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Faculty of Classics

 
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whimarsh
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Identification, Sign, Fantasy - Unsettling the Greek Romantic Body through Psychoanalytic Theory
 Zoë  Audra
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: Early Greek Theories of Action
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Empire and Poetry in the Roman Republic
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Classics and the Far-Right after 1945
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: 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: Dr Lea Niccolai
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Mapping the Self in an Age of Change: Space and Self-Presentation in Gregory of Nazianzus and Ausonius of Bordeaux
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. 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: Dr David Butterfield
College: Trinity
Title of Thesis: A commentary on Plautus, Mostellaria
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
 Daniel  Hanigan
Praeceptor in Classics at Corpus Christi College
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
Title of Thesis: The Politics of Form in Imperial Greek Periplography
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis (preliminary): A Study of Hellenistic Political Borders and their Formation c. 250-150 BCE
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 (preliminary): The Language of Latin Epistolography - Social status and its connection to the language of Roman writers
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Chorus and Cacophony: Philosophy as Khoreia in the Works of Plato
Supervisor: Prof. James Warren
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Aristotle’s Philosophy of Energeia — in Physics, Metaphysics and Ethics
 Thomas  Kelly
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis: Greek "Scribal" Mathematics in Late Antiquity
 Jannis Frederik Koltermann
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Whitton
College: Darwin College
Thesis: Beyond Gossip. Suetonius and the Politics of Private Life in Imperial Rome
Supervisor: Prof. Ingo Gildenhard
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis: Play in the Roman imagination
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
Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Jesus College
Title of Thesis: Multilingualism in Roman Judaea-Palestine
 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: Dr Rupert Thompson
College: Fitzwilliam
Title of Thesis: A Sociolinguistic History of Classical Attic Oratory: From Antiphon to Dinarchus
Supervisor: Prof. Caroline Vout
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Sketching, Sight-seeing and Scholarship: Greece and Asia Minor, 1828-1898
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Clare
Title of Thesis: Experiencing the Sacred at Sparta (750-480 BCE)
Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: Temporality and Difference in the Greek Anthology
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Death, Dying, and the Dead: A study of the Eldritch Horrors of the Ancient Greek Romances
Supervisor: Prof. Richard Hunter
College: Fitzwilliam
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Reception of the Iliad in Plato’s Republic
Supervisor: Prof. Philip Hardie
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Poetics of Pregnancy and Parturition in the Works of Ovid
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. Stephen Oakley
College: Lucy Cavendish
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The Reception of Ovid in the Minor Declamations
Supervisor: Prof. Martin Millett
College: Darwin
Title of Thesis (preliminary): The People, Plants, and Landscape of Roman Yorkshire
Supervisor: Dr Yannis Galanakis
College: Pembroke
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Death and Aesthetics: The Role of Visual Culture on the Late Bronze Age Greek Mainland, 1600-1400 BC
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Kelly
College: King's
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Remembering the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
 George  Pliotis
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Whitton
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis: The Reception of Seneca the Younger, c.60s-c.160s CE
 Domenico  Praticò
Supervisor: Prof. Tim Whitmarsh
College: Emmanuel
Title of Thesis: Encyclopedism in Late Antique Greek Poetry
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 (preliminary): The Reception of Lucretius in Late Latin Christian Literature
 Pablo  Puente
Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Oakley
College: Sidney Sussex
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Commentary on Statius, Thebaid 6
Supervisor: Prof. Gábor Betegh
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Plato's Timaeus
Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Downing
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Ethical Authority in Pindar and Bacchylides
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 Role of Constitutional Study in Aristotelian Civic Education
 Elisabeth  Slingsby
Supervisor: Prof. Mary Beard
College: Corpus Christi
Title of Thesis (Preliminary): Lead by Example: the Significance of Classical Greek Exempla in the Late Republic and Early Principate
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
 Sandra  Strahlendorf
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Osborne
College: Christ's College
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Eastern Greek Grave Stelai. Urban Identity and Civic Representation in Asia Minor during the Hellenistic Period.
Supervisor: Prof. Renaud Gagné
College: Hughes Hall
Title of Thesis (preliminary): Spatial Shifts and Imaginary Identities of Greek Choruses
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
 Agnes  Vendel
Supervisor: Prof. James Clackson
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: A Typology of Hyperbata in Classical Latin Prose
 Sophie  Wardle
Supervisor: Prof. Mary Beard
College: Newnham
Title of Thesis: Encounters with Londinium: Nineteenth-century responses to London's Roman past
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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Vacancy: Assistant Professor in Latin literature

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The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Latin literature) from 01 September 2024. The role is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research interest in Latin literature. The successful candidates will have, or be expected to develop, a record of world-class...

Publication: The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek

24 January 2024

The Faculty of Classics is proud to announce the publication of The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek , edited by John Killen FBA, the Emeritus Professor of Mycenaean Greek. More than a dozen leading Mycenologists have contributed chapters and sections to this seminal work in two volumes, comprised of more than 1100 pages...