Dr David Woods was pleased to deliver the John Lynch Memorial Lecture at the Irish Epilepsy League Conference held in the Gibson Hotel, Dublin, on Friday 19 September.  The title of his lecture was 'Epilepsy in the Julio-Claudian Dynasty'. It built upon several of his publications dealing with the epilepsy of the emperors Caligula (AD37-41) and Nero (AD54-68) and was warmly received by the medical audience.

The Cork branch of the Classical Association, with the support of the Department of Classics at UCC, was pleased to host the annual conference of the Classical Association of Ireland in St. Aloysius's School on 15-16th August.  The key speaker was Prof. Alex Thein of UCD talking about life after the Sullan proscription.  The event was a tremendous success, bringing classicists from all over the island of Ireland together for two days of lectures and socialising.  The conference ended with a trip to Cork City Gaol on the morning of Sunday 17 August (photo above).

Scott McGill’s work focuses on Latin poetry, Roman history and culture and on the reception of classical antiquity.  A renowned expert on Virgil and on the Latin poetry of late antiquity, he has written a commentary on Aeneid XI (Cambridge, 2020) and a translation and commentary on Juvencus’ Four Books of the Gospels (Routledge, 2016).  He has also written monographs on plagiarism in Roman literature (Cambridge 2012) and the Virgilian centos (Oxford 2005) and is the co-editor of several collections, including the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Late Antique Literature (2108).  He is on the editorial board of Studies in Late Antiquity and he is the editor-in-chief of Brill’s Research Perspectives on Classical Poetry. 

Together with Susannah Wright, Professor McGill is currently working on a verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid, which is under contract with W. W. Norton and among his other projects is a commentary on the Virgilian Centos in the Anthologia Latina. 

This talk will be hybrid: if you would like to attend on line, please email Catherine.Ware@ucc.ie. 

at 7.30 pm, Tuesday, 7th November, at 7.30pm

in the Cork Educational Support Centre (opposite the main gates of UCC)

Animals and the Environment in ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy:

An Online International Conference

Wednesday 8 November – Friday 10 November 2023 (Timezone: GMT)

Dr Crystal Addey is co-organising (with her colleague, Dr Sophia Connell from Birkbeck, University of London) an online international conference on ‘Animals and the Environment in ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy’– the conference is free to attend, open to all and you are warmly invited to join us for this event.

The conference will take place online (on Zoom) from Wednesday 8 November – Friday 10 November 2023 and the time-zone for the conference is GMT. Please register for the conference on Eventbrite here: https://tinyurl.com/4px4vhcr

Once you have registered, you will receive the Zoom meeting link for the Conference automatically prior to the conference. Registration is for the whole three-day conference: please register via this link even if you can only attend some of the conference lectures and sessions.

The full conference programme (including abstracts and information about speakers) can be accessed here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/eri/research/eco-humanities-research-group/eco-humanitiesresearchgroup-events/#d.en.1461227  (Programme Link here)

Congratulations to Maggie Tighe who was awarded a first class BA this summer and who came first in Classics in the Global Undergraduate Awards 2022.

https://undergraduateawards.com/winners/global-winners-2022

DUBLIN, IRELAND — Maggie Tighe from University College Cork was honoured at an awards ceremony hosted by The Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last Tuesday, 8 November. 

Each year thousands of students from around the world submit their undergraduate research projects to The Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA), the world’s leading pan-discipline, undergraduate research awards programme. More than 600 academics volunteer as judges for the programme, assessing entries for their academic originality and rigor, and must pick the single best entry from each of the 25 categories. The GUA sponsors each of these 25 Global Winners to attend the annual Global Summit in Dublin. 

Tighe was named Global Winner of the Classical Studies & Archaeology category for her work titled “Ovidian New Pastoral: The Transformation of the Pastoral Genre through Music in the Metamorphoses”. With that honour, she presented her research to the 150 academics and other winners in attendance at the Global Summit and received the Thomas Clarkson gold medal at the black-tie Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on 8 November. 

Latin Summer School 2022

CAI 2022 Poster

Classicsnow.ie

Congratulations to Michael Sheil who has been awarded the NUI Dr. H. H. Stewart Literary Scholarship in Latin 2021

The Department congratulates Dr Crystal Addey for receiving a Teaching Hero award at the recent USI Student Achievement Awards Ireland (SAAI) event.  The Awards are organised by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in collaboration with the USI and other student unions nationwide.  The Awards scheme provides an opportunity for students across the country to recognise and celebrate outstanding teaching in our higher education institutions.

Dr Crystal Addey, together with Professor Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Department of German) and with other colleagues from across the Humanities disciplines in CACSSS (including Government and Polities, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Archaeology, English and Digital Humanities), have been awarded funding in June 2021 from the CACSSS Interdisciplinary Research Funding Scheme to develop our Environmental Humanities network further in 2021 - 22.  The new name of our network is the 'Eco-Humanities Research Group' which is embedded within the UCC Environmental Research Institute (ERI) and aims to bring the perspectives of the humanities to bear on the multiple interlocking ecological and existential crises of our time.

Please see our webpage here:

https://www.ucc.ie/en/eri/research/eco-humanities-research-group/#d.en.1357586 

Congratulations to Chisato Oda winner of 3rd Prize in the Dr HH Stewart Scholarship Competition for Latin.

Classics Now: a new cultural festival 13-15 November 2020

Curtain up on ClassicsNow, a new cultural festival taking place online, in Dublin and beyond. It invites audiences to explore contemporary artistic interpretation and reimagining of the literature, arts and ideas of Ancient Greece and Rome.  Full programme information will be available from mid-October on www.classicsnow.ie

Shruti Rajgopal at the NUI Awards Ceremony, 26th November 2019, in the Aviva Stadium.

A Lament of Helen from Petosiris' Recycle Bin and the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides

Oscar McHale of the Classics Youth Society Ireland invites academics to discuss such topics as Homer's Odyssey, Alexander the Great, Euripides' Medea, fragmentary Latin and the poetry of Catullus and Ovid

William Mann will perform his one-man show, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, on Thursday 22nd November, in the Granary Theatre at 8pm.

Bursaries 2019

The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens (IIHSA) invites applications by students from Irish universities for two travel bursaries to Greece. Two bursaries are availabel to the value of €500 each (to cover travel to Athens and accommodation in the Institute's hostel or equivalent) for the duration of a minimum of two weeks research in Greece. *The bursary winners will also be awarded free IIHSA membership for the year, which will entitle them to free access to archaeological sites and museums, and the classics libraries in Athens.

The Dept. of Classics announces the program for the conference "Ammianus Marcellinus: from Soldier to Author."

Department of Classics

The Royal Irish Academy

Lectures in O'Rahilly Building Room 2.02 UCC