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This summer Professor Caroline Vout is co-curating an Olympic Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body'  which looks back on the pivotal moment, 100 years ago, when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a breakthrough that forever ch…

This year Professor Dame Mary Beard is due to give The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture on Friday 3 May 2024.She will speak on the topic 'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?'If you would like to attend the event, you are most welcome but booking is essential: register for free tickets via https://event…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election ofProfessor Josephine (Jo) Crawley Quinn to the Professorship of Ancient History andProfessor 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 History in the University.  Sh…

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.   

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 published extensively on the …

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 at DIG in York between …

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 and covering practically all…

The Cambridge Digital Library has launched a dedicated Faculty of Classics portal. The first two collections feature digitized archival material from the Papers of Alan J. B. Wace, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology 1934-1944. Digital Thessaly features Alan Wace’s notebooks and photographs from his 1908-1910 Neolithic excavations in Thessa…

A rare roofed theatre, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge major assumptions about the decline of Roman Italy.New findings from Interamna Lirenas, traditionally written off as a failed backwater in Central Italy, change our understanding of Roman history, its exc…

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Professor Caroline Vout on her book Exposed being named winner of the 2023 London Hellenic Prize.Further details are available here: https://www.londonhellenicprize.eu/

We are thrilled to be launching Classics Shorts: a series of videos for schools introducing the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and exploring themes with continuing resonance for the modern classroom.  Each film is accompanied by teaching materials for use in schools.Celebrity guests join Mary Beard and her colleagues to explore modern day classroom…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Jane Rempel has been appointed to an Assistant Professorship in Classics from 1 September 2023. She is currently Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Tim Whitmarsh FBA has been elected Regius Professor of Greek from 1 April 2023.  He is currently the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the University.  Looking ahead to his new role, Professor Whitmarsh commented: ’I am thrilled and honoured to be taking up this new position at an excit…

Professor Mary Beard received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards.The citation hailed how she had “broken through the ivory tower’s walls and brought her unique enthusiasm for her subject – and crucially, what it can teach us about contemporary life and politics – to the world”, through television programmes …

The Faculty of Classics is delighted to announce the establishment of the Brian Leech Memorial Fund. The Fund comes about thanks to a generous donation by Emma Gleave, and is made in memory of her late father, Brian Leech. Brian Leech had a long and successful career as both barrister and judge. He also greatly enjoyed classical studies – with a li…