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Carlos Machado wins AHRC-DFG partnership grant

Many congratulations to Carlos Machado who has won an AHRC-DFG partnership grant with Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen), for a project entitled 'Land and loyalty: the politics of land in the later Roman...

Applications for PhD entry in 2024

The School of Classics at the University of St Andrews invites applications for PhD entry in 2024.  The School of Classics is a centre of world-class research in Greek and Latin literature, ancient history, art,...

Congratulations to Edward Armstrong

Congratulations to Edward Armstrong, who successfully defended his PhD thesis recently. Edward's thesis, "Character and Rhetoric in Thucydides", makes the first sustained, book-length case that the style...