Ancient Classics at Maynooth University, Ireland

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It's that time of year again, where we launch the Maynooth Classics Seminar Series for 2024-25🔱 Fridays at 4 pm in Iontas, see dates below ⬇️ All most welcome!
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MCS will play host to Dr Carl O'Brien this Friday, who will be speaking on 'Plato & the Myth of Atlantis'. When: Friday, 29th November at 4 pm Where: Iontas Building, Seminar Rm 1.33 (first floor) All most welcome!
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CAI Greek Reading Circle Monday 11.11.2024 @ 18:30 via Zoom Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus, lines 1-69 led by Jeremy Lam @TCDClassics Convenor: @LiamBairead
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Save the Date! 📆When: Fri. 31st Jan. - Sun. 2nd Feb. 🏙️Where: Dublin and online.
Save the Date! Our fifth festival is on its way, in Dublin and online. Keep 31 January – 2 February free and look out for exciting programme announcements here in the coming weeks. @ClassicalAssoc1 @TCDClassics @ClassicsUCD @MU_Classics @ClassCivAncHist classicsnow.ie/
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Do you have a question for our team? Use Library Chat located on the Library homepage or bit.ly/MUlibchat to ask us a question, whether it's looking for directions, looking for support or looking for a book!
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Greek Reading Circle Monday 23.09.2024 @ 18:30 via Zoom Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers, lines 877-930, 1048-1062, led by Dr Bridget Martin @ClassicsUCD Orestes kills his father's murderer but can he kill his mother? Convenor: @LiamBairead Hosted by @TCDClassics
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Congratulations to our Classics Graduates being conferred at the various ceremonies today! We are so proud of you all🤩Well done🎓👏 Have a wonderful day with your family & friends 🥳🎉 #MU2024
📜🎓Welcome back class of 2024 for the first day of conferrings! (afraid we can't do anything about the weather ☔). Congratulations to everyone who graduates today - you did it 🙌 #MU2024 Watch the ceremonies live here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=RAXMwqKS…
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Congratulations to everyone who received their round 1 CAO offers today! 🎉🎉
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Dr Leah O’Hearn on self-control as the philosophical background for Catullus’ poetry @MU_Classics
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Thank you to the Limerick Branch and to all our speakers at the 2024 Classical Association of Ireland annual conference at Mary Immaculate College.
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Upcoming CAI Summer conference will be held in the Mary Immaculate College, Limerick in August. Dr Leah O'Hearn is part of the line up speaking on Catullus.
CAI Summer Conference Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 16th-17th August 2024 Booking links are live on the conference website cai-limerick-2024.carrd.co/
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We hope the exams are going well for all our students 🤞🤞If anyone is looking for us, the Dept. has moved to Riverstown Lodge, First Floor, South Campus. As ever, we can be contacted at classics@mu.ie and/or email individual lecturers directly.
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Exams are almost upon us. Here are our opening hours for the next two weeks. As always we are here to help, if you've any questions please contact us or drop by the Information desk #MULibrary #HereToHelp
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Dive into the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome with our MA in Classical Studies! Apply now to start your journey: rb.gy/k4yd70 @MU_Classics
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Save the Date CAI Annual Conference Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 16th-17th August Keynote Lecture: Dr John Curran on 'How Rome created modern Middle-East politics' @ClassAssocNI @QUBelfast
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Are you a humanities student lost in a sea of resources? Drop in on Tuesday the 23rd and the 30th to learn how to navigate Gale resources, with student ambassador Ray
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Date for the diary 📅 Muditha Dharmasiri, PhD candidate, will be giving the last seminar for 2023-2024 academic year! Join her & department colleagues on Friday, April 26th to wrap up the term 🎉
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Did you know that Classics has been taught in Maynooth since the foundation of the university in 1795? Stop by the @MU_Classics stand on Saturday, 27th April,and take your first step in being part of that legacy. There's a Classics talk on in TSI (039) at 11:05 am.
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New feature from @MU_Classics ' Dr Carl O'Brien how classical texts covered up🤬 to keep things clean & polite😇
How obscenities, vulgarities and curses in classical texts were covered up and disguised by dictionaries and translators. By Carl O'Brien @MaynoothUni rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0409/…
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