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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

Roman historians of the Republic, Cicero, Livy, the transmission of Latin texts.

Publications

Key publications: 

A commmentary on Livy, books vi–x, vol. 1 (1997), vol. 2 (1998), vol. 3 (2005), vol. 4 (2005). All Oxford University Press.
The hill-forts of the Samnites [Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome x] (London , 1995)

Teaching and Supervisions

Research supervision: 

Recent areas supervised include: Cicero, Livy, Statius, Suetonius.

Kennedy Professor of Latin
Fellow of Emmanuel College
Professor Stephen  Oakley

Contact Details

Emmanuel College
Cambridge
CB2 3AP
01223 742995
Not available for consultancy

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...