Booking is now open for 'A good death?'. A good death? 28 October 2015, 18:00 - 19:30: Beveridge Hall, Senate House

A podcast is now available for the lecture on 'The Greek East under Rome: art and cultural interaction' given by Roland R R Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford on 24 September at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. The lecture is jointly sponsored by the British School at Athens and the Institute of Classical Studies. Podcast

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest BICS journal, 58.1. BICS-58-1 published June 2015 This BICS  contains Richard Janko      From Gabii and Gordion to Eretria and Methone: the rise of the Greek alphabet Fernando Echeverría     Heroic fiction, combat scenes, and the scholarly reconstruction of Archaic Greek warfare Victoria Wohl      How to recognize a hero in Euripides’ Electra Nancy Worman     Exquisite corpses and other bodies in the Electra plays

We regret to announce that the Annual Byzantine Colloquium -- Arcadia: Real and Ideal -- due to take place on 8-9 June 2015 at the Institute of Classical Studies has had to be postponed, owing to circumstances beyond our control. We very much hope to reschedule this event at a future date. Meanwhile we apologize for any inconvenience caused.