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Faculty of Classics

 
Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Oakley
College: Magdalene
Title of Thesis: The Etiology of Victory and Defeat in Roman Historiography
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis: Narrative and Society in Antiquity - A Psychological and Ethical Investigation
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whimarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis - Touch Sacred and Profane: Desire, Divinity, and the Tactile in Greek Romance and Early Christianity
Supervisor: Prof. Michael Squire
College: Sidney Sussex
Title of Thesis: Imagines Re-imagined: Art and Ecphrasis in the Younger Philostratus
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: Personifications and Imperial Ideology in the third-century Roman West, AD 235–284
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: St Edmund's
Title of Thesis: Plato on Quantitative Properties
Supervisor: Dr Myrto Hatzimichali
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Individuals in Aristotle
Supervisor: Prof. Martin Millett
College: Downing
Title of Thesis: Domestic architecture in Roman London
Supervisor: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: King's
Title of Thesis: The Late Western Roman Kingdom, A. D.  449-480: Imperator-Strongman Conflict in the Bipartite State
Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: Climbing Clitics in Post-Classical Greek
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Launaro
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Change Set in Stone: A Social Economic Analysis of Gallo-Roman Votives
Supervisor: Prof. Philip Hardie
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Vergil and the Bible: Proba's Vergilian Cento
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Launaro
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Defining “Roman Italy”: From Augustus to Diocletian
Supervisor: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Space and Self in Gregory of Nazianzus
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: The Social Organisation of the Epicurean Community
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Launaro
College: Gonville and Caius
Title of Thesis: Tria Corda - Cultural Identity and the Roman Colonies of Magna Graecia
Supervisor: Prof. Rebecca Laemmle
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis: The Poetics of Travel in Imperial Greek Literature
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Nature and Structure of Deliberation
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Pembroke
Title of Thesis: Plato on the Principles of Life and Law
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: The Poetics of Infinity - Reading (at) the Limits of Epic in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Wonder in Plato and Aristotle
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Platonic Corpus
Supervisor: Prof. Rebecca Laemmle
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Reading Sophocles Through Chorality
Supervisor: Dr Elena Guisti
College: St John's
Title of Thesis: Lucan’s Poetics of Dissolution
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: qualis homo, talis oratio: Language choices, self-positioning and social background in Latin letters from the late Republic
Supervisor: Dr John Patterson
College: Churchill
Title of Thesis: Honouring Governors in Late-Antique Italy and Africa
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Aristotle’s Philosophy of Energeia
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: The Souls of Ancient (Greek) Folk: Race in Aristotle
 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: The Ethnobotany of the Bronze Age Aegean
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Perceptibility, Corporeality, Compositeness, Changeability, Dissolubility, and their Opposites in Plato's Phaedo
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Homerton
Title of Thesis: Platonic Philosophical References
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Colours and Narrative: The Chromatic Universe of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca
Supervisor: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: Demons and the Dynamics of Emotion in Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Downing
Title of Thesis: The Position of the Individual in Plato’s Republic through the Lens of Kwame Gyekye’s Moderate Communitarianism
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: The Anti-Parmenidean Argument of the Sophist
Supervisor: Prof. Josephine Crawley Quinn
College: Clare Hall
Title of Thesis: Political Myth and Historiography in Diodorus Siculus
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Temporality in the Sibylline Oracles
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Magdalene
Title of Thesis: The Portrayal of Epicurus in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Supervisor: Prof. Philip Hardie
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: The Sublime in the Latin Literature of Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Dr Elena Giusti
College: Hughes Hall
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Concept of 'revolutio' from Ancient Rome to Italian Fascism
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: Historical Declamation and the Untimely
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: The Philosophical Relevance of the Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians
Supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: The Past in the Past: Monument Engagement on Crete - From the Iron Age to the Early Imperial Period
Supervisor: Prof. Caroline Vout
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: Roman Perceptions of the Corpse
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: St Catharine's
Title of Thesis: Language and Imagination in Plato
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Knowing and Forgetting the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: The Divine in Ancient Historiography
Supervisor: Dr Myrto Hatzimichali
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis: Human Nature in Plato’s Republic
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Girton
Title of Thesis (Preliminary): Nature and Education in Plato and Aristotle
Supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis
College: Magdalene
Title of Thesis: Acquiring the Mediterranean: exploring local agencies in the acquisition of antiquities from Greece and the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton at the British Museum, ca. 1861-1886
Supervisor: Prof. Rebecca Laemmle
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Theology of Space in the Ancient Greek Hymnic Tradition
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Women and Miniaturization at Greek Sanctuaries
Supervisors: Prof. Torsten Meissner and Dr Philippa Steele
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: The Epigraphy and Palaeography of Cretan Hieroglyphic

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Prix des Libraires Payot 2026

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The Faculty is delighted to report that Prof. Josephine Quinn was awarded the Prix des Libraires Payot 2026 on June 18 for her book, Et le monde créa L'Occident (or, How the World Made the West).