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The Faculty of Classics is delighted to have reached an agreement with Cambridge University Press by which, for the next three years, five volumes a year in the Cambridge Classical Studies Series (monographs on Classical topics written by academics working in or recently trained in Cambridge) will be published Gold Open Access without charge to the…

Check out our new Virtual Hub for the latest online content from Cambridge ClassicsSee the Greeks, the Romans and Us website for more details

Thinking about applying to read Classics as an undergraduate at Cambridge next year? See Mary Beard’s video and find out moreDespite the current changes to the way the university and the country operates, we are still expecting to teach incoming students in the 2020/21 academic year, and are still expecting to run a normal admissions cycle  - see M…

For the first time, archaeologists have succeeded in mapping a complete Roman city, Falerii Novi in Italy, using advanced ground penetrating radar (GPR), allowing them to reveal astonishing details while it remains deep underground. The technology could revolutionise our understanding of ancient settlements.Martin Millett and Alessandro Launaro fro…

Details of how to apply for this part time fixed term teaching post are now avilable online. Deadline Monday 6th July 2020.https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/26014/

The Faculty is delighted to announce the launch of the first phase of the digitisation of the Mycenae Excavation and Publication Archive. A century ago, Alan Wace (1879-1957) – Cambridge Classics alumnus and Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology (1934-1944) – commenced excavation at Mycenae in April 1920. One of the leading archaeologists …

Details of how to apply for this post, which provides cover for a period of maternity leave and of research leave, are now available online. Closing date 14 May 2020.see the following link for more information:https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/25638/

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is pleased to announce the first in a series of short videos on objects in the collection, featuring the Faculty's own Prof Caroline Vout.Are you missing the Cast Gallery while we are in lockdown? So are we. But our new short series of three new collection videos will see you through, so you can visit from afar.A…

The Faculty Building is closed from 5 pm on Friday 20 March until further notice.

Due to strike action in Michaelmas Term and proposed strike action in Lent Term The Corbett Lecture will now take place on Saturday 22nd February, 5pm in G.19 Faculty of Classics Professor Josephine Crawley Quinn, Professor of Ancient History at University of Oxford, will be giving the lecture entitled Arts of Not Being Governed: Anarchist Approach…

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Details of how to apply for this Visiting Fellowship are now available online. The deadline for applications is 5pm GMT on Monday, 17th February 2020Applications are invited for a Visiting Fellowship with the ERC-funded Project Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS, grant no. 677758), which is based in the Faculty of Classi…

The Faculty is very sorry to have to report the death, aged 95, of Ted Kenney, Kennedy Professor of Latin (from 1974 to 1982), on December 23rd 2019.Ted Kenney’s death on December 23rd 2019 at the age of 95 deprives Cambridge’s Faculty of Classics of one of its longest serving members and the wider classical world of one of its finest scholars. Aft…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Caroline Vout has been appointed to the Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology/Art History, a visiting professorship at the University of Leiden. The appointment is for five years from Michaelmas 2019.

Details of how to apply for this vacancy are now available onlinehttp://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/23418/