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Professor Michael Reeve elected to Accademia Nazionale dei LinceiProfessor Reeve has been elected to membership of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. See the Academy website for further details.

Dr Rose Ferraby, Research Associate in the Faculty of Classics, is a recipient of the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets 2017Dr Ferraby, co-Director of the Aldborough Roman Town Project, has been given the Illustration Award for The Tender Map by Melanie Challenger (Guillemot Press). Further details may be found here

Details of how to vote are now available online.Professor Millett's co-edited book, 'The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain' 2016 (M. Millett, L.Revell and A. Moore) has been shortlisted for the Current Archaeology book of the Year Award. Voting for the awards (open to everyone) went live on 1st December on www.archaeology.co.uk/vote,  – and is open …

Cambridge Classics' 2018 Ancient World Video Competition is now open for entries.We are very pleased to announce the 2018 Cambridge Classics Ancient Worlds Video Competition! For more details and details on how to enter, please click HERE. 

The Cambridge Greek Play for 2019 has been announced.‘We are pleased to announce that the 2019 Cambridge Greek Play will be Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, directed by Daniel Goldman. Sophocles’ tragedy about the last days of Oedipus, now blind and exiled, is one of the greatest plays about old age, the bearing of life's horror, and the transcendenc…

A celebratory event for students who produced creative responses to tales from Ovid. This December the Faculty of Classics and Museum of Classical Archaeology were delighted to host a celebratory event for students who had participated in a very special competition organised by the Cambridge Schools Classics Project. Year 7 students from a number o…

We are keen to support high quality applications that intersect with research already being undertaken or developed in the Classics Faculty.Applicants should be in touch with an academic in the Faculty who works in their area of research, and could act as their sponsor, to discuss their proposed project as soon as possible (academic staff and their…

A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial has been recovered by students of the Faculty of Classics...A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial has been recovered by students of the Faculty of Classics, during the excavation of a roofed theatre in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cassino, in Italy.To learn more about the Inte…

The Kenyon Medal in 2017 has been awarded to Joyce Reynolds FBA for her lifetime's contribution to the research and study of Roman epigraphy. The medal is awarded biennially in recognition of work in the field of classical studies and archaeology.  Further details on the award are available on the British Academy website

Details of the 2017 Faculty of Classics Postgraduate Open Day are now available online:https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/prospective/postgraduate/graduate-open-day-1

The Times newspaper reports on excavations this summer at Prosilio near Orchomenos in Boeotia, central Greece, conducted by the Ministry of Culture & Sports of Greece/Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia and of the British School at Athens/University of CambridgeSee press release for more details.Coverage in The Times (Norman Hammond, 14 October 2017…

A team jointly led by Dr Yannis Galanakis of the Faculty of Classics has discovered and excavated a monumental Mycenaean rock-cut chamber tomb, complete with intact grave goods, in central Greece. For more on this extraordinary find follow this link to the University's press release.

Follow the students of the Faculty of Classics as they excavate the Roman theatre at Interamna Lirenas.Since 2010 the students of the Faculty of Classics have been actively involved in archaeological fieldwork at the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas (Central Italy).Over the next four weeks the students will be excavating the theatre: if you would li…

Faculty statement concerning ethnic diversity in Roman Britain Roman Britain has long been an important part of the teaching and research in the Faculty of Classics. The question of ethnic diversity in the province has been getting unusual amounts of attention recently. Professor Mary Beard has been at the centre of some of this attention. In the F…

Details of how to apply for this post are now available online. Closing date: 25 August 2017.http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/14548/