Helen McVeigh

@classicsacademy.bsky.social

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Founder of H.M. Classics Academy: we teach ancient languages and the ancient world. helenmcveigh.co.uk subscribepage.com/classicsacademy #Ancientbluesky I always want to see pictures of your dogs. 🐶 Snowball 🐕 Edith

An open laptop displaying an image of an ancient Greek vase, an open textbook, pen and pencil, and a mug with a picture of the Parthenon on it.
Monday 30th June, 4.15pm BST Guest lecture: Dr Aimee Hinds Scott, Zero to Hero: Mapping Heracles from Antiquity to the Present. Tuesday 1st July, 4.15pm BST Guest lecture: Caroline Lawrence, “Greek and Latin Words as Windows to the Past” Wednesday 2nd July, 4.15pm BST Guest lecture: Dr Ben Dewar (Institute of Classical Studies), "The First Half of History": An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamia. Thursday 3rd July, 4.15pm BST Guest lecture: Dr Jan Haywood (University of Leicester), The Trojan War in contemporary historical fiction. Friday 4th July, 4.15pm BST Dr Antonia Ruppel: Introduction to Sanskrit (I)
Queen's University Belfast Lanyon Building with flowers in the foreground
Bust of Herodotus
Classical Greek textbooks
Vase painting of a man looking at what looks like a laptop and holding a stylus.
A photo of Queen's University Belfast framed with l blooming sgruvs
2 photos of me pointing at an inscription in Delphi. 1st picture is in colour and was taken in April 2025. 2nd picture is black and white only because my dad liked to develop his own black and white photos. I'm honestly not that old! The black and white shot was taken in 2001.
Front covers of the books to be discussed
Stephen Boyd and Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur.
Cover of the book, entitled The First Witches
Parthenon
Relief sculpture of mother and daughter, thought ti be Persephone and Demeter
Trinity College Dublin library