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Faculty of Classics

 

C: ANCIENT HISTORY

Lent Term 2026

Meetings will take place on Mondays, 15.15-16.45, in room G.21.

All Welcome.

 

2 February
Demetra Kasimis
Conspiratorial Doubling and the New Stasis of Finance: A Political Reading of Isocrates' Trapeziticus

 

9 February
Ella Kirsh
Ordinary Transcripts in the Later Roman World

 

16 February
Federico Bernasconi
Embodying Imperial Womanhood in the third-century AD Roman West: Lessons from Coinage

 

23 February
Nick Montague-Jones
Demons and Holy Authority in an Age of Christianisation: a New Approach to the Greek Life of Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza

 

2 March
Steve Renette
Resisting the State: Autonomy and Resistance of Mountain Communities in Southwest Asia

 

9 March
Ingo Gildenhard
For God and Country or Poison for the Body Politic? Pietas and the Problematics of a Para-Civic Virtue

 

 16 March
Sara Brill (Fairfield University)
Plato at Play in the Gardens of Adonis: Natality and Philosophy in the Phaedrus

Latest news

Kennedy Professorship of Latin

19 January 2026

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Whitton has accepted election to the Kennedy Professorship of Latin from 1 October 2026.

Professor Nicholas Zair awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship

8 January 2026

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Zair has been awarded a 3 year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2026-2029 for his project Understanding Oscan. The Fellowship will allow Nick to spend the next three years working on Oscan, which was spoken widely across Southern Italy between the fifth...

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)

20 October 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.

“Decoding the Desert” and “Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys” now on CUDL

29 September 2025

Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library. A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds -...