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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

2010 Report overview Geophysical Prospections (2010) Recording of Standing Archaeological Remains (2010) Field Survey (2010) Analysis and Study of Archaeological Materials (2010)

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Cambridge Greek Lexicon

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Mycenaean Epigraphy Group

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Research and Archival Collections

Research and Archival Collections overview The Ventris-Chadwick Correspondence

Decipherment

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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

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

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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 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

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About the Archives

About the Archives overview Launch of the Faculty of Classics portal on the Cambridge Digital Library Tales from the Archives No. 1, December 2023 W.M. Leake ‘Cerigo 1801-1802’ Notebook transcription project Tales from the Archives No.2. Explosive Wace! A Journey of Two Halves: Cerigo to England 1802

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Cambridge Philological Society and CCJ

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Ancient Languages Teaching and Classics Education Conferences

Ancient Languages Teaching and Classics Education Conferences overview AI in Teaching and Learning Classics Comprehensible Input in Ancient Languages Teaching Conference

Cambridge Papers in Classics Education

Cambridge Papers in Classics Education overview Cambridge Papers in Classics Education Volume 1

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Joy Isabelle Besse

Darwin College

Supervisor: Dr Benjamin Gray
College: Darwin
Title: Magnesia and the Hellenistic City

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