Our course handbooks for 2014–15 are now available:
Classics Handbook for First Year BA Students 2014–2015
Classics Handbook for Second and Final Year Arts and Postgraduate Students 2014–15

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13 Feb 2014: Lots of great Classics events coming up!

NUI Galway's Classics Society is pleased to announce the following talks. (All in the Siobhán McKenna Theatre/Arts Millennium Building, 6.30–7.30pm, with reception afterwards.)

• Monday, February 16th
  Dr Carrie Murray, Brock University, "Worship at a Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Recent fieldwork at the Lago di Venere sanctuary site on Pantelleria".
• Tuesday, February 24th
  Dr Siobhan Hargis, UCD, "Remembering Republican Rome?-the creation and manipulation of history in the ancient city"
• Tuesday, March 3rd
  Dr David Woods, UCC, "The Christianization of Roman Coinage"

We are also delighted to see that Dr Eoghan Moloney (Maynooth) and Dr Shane Wallace (TCD) have launched a new resource for Classics Events in Ireland. (Some springtime events are also listed in this PDF file.)

19 Jan 2014: Quiggin Lecture, University of Cambridge

The sixteenth E.C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture, which was given by Mark Stansbury, was launched in the Department of Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic of the University of Cambridge on 4 December 2014. Entitled Iona Scribes and the Rhetoric of Legibility, the lecture examines the role of scribes in both writing and composing Latin, focusing on the Life of Columba and its oldest manuscript, Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Generalia 1. The lecture looks at the kinds of evidence that manuscripts can offer and argues that the choice of layout and script described by Malcolm Parkes as the ‘grammar of legibility’ can also be seen from a rhetorical point of view as scribes actively create meaning rather than simply transmitting it. The text of the lecture and appendix are available on academia.edu.

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