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Faculty of Classics

 

Biography

  • BA Classical Archaeology (2009-2015), Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, First
  • MA Classical Archaeology (2015-2018), Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and University of Leipzig, Distinction
  • PhD Classics (2019-), Christ's College, University of Cambridge

I was always interested in the ways in which identity and status (gender, class, ethnos etc.) are communicated through iconography and visual narratives, particularly in Greek antiquity. The ability of individuals and communities to create a visual language that is understood by a large body of people (e.g. citizens of other poleis) but at the same time holds more detailed information for members of their own peer group, fascinates me. My thesis attempts to explain how civic and personal identity can be expressed on Greek funerary stelai from Asia Minor by analysing the iconographic language of the reliefs. It examines by which means different poleis use common iconographic themes and patterns to create new visual representations of their distinct values, and how individual citizens pictured themselves within this public framework to create a specific monument to their own memory.

Research

  • Identity and status in ancient art
  • Evolution of iconographic traditions
  • Gender and body
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.
 Sandra  Strahlendorf
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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...