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Faculty of Classics

 

Biography

After reading Classics at the University of Warwick (2016-19), I completed an MPhil with a focus on Latin literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (2019-20). My doctoral project is a commentary on Book 6 of Statius' Thebaid. It will replace H. W. Fortgens' Latin-language commentary published in 1934 as the most recent companion to this part of the poem. 

Research

  • Latin poetry of the first century AD
  • Post-Augustan epic, especially Statius and Lucan
  • Textual criticism
Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Oakley
College: Sidney Sussex
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Commentary on Statius, Thebaid 6
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Latest news

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...

Craven Seminar 2024

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...

Soundmarks Project

12 February 2024

Soundmarks, an art/archaeology collaboration between Rose Ferraby, Cambridge Archaeologist, and Rob St John using sound and visual art launches at DIG in York. In 2019 the pair created work exploring and animating the sub-surface landscape of Aldborough Roman Town in North Yorkshire, UK. Soundmarks Aldborough was re-shown...