skip to content

Faculty of Classics

 

Publications

Key publications: 

Odysseus Unbound: the search for Homer's Ithaca (with R. Bittlestone and J. Underhill) (Cambridge, 2005)
Theophrastus Characters (Cambridge, 2004)
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (Oxford, 1998)
Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford, 1994)
Euripidis Fabulae (3 vols, Oxford 1981-1994)
Cambridge Orations 1982-1993 (Cambridge, 1994)
The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (Oxford, 1991)
Studies on the Text of Euripides (Oxford, 1981)
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman (with F. R. D. Goodyear) (Cambridge, 1972)
Flavii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos (with F. R. D. Goodyear) (Cambridge, 1970)
The Phaethon of Euripides (Cambridge, 1970)

Teaching and Supervisions

Research supervision: 

Greek and Latin Literature and Textual Criticism

Emeritus Professor of Greek and Latin
Fellow of Queens' College
Professor James  Diggle

Contact Details

Queens' College
Cambridge
CB3 9ET
01223 335527
Not available for consultancy

Affiliations

Classifications: 

Latest news

Trinity College Project Completion Grant

28 February 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Frisbee Sheffield has been awarded a Trinity College Project Completion Grant. The award, for Mid-Career Researchers in the Humanities, will enable a period of research leave in Lent Term 2026 in connection with a project on Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation.

Teaching Associate in Ancient History (Temporary Cover)

21 February 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a Temporary Teaching Associate in Classics (Ancient History) from 1 October 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for two years. This post is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research and teaching interest in ancient history. The Faculty is...

Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History)

4 February 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History) from 1 September 2025. The role is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research interest in Archaic/Classical/Hellenistic Greek History. The successful candidate will have the ability, or be...

Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2024

18 October 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...