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)
Mary Beard to give The Sir Robert Rede’s Lecture 2024
18 April 2024
This year Professor Dame Mary Beard is due to give The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture on Friday 3 May 2024. She will speak on the topic 'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?' If you would like to attend the event, you are most welcome but booking is essential: register for...
Election of two new Professors in the Faculty of Classics
27 March 2024
The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History and Professor Serafina Cuomo to the A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture . Jo will join the Faculty on 1 January 2025 and will be the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient...
26 March 2024
The programme for the Craven Seminar 2024, ‘Interface Interpretation: exegesis as encounter in Greco-Roman literature’ , is now available online . This will be an in-person event. Please click here to register.
Classical Equalities Lecture 25 April 2024 at 17.00 in G19
4 March 2024
Jane Draycott will be giving this year’s Classical Equalities lecture, on ‘ Prostheses in Classical Antiquity: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know’. Jane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world. She has...
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