less is More: The Transition from Hoplite to Phalangite'.
You can read it here.
New article on the Material Musings Blog
July's article on the Material Musings blog is by Chris Parr, who discusses the origins of the Lacus Curtius in the Forum Romanum: 'Reinventing Rome's Forgotten Past - the lost significance of the Lacus Curtius'. You can read it here.