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Research Projects overview Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS) Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History Lerna: The Analysis, Interpretation and Publication of the Middle Bronze Age Phase Herculaneum Conservation Project Aldborough Roman Town Project Moral Psychology, Ancient and Modern Classics Beyond Borders West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) GEA Modes of Reading and the Transmission of Texts in Antiquity

Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)

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The Impact of the Ancient City

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Beneath the surface of Roman Republican cities

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Greek in Italy

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Interamna Lirenas Project

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Roman Colonial Landscapes (archived)

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2010 Report

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2011 Report

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2012 Report

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Cambridge Greek Lexicon

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Mycenaean Epigraphy Group

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Research and Archival Collections

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Decipherment

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Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS)

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Prelim to Part IA (four year degree only)

Prelim to Part IA (four year degree only) overview Paper 1: Latin Texts and Paper 2: Latin and Greek Language Paper 3: Classical Topics and Paper 4: Literary Essay Introduction to Greek language

Part IA

Part IA overview Papers 1-5: Greek and Latin Language and Classical Texts Paper 6: Classical Essays Papers 7-8: Translation into Greek and Latin prose and verse

Part IB

Part IB overview Schedules A-B Schedule C Schedule D Schedule E Schedule F Schedule H

Part II

Part II overview Group A: Greek and Latin Literature Group B: Greek and Roman Philosophy Group C: Ancient History Group D: Classical Art and Archaeology Group E: Classical and Comparative Philology and Lingustics Group X: Interdisciplinary Studies Optional (O) Papers Theses

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Previous Exhibitions overview Current: poiēsis 2025: Cultured Canines 2025: A Room of One's Own 2023-24: Bodies: Past and Present 2023: Topos Embodied 2023: Simulacra 2023: A Series of Happy Accidents 2022: RefeR 2021: Mycenae: From Myth to History 2022: A Face in Time 2020-21: Illustrating Ancient History 2020: Lines of Site 2019: Goddesses 2019: Out of the Darkness, Into the Light 2019: The Silence of Time 2019: Ashkelon 2018-2019 Layers of Landscape 2018-2019: Peyzajın Katmanları 2018: Florian Roithmayr 2018: Seeing is Believing 2018: Making History 2017: Codebreakers and Groundbreakers 2017: Imagining India 2017: Wanderings with a Camera 2017: Lost 2016: RECASTING 2016: Talking to the Gods 2016: Cutting the Curve 2015: Following Hercules: The Story of Classical Art 2015: The Labours of Herakles 2015: Drawing from the Past 2015: Sensing Space 2015: Landscape and Stone 2014: Secret Histories 2014: Myths, Memories and Mysteries 2014: Print, Paper and Paraphernalia 2014: Romeinaround 2013-14: Discoveries

2021: A Twist of the Hand

2021: A Twist of the Hand overview A twist of the hand: Display Cabinets

Collections: Watch, Listen, Read and Do

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In Conversation With

In Conversation With overview Mary Beard and Aphrodite Oedipus (aka Rosy Sida) and the Nike of Samothrace Issam Kourbaj and the Children of Niobe Lyn Bailey and the Dying Gaul Sade Ojelade and Laocoon Katharine Russell and the Terme Boxer Classics Undergrads and Kouroi Emlyn and Farnese Hercules Michael Bywater and Meleager

The Bean Archive

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George E. Bean

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Highlights

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Museum Highlights

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Ancient Languages Teaching and Classics Education Conferences

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Cambridge Papers in Classics Education

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Christos Tsitsiridakis

Christos Tsitsiridakis

Christ's College

Supervisor: Dr Frisbee Sheffield
College: Christ's
Title of Thesis: Knowing and Forgetting the Self in Plato’s Phaedrus

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