Classics News and Events
URSS Success
Congratulations to Chloe Standen, who has been awarded funding by the Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme to carry out research on her project 'Illustrations of Greek Love' over the summer vacation.
Tessera hospitalis: a gift for your guests
Nino Crisà explores the use of tokens as representations of hospitality in April's coin of the month.
Mary Magdalene: Why has she been so maligned?
Suzanne Frey-Kupper in interview by Dominic Utton for Daily Express 17 March 2018
Coin of the Month: The Athenian polis and winged symbola
Mairi Gkikaki explores the significance of insects on Athenian tokens in March's coin of the month.
Winds and Antigone's Madness
This month on the Classical Texting Blog, Bianca Mazzinghi Gori discusses the significance of wind in Sophocles' Antigone in 'Winds and Antigone's Madness'.