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Faculty of Classics

 

A: LITERATURE

Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 17.15–18.45, in room G.21.

 

LENT TERM 2025

29 January
Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
‘The invention of chaos’

5 February
Bill Allan (University College, Oxford)
‘Aristotle and the Emotions of Attic Oratory’

12 February
David Fearn (University of Warwick)
‘Thucydides and the Comparativist Gesture’

19 February
Lilah Grace Canevaro (University of Edinburgh)
‘Theocritus on the Edge: Boundaries and Margins in and beyond the Idylls’

26 February
Lorcan Greene (University of Cambridge)
Index verborum: pointing to Plato's Cratylus in Ovid's tale of Mercury and Battus (Met. 2.680-707)' and Clare Pryor (University of Cambridge), 'Prudentius and the sublime’

5 March
Christa Gray (University of Reading)
‘Hide and seek on the high seas: Commenting on chapter 25 of Jerome's Life of Hilarion

12 March
Barnaby Taylor (Exeter College, Oxford)
'Cicero, Tusculans 2: Pain, Plato, Pacuvius'

19 March
Janja Soldo (University of Edinburgh)
‘The sapiens and the scorpion: Fronto's philosophical letters’

 

 

 

 

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Trinity College Project Completion Grant

28 February 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Frisbee Sheffield has been awarded a Trinity College Project Completion Grant. The award, for Mid-Career Researchers in the Humanities, will enable a period of research leave in Lent Term 2026 in connection with a project on Socrates and the Ethics of Conversation.

Teaching Associate in Ancient History (Temporary Cover)

21 February 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a Temporary Teaching Associate in Classics (Ancient History) from 1 October 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for two years. This post is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research and teaching interest in ancient history. The Faculty is...

Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History)

4 February 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History) from 1 September 2025. The role is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research interest in Archaic/Classical/Hellenistic Greek History. The successful candidate will have the ability, or be...

Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2024

18 October 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...