Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

Jacob Abolafia

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Civil religion and "political theology", political philosophy ancient and modern, philosophical hermeneutics.

Julia Armstrong

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The Iron Age and Archaic Mediterranean; Foreign Trade and Consumption; Adriatic Italy; Greek Sanctuaries.

Carol Atack

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Ancient political thought and philosophy; Greek historiography; reception of Greek political thought. Thesis: 'The Idealisation of Monarchy in Greek Political Thought'.

Joanna Atkin

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Apuleius; the presentation of women in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; the ancient novel.

Philip Boyes

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Social change in 'Phoenicia' in the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age transition; the East Mediterranean Late Bronze Age; issues of social complexity and 'collapse'.

Sophie Buchanan

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Roman visual culture; the art of violence; imperial iconography, sarcophagi, historical relief.

Annie Burman

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History of comparative linguistics (esp. early Enlightenment and Third Reich), influence of ideology on linguistics, historical linguistics: theory and methodology of comparative linguistics.

Rachel Bryant Davies

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Reception of Greek and Latin literature and mythology, esp. 19thC; methodology of classical reception (PhD: representations of Troy in learned societies, popular entertainment, media etc).

Michael Carroll

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Aeschylus; tragic language in performance context; metaphor; stylistics. Thesis title: The Style of Aeschylus.

Dan Chiritiou

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Please add me to the grad list as well, if you don't mind. My interests are Roman Republican history, Greek and Roman military history, Greek and Roman tactical writers, the idea of sensory perception in military writers, and self presentation of Roman generals.

Camila da S. Condilo

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Ancient Greek Household, Gender, Herodotus.

Patrick  Cook

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Roman cultural history; the representation of the human body in rhetoric and historiography

Eleri Cousins

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Roman archaeology and epigraphy; religion in the North-West provinces; community-formation in frontier zones.  Thesis: Ritual in the communities of Roman Britain.

Jared Eddy

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Ancient medicine, the archaeological and textual evidence for infectious diseases in antiquity, ancient demography and ecology as they relate to disease, the intersection of Classics and the biological sciences, PhD: tuberculosis (phthisis) in the Roman Empire.

Luke Gardiner

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Early Church History (in particular the work of Socrates Scholasticus), heresiology, schism, conceptions of reading in Late Antiquity, legal codification and polycentric law in Late Antiquity, Vandal Africa. Thesis: ‘Heresies and their Histories in Fifth Century Christianity’.

Yuddi Gershon

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Constructions of Greek socio-political identity under Rome particularly in historiography and rhetoric; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, and Dio Chrysostom.

Tom Geue

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Roman satire; animals in literature and philosophy; satire and/as philosophy; money as metaphor; body parts; Henri Bergson's sense of humour; cannibalism as literary and political trope; personification of objects and objectification of persons; the logic of exemplarity; authorship and self-deletion; clashes between programmatics and practice; mediocrity in poetry; the less popular version of Juvenal (satires 10-16); remotely possible thesis title: 'Death of an Author: Studies in Democritean Mediocrity (Juvenal Satires 10-16)'.

Ian Goh

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Roman Satire, Latin Fragments, Republican Poetry. Thesis title: Lucilius and the Archaeology of Roman Satire.

Benjamin Harriman

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Ancient Philosophy, in particular the Presocratics. I also have developing interests in textual criticism and Platonic and Aristotelian responses to earlier thinkers. Thesis Title: TBD, but almost certainly something focusing on Melissus and the Eleatics.

Christina Hoenig

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Ancient translation, Latin translation of Greek philosophical vocabulary; the Latin translations of Plato.

Naoya Iwata

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Plato's epistemology, ontology and ethics in his early and middle

dialogues, especially in the Republic; the concepts of techne and

dynamis in ancient thought.

Anna Judson

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Writing systems of Bronze Age Crete and Cyprus, in particular Linear B and Mycenaean linguistics. Thesis topic: the Linear B inscribed stirrup jars.

Maria Kilby

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Patristics, especially Augustine of Hippo; bishops and ecclesiology in the Late Antique Church.

Glory Liu

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Poverty in ancient Athens, Athenian democracy, Greek political thought; display of antiquities, exhibition design, reception.

Katherine McDonald

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Ancient sociolinguistics; Pre-Roman Southern Italy; Italic languages (Oscan, Umbrian); Greek speakers in Italy.

James McNamara

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Roman historiography and rhetoric, Trajanic period. Reception: classics in modern Germany, history of Latin teaching. Thesis title: Oratory in Tacitus.

Carl Mazurek

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Livy; Roman historiography; pre-Roman Italy, especially Campania.  PhD Title: Commentary on Livy 23.

Francesca Middleton

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Homer and ancient Homeric reception; literary culture and its conceptualisation; modern reception cultures. Parody; centos; anonymous texts.

Tamer Nawar

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Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind. Thesis: Perception, Doubt & Knowledge: Stoics, Skeptics & Augustine.

Jeanne Pansard-Besson

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Roman cultural history and visual culture; Rome’s foundation myths.

Rhodes Pinto

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Motion and self-motion in ancient philosophy; Platonic and Aristotelian physics, metaphysics, and teleology; cosmology in the ancient philosophers; textual criticism.

Karen L. Pickford

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I am interested in the experience of the common soldier in Republican Rome, in particular, what factors motivated him to serve.  Thesis title: The Common Soldier: Military Service and Patriotism in the Roman Republic.

Dong Qiaosheng

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Sino-Hellenic Studies (especially comparative studies of ancient Greek and Chinese science and medicine); history of ancient embryology; sex difference and gender issues in the ancient world.

Helen Roche

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Greek history and historiography; Classical reception; Spartan influence on German elite education during the C19/20, Prussian Cadet-Schools and Nazi Elite-schools; German philhellenism; the influence of philhellenism during the Third Reich. Thesis title: 'Personal and political appropriations of Sparta in German elite education during the 19th and 20th centuries - with particular reference to the Prussian Cadet-Schools (1818-1920) and the Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten (1933-1945)'.

Matthew Scarborough

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Greek and Italic Languages and Linguistics, Language Contact and Sociolinguistics in the Ancient World; Indo-European Comparative Linguistics and Philology; Theory and Methodology in Historical Linguistics.

Nick Soderberg

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The Bronze Age Mediterranean; Architectural perspectives on Cretan palatial society; Minoan ritual and religion; Minoan interactions around the Mediterranean.

Kathryn Stevens

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Hellenistic intellectual and cultural history; Greek historiography; Mesopotamian scholarship; interactions between the Mediterranean and Near East.  Thesis:  Intellectual culture in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia.

Daniel Unruh

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Relations between Greek city states and autocratic rulers in the 5th and 4th centuries BC; the interplay of ideology and foreign policy; history of Greek political institutions and ideas.

Laura Viidebaum

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Greek Drama and performance culture; ancient theories of rhetoric and the practice of oratory; Greek political thought; literary theory.

Hannah Walker

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Mycenaean Greece: food, feasting and Linear B.

Lacey Wallace

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Romano-British archaeology. Thesis title: From Foundation to Destruction: an Archaeology of Early Roman London to AD 61.

Robin Whelan

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Late antiquity; orthodoxy and heresy; ‘Arianism’; barbarian successor kingdoms (esp. Vandal Africa). Thesis title: ‘Contesting orthodoxy in Vandal Africa’.

Jingyi Zhao (Jenny)

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Ancient Greek and Chinese comparative philosophy; Aristotelian and Confucian ethics; emotions.