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The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Chiara Meccariello (University of Exeter) and Dr Oliver Thomas (University of Nottingham) have been appointed to Assistant Professorships in Classics (Greek Literature) from 2026/27. 

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Whitton has accepted election to the Kennedy Professorship of Latin from 1 October 2026.

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Zair has been awarded a 3 year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2026-2029 for his project  Understanding Oscan.The Fellowship will allow Nick to spend the next three years working on Oscan, which was spoken widely across Southern Italy between the fifth and first centuries BC – for…

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. 

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 - Drs Greg and Dagmar Reynolds …

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 quality, and career outcomes.C…

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 of sustained—and even boom…

We are very sad to pass on the news of the death of Barrie Fleet, aged 87, a long-standing and much-valued colleague and sometime Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus. He was a distinguished scholar of the late-antique Neo-Platonist philosopher, Plotinus, publishing translations and commentaries on Ennead III.6 and IV.8.

The Faculty invites potential applicants to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme (internal review deadline 31/10/25), with a particular interest in hosting researchers working within areas relevant to our research clusters: Greek and Latin LiteratureGreek and Roman Philosophy Ancient HistoryClassical Art and ArchaeologyClassical and Compar…

"Joyce Reynolds, who spent most of her life as fellow of Newnham College Cambridge, was without doubt the leading British epigrapher of the 20th century, both as the publisher of new texts discovered in the course of modern archaeological exploration, and as the interpreter of such epigraphic texts to enhance and enrich our understanding of the Gra…

The Board of Electors to the Kennedy Professorship of Latin invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up appointment on 1 September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.For more information see details here. Closing date: 8 September 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Naomi Norden (King’s College) has won joint first place in the Roman Society MA dissertation prize for her 2024 MPhil thesis 'Creating complexity: Paratextuality and Intertextuality in the Works of Ausonius'.Congratulations Naomi! 

This year the St John's College Newell Lecture was delivered by Jackie Murray on the topic of Race and Injustice in Plato's Republic. You can watch a recording of the event here: 

The Faculty of Classics invites potential applicants to the MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) and the British Academy’s Postdoctoral Fellowship schemes within areas relevant to our research clusters: Greek and Latin Literature, Greek and Roman Philosophy, Ancient History, Classical Art and Archaeology, Classical and Comparative Philology and Li…

The Faculty is delighted to report that Jonathan Steward has been awarded the Ralegh Radford Rome Award, BSR, for Lent Term 2026.