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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/

Details of how to apply for this fixed term post are now available online. Closing date: Friday 23 August 2019.For more information see here

Professor Beard's Gifford Lectures (University of Edinburgh), on The Ancient World and Us: From Fear and Loathing to Enlightenment and Ethics, are now available on line.Follow the link below for videos of the six Gifford Lectures delivered by Professor Beard at the University of Edinburgh from 6 - 30 May 2019:https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecture…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Robin Osborne is a recipient of the Runciman Award 2019 for 'The Transformation of Athens' (Princeton University Press).The award have been made to two joint winners on this occasion. read here for more details

Follow progress on the Aldborough Roman Town Project via their podcast. https://soundcloud.com/soundingaldboroughFor more information on the project, READ HERE.

The Museum of Classical Archaeology will close on Mondays, beginning Monday 29 April 2019.MOCA's Cast Gallery will continue to be open to the public as normal 10am-5pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am-1pm on Saturdays during University term-time.However, this significant change will allow the Museum to facilitate important collections care projects. Alth…

The Faculty is delighted to report that Mary Beard has been named as one of this year's recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal. See weblink for further information.http://www.artnews.com/2019/01/24/getty-medal-awarded-mary-beard-ed-ruscha-lorna-simpson/

This book 'is the first to encompass the vast history of how living things procreate, from the banks of the ancient Nile to the fertility clinics of today.' Rebecca Flemming, from the Faculty of Classics, is a co-editor of an important ‘field-defining’ book just published by Cambridge University Press, 'Reproduction: From Antiquity to the Present D…

The new course book on Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla) includes Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary.Tailored to the OCR Latin AS and A Level specifications 2019–2021, the book offers the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, it extends b…

We have now released details of the Outreach events that the Faculty of Classics that will be hosting or participating in during 2019.For more details on any of these events, please feel free to visit the EVENTS section of our Greeks Romans and Us website or if you have any questions, please email them to Esme BoothWe post regular updates on our Fa…