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Trinity College Dublin, Department of Classics - connecting with our students, alumni and friends with news of all things Classical. 🏛

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DIVA: by visual artist PASHIA. Performance, screening and discussion on Cyprus’ cultural heritage, historical evidence and social urgencies. Celebrating 30 years of Cypriot Studies at TCD & the 2026 EU Council Presidency transition from Cyprus to Ireland tcd.ie/ahss
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We are delighted to advertise for an Assistant Professor in Classical Greek Language and its Legacies. This is a tenure-track position and is based in the Department of Classics in the School of Histories and Humanities. Closing date midday on Monday April 27th 2026. 1/2
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More details can be found via the following link (search under School of Histories and Humanities):tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ and informal enquiries about this post should be made to the Head of Classics, Dr Ashley Clements clementa@tcd.ie
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📣🗓️ Feb 18, 2026 @ 5.30 pm Andrzej Chankowski (Poitiers) Torch Races in Athens of the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE: Religious Rite, Civic Ideology, Educational Institution TCD Classics Seminar room (Arts Building, B6002) & Zoom - tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/91006615011 kahanea@tcd.ie - enquiries
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📣🗓️ We are delighted to share our full schedule of research seminars this term. Please do join us in person in our Classics seminar room or over Zoom.
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📣🗓️ We are looking forward to meeting prospective students and their families next Saturday 29th November at the Trinity Open Day. You can meet us (and our lovely students) at our stand in the Dining Hall, and hear our Classics talk at 11.50 am, Emmet Theatre, Arts Building.
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Find out about us and our undergraduate programmes on our website: tcd.ie/classics/undergraduat… or listen to some short talks: tcd.ie/openday/undergraduate…
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📣📣 TCD Classics research seminar, online only. Wednesday November 19, 2025 @ 5.30 pm Gregory Anderson (Ohio State University) ‘Athens in a World of Many Worlds: Comparative History Reimagined.’ Join us online, register at tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262
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Our next TCD Classics Research seminar (hybrid) November 5, 2025 @ 5.30 pm Maria Mili (University of Glasgow) 'Who was the Thessalian goddess Ennodia? Variations in the Thessalian Pantheon.' 1/2
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We are delighted to welcome our speaker in person. All welcome - please join us in person in the Classics Seminar Room (B6002) or onlineZoom link for the whole series: tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262 2/2
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The Vix Krater, a 6th century BC Greek bronze vessel imported to the Celts. Discovered in Bourgogne/France in the tomb of the “Lady of Vix,” a Celtic princess. It remains the largest known metal vessel of Western antiquity. Musée du Pays Châtillonnais
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Our research seminar October 15, 2025, 5.30 pm Amy O’Keeffe (TCD) Heads or Tales: Cranial Modification in Ancient Cyprus & Mia Pancotti (TCD) Breaking and Regathering Alphabetic Ensembles: the Materiality of Reading in Classical Greece Arts B6002 & tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262
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We are delighted to start our TCD Classics Research Seminar series next week. All welcome - join us in person in or online Oct 1, 2025 Cilian O’Hogan (University of Toronto) Fifth-foot spondees in later Latin poetry Zoom link for the whole series: tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92166040262
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📣🗓️ TCD Classics Research Seminar programme for the coming term. All welcome.
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We are delighted to offer extramural classes in modern Greek for both beginners and post-beginners. 🇬🇷 Find out more and register: histories-humanities.tcd.ie/… @CyprusinIreland @tcdalumni @TCDsllcs @tcdslscs
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👏 Warmest congratulations to our colleague Boris Kayachev on a very successful workshop, co-organised with Anna Chahoud, on ‘Poetry, Prosody and Pragmatics: Linguistic insights from/on verse in Indo-European traditions’ on June 19-20 @TLRHub @TCD_AHSS @Researchirel 1/2
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For the programme of speakers: tcd.ie/classics/assets/pdf/r… And more on Boris’ research which is funded by the IRC-SFI Pathway Programme (Taighde Eireann - Research Ireland): tcd.ie/classics/people/kayac… 2/2
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We are delighted to share our latest Hestia blog by our colleague Ashley Clements - he asks us ‘Why do you think you have potential? On living in the shadow of Aristotle, crises, and the events that define you’. Enjoy! hestia-blog.squarespace.com/…

Why do you think you have potential? On living in the shadow of Aristotle, crises, and the events...

Here’s a telling difference between history and anthropology that reveals something odd about your understanding of your own life and its possibilities, and in the process, also exposes some of the...

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A great piece from our TCD Classics researcher Alastair Daly.
RTÉ Brainstorm@RTEBrainstorm
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Why is there so much Latin in Ulysses? The language, the way it was taught and references to Latin literature are constants throughout James Joyce's work, writes Alastair Daly @TCDClassics @Researchirel rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/0613/…
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We are delighted to share our latest TCD Classics Hestia blog from Brian Cluyse, one of our Classics research students, on the topic "Preserving Purity: Atticism and the power of linguistic norms in antiquity". hestia-blog.squarespace.com/…

Preserving Purity: Atticism and the Power of Linguistic Norms in Antiquity — Hestia Blog

From the Oxford comma to split infinitives, debates over language usage are anything but new. We are often told that certain forms are wrong—don’t say ain’t, never end a sentence with a preposition,...

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