Faculty of Classics
Early Greece; funerary archaeology; the Boeotia Survey
Early Greek armour and weapons (Edinburgh UP, 1964)
Arms and armour of the Greeks (Thames & Hudson, 1967)
The dark age of Greece (Edinburgh UP, 1971)
Archaic Greece: the age of experiment (J.M.Dent, 1980)
An archaeology of Greece (Univ. of California Press, 1987)
Homer and the artists (Cambridge UP, 1998)
Archaeology and the emergence of Greece (Collected papers 1965-2002, Edinburgh UP, 2006)
[with J.L.Bintliff and P.Howard] Testing the hinterland: the work of the Boeotia Survey 1989-1991 (McDonald Institute Monographs, 2007)

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)
20 October 2025
The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.
Teaching Associate in Classics
17 October 2025
The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a Temporary Teaching Associate in Classics (Ancient Greek Literature) starting from the earliest date possible until 30 September 2026. See link for further details . Closing date: 31 October 2025
Museum and Collections Assistant
7 October 2025
The Faculty invites applications for a Part-Time Museum and Collections Assistant in the Museum of Classical Archaeology. The closing date is 22 October 2025. For further details please follow the link given below: Museum and Collections Assistant (Part Time) | University of Cambridge
“Decoding the Desert” and “Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys” now on CUDL
29 September 2025
Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library. A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds -...
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