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Faculty of Classics

 
Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Oakley
College: Magdalene
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Etiology of Victory and Defeat in Roman Historiography
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Untrue Narrative in Greek Imperial Literature
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whimarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Greek Novels and the Prosaics of the Body
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 of Virtues, Benefits and Ideals in the 3rd-Century AD Roman West
Supervisor: Dr Laura Castelli
College: St Edmund's
Title of Thesis: The Function of Properties of Size as Catalysts of Philosophical Thinking in Plato
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 (preliminary): 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 (preliminary): Tria Corda: Cultural Identity in 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, Mortality, and Law
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Poetics of Infinity in Greek Epic
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 (preliminary): Cosmic Dissolution in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile
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 (preliminary): Changes and Continuity in the Administration of Italy 200-350CE
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 (preliminary): Plato through Endoxa: A Philosophical Use of References and Quotations
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 (preliminary): Plato's Sophist
Supervisor: Prof. Josephine Crawley Quinn
College: Clare Hall
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Classical Greek Anarchy
Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis: The Evolution of Latinitas in Renaissance Italy
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Temporality in the Sibylline Oracles
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Kelly
College: King's
Title of Thesis: Memory and Aristocratic Identity in Late Antiquity
Teaching Associate in Classics
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: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Plato's Timaeus
Supervisor: Dr Elena Giusti
College: Hughes Hall
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Concept of 'revolutio' from Ancient Rome to Italian Fascism
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: 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: Prof. Nick Zair
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: The Influence of Variant Case Endings on our Understanding of Latin Onomastics
Supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Past in the Past in "Roman" Crete
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 (preliminary): Language and Imagination in the Dialogues of Plato
Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Rhetoric and Oblivion 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: What is Platonic Phusis? An investigation into Nature’s Role in the Political Texts
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. Renaud Gagné
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

Latest news

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)

20 October 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.

“Decoding the Desert” and “Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys” now on CUDL

29 September 2025

Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library. A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds -...

Cambridge Classics tops Guardian University Guide 2026

15 September 2025

The Faculty has been ranked first in the UK for Classics and Ancient History in the Guardian University Guide 2026 . This reflects our longstanding commitment to academic excellence, rigorous teaching, and student support. The Guardian rankings are based on a range of indicators, including student satisfaction, teaching...

Aldborough study reshapes our view of post-Roman Britain

11 September 2025

A study published today in the journal 'Antiquity' from the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham has overturned long-held assumptions about Britain’s post-Roman economy. Contrary to the popular belief that industrial activity collapsed after the Romans left around 400 AD, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence...