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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…

The Cambridge Classics Faculty invites applications to the 2019 round of the Leverhulme Trust early Career Fellowship competition. This prestigious scheme aims to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research.The Faculty operates an internal…

We are excited to announce a brand new competition that wants students in school years 3-8 to get creative with the Classics.Make Your Myth 2018Our brand new Classics competition is aimed at students in years 3-8 and all the information and entry details can be found HERE.It is a fun and exciting way to get students involved in learning more about …

The Faculty is delighted to report that the Gildersleeve Prize in 2017 has been presented to Dr Max Leventhal.The Gildersleeve Prize has been presented to Dr Leventhal for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology in 2017, “Eratosthenes’ Letter to Ptolemy: The Literary Mechanics of Empire,” AJP 138.1: 43–84.

We are pleased to announce the second CREWS conference, to take place Thursday 14th – Saturday 16th of March 2019. ‘Exploring the Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Systems’ aims to look at writing systems’ place in society and culture. Full details, including the call for papers, are available on the project’s conference page.

The Cambridge Philological Society is pleased to announce the establishment of a prize for the best submitted article by a graduate student or early-career researcher.The Council of the Cambridge Philological Society has agreed to establish an annual prize competition for the best submitted article under 10,000 words by a graduate student or early-…

Details of how to apply for this one year fixed term post are now available online, Closing date 23 July 2018.http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/17743/