We in the Department of History, Heritage, and Classics at Swansea University are proud to be hosting the CA conference as a hybrid event between 8 and 11 April 2022. Since we are aware that time is passing, and the official conference website is still a work in progress (in part owing to the need…Continue Reading Classical Association Conference HERE IN SWANSEA, April 2022!!
OLCAP Events, Autumn Term 2021
This term OLCAP is organising a short series of lunchtime seminars this semester organised loosely around the themes of heritage and the ancient world. The series got underway on Monday 1st November when Nigel Pollard (Swansea) spoke about his Leverhulme project and delivered the paper ‘Soldiers in ‘A Country Rich in Monuments’, Italy 1943-45’ . This presentation did…Continue Reading OLCAP Events, Autumn Term 2021
The Shipwrecked Otter (possibly) – Maria Pretzler
A few years ago, the Roman epigraphy database mapped all its entries (unfortunately the map doesn’t seem to work any longer). Naturally, I was most intrigued by all the entries on the far edges of the map. This blog post is about the westernmost Roman inscription, which, as it turns out, has a lot more…Continue Reading The Shipwrecked Otter (possibly) – Maria Pretzler
Reading Listicles §4: Wherever I may Rome – Ian Goh
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more! Today I’m giving you, in what’s quickly becoming a pretty personal look at some reading matter you might want to explore before you make it to university, some Roman history tips. It’s difficult to encapsulate all the comings and goings of Rome and its empire which…Continue Reading Reading Listicles §4: Wherever I may Rome – Ian Goh
OLCAP Workshop: Epigraphy – Christian Knoblauch
Last Saturday OLCAP organised its second skills workshop for 3rd Year and MA students. After tackling mapping in the first workshop (https://projects.swan.ac.uk/ancient-world/?p=1012), this time around we got stuck into epigraphy. Epigraphy is a broad field and refers to the study of inscriptions, but we wanted to focus on two practical skills: copying inscriptions on monuments…Continue Reading OLCAP Workshop: Epigraphy – Christian Knoblauch