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Faculty of Classics

 
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whimarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Greek Novels and the Prosaics of the Body
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Empire and Poetry in the Roman Republic
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Squire
College: Sidney Sussex
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Reviewing Ecphrasis in the Younger Philostratus’ Imagines
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Classics and the Far-Right after 1945
Supervisor: Prof. Caroline Vout
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Personifications of Virtues, Benefits and Ideals in the 3rd-Century AD Roman West
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: St Edmund's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Properties of Size as Catalysts for Philosophical Thought in Plato
Supervisor: Dr Myrto Hatzimichali
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Individuals in Aristotle
Supervisor: Prof. Martin Millett
College: Downing
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Roman Houses in London
Supervisor: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Between Empire and Kingdom: The Western Roman State 454-476
Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Syntactic Change in Post-Classical Greek: A Usage-Based Approach
Supervisor: Dr Alessandro Launaro
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Change Set in Stone: A Social Economic Analysis of Gallo-Roman Figurative Votives
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whimarsh
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Centonic Gospel - A Comparison of Proba's and Eudocia's Biblical Epic Centos
Supervisor: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Space, Place, and Self-Presentation in Gregory of Nazianzus
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: The Social Organisation of the Epicurean Community
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Laemmle
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Scrutinising Identity through Space and Time in Imperial Greek Fictional Travel Narratives
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Nature and Structure of Deliberation
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Pembroke
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Concept of Law in Plato
Supervisor: Prof. Emily Gowers
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Problem of Ecopoetics
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Wonder in Plato and Aristotle
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: St John's
Title of Thesis: Traditions of Tenderness: Gender, Sensibility, and the Classics in Eighteenth-Century Britain
 Dominique  Goddard
Supervisor: Dr Alessandro Launaro
College: St. John's
Title of Thesis: Commonwares and Consumer Identity in Roman Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Lucy Cavendish
Title of Thesis (preliminary): τὰ ἄλλα κτήνεα: Animals in the Religious Life of Early Greece
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Platonic Corpus
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Lämmle
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Choral Narrative and Audience Experience in Tragedy
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Embodied Time in Nonnus' Dionysiaca
Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: talis homo, qualis oratio - Language choices, self-positioning and social background in Latin letters from the late Republic
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Aristotle’s Philosophy of Energeia
 Thomas  Kelly
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis: Greek "Scribal" Mathematics in Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Dr Rupert Thompson
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis: The Development of the Greek ‘Stress’ Accent in Late Antique Poetic Composition
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Robinson
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Existence and Use of Race in Antiquity
 Jessica  Lawrence
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: 21st Century Female Receptions of Homer
Supervisor: Dr Torsten Meißner
College: Pembroke
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Ethnobotany of the Bronze Age Aegean
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Socrates' Reference to Ghosts in "Phaedo" 81c8-e3
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Δρᾶμα σκυθρωπόν: Death Aesthetics in the Ancient Greek Novel
Supervisor: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Demons and the Dynamics of Fear in Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Prof. Philip Hardie
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Poetics of Pregnancy and Parturition in the Works of Ovid
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Downing
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Position of the Individual in Plato’s Republic - An Afro-Communitarian Reading
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Plato's Sophist
Supervisor: Dr David Butterfield
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Latinitas and its Development in the Fifteenth-Century
Supervisor: Prof. Simon Goldhill
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Temporality and Identity in the Jewish Sibylline Oracles
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Whitton
College: Lucy Cavendish
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Reception of Ovid in the Minor Declamations
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Kelly
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Remembering the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Magdalene
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Lucretius and Epicurus: Hellenistic Schools and their Founders
Supervisor: Prof. Philip Hardie
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: The Sublime in the Latin Literature of Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Plato's Timaeus
Teaching Associate in Classics
Postgraduate student at Downing College
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Wolfson
Title of Thesis: A Study of Spirited Motivation in Plato and Aristotle
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Clare
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Historical Feelings in the Second Sophistic
Supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis
College: Girton
Title of Thesis: Rhodes and the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean world
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: The Philosophical Relevance of the Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians
Supervisor: Dr Nick Zair
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: The Influence of Variant Case Endings on our Understanding of Latin Onomastics
Supervisor: Prof. Caroline Vout
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Perceptions of the Corpse in Roman Literature
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: St Catharine's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Language and Imagination in the Dialogues of Plato
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Divine in Ancient Historiography
Supervisor: Dr Myrto Hatzimichali
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Implicit Gender Bias: A Critical Analysis of the Equality of Plato’s Women
Supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis
College: Magdalene
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Acquiring the Mediterranean: Exploring local agencies in the acquisition of antiquities from Greece and the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton at the British Museum, 1861-1886
Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Poetics of Worldmaking in Ancient Greek Hymnic Tradition
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Manufacturing Miniaturisation: The Making of Miniature Deities in the Greco-Roman World
Supervisors: Prof. Torsten Meissner and Dr Philippa Steele
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Visual and Linguistic Structure of Early Cretan Writing
Supervisor: Renaud Gagné
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis: Hesiod Unveiled: The 'other poet' among the exegetes
Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Flemming
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Elite Culture, Freedmen and Manumission: A Comparative Study of Imperial Rome and China

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The Kennedy Professorship of Latin

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Masters Student wins Roman Society MA dissertation prize

28 May 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Naomi Norden (King’s College) has won joint first place in the Roman Society MA dissertation prize for her 2024 MPhil thesis 'Creating complexity: Paratextuality and Intertextuality in the Works of Ausonius'. Congratulations Naomi!

St John's College Newell Lecture

27 May 2025

This year the St John's College Newell Lecture was delivered by Jackie Murray on the topic of Race and Injustice in Plato's Republic. You can watch a recording of the event here: