This project investigates how the weather influenced people’s lives in late antiquity. Weather in classical antiquity has attracted considerable interest in recent years, with a focus on climate change and natural disasters. This project, however, centres on the period of (late) antiquity (4th–7th centuries AD), with an emphasis on ‘normal’, everyday weather and its depiction in Greek and Latin sources.
As part of the research initiative Weather, Knowledge and Experience in Late Antiquity, Radboud University Nijmegen and Ghent University are organising two workshops:
- The first workshop took place in Ghent, Belgium: Meteorology in the First Millennium. Socialising Nature, Naturalising Society, 19–20 March 2026.
- The second workshop will take place in Ravenstein, the Netherlands: Ancient Weather Perspectives. Perceptions, representations and realities (400-700), 24–26 June 2026.
The proceedings of both conferences will be published.