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Congratulations to Larisa Ficulle

Congratulations to Larisa Ficulle, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis – “Reassessing Agathias: Early Byzantine historiography beyond Procopius”.  Larisa’s thesis opens new...

Drawing the Greek Vase

“Drawing the Greek Vase“, edited by Caspar Meyer and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, was published recently by Oxford University Press. How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern...

'The Folds of Olympus' shortlisted for London Hellenic Prize

Congratulations to Jason König, whose book The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture has been shortlisted for the prestigious London Hellenic Prize (for an original work published in...